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Microsoft wouldn’t have a business if there weren’t so many fools around.

No Microsoft is not to blame. Whoever sells themselves into an all encompassing ecosystem with no exit plan or backup is to blame. It’s absolutely stupid thinking even if it’s the …

Realistically companies just start an outsourcing operation if this happens and employ people who live in fear for pittance.

Yep. We’re tribal apes. This is just a foot on the accelerator.

Well it’s a little more complicated than that. It doesn’t just manifest itself. People create it. And people do that for a reason. So there is intent. And that means it’s not natur…

I would have gone for FreeBSD myself but alas it didn’t run on the SPARC stuff I lifted out of the company skip :) I think the thing with the BSDs in general was the fact I didn’t …

Couldn’t agree with this more. Stuff I wrote 25 years ago for NT4 still actually works on windows 10 without a recompile. The Linux situation reminds me of unix back in the 90s eve…

NetBSD was my favourite playing around OS from the late 1990s to about 2010. Worked on any old crap I had lying around which was mostly thoroughly obsolete SPARC and x86 kit. Did t…

I have a large and varied experience of “developers”. The majority aren’t any more morally virtuous than a brick. They wake up, get down to the sausage factory and make sausages. A…

I think there’s a genuinely huge divisive opinion on AI companies. We don’t see this due to our particular industry echo chambers but really the majority of society has bigger prob…

And both have been damaging to society. And are getting fined and chased out of certain countries. Why would you throw investment in this unless you’re just leveraging the growth i…

You can shit on TUIs but macOS isn’t the panacea of GUIs. This really compromises the argument. In fact I’d argue it’s one of the worst platforms for GUIs. Sure it looks pretty but…

As I said at [1] they want to centralise it as a control point so they can monetize it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376040

Yes. Apple Music is the most egregious example of this. It could be ridiculously fast on your pocket supercomputer but the moment a web request gets fired off from stumbling blindl…

Yes. No money no work.

Sewage worker

SaaS companies never had any ideas in the first place past turning a one off software cost into a monthly one and making you an addict of their crack supply. The coding agent just …

Same here. All I do now is spend all day on calls with people whose shit exploded and I'm trying to scrub it off the walls, ceiling and the customers.