codebutler

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Comment · 3 years ago

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!

Protecting Yourself From Phone Theft codebutler.notion.site

1 codebutler 3 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 3 years ago

I’m surprised to hear about your experience at Vital, I go there all the time and have never felt unwelcome for working in tech.

There’s also a weekly Saturday meetup for people who explicitly want to be social. https://www.reddit.com/r/nycmeetups/comments/13qpv7e/0527_1p...

Comment · 4 years ago

Curious to see their typescript implementation and how it compares with https://github.com/stephenh/ts-proto which works great for grpc-web.

Postgres Java lib returns wrong numeric value after 5 reads github.com

2 codebutler 4 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 5 years ago

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?

Thanks!

Comment · 6 years ago

Level | New York, NY (NYC) | Software Eng, Design, PM, etc.

https://level.com/

Level is hiring! We’re an NYC-based financial services company reinventing employee benefits from the ground up, 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.

Full list of open roles here: https://grnh.se/afa38a8c3us

Comment · 6 years ago

Level | NYC - New York City, NY | https://level.com/

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.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90356632/time-for-a-teeth-cleani...

https://level.com/blog/introducing-level/

Hiring across all roles: https://level.com/jobs/

Comment · 9 years ago

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.

Comment · 11 years ago

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 [email protected].

Comment · 12 years ago

TapChat is similar, has web and Android apps: http://tapchatapp.com/

Comment · 12 years ago

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.

We raised money for the EFF and ACLU with an NSA t-shirt philkast.com

51 codebutler 13 years ago 5 comments

Does Targeted Advertising Work? My campaign to earn one click adamsonic.com

1 codebutler 13 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 13 years ago

Yes, ISIS uses SIM applets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(mobile_payment_system)

Google Wallet uses the same type of applets but stored in the phone's SE rather than the SIM card.