watter's comments

watter | 8 years ago | on: Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation

The hate comes from little inaccuracies that have caused hours of stress and confusion. It is probably not as bad now but I recall getting pretty frustrated after spending hours debugging only to find out the docs were wrong.

watter | 8 years ago | on: NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast

I thought they had a ton of debt, largely for their new offices? Did that change?

watter | 8 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent

Unless you just don't shower and/or shave.

I work from home. I don't need effort and products to look like I just woke up.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Self-Driving Taxis Will Become the Most Disgusting Spaces on Earth

If someone barfs in the taxi (which I think is quite common tbh) it may not be visible to the camera even if they wipe it up.

In either case, that car still smells like barf until it is really cleaned.

Pretty sure if I got in a car that was full of barf while on my way to the airport I would stay in the car (and probably barf a bit myself, too).

watter | 8 years ago | on: Build a Serverless Web Applicaion

Look at the cost a different way: your data is clearly important and you just saved having to hire an ops person to help manage it part-time.

I get that this isn't reality though. Once you provision something the amount of maintenance is minimum if done well.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Build a Serverless Web Applicaion

Probably about 100ms or more on each request (to and from). Slower depending on location and network conditions.

watter | 8 years ago | on: What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees?

I'm convinced this is how some of the payment gateways make their money.

With one gateway after we switched providers and took the interface out of production we received about 5 fraudulant payments in the month that followed. Someone had hacked the bank's "iframe" service that we did not use and even though we only had the account open for a potential rollback we were still liable for $20 x 5 in fees. It was entirely the bank's fault.

watter | 8 years ago | on: What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees?

A credit card is insured. I am not sure I can say the same about the mandatory connction between Paypal and my bank account. It is much riskier to use Paypal than to give a stranger your cc number.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Redesigning Google News

"Being on the right path" doesn't mean that long-term this is a responsible party for steering democracy.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Redesigning Google News

It isn't the answer you're looking for but it is all that comes to mind: Drudge.

watter | 8 years ago | on: The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue

They're too busy changing the icons and adding border-radius to everything. Don't you know it took them 6 weeks to change the star button into a heart? They are very proud of it! /s

watter | 8 years ago | on: The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue

So the feature is explicitly for security? Security feature.

It is security for the user, not for the server. It is still security.

watter | 8 years ago | on: The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue

The icing on the cake is that engineers cost more than support reps. Sure the bot can "scale" but in a lot of cases I wonder if they are really saving by having a team of engineers who cost so much more than phone agents.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers

Xdebug in production you say?

watter | 8 years ago | on: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

The worst part is the banner advertises features that I absolutely do not want.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety

If you can learn a programming language you can learn to say bonjour and order a meal in French. I know, I have done this.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety

You don't hear about senior-level jobs for $80,000 in major US markets though. In Canada they are quite common (and realistically only worth about 60,000 USD). I work remotely and I've been priced out of my own country. I occasionally take a Canadian gig and it is always about 50 percent of what I would make in USD and the client complains on and on about the cost (if they only knew).

watter | 8 years ago | on: The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark

Do that in a rental car and the fee doubles again. Cost me $25 to cross a minor bridge to save 2min in the middle of the night.

watter | 8 years ago | on: The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark

This is why I like to remind people of Tesla's true innovation: finding government tax credits and giving consumers a way to spend them on Tesla.

watter | 8 years ago | on: Got 1.5% raise after a year at job. Now what?

Find a new job!