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Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
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Re: Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you shoplift? Serious question. Shoplifting is rarely caught, and even more rarely prosecuted in many major cities (e.g. SF). While you probably won't be able to steal anything high value, there's a lot of things you'd be able to steal without being caught, and why pay for something if you can have it for free? Most grocery stores are owned by billion-dollar corporations, which don't hesitate to raise prices, enga…
Not to advocate for doing either, just to point out potential flaws in your argument: (1) Value gained Assuming you steal things that aren't of high value, let's say you steal a bag full of groceries at the supermarket, every day, worth $50. Do this for a year, and you'll have stolen Assuming an annual salary of $100k, if you slack off 75% of your working hours, you'd gain a "windfall" of ~$75k. Conclusion - the payo…
> (1) Value gained
Does it follow that stealing is only wrong when you steal not enough?
> Shoplifting is a crime in most jurisdictions.
In most jurisdictions where you earn 6 figures slacking off 75% of your time, actually, it either officially or practically isn't. And if you look as clean and upstanding citizen, the chances of you getting off as "this is just a misunderstanding" are very close to 100%.
Re: Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
#143The way I go about it is that when I find it, I raise it politely, I offer to drive the fix, and then I add it to my resume, and then I tour with it, being "The Guy Who Fixes Things". That way I do get something, even if I'm completely detached from the original thing.
Re: Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
This just means that your line manager, whose role it is to ensure all resources under them are working at efficient capacity, is not doing his/her job. And in turn neither is his manager.
I think this assumes managers (or anyone else for that matter) are able to actually quantify productivity.
That's an incredibly difficult thing to do. I can quantify SLOCs. I can quantify hours of effort. I can quantify story points. Maybe I can even quantify value added by tying features out to revenue. But which of these measures, if any, is closest to productivity?
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#145I am basically that employee in several ways. I know about wasteful cloud spend that I do nothing about. My last comment on HN actually was asking if anyone could give me a reason to report that cloud waste. The best arguments were for the sake of the environment and to build credibility with co-workers to make it easier to jump ship. Nothing from the company at all. I can't say I deliberately ship bugs, but I don't…
For nothing else than the sake of “life is about the journey”, please consider changing your job. It is absolutely possible to align paid employment with fulfillment.
I've heard people bandy that trusim my whole life. And I find that for like 99% of us, it's just false.
Or, you do find your 'dream job', and pays $17/hr no benefits, cause it's a non-profit. (Aside: I've never dreamed of work. Not once. I like keeping the surplus of my labor.)
What I want to do is to build new stuff, and greenfield. Basically, it'd be a R&D variant, but most of those jobs don't even exist. It's a cost center, and the C levels equate it to corporate gambling.
There's working at a national lab, or NASA, or similar. And most of those are clearance jobs that nobody, save a few, will ever see come to light of day.
I'll just choose a mundane, paying well job, and on the sly automate. Ideally, I'll get good money and have 10-15h work a week, and regained time. Basically doubles my effective wage.
Re: Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I won’t be at my employer years later, so why does it matter? Max of 4 years to cash out the stock.
one has to have honor for themselves you may win the FIRE game but you've cost yourself the chance to be something you respect
Shit, I lost that when I went into the industry.
Re: Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
#147"cajole or trick your employees into thinking that what they’re doing is important"
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