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I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter some month back. The experience was so unpersonal, I felt like a soulless robot: I just got a link to a HackerRank test and solved some autom…

Well, if a country if full of people believing COVID is a hoax and wearing a mask is useless - what do you think you will get? You get exactly what's happening now.

Is there a study that tells if the current wave is related to Kumbh Mela that was celebrated extensively?

If a business makes very little profit - why not closing it? It makes no sense to keep something alive that only works out when you pay your employees basically nothing.

The best argument against GCP is indeed the unpredictability with which Google turns down services. On the other hand you have Microsoft which still supports - let me give an extre…

Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Teams was present long before the pandemic.

This is a classic form of propaganda: The title suggests clearly that Huawei has spied on a Dutch mobile network when none of this is true, so single evidence is given that they re…

One of the big mistakes we the OSS developers made is to give people the impression that software is not associated with costs. Be it personal time you put into developemnt, be it …

Now that you mention it, this is a pretty evil strategy. It may seem that developers and businesses have all freedom to create and run their sides and apps as they wish but if they…

In a lot of rows they claim "No equivalent" available. If a company tells me that there is no competitor equivalent for one of their products, I would say thank you and resesrch on…

For me it would still be questionable how quickly they react when some of their algorithms wrongly classify one of the applications I host as malicious. And given how easy it is to…

Why should I trust Google to compare GCP, AWS, Azure? If I really want to compare services, I would do it on my own, look for independent websites or pay an independent company to …

Working in one of the companies OP mentioned. Don't assume that work at FAANG is automatically "interesting". You will do work others think is required for the company, "interestin…

Those cookie warnings are a classic ill-conceived solution. No user reads it, everyone is just clicking "Accept". So what privacy gain do we get?