telebone_man

I don't know but if you go into the input box and type on your keyboard...

UUDDLRLRBA

It pops up a cute little rainbow

> Development (full stack), server admin, data center management, DevOps, project management, managing teams, VoIP, routing/switching, training, sales... the list goes on.

I was a 'generalist' for most of my career. I had started, run and sold a successful business that required me to touch all parts of the business.

Until a Sales Director absolutely schooled me in the theory that underpinned his work. He seemed insulted that I claimed to be proficient in sales. It was an insult to his specialism.

I would suggest you really test yourself in one of these areas before claiming you're proficient. I've never met a single person who was proficient in all the above. I've met plenty of people who could trudge along in those areas.

I may be a bit late on this one, but here goes :)

It's technically feasible.. but in my opinion, if it's happened with you then it's very likely to be happening with others.

There's no one single way to setup telco infrastructure, so it would be educated-guesswork in the case of Google Fi.

Worth noting VoIP is real time, it either works or it doesnt. And if a call is being setup between two parties and it's otherwise a good quality call, then monitoring is unlikely to mark it as a bad call.

Personally, I would recommend logging this as a bug (if Google Fi allow it?) as I suspect it will be near impossible for them to spot these scenarios, even with clever monitoring tools.

I'll be keeping an eye on the news for follow ups on this one!

I think it'd be fun to ask their thoughts on something controversial, within a field relevant to the role.

Doesn't have to be technical, in my opinion.

Just remember you deserve to be paid something equivalent to the value you will add to the business.

There was an article along the lines of ‘100 top developer tips’.

One of them was something like ‘don’t under estimate the value of wasting time on hacker news’.

Held true!

Something on the back of your car, that using a combination of your speed, the distance between you and the car behind you, an understanding of the weight of both cars (using a lookup on the Reg), and the stopping distance, taking into account weather.. is able to calculate the likelihood that the car will crash into you if you slammed on your breaks

And then display that figure in a big lcd panel in your back window.

Haven’t done it, because every time I remember it, I’m driving my car and forget by time I’m home.

I would say it's a dangerous road. Child or not!

Imagine being challenged at work... in a sales team, for example. Make a sale, get to do a lucky dip. Say two people make an equivalent sale, one wins and the other doesn't. I would personally feel less motivated if I lost.

I wonder if you did it to kids, they would learn to weigh up whether doing any given task was worth some arbitrarily set lost/win.

It's the difference between learning that "washing a car is worth $10 of my time because it will takes x hours and the cost of soap is y and so on" vs "washing a car is 50/50 worth nothing or $10".

Just some food for thought based on some recent experiences.

Sometimes, you'll be taking a job that someone in the team thinks they should have been offered - but didn't for whatever reason (perhaps current management weren't aware... or they simply aren't appropriate skilled...)

These people can also be well respected by others in the team. And winning their respect is therefore particularly important, as they may be the ones to validate you on behalf of others.

You can normally spot them, as they will lean back, fold their arms and keep to themselves (out of frustration). Or act the opposite and be completely outspoken over the top of others.

I would consider that these people do exist, and need to be wooed in a slightly different way. Instead of asking 'what do you want?' perhaps it'd be better to ask 'where do you think the problems are?'.

Really?

That's almost same thing you say to vocally authorise yourself with HMRC in the UK...

It's something like "My voice is my password".

I wouldn't want me saying that phrase released into public...

I appreciate there's a sense of logic that manufactures the sounds that this produces.

But, in every practical sense, the sounds are seemingly random to the listener.

Abstract expressionist art can be enjoyed regardless of the fact it's visually just a bunch of random scribbles.

But the sound this machine produces has to then be sculpted - lest we listen to a droning tone.

Would be cooler if you could describe the timbre of a sound you want to hear, and it produces that...

"I want a woody.. tinny.. percussive sound" (out pops some kind of glockenspiel marimba hybrid) or "I want a breathy sounding noise that sounds synthesized with the tone of tenor vocalist but a punchy distorted entry".

Are you able to measure which cold calls are filtered, that you would otherwise like to hear?

For example... A call from a garage to say your car is ready to be picked up, or perhaps some kind of emergency service? I imagine their calls would start with similar wording to sales calls. "Hello, can I speak to so and so?"