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calrueb | 2 years ago | on: Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit

It depends if you are talking about Okta's "Workforce Identity cloud" which is their flagship product under the Okta name and serves businesses needing an IDP to manage their employees. Or if you are looking for "Customer Identity cloud" aka Auth0 alternatives which is primarily for authenticating a businesses end-users/customers.

calrueb | 2 years ago | on: Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture

I’m gonna go to bat for Slack on this one and say the “Later” feature they added recently has completely changed my workflow for the better. It’s so simple, but removes all the cognitive overhead of feeling pressured to deal with specific messages real time, else I forget about them. Now I just throw the message in Later and get back to it when I’m free.

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: CircleCI Layoffs

With these non-IPO companies doing layoffs is the correct way to read these announcements "we are letting people go to lower expenses because we are not profitable and are actually at risk of running out of money" or is it more "we are letting people go to lower expenses because our investors are asking that we look better on paper because they would like us to have a liquidity exit event (acquisition, private equity, IPO)"?

I suppose my larger question is if a private company is break-even/profitable would the investors/board ever ask management to make these cuts? If so, why?

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: MessageBird lays off 31% of staff

"While we continue to operate profitably in 2022 and sustain our growth rates ahead of our peers, unfortunately we still need to take more drastic measures for the health of our business and to continue to support and prepare our customers and our stakeholders from what is about to come. "

I find it hard to accept both these statements "we continue to operate profitably" and "we still need to take more drastic measures for the health of our business". Why is the business health in question? The memo doesn't address it. I can only assume they are they projecting growth to go negative next year?

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: The Palm Court $30 burger tastes like the death of San Francisco

I feel like this article is making a bigger deal out of Palm Court than need be. I have been there; yes, if you do any research at all you know your getting ripped off on food prices. But for a date night of just wandering around the show rooms, and then getting some food it was a good time. SF isn’t dying.

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: 12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff

Do you mean for a mid-level engineer with experience, or a college grad like the parent comment? My impression is if you were to try rest-and-vesting as an L3 (junior) SWE at any FAANG firm, you are eventually going to get PIP'ed out. It is very much "up or out" at least to L4 or L5. You may be able to hang around for two years, but then you're going to find yourself back in the job market.

That said if we are talking about mid-level/L5 engineers... then yes, I agree. From a far, it seems very possible to coast for a full 4 year equity grant if you situate yourself correctly, and have a manager that lets it slide.

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: The iPhone 14 keeps calling 911 on rollercoasters

I thought of this immediately when watching the keynote, but then they mentioned they used GPS technology, and I figured they would be passively monitoring to confirm that for the past X minutes the phone has likely been in a car (non-walking speed + on roads).

Clearly they aren’t doing enough of that if you can trigger this after waiting in line in a roller coaster park. I suspect they may end up geo-fencing known problematic areas as their algorithm doesn’t seem as great as they claim.

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce

Go-To-Market or often referred to as GTM is a common term used within the B2B SAAS space. The term is thrown around quite a bit if you work in that sector. Like others said, it is primarily concerned with all things revenue (obtaining and retaining).

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’

This threat seems to be specifically about sales not meeting quota, and therefore the Google Cloud org not meeting its revenue goals. I suppose one interpretation is that the sales compensation structure is flawed, and not incentivizing sellers to do their best work. If so, sales leadership should be held partly accountable. However, I suspect sales is likely the scapegoat here for deeper issues with the product and how it compares with alternatives.

calrueb | 3 years ago | on: Mullvad is now available on Amazon

This isn't true in my experience at least for ad tech. Finger printing has moved from a deterministic process, to probabilistic models and IP plays a meaningful role in that. I believe it is why Apple spent the time building Private Relay for instance.

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

As many people have pointed out these are for tracking the performance of ad traffic. Savvy, "privacy minded" businesses may listen to this sort of outrage, and pull the pixels off their websites. But you are kidding yourself if you think you aren't being tracked because the frontend JS is all first party.

The same thing can, and is happening server side. Every platform out there now has an event/conversion API [1]. If you are logging in to Uber Eats with a email/phone number you have used elsewhere then you are going to be tracked full-stop.

1. Here is TikTok's for example https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article?aid=10003669

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: Amazon to close all of its physical bookstores and '4-star' shops

I'm no fan of Amazon, but I did walk through the 4-star shop in Mall of America while Christmas shopping last year, and I liked it. I thought it was a cool space, filled to the brim with various interesting oddities. There was a long line to get in (partially due to COVID reasons), but it seemed very popular.

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

Going to echo all the other positive comments. This is the most fun variation I have played. On my first try I failed to complete it, then went and did a practice round with some smarter initial word choices and won (barely!)

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

Perhaps a 15-30 year old thing, but for those people in my B/C/D list (never thought about it that way before), one thing I do is if they are active on Instagram I will send a response to their story if it looks interesting. More casual than a text, but it opens the door to a quick conversation.

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Randomly Guessing Bitcoin Addresses

This is cool, and the linked Medium article helped me wrap my head around the security of Bitcoin wallets. I have wondered in the past why people mine blocks, but not try to “mine”/hack existing wallets.

It would be cool to add a running counter for “X wallets checked” on the webpage.

calrueb | 4 years ago | on: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas to the entire Hacker News community. I am so grateful for this funny orange site, and the people who gather here.
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