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You're in a toxic work environment, and you need to get the fuck out of there. In itself it has nothing to do with management, except you're now exposed to it, shielding your peopl…

Musk has been acting like a wealthy douchebag on Twitter with Trump-style meltdowns about fake news, especially concerning the (excellent, quality journalism) reports about unsafe …

This is what pisses me off the most about all the hysteria and whining: " The law has been in effect for over two years at this point, and the DPD, the European Data Protection Dir…

It's not the law that's the difference here. The clue is under the headline: > The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one T…

As long as Facebook still aggressively and effectively policies its platforms for violations of its reactionary puritanical agenda, nothing they say about the difficulties of polic…

This shouldn't be in the hands of a regulatory agency. Serious privacy violations should be legislated and treated as outright crimes, not just regulation infringements. Violating …

This is the ultimate act of Silicon Valley arrogance, at it will backfire hard. Not just on Facebook, and not just in the UK. This crosses a line all democratic nations in which SV…

> Funny thing is, this would all blow over after a few months, and everyone will go back to the usual habbits. It can't blow over in the UK or the EU, because it is seriously f-ing…

Being allowed to do business in any country is "a big favor". Guess which "favor" has the biggest impact...

Because "globalism" is a misnomer, it's shorthand for "economic globalism". Economic globalism is the exploitation of the masses by opening the borders for trade and desirable work…

> what language a country speaks It starts with assuming country equals language. And even when they figure that out, they still use GeoIP. Try using various online services in the…

The primary reason for not providing services in "rest of the world" is apparently "fuck you". The same applies to not respecting your language of choice. But the absolute worst is…

I see this video and have absolutely zero temptation to turn on the sound.

In my experience (30+ years in all kinds and sizes of companies), the quality of management is the absolute worst in startups. The secret sauce of startups is that in the very earl…

Nope, it's very easy to characterize him as misinformed and unscientific, since he published the evidence in writing. Plenty of bigots have degrees. There are nazis and muslim fund…

Only inside the tech bubble that includes HN do we still consider this hateful alt-right bigotry to be a valid "opinion" we should continue to tolerate. Nobody is silencing the big…

Saying "the workplace is no place for politics" is basically saying the workplace is no place to be human. All workplaces are political. The politics of founder/owners/executives a…

As much as we like to ignore it in our ivory tech towers, lack of affordable food is a problem in most developed countries. Also, the production and distribution of food produces a…

The requirements are still there, they're just not in writing anymore. Receptionists are rarely unattractive people, are they?

Great idea, will certainly give it a try. Not a big fan of pricing plans that mix volume with features, always makes me feel I'm being screwed when I only need one or the other. (E…

Unlike what some suggest here: do NOT use public sources as reference points for salary negotiations. Virtual all of them come up with average salaries that are way, way lower than…

Nope. It's extremely douchey, but totally honest and not unfairly discriminatory in any way. It reflects an immature and pathetic obsession with "cultural fit" by people that menta…

Since when is admitting it only after you got caught being "upfront"?

Just did something similar with Ansible, the simple task "apt update_cache=yes pkg=bash state=latest" will do the trick. At least it did for me.

My most recent encounters with idiotic email validation is that many apps don't accept anything on a recent TLD. Even f-ing AWS SNS web console didn't let me add a perfectly valid …