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It's always surprising to see how apps degrade under high latency connections and is a good way to test how users will actually experience things in less-than-ideal conditions.
(Yes for 1 person, whereas TV can be watched by a group; but still it's crazy expensive.)
Generic sales people who are good at appealing to the emotional in their target demographic will only go so far when the audience is specialized in a field. That's not to say those people are completely immune to emotional tricks. But if that's the only way the salesperson tries to connect, they will have a hard time getting through.
I'm not a salesperson but I witnessed a coworker who was insanely good at selling our Healthcare SaaS product, and the way he connected with his target audience didn't feel sales-y at all. In fact, he genuinely cared about finding a solution for the people he was selling to. He believed in our customers and knew our product was going to help them in their goals—even with the warts & bugs we had.
Of course, that's because I cultivate teams where I want people to think for themselves, even if that means dissent or arguing with me. I'm not trying to hire a bunch of "yes people" who just make me feel good. And I'm aware that it takes a lot of courage to ask questions or challenge an interviewer, but that's a similar trait that I'm after in the roles I'm usually filling.
What happens is scammers get numbers with small carriers who interconnect with major ones. Eventually the reputable carriers notice spam from these smaller carriers and start dropping their calls (or banning them altogether). So the smaller carriers decide whether they want to see their legitimate traffic dropped or just ban the offending users (which is eventually what ends up happening). Scammers end up hopping to a different carrier so it's a cat-and-mouse game, but it's a lot more expensive to play now than it was with simple number spoofing.
In parallel, numbers are starting to get reputations attached to them, similar to IP addresses. Some filtering takes advantage of that.
Of course, spearfishing can continue unimpeded with someone buying a prepaid cell phone and using that to call a specific target. :(
https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken...
As she later wrote in the article, it's not necessary to possess a skill to hang out with others, mere interest is often sufficient. Many hobby "tribes" (for a lack of a better word) have plenty of enthusiasts who will be more than happy to welcome a newcomer and show them around. That may be a friendship in of itself, or that may lead to other friendships centered around some common interest.
The deepest of friendships often start in the shallowest of ways, so lowering expectations at the beginning may be useful.
Then he should either be senior management or a high-end consultant (the kind that's well paid and actually listened to, who fixes structural problems in companies). And perhaps some soft-skills would help him to gel better with the people who pay him.
head -c 20 /dev/random | base64
Fortunately, fewer and fewer orgs are using security questions, but there are still some important ones that only use that and no MFA.
- Rate-limit the API, with increasing aggressiveness until you're down to 0 requests per unit of time;
- Introduce latency in serving the requests (assuming your edge can handle the increased volume of open connections).
Both of these introduce gradual degradation of the old API, without outright killing the business functionality that recalcitrant customers are nevertheless reliant upon. It helps spur a bit of urgency to switch to the new API, while remaining nice. Many (enterprise) customers will wait until the last minute to switch: essentially they are having to put in work without any tangible feature gain—at least from their perspective.
Regardless of the strategy, one other point I'd add is to monitor actual use of the API; if important customers are still actively using the old API, it would be unwise to shut it off.
All the ones around where I live are on a single bridge; but they usually need to widen said bridge when they convert the intersection.
There are a few Diverging Diamond intersections around here and they seem to all work rather well from a vehicle perspective. I can't speak about the pedestrian side of that equation, as I've never been on foot.
Compares to a roundabout placed over a highway, it uses 1 bridge instead of two, but otherwise I don't know which flows best.
VCs manage risk differently than bankers, but they still need some form of assurance that their investment will bear fruit. They are not as rigid as bankers but they are still in the same position of having to rely on proxy signals to predict the future.
They can catch more non-conformist value builders† but not every single one.
†For a VC, innovation is a means to building value, not an end to itself. Often the 2 are used interchangeably but only the finances matter in the end.
Of course that doesn't say anything about the other PII but at this point, I figure my PII has already been leaked multiple times.
I could imagine that a place where the nighttime temperatures are in the mid 30s (°C) would not have any cooler water available.
- What did they mean?
- Was it an insult?
- Why "dry"?
(thinks some more)
- This is the lamest insult ever!