I'm the same way I like paypal to mask this. However some credit cards now have "virtual cards" that give you a temporary online number that you can use for specific transactions. It's another great way to avoid your data getting out there. I use one from Citibank as I have a CC from them.
I highly recommend that instead of Paypal too if you suspect a site will have a much higher chance you'll need to reverse a charge. Paypal has longer wait times for disputes than the CC companies. CC companies will also have your back a bit more, typically.
Is the boss a programmer? If yes, then yeah you should say something. If not, then this is all just normal - this is what bosses do - get credit for their division and get more funding for it. If he is not a programmer, then of course the board knows he didn't build it and had it built. Even if the sketches were shitty - he was in charge of getting the right people to build it.
A boss-type one time: "When I was with X, I built four datacenters"
Me, with a career that overlaps a time when one or two people building a datacenter with a little help from contractors for e.g. the electrical work and hvac, wasn't unheard of, for about three seconds, in my head: "Damn, that's pretty impressive"
Me, by the end of the three seconds: "Oh, he means he told other people to build four datacenters and that was very likely the extent of his involvement."
I'm going to assume that you are not in a management position from this statement? It's virtually impossible, unless you have extremely high-functioning workers, to do this.
People need oversight so they don't go off the rails, management so others don't step in to distract them, leadership so they can be guided in the right direction, etc.
Even with awesome direct reports, I can't think of a time when I just handed someone an extremely complex project and left them alone and was presented with perfect success a few months later.
Management is a skill; don't disregard its importance.
Imagine actually being so self-absorbed as to think that all of the folks who actually possess the technical skill to build the thing you’re daydreaming about couldn’t possibly do their jobs without your ‘leadership’… as if the only hand that doesn’t need held is yours… the guy who can’t actually build anything.
I used to get so angry about all this credit-taking, but after 20 years, it kind of just washes over me now. Look at every company's "About Us" page and you'll see beautiful headshots of top executives with captions claiming to have "Built product X" or "Developed application Y" when they probably never wrote a line of code in their lives. It's so pervasive in every company that, as an IC, you just have to accept it or you're going to give yourself increasing anxiety until you explode.
Well in theory it's quite an adventure to get support and secure funding and generally make something possible, so the credit is not completely misplaced. And like other commenters said, nobody thinks they did that with their own hands. At least nobody in their right minds.
The problem is that assumed knowledge is so implicit. If you're not familiar with the norm, it's easy to get confused about what someone actually did. Add to that the inherent desire of our ego to over-inflate our own importance, and misunderstandings don't get corrected.
Personally, I prefer to call out leadership explicitly: "lead teams who built out four data centers."
Getting other people to do something — at all, let alone correctly — is actually a huge task. You should not dismiss the efforts of a manager who orchestrated four datacenters, that's very impressive.
What behavior? If the boss isn’t a programmer, then it sounds like the boss is doing a good job here. He went and hired a programmer to build an app they needed. What am I missing?
The thing that killed craigslist was a bunch of startups that took it's ideas and charged 5% for the transaction and lip service about how it is safer than "other platforms" (other platforms being craigslist).
Not saying that's good or bad, but that's what killed craigslist.
I doubt this -- starting means developing the user experience (phone friendly probably) and also getting people to hear about it (marketing). Both are hard, what you say is the easy part.
Can't get creative, couldn't solve the Chinatown murder of May 12, 2012, "no we don't have funds, you have to get back on task, detective. Detective! We've been defunded, get back to your part of the deal."
No it isn't. That's the change from FY 2020 to FY 2021, which was ratified in April 2021. Inflation for the prior year was well under 2%, and even a live chart would have given you less than 5%.
Yes it is under inflation. Inflation is what, what it says on the news? Dude narcos what do they charge for their product, how many police do they murder, what's the budget for a dead cop? $100 million is...dude you realize I voluntarily pay taxes specifically so there can be a Medi-Cal and police, first and foremost?
But it's a measure of something. An exact dollar value (I paid $80 dollars I had no reason to pay, at all, half to California half to America) that measures gratitude.
Apparently people are stealing catalytic converters like there's no tomorrow. Some people have been literally killed trying to stop people stealing it from their car.
Mobs are literally going into malls and basically stealing everything in one specific store.
Homeless people are killing people, shoving people into running trains and in a lot of cases the victims are women.
Package theft (porch pirates) is at an all time high.
Mass Murders (gunning down multiple people) is happening every day in the united states.
But yeah I guess other than that, it's really not happening.
