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This sounds like this old xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/832/

That title is so weird. I thought there are camera that are watching groups of birds. I know the company name is what it is but even more so it would be important to make the title clear. Not the whole world can keep up with all silly things happening in the US and now that flock surveillance can be anything but birds.

It's not only about pressure, but also telling all the people whose data can be read AKA the public.

And still it's also about the pressure. I was found a pretty bad injections/XSS in an online banking website. Told them, got no response. After waiting blogged about it (without specifying what he actual issue is). Then someone contacted me and said I need to take down the wrong information. Send back a PoC and only then they started fixing it. In the meanwhile every customer could have gotten emails stealing their login data.


You don’t need the lucky shot. But luck needs room to happen. What you need to grow into is becoming a leader. Mentor others, lead by example, suggest new things and build prototypes for show and tell. All that is actually the growth path for good senior software engineers, not becoming a middle manager creating Excel sheets.

And that’s more or less all he did. Had an idea, build a prototype, showed to the world and talked about it - even inspired people who are now saying „I could have done that“. Well do it, but don’t just copy. Improve the idea and great something better. And then very early share it. You might get lucky.


Well you don’t see the real value of coding tasks during interview. What gets tested are your communication skills, how you think and express your thinkings. You will be working in a team so you need at least fit and work with others. You are right that no one cares about your FizzBuzz.


If that really affects them it's better to take them offline.


It's not like only that the transit system is losing money? Every trip that's done with a car is also not fully paying for itself. We just keep ignoring how much hidden cost individual car rides have especially considering their use. Obviously heavier road users are even generating more costs, but they might have more use (like in delivering goods to a supermarket).


Also TO doesn't need to match. When you send to a group of BCC the envelope To has to specify the exact recipient, but the DATA doesn't. Similar with the envelope From and the one in the DATA - also useful to control bounces or who gets a reply.

Yeah I know the protocol and can do that manual, because I had to debug it often enough.


Yeah that was very visible when HBO Max launched here in Austria and Germany. The top result was HBO Max FYC (which by itself is a very bad name, but it's not for normal customers), then came other results with even other streaming services and only after scrolling a bit you got the normal HBO Max app. Didn't matter if you searched for "hbo" or the full name "hbo max".


OS X had a lot of icons that were detailed illustrations but you‘d only see it when you zoom in. Yet they also worked as small icons. You can have both and Apple did. The textedit icon is a great example.


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