This quote from Kim, in the op, indicates the same:
> “[T]he obedient US colony in the South Pacific just decided to extradite me for what users uploaded to Megaupload, unsolicited, and what copyright holders were able to remove with direct delete access instantly and without question.”
Yes, like many criminal defendants, he always claimed to be compliant with the law.
They did have an "Abuse Tool" available. The problem was, it was intentionally flawed. It was a sham, intended to make it appear like they were compliant, when they were not. It didn't remove infringing content. It just removed the link. Also, Kim intentionally limited content holders in the number of requests they could send. So, pirates using the system just created more links to the same infringing content.
> Not looking into that thing on my tongue in July 2022, when I first noticed it, but that is very specific to me and probably not generalizable... I got a partial glossectomy in Oct. 2022
This one hits close to home. My dentist at the time misdiagnosed tongue cancer as a “reddish lesion, w/ possible tongue biting,” and this was only after I pointed it out to him at the end of a routine appointment. It wasn’t correctly diagnosed until further prodding from me 3 months later. By some estimates, that delay increased my chance of death by 30%, and the cancer has since progressed from stage 2 to stage 4.
I’ve done lots with AWS and really only ever used GCP to configure Google SSO. I was really surprised by how much button clicking is required in GCP vs. AWS. In AWS, you create the root account, provision a service account, and then all AWS resources are managed through terraform. In GCP, you have to verify a domain via CNAME records, etc., in order to create a root account, and then manipulate the organization policy to provision the service account. While you can create the IAP brand within terraform (as long as you use the root account and not the service account), you can only externalize the brand by clicking buttons in GCP. Laughably, there is an open issue/ticket from more than a decade ago requesting a programmatic way to externalize a brand.
Bon voyage, Jake. I follow in your steps from the same diagnosis. Thank you for bravely sharing your experience and helping others in similar predicaments <3
Zipcar charged me for getting a parking ticket. The ticket was given for returning/parking the car in the “only Zipcars can park here” reserved spot on the street. The problem was that Zipcar had not applied the Zipcar sticker to their own car, so it didn’t appear to be a Zipcar to the parking attendant. Yes, tl;dr Zipcar charged me for parking the car in the spot they directed me to return the car to. Chase decided the CSP chargeback in Zipcar’s favor.
TripleByte changed my (professional) life. Around 2019, I was in a bit of a professional lull but knew just enough coding to be dangerous.
I got roped into the TripleByte funnel through a Reddit ad, which eventually culminated in moving out to SF for a YC startup. Several years later, I had a role at FAANG and reached a level of professional $ucce$$ that was orders of magnitude better than where I had been ~4 years prior.
I wish TripleByte was still around. I remember interviewing.io doing a study on whether there was any signal from LinkedIn profiles with “skill badges.” TripleByte was the only badge that had predictive value for ability-to-receive-an-offer, but the flip side was that recruiters negatively associate these badges with profiles of people in early-stage careers, which means that you’re better served by not having any badges on your profile.
I went through a bootcamp at the end of 2014, then spent the next three years unable to get a job in tech. I didn’t have a paycheck for those three years.
Triplebyte was my last ditch effort. I failed the online test the first time I took it, came back and then failed their interview. Came back again, got five in person interviews in the Bay Area. Didn’t get offers on the first four (one place even kicked me out halfway through the set of interviews). But I managed to get an offer from the last company, which I then spent the next four years at.
Had I not gone through Triplebyte, I probably would’ve given up on working in tech. Instead, I’m an L5 at Google.
> one place even kicked me out halfway through the set of interviews
It might feel better if you realise they "let you go home" rather than "kicked you out". If a candidate is clearly not qualified why waste their time (or ours) going through interviews that we already know won't lead to a hire?
BTW we always consider this a failure of our process (phone screen in particular), not failure of the candidate. We should never have brought them in in the first place.
Overconfidence. I had built some cool stuff, but I didn’t know much I didn’t know. So having interviews where I wouldn’t get any feedback left me in the dark about how far off I was.
I’ve always had sterling reviews as long as I’ve been in a job. I’ll leave it to you to wonder how much of that is competence and how much is successfully pretending to be competent.
> I’ll leave it to you to wonder how much of that is competence and how much is successfully pretending to be competent.
It still sets a baseline level of competence, even if it’s not quite as amazing as it appears.
People always think I’m competent, but it’s really me just starting on ‘what I expect people to be doing in half a year’ now, so by the time they start doing it I’ve already gone through all the pitfalls while they weren’t looking.
I was working construction and doing part time web design before triplebyte, afterwards I was working in SV as a senior engineer. To say it changed my life is an understatement
I wrote this post, and TB changed my life, even though I'm not an engineer. They hired me almost literally off the street, and now I'm...well, running an attempt at a successor. Not a bad six years.
If you want one reason I wanted to start this company in particular, it's that it seemed like a good idea to try to make something everyone wants to see exist.
