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I think we're showing our evolutionary background, in particular greed. Having our monetary system essentially controlled by powerful private interests is a disaster too.

> What has bothered me lately, very much so, is how in-the-minority I feel about this "social crisis" that I feel is occurring: hurting people/ourselves in pursuit of money that we…

I agree it's catalog is rubbish, but in Australia there are a great many Bollywood, Nollywood and various other International films influxing lately. Can't imagine what a mess all …

I was pleasantly surprised my place had FTTN (100/50 I think I can get if needed). Absolute boondocks of Tassie, mostly agricultural/tradesfolk I'd guess. Seems odd but I'm glad th…

I agree (and probably made it on to a list or two). Our government agencies don't even need a warrant to see our call/web/email metadata now. Even the RSPCA can access it.

I just don't understand this, even if students were asking for it. It's a poor language whipped up in a week or two - is it really what you want to base someone's first exposure to…

Make do, not due, in this instance.

Why on earth?? I don't get why the engine would be executing JavaScript, even if it were sandboxed, in the first place? That doesn't sound sensible.

Save the Berenstein Bears!

They should release an API that caters for the victims of their shake-downs. Automatically pay to have unfavourable reviews cleaned up, warnings that bad reviews will start to bubb…

There doesn't seem to be a lot of critical thinking done by developers at times. They'll read a blog post, echo chamber the benefits over some kale juice and start hacking away.

As IT people, I thought I'd like to ask other IT people what they think about the current state of play. VC's can go back to their yachts and paid whores. Have we, as developers, s…

Oh I have to get this off my chest. So many companies saying "Yes, we're sort of agile, but we have a fairly bureaucratic structure that is unamenable to change". If you're not agi…

These scumbags are actively ruining computing. Cars, bridges, infrastructure... can't these warhawks pick on something else? Then you get the NSA, the ASD, the rest of the clowns c…

The final straw for me was an outsourced dev asking me about time estimates for an agile project that other developers had estimated for. "How much time will this take?" (Very dema…

That's talking about me in my younger days. Everything looks exciting, until you realize it's all patterns that have been done before.

If that was a known upvote for my poor code, the pain you are in right now is my revenge.

Well said.

To be fair, the original post is coming from an AdmiralAsshat. What can anyone do? This corporate free-for-all seems like it's established (de-facto) in the United States, and all …

Ah geez. Time to create a competent chip manufacturer. Anyone got a spare US sized military budget?

Felt like an ad too to make it worse.

I am personally of the opinion we cannot trust corporations to look after our best interests as a species. They will look after a handful of people to excess, but abuse the rest of…

I think the problem is, it's very configurable. To the point, some towered architect somewhere can make those decisions for you, about how you want to work, in your absence. Out of…

Personally never tried it, but after Microsoft SourceSafe, it'll take a few centuries to ever use their products again.

Yep, you get a developer invested in something, they'll swear black and blue it's the best thing since sliced bread. Till you explain it to them.