I routinely get astonishingly well-tailored phishing emails, it’s made me extremely paranoid about any kind of link or attachment.
Yeah, I’ve noticed they are getting way better. We get quite a few at work,
First thing to do when receiving suspicious emails is to check the sender address (which is often hidden unless you click it). The official-sounding email is often from a gmail address–a telltale sign to block and discard.
I’ve gotten phishing emails from people I know that were hacked.
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Does it seem like some of the buildings in the background look a lot newer than 1906 to anyone else, or am I just taking crazy pills?
You can’t tell that an email coming from @greetingsweb.com is internal or external?
Holy shit, people pay you to do stuff on computers???
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Well, actually.
I think this could be because of restauration with AI?
Not really. Most parents value their children at around $650 each
It’s good to be a boomer
The great thing about computer programming is that it’s about as close to a meritocracy as you can get. Your shit either works or it doesn’t. You can’t bullshit your way to success.
But keep going with whatever story you tell yourself.
It’s a joke! I didn’t even think you were really in the baby boomer generation
But also idk about the meritocracy part due to how programmers have described their coworkers to me
They seem to all have coworkers who never get fired or laid off who everyone ends up having to do their work for them
er in my experience ‘it works but it’s glitchy’ is a category too. I’m sure a
lot of you dicks are just winging it like the rest of us too!
Whereas, say, a trucker, who’s gonna go drive the truck for them
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“Does your shit work?” = Does it work? Does it keep working? Is it reasonably easy to maintain and add new features as time goes on?
When you find someone who delivers on all that, and isn’t a complete asshole to work with. you hold onto them for dear life. But yeah, it takes a year or two for all of that to fully suss out.
One of the fun things about being an usher as a side job is that you randomly end up seeing stuff you would never seek out on your own that turns out to be really awesome.
This weekend we had this guy
A Hong Kong based international super star. Hes in the midst of a 4 city North American tour that for some reason came to our venue in the middle of nowhere. He easily sold out the show as he has sold out 15-20K seaters on this tour and the biggest venues in Hong Kong.
It was great! I don’t understand a word of Cantonese, but I was bopping along to all of his songs outside the ballads. The dancers were amazing, the production values were slick and interesting. He had one song where they played the James Bond theme nearly verbatim but he came out dressed as a futuristic cowboy which was weird but also really fun.
Highly recommended. Maybe not for the price some of these tickets went for if you dont speak Cantonese, but if you ever get to see him for free.
Also got Sarah Brightman this weekend, the original Christine from Phantom of the Opera and got to see her do the title track live which was incredible as was Con te Partiro.
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How many seats is your venue?
You can’t be serious thinking that. Spend some time in QA and software support and you will find out most coders can’t write anything that holds up. It is a small percentage that writes and fixes the product and the rest just produces volume that is good enough after someone elses fixes the edge cases.
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Do you think we don’t support our own software? Maybe it’s different at huge shops, but I’ve always been pretty connected to customer support. And we had QA embedded with us on projects, so we always got instant feedback.
Like I said, writing code that seems to work but is buggy or hard to maintain does come out eventually. Maybe you can sneak by for a six months or a year, but eventually when someone always has to fix your code, you don’t advance. At least anywhere I’ve worked.
Really your senior devs should be catching that stuff before junior devs check it in. If they aren’t, you’ve got shitty senior devs.
When I start at a new place, I know who the top devs are within a few days. It’s pretty obvious. Try determining who the top managers are in a matter of days.
Those “small percentage that writes and fixes the product” in your world, do they get taken care of? If so it seems like the meritocracy is working at least on that.
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