This depends entirely on org culture. I've worked at places where I had to go thru an absolute gauntlet of "prep" meetings to hone my talking points for talking with someone several skip levels above my manager.
And, I've worked in places where you are free to send a DM to the C-Suite if you feel like it's necessary to get your work done. No pre-approval required.
I see where you're going here. It might help if we construct a specific syntax and grammar for writing specifications for software. It'll be helpful for all of us if we can make our specifications as clear and efficient as possible. We could even call this combination of a syntax and grammar a programming language.
Just imagine a world when we have these programming languages to help us encode the specifications for our software. Wild! :)
You might look into 'Data Artist'. It's a small but growing profession that's a bit of a hybrid of data scientist, data analyst, data journalist, and visual designer.
I've done exactly the same thing over the last month and wish I would have made the change sooner. The mobile web is vastly improved with fewer AMP results and new Reddit is just terrible. :shakesfist:
The reliability hit is almost certainly the major reason, followed by the administrative hassle (you might be as surprised as I was, after joining Fly and writing about our certificate infrastructure, what a giant hassle TLS certificate management is to bigger companies --- and that's just TLS, which is simpler to manage than DNSSEC).
But against that you have to pit the marginal --- practically nonexistent --- security benefit you'd get from all the work you'd put in.
A number of states ended up enacting laws to solve this exact problem. Lawmakers had to force the big state universities to accept transfer credits from community and regional colleges.
Frontier charges you a router rental fee even if you don't physically possess the router. They'll waive the fee temporarily when you decline the router, but eventually it comes back and becomes immovable. The only way to get rid of the fee (that I've ever found) is to switch to a new account in the name of another person at the same address.
This reminds me of that time I read about this LifeProTip: sometimes if you want to get something fixed yout should get the legal team involved instead of the support team.
The example was about some kind of elettrical switch having some wiring exposed. Letting the electric power company know about this via the usual means was unhelpful.
What was helpful was contacting the legal team via phone, let them know that the wiring was exposed and that it would have been a huuuuuuge liability if somebody got fried and after any kind of acknowledgment (even the smallest, even a simple "okay") on their side let them also know that the call was being recorded. Now the ball is in their field.
It's passive-aggressive, but (according to the story) that's what got the stuff fixed very soon.
Generally speaking, As an IT person, if somebody from the legal team comes and says "fix this issue immediately otherwise we're liable" or "shut X down immediately" then I do that. Unless somebody above me (and above my pay grade) says otherwise.
What happens if they decide to just pay your default judgement of $900 (or whatever it amounts to) and then ban you from being a customer of theirs for life? If they are the only broadband ISP in your area then what do you do?
So then you sue them in order to get an injunction to restore service? But that is no longer in the realm of small claims court. That means they can bring in their corporate lawyers and tie you up in court for years. Suddenly your $900 windfall turns into a massive liability you can no longer afford.
Have you actually tried this or do you know anybody who did this? I hear a lot of advice “just do X” but rarely the advice givers have tried it for themselves.
I've heard of a few that either charge you a modem rental fee or charge you a "self equipment support fee" that just happens to be identical to the equipment rental fee.
Exactly, every hobby or indulgence has extremes. I'm happy with my ~$200 in coffee equipment and $5-10/lb coffee. But, plenty of other people spend thousands on equipment and buy $20-30+/lb coffee.
All things considered, coffee is a fairly cheap hobby. At the extreme end you’ve got espresso machines and personal roasters, of course, but for the average coffee connoisseur, excellent equipment is attainable for a few hundred dollars.
>but for the average coffee connoisseur, excellent equipment is attainable for a few hundred dollars.
I think this is generally true of most hobbies (jokingly it's what I use to define a hobby, something that you can, but don't have spend at least 1000 USD on).
To pick one I recently started on you can get started brewing beer for under 100 dollars. You can get perfectly acceptable, even excellent beer using basic equipment. Then, if you want you can go out and spend thousands of dollars on pressure transfer equipment, kegging tools, stainless steel fermenters and etc.
