I wrote this guide for friends after hearing that petty thieves are becoming more sophisticated. Rather than just sell a stolen phone for parts, they watch people type their PIN and then steal money and lock the owner out of their accounts. I hope it’s useful and welcome any feedback!
Oh no quite the contrary, I think we agree! :) Sorry, my comments on Vital came off differently based on the context of the paragraph. My guess is the GP's comment on being made to feel uncomfortable happened at MetroRock – it would be really ironic for a Vital person to say something unwelcoming towards tech, because techies are such a big component of their community. :)
By "strange", I meant that it's not a "typical"/"traditional" climbing gym – in that it's explicitly aimed at the top of market with their pricing, network, and amenities. Although, to be fair, it's a literally-dying breed in NYC so there isn't much to compare it to, locally.
I was saying I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable there if I were self-conscious of appearances, because it's a relatively affluent milieu and setting. I do personally feel comfortable there myself, was just trying to empathize.
Happy to see there's meetups – it's a great place for that sort of thing.
Looks awesome, I'm looking forward to trying it out! A couple questions:
1) Is the desktop app electron or native?
2) Is the Mac iMessage bridge open-source?
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Level is a financial services company that’s reinventing employee benefits, starting with the $100B+ dental insurance industry. With our own payments stack and an insurance network built from the ground up, Level offers a better way for people to use and pay their benefits while helping employers control costs. Our founding team comes from companies that have simplified payments and insurance—like Square, Oscar Health, Mercer, and Uber. Based in New York, the company is backed by First Round Capital and Homebrew.
I work at Uber. This behavior is totally inappropriate and I'm really sorry to hear your friend had this experience. My Twitter DMs are open (@codebutler) if you would like to share any more detail.
I spent a lot of time when I was in my early 20s doing consulting on projects that I wasn't very excited about. It's really easy to get stuck in a bad place and you should feel good that you've identified this as a problem for you so early.
It's so easy to lose confidence in yourself when your surroundings don't make you happy. Don't tell yourself that you aren't smart. Read up about Impostor Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome). Apply to jobs around the world that you'd enjoy even if think are out of your reach -- you'll be surprised. Companies are starved for talented passionate engineers and will pay for relocation and invest time in training.
I'm happy to chat more, hit me up at eric@codebutler.com.
Hi, I'm the author of Firesheep. The code in git master should work with recent versions of Firefox, but there is an issue when running on recent versions of OS X related to elevating privileges. If you manually setuid the firesheep-backend binary, it might work. Let me know if you're interested in helping to fix this! Writing a handler for this Instagram vulnerability should be trivial.