> Package theft (porch pirates) is at an all time high.
People having easily carried valuable items unattended on their porch which is easily accessible to any random passerby for hours at a time is at an all time high.
It used to be somewhat of a hassle to convince a delivery company to leave anything worth more than a few dollars anywhere there wasn't someone to sign for the delivery.
The talking points of people who deny reality are wild. Is CNN a bastion of conservatism?
>More than two-thirds of the country's 40 most populous cities saw more homicides last year than in 2020, according to a CNN analysis of police department data.
>Ten of those cities recorded more homicides in 2021 than any other year on record. Those are Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; Portland, Oregon; Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Milwaukee; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Tucson, Arizona. Minneapolis tied its previous record number of homicides, with 97 in the years 1997 and 2021.
Glad you added more to that comment. I have a personal belief that "owner builder" is going to be something you're going to hear about more and more.
People that are less fortunate are going to start getting investment together to buy raw land, build a house and sell it for upwards of the salary of an AI developer at Google.
This is something people can get started on literally tomorrow.
How do they certify that the homes are built according to the code? They do not seem to be licensed contractors or something, getting that license is not that cheap and fast, and you need quite several for a house.
You can live in a structure which is not certified as meeting the code's requirements. But selling it would be hard.
you can't get past permits and inspections without building to code. the main builder does not need to be a GC or have any kind of contractor license what-so-ever. There are still some pesky laws in the way, but it can be overcome with some fixes to red tape.
The California Building Code [1] consists of 12 volumes, the second of which (based on the International Building Codes) is 766 pages long. It is available for purchase for about $1200, or you can pay $237/year for a subscription. Despite having the force of law, it is copyrighted, which means that free copies (which do exist, floating around on the net) are technically illegal.
Houses in California cost more than a Google AI developer's salary because you have to know more than a Google AI developer to build them.
That's the link I used to learn it, it's available online from that link for free. If you look at the CRC - it's an easy read, designed that way on purpose. Chapters are streamlined and much shorter, reads much faster. It's not quite a how-to guide there's definitely some challenges.
Materials costs have come down but are still rough. Big builders get the priority of supply too. People want to drive less and work from home but you can't buy "raw land" with anything to walk to or any kind of internet speed.
That's an interesting idea. Much like how China develops cities first, then moves people into them later, you seem to be suggesting individuals could build cheap houses on cheap land to incentivize infrastructure building toward and outward from new construction.
I don't think the economics work out here for the "less fortunate" because there is a certain minimum threshold of time-plus-money necessary to start this process, and I think without detailed planning provisions it will end up as worse-than-useless sprawl, but it's something to build on, if you'll excuse the pun.
Definitely will be worked out, and I wouldn't be surprised if a startup shows up to get people motivated (with advice, resources and planning assistance) and help them find investment.
You want to replace qualified with unqualified labor. That's not going to be competitive, or let alone possible due to the code violations that a bunch of untrained guys will inevitably produce.
While we're here. Does anyone else notice that on a mac it doesn't support the completely basic concept of a red notification dot in the application bar? People literally wait hours when they msg me because - I don't get notified when the app is just sitting there running.
What counts as a garbage language? Java guys will tell you it's rust or go, go guys will tell you it's java or rust, rust guys will tell you it's java and go.
Java person here. Yeah, Go looks a bit crufty, but they're gradually undoing the earlier opinionated choices that make me think that (Who needs generics? Who needs to tune the GC? Oh, our users do), but nah, we mainly hate on Scala when we have to maintain anything with Scala deps, just that damn ABI that's never compatible.
I'm not a "rust user" any more than I'm a java user (less, in fact). Your heuristic is probably picking up on the fact that people who pay attention to things like this tend to have correlated opinions.
You still don't know how to spot them :). The borrow checker is a great invention, but for them it's the holy grail that will save us from bugs. Like in the past people thought that GC was the solution to every problems. Youngsters must learn, we have to be patient.
the issue is that this can pop up in any library, not just logging. It's about keeping your deps up to date (or not) by a "3d party" (assuming he mean 3rd party)
Yes, this can pop up in any library. But only because developers aren't taught "don't put remote code execution into your code". You'd think that would be something that someone would teach, but it doesn't really come up. Remember that log4j was vulnerable because of a feature - it all worked as designed.
I highly recommend that instead of Paypal too if you suspect a site will have a much higher chance you'll need to reverse a charge. Paypal has longer wait times for disputes than the CC companies. CC companies will also have your back a bit more, typically.