throwawybllion

So, many, commas, what could, it, mean? .

> By the time Jon’s company got around to decrypting their data, they were forced by regulators to prove that no patient data had been exfiltrated from their systems.

There is absolutely no way they could have proven that...

Learn a new language. PHP (while not entirely garbage in its modern form, though based on your post I'm guessing you're not using it in a very modern way) has a stigma insofar as I (for one) assume someone that has only used PHP is not likely to ramp up quickly because they lack intellectual curiosity.

Honestly, when I'm looking at resumes, I immediately assume anyone that only has experience in one language is at best a junior level engineer even if they have 10 years of experience.

I'd recommend Python or Java. .NET is also an option. Learn them in your spare time (hell, even use them at work, no one will notice) and make sure you build something substantial before you put it on your resume.

No strong disagreements with the article, however... It's TOTP, not TOPT (a mistake made throughout the article). I am skeptical of the qualifications and much of the basis for complaint.

Using anything based on a phone for sole verification is inexcusable in any situation, but is that really the case with PayPal? I have an account with MFA and... I don't think that's true

Nope, we just laid off the least experienced 10% of our team, and haven't hired a junior since 2019.

Best advice is that you don't need a job to become a mid or senior dev:

Go contribute to open source projects. It's the best hiring indicator we have and it's much better at teaching you real world programming than boot camps or CS degrees (I have a CS degree but learned basically nothing about how to actually build software).

Probably need to log into the school account on chromeos

So run another chromeos in a VM and just shut it down to switch to personal

uft: Universal Finagler of Text, Universal Format Translator? unt: unt is not a transformer?

> If you feel like you have to be defensive (per other comments here, it sounds like this isn't the first time), you shouldn't be responding.

Huh?

> I usually at least once told the person it wasn't personal

:thumbsup: Common courtesy

> As an aside ... everyone is going to assume you work for Ghost.

Fair. I don't, I make a new throwaway for every hn thread I bother to comment on (happens roughly every 4 - 6 months), but there's no reason to believe me. I don't even really know what ghost is; pretty confused why you have to pay for it at all if it's decentralized.

Could be shitty — just thought the thread author's reaction was unjustified from the facts she posted.

Those were the ones I was referring to. I'll agree that they aren't really rude, but I do think they're condescending. I guess by rude I meant the negative comments seemed overwrought and unnecessary in the context of a support thread.

Shrug, I guess I've vented at support before, but usually in a tone that I hope better acknowledged that it wasn't the agent's fault. More commiseration than lecturing. Again, I hope.

Also OP claimed that she never mistreated support staff and then posted emails of her being unnecessarily condescending to support staff.

EDIT: not extremely rude and condescending, just unnecessarily condescending

Seems like the CEO told OP that they would provide her an archive download link upon request. I'm confused what the problem is? I buy that the trial lockout thing is annoying, but... Are we supposed to be up in arms that a user has to email support for... support?

I'm annoyed primarily by OP's entitlement and vitriol, and secondarily by the CEO's typos and grammar.