mike22

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by mike22 1y ago
But it happens to be that product managers know (or at least about) and keep tabs on the relavent regulatory environment. I think it’s not scalable if every SWE in the team is going to legal to understand things. Like why we actully do need
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by mike22 2y ago
The value prop of Plaid, Yodlee, et al is that they can do this with one(-ish) API surface for tens of thousands of financial institutions. In their efforts to ensure Bob down the street won’t be sold any data, they do treat each customer (
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by mike22 2y ago
Great in concept, especially if you know what you’re doing. In my non-North American locale, I ordered a fiber hookup, and specifically asked to use my own router. Supposedly they will give you an ONT in SFP module for free, and then rent y
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by mike22 2y ago
Where I live, CS is all chat bots that are simply text representations of the phone tree. You can Whatsapp the company! And get the nicely formatted menus.
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by mike22 3y ago
Anecdotes from my experience, in a large US bank (millions of customers), specifically in a product with active investment: Yes, processes for getting things done are dull and frustrating. Team leads often urged minimizing time spent on the
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by mike22 3y ago
Also at a very big BigCo using Citrix Workspaces; experience is decent. Got an 8 core/64 GB RAM VM and it’s pretty snappy for most dev work. The portability is nice compared to lugging a work laptop, and connection doesn’t need a janky
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by mike22 3y ago
In Java, Lombok @Slf4j on a class is very convenient. Adds a static field for the logger.
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by mike22 3y ago
How do you get the $1 price for kids in 2023? Currently the rule is “Up to three children under 44 inches tall ride for free when they’re with a fare-paying adult.” https://new.mta.info/fares
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by mike22 3y ago
It’s great to write carefree SQL, with the DB platform totally abstracted, until there’s a massive spike in query latency. Then hash joins vs nested loops and full table scans is useful knowledge which is a) mostly vendor specific b) requir
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by mike22 4y ago
Then there’s the times people update the bug-tracker-table-in-a-Confluence-page, and Confluence sends an email alert about the edit to those “watching the page (which is everyone who ever edited it). In Outlook the scroll bar literally shri
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by mike22 4y ago
In the US, Verizon offers (sometimes includes for free) a battery backup unit for their ONT for FiOS service, in the name of providing only the phone services during a power outage. In general there’s nothing stopping any customer from usin
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by mike22 4y ago
Anecdotally, CBTC is a greeat improvement in many scenarios. On long and straight stretches between express stops, trains now fly along (probably at least 40mph; never got to see inside the TO’s cab). And upon approaching an occupied statio
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by mike22 4y ago
We can argue about exact implementation, but SRE demanding all apps (assuming non-interactive ones run on servers) log to the same channel (with enough tagging info to ID the app/server) is a good thing. In my case we are automagically
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by mike22 4y ago
I’ve never used Jaspersoft, only seen the marketing pages of recent years on Tibco’s site. But much of that developer experience sounds like my 4-ish years with BIRT: differing versions of the designer GUI in Eclipse breaking things; debugg
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by mike22 4y ago
This token based approach is slowly arriving. Don’t know if Plaid does it yet. Yodlee and Intuit have already implemented it (OAuth and FDX) with at least and handful of banks. https://www.yodlee.com/envestnet-yodlee-and-cha
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by mike22 4y ago
Now they make you manage the very limited subset of router options (essentially SSID and WPA passphrase) from their web portals. Then they push the updated configs to your router via remote management protocols. How many vulnerabilities do
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by mike22 4y ago
If it’s a reasonable company, they will be willing to move your start date upon (polite) request, justified by the delay. In my recent job change, there were a couple of things that moved the timelines (only a couple of weeks, not months li
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by mike22 4y ago
Ah, iDEN has gone the way of floppy disks. My old Moto i955 for Boost Mobile (MVNO of Nextel, later carried along with Sprint on CDMA) is a quite heavy and rocky solid paperweight.
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by mike22 4y ago
In the world I live in (big org using Jira), that sounds like an epic, with lots of stories underneath. Some stories are defined early on, more can be added as the business comes up with new reqs or devs find things that need more work.
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by mike22 4y ago
It’s been a self-hosted products for over a decade in the form of Visual SourceSafe and then TFS (wonky TFVC not withstanding; Git support was added a while ago as well), now living on as Azure DevOps Server.
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by mike22 4y ago
A white collar worker in good shape going from, say, Rego Park to Wall St is a great candidate for the subway. But that’s the happy path. If you need to go from there to the far parts of Brooklyn, or any part of the Bronx or Staten Island?
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by mike22 5y ago
The US has the social security program, to which both employer and employee make mandatory payroll contributions, but it pays very modestly in retirement. Many employees now contribute to their own self-managed retirement savings/inves
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by mike22 5y ago
Among other things that have been incompatible for a while: - many system tables use the Aria engine; has been impossible to start a MariaDB server over a data directory created in MySQL for many versions - mysql.user table has some complet
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by mike22 5y ago
> You would be right to expect the DB library to escape the string so that no SQL injection is possible. SQL in some (hopefully good number of) cases is much safer than that. Going with MySQL prepared statements here: parameters are not
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by mike22 5y ago
Now add a date/time stamp. And thread name, current class/method, request trace ID, severity level, etc., to every log line in your app. Or just grab your favorite logging lib from Maven Central and call it a day.
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by mike22 5y ago
I worked for a (small boutique) consulting firm and the much larger telecom company they placed me at required a drug test. The culture in my group there did happen to suck, bad enough that my form pulled let me come off the client after ju
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by mike22 5y ago
JHipster ( https://www.jhipster.tech/ ) goes a bit beyond that. From my reading, its basic functionality is taking in either interactive command line inputs or theor custom DSL, and spitting out DDL for a MySQL DB, Spring Boo
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by mike22 5y ago
I worked on a Pega project once. There was nothing in there that the business people would be able to touch, especially after the requirements exceeded the capabilities of Pega’s primitives. One of the local friendly FTEs (the dev work was
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by mike22 5y ago
Aliases are pretty much mandatory if you need to join the same table twice; otherwise you have no way to disambiguate column references. I understand the case of auto-gen’ed queries. However, in page long queries that I’ve written by hand,
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by mike22 5y ago
How do you trust that the devices are allowed to pull down the private key?

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