I was in this position. Either advance to Staff Engineer (with 0% coding) or leave the group.
The group I was a part of did not realize that not all good developers make good managers.
I've always firmly believed that I am not good in a people leading position, and that I excel as an IC.
I never ended up finding a new group in the company, as a company-wide layoff of software engineers ended my relationship with them.
I just found a new role as an IC, and I couldn't be happier.
But if you present your badly written requirements to a person who has the culture to ask questions, you at least have that safeguard. After all, it's a collaboration.
And when you work with an offshore team, quite often as contractors, you have the issue that you don't get top quality.
The in-between company will do its very best to hire low to maximize profit.
The good quality developers work either on local grown software, or leave the country for better opportunity.
And you are now working with a group of developers whose livelihood depends on saying 'yes' or not saying 'no.
And because of this you will not know whether there is an issue in the requirements until x time later and the plane goes down.
I cannot set a random outgoing From: address when sending an email in iOS. In many ways I understand applications not wanting this feature. Non-technical people will see it and wonder: What if I put in someone else's email address here?
Does that mean I can talk with my Nest Thermostat without paying $5?
Edit: yes, seemingly. Good, now I can get rid of my Honeywell/Resideo thermostats that came with the house.
If you ever had a Nest (one that learns how long it takes to heat up a room and preemptively shuts down heating) you'll never want a dumb one afterwards.
Yeah. The title is a click bait. It looks like that most people didn't read past the title.
Anyway Google could actually lock her out if it wants to. That's why using cloud storage is a bad idea. If you're using it, at least make sure that you've got a local copy so that things like this won't happen.
Google does a lot of things in a lot of different contexts. It's not always acting as a publisher but here I think it is, and it has claimed to be one in the past.
In 2012, Eugene Volokh argued on behalf of Google that it was indeed a publisher:
But VPNs are sold as the solution for when you are on an untrusted network, like at Starbucks.
But, because of this someone can have a Pineapple with a Starbucks SSID, push option 121 and capture a WHOLE bunch of traffic, even though the person using it has configured NordVPN on their iPhone with the killswitch on.
My VPN is for my tunnel out of my home network, not for remote networks. This is definitely a major issue if mitigations aren't implemented, but it's not relevant to all use cases for VPNs.
> I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is.
Anecdotally, this is something I've experienced in the USA more than in Europe. When I ask a question in store a lot of times I get the feeling that the person answering considers themselves an expert and quickly make claims that I know for a fact are false.
It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed.
> It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed.
-Anecdotally, I believe this sentiment is inversely related to worker protections - it appears that the easier it is to fire you, the less likely you are to volunteer that you are not at the top of your game at all times.
It's less about smugness and more that customer-service people are expected to behave like AI and always have an answer whether it's correct or not. I hope at some point we can drop the facade and "I don't know man, I just run the till. Do you want coffee or not?" becomes an acceptable response.
I can't speak for the US but people absolutely do not act like this in Europe (and Europe has some of the most arrogant self-assured service workers on the planet depending on the country - I won't name names but you can probably guess which country has the most extreme and limiting arrogance around what should or should not be done with coffee).
I've always firmly believed that I am not good in a people leading position, and that I excel as an IC.
I never ended up finding a new group in the company, as a company-wide layoff of software engineers ended my relationship with them.
I just found a new role as an IC, and I couldn't be happier.