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Interesting, they have 50? 60? open jobs: https://vercel.com/careers - I think that's a lot?

Gatsby to maybe?

That's like: Metal and materials are better now than ever before, so shouldn't it be simple, to design new airplanes, nowadays? Why do the aerospace engineers get paid so much

Or looking down into the bench, closing ones eyes, and thinking about a pile of dead kittens!

Hmm that reads quite different from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32275868 just above

someone apparently also living in Croatia (maybe another city? other social circles?)

o.O what country is that

I haven't noticed (although in Europe, northern)

(I run without a shirt :-))

Are people in Italy prude?

Or did you mean the opposite, that there are eg more nudist beaches there

(Did you reply to "more open to nudism" or to "The west is prude")

Can't one bring a towel and cover ones thighs, if need arise? And thereafter, no longer any need to worry about reacting to beautiful women, because if I've does, no one would notice anyway?

Or maybe it can look suspicious if suddenly one reaches for one's towel?

I've never been in a nude sauna though, not common around here. Seems as if could be good, anyway, with a "safety plan" to avoid getting embarrassed

Reading the article, it didn't sound as if there was any such promise

What if they can have an engineer work 60h/week to try to deliver the promises, and not being able to say no (someone else signs off) and also gets to take all the blame if things too long? Wouldn't that be great

It can also happen that the person learns "this doesn't work well, this also doesn't, this too -- I wish we were doing everything differently!"

And later, when joining a better company, s/he more deeply understands the reasons behind their good practices -- because s/he has seen the mess, without.

Having seen and lived in mistakes, is life experience, can be useful. Depends on the person

The password was pretty low entropy, I wonder if that makes it harder for tools like GitLeaks to find? But the email address, yes I guess

What are some other questions others have failed to answer properly? (In addition to the password one)

What's PHB?

Already pipelines running from those areas :-) maybe in the future can transport solar jet fuel instead?

> Their greatest existential threat [against Russia] is a united europe.

No, it's Putin. He's an existential threat to the people in Russia.

Whilst NATO is not and he knows it. (Except for replying if Putin starts firing nukes.)

> if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars

That's not how people think. "Let's attack Ukraine because Napoleon ..."

I doubt you seriously believe in those things yourself, and the other things you wrote.

> a way oversimplification

Indeed, not all but some of the attackers instead want to kill the men and rape the women in Ukraine -- rather than caring that much about their own tribe.

Some double digit percentage of the male population whether you are, starts doing that, if they have the chance.

It's reproduction, evolution, been going on for hundreds of thousands of years

"Star man"

What is CTA? It's Lightfoot Lori Lightfoot?

> the predefined envelope of expected places to send things to.

Also, in some cases the expected destinations have been hacked already, I'm guessing

> multiple channels for exfiltration

If they can send via wifi, it could be almost impossible to detect? So much noise in the wifi space?

> the next upgrade wiped the custom code!

Good for the agency: More hours to bill, if re-doing that work?

They're trying to make themselves look popular? Faking social proof, as if everyone wants to buy their stuff?

I find it odd that there are people here who believe that the agency regrets anything,

Or that it learnt anything more than "yes this really works for us to maximize revenue and we can get away with it".

(I do guess it's better to not name them though -- because naming them risks making actually well behaved agencies or freelancers nervous about working with the client in the future?)

> ultimately you're setting everyone up to fail.

The agency didn't fail? They made lots of money and can do the same scammy thing again and again

More like a success story for them

> Honesty is key for all parts

I think it's not, not for agencies that want to maximize revenue

(Unfortunately.)

Seems you're a bit ideologically driven though, which is nice I think :-)

If you change the argument to this:

"Among equal engineers, get the cheapest one"

And, when execs give other execs high salaries, it's simpler for them themselves to keep their own high salaries?

Otherwise, after a while, maybe others in the company would say:

The other execs don't make more than this:... Why should we pay you so much?

How did this affect their salaries? (If at all)

Maybe the execs and CEOs can try to be examples

Rewarded... Maybe profit sharing? Then could pay back to do what's good for the company?

> need employees to care about their employer. This won't happen if the employer doesn't care about the employees first

I'd like to try that :-)

(among some other things, like profit sharing for everyone, so that doing what's good for the company is good for oneself)

> would have no incentive

Look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094120

I asked how to fix that (what are your thoughts?)

How do you arrange incentive structures so that people in the company who get such emails, want to do something about it -- and, so others in the company (eg legal) want to, too?

(Without messing up other things the company is doing)

What does OC mean?

Thanks for writing about all this and warning people :-)

I wonder how much the actions Kapwing took has reduced the amount of scam attempts -- if you happen to know? Maybe hard to measure