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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 goin…

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 …

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 …

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.

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 frus…

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 lug…

In Java, Lombok @Slf4j on a class is very convenient. Adds a static field for the logger.

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…

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 u…

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 w…

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…

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 i…

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/s…

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 ver…

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. htt…

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 v…

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 tha…

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.…

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 u…

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 livin…

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 pa…

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 contri…

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…

> 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…

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…