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by anaccountexists 4y ago
My impression from the article is that they were still linked (directly) to the company’s developer account. If that’s wrong, and they were removed, then you’re completely right and everything I said is very wrong.
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
That’s exactly my point though. If they hadn’t worked there in 3 years, why were they still associated with the developer account in the first place? There’s a couple of ways (that are best practices for any company) to avoid this problem:
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Credit worthiness, yes, though that’s typically at approval time and not later on. Risk bans or bans for suspicious / illegal activity? Totally different story (see the stories of Stripe / PayPal / etc shutting down accounts)
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Maybe we work with different banks, but in my experience it’s more of a “1 strike you’re out” type of thing if they detect illegal activity and to me that feels like what happened here. I get what you’re saying though. Fraud is hard. If you
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
I’d liken the latter to having a company credit card account. Regardless, in the bank case there’s a high chance adjacent / connected accounts would be frozen (at least for a time) because money laundering tends to happen in rings. I s
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
There are problems with how transparent you make things though (i.e., giving away the underlying signals). There’s a moving target between fraudsters and risk teams at companies where the fraudsters will try to run just up to the edge of
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
In my experience, the algorithms are much more forgiving than humans. At least, when I worked with the risk team at my FinTech company, algorithms flagged people for review and then humans decided to unflag or terminate their accounts. The
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Before saying anything else: I’m sorry OP. This is miserable to deal with and I know you’re probably very upset right now. On the other hand- at every company I’ve worked at, this is why there’s clear onboarding and off boarding policies. Y
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Isn’t it… the opposite of a blow to Apple? If there interoperability, why would I ever use anything than my phone’s default messaging app? (Especially if E2E encryption is a requirement, which it looks like it is) This is just regulatory ca
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
My company uses the same DB sharding tech. It took us about a year of daily / weekly outages until we finally were able to fix our performance issues. 256 database splits, lots of cross-shard queries removed, etc before we finally reac
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Teams is built on top of Skype for Business, SfB is one of the main backends for them.
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
I feel like there’s a happy medium where you have a quarterly session where you meet with coworkers in person to get face time but work remotely the rest of the time. That’s been great for my team, at least.
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
There’s a lot of reasons to get mad at Google. Not setting a recovery email is not one of them. I feel bad for this person because it’s a horrible place to be stuck in, but even if Google had great customer support allowing people to reset
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
The most common use of “tracking” cookies is just to be able to count unique views for your site, which I think is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do. Knowing the impact of your site is something pretty much every website producer (
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by anaccountexists 4y ago
Isn’t the actual problem that we’re sending people to 4 year institutions who… don’t actually need the education they’re getting? I have so many friends that graduated with ridiculous amounts of debt to go into escape room design or being a
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
When you have to coordinate between AU, US, CA, and UK time zones and do 100% async communication to resolve conflicts during a project, getting everyone into the same physical space for a few days to work through issues saves so much tim
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
I mean, if you don’t want to denormalize your data, you’re going to need to think about indexes in some capacity regardless (this is true for non-relational DBs like Dynamo and Mongo too). "get the 10 latest comments on this market, pl
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
I would say, without a doubt, that more people in Seattle fall asleep at or after 10pm than wake up before 5am during summer. Plus it’s all a moot point because you need blackout curtains for good sleep in the area anyway.
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
If you have a permanent disability, there’s definitely government programs to support you indefinitely- I have several relatives on those programs (one for muscular dystrophy, one for autism) and they haven’t worked for a long time. There’s
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily true for B2C. It just depends on who your target audience is. It’s pretty normal for a game, shopping app, etc. to start on iOS and make its way over to Android months later. The only place where you need more
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
Google is the closest group to the consumer here, but the actual bad actors are DoorDash / GrubHub / etc. The delivery companies add the restaurants to their sites without permission, then Google indexes those pages and provides s
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
You can’t directly book through Google, if I remember correctly. They’ll kick you out to the business’ site to do that. They’re just an aggregator and get paid in referral fees. The value for you is in the aggregation engine.
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
Awesome seeing Svelte used in new stacks. It’s definitely my favorite FE experience I’ve had in a long time, made it fun again.
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
For my team, the WAF wasn’t about protecting us but rather reducing the amount of junk we saw coming from the public internet to our service. We’d get lots of weird payloads that would cause Nginx or Rails to throw an error even though they
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
I work with a lot of fraud teams at a FinTech company, and we have the same exact problem. If you give out too much information around what caused the enforcement action, people are able to figure out the exact formula used to trigger a ris
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
This seems more oriented towards tech interviews, which are rightly critiqued. I do think that it would be wrong to equate product decisions with “bad engineering,” though. There’s a lot of Google engineering in particular that made waves i
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
Square has the largest Ember app outside of LinkedIn. I think it’s close to 3 million lines of JS?
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by anaccountexists 5y ago
Really? I think you can make a generic “US bad, <insert other country name, typically from Europe> good” and you’ll get a cheering chorus from HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. on… almost any topic these days. As a US citizen I just don’t rea