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If the government was also addressing the concentration of power in the American social media apps, I’d buy it. If this was about making laws on what info phones could record about…

It's possible that "Open Source" here is the OSI definition, which FSF has some objections to. If "Closed Source" just means "not Open Source as OSI defines it", then it is true th…

I disagree. If just expecting good outcomes worked, why would we have any laws at all? Before we had laws on child labor, we had children working and falling into heavy machinery. …

+1 for Brother. Had the same one (MFC-L3750CDW) for years now. Just works. No weird subscription push. No weird apps to manage it. Actually integrates with 3rd party software easil…

> The situation that the VCs and founders are in is often enviable, but isn't really relevant here. Respectfully disagree. It's relevant to the extent the parent comment was talkin…

That seems like an odd way to frame it, imo. "Holding the bag" usually implies something negative, as in someone will be "caught" with something bad. As in the employees are lookin…

"Converting between units is a useful skill" - is it intrinsically useful or just useful because we are forced to do it with the status quo?

Handle what, exactly? Are you actually experiencing any issues from not doing these things or are you experiencing FOMO? You've not articulated any problem you're facing. Accusing …

It is rational for governments to be defensive of practices which externalize costs onto 3rd parties, and they have to balance it with a number of factors including innovation. It …

(Disclosure: Work at Microsoft, but I work in Azure and some open source stuff, not on or directly with Fluid/Office/etc.) That's just a trademark clause for Microsoft logos and br…

No one things FB is evil because they aren't transparent. It is because of the observable harm on society and their perceived reluctance to mitigate that harm. Internally, they als…

For me, I never really made friends in the office, but I did make friends from the office and my profession from outside of the office activities. Conferences, education, meetups, …

As someone who's needed to maintain complex, high-performance database drivers that needed to work across a bunch of different platforms, I've been following them and their predece…

I work at Microsoft and in Azure Cosmos DB, the same org as Steve. Leadership believing in remote makes all the difference. We'd been doing more and more remote hiring in the years…

Distasteful speech is legal and so is kicking distasteful speech off your private platform. The primary limitation on what businesses can and can't do with who uses their platforms…

I've done this as well. Been at MSFT for 7 years, been on 5 different teams, and switched between PM and Dev a few times. It's been great from a quality of life perspective, I thin…

(disclosure I work for Microsoft but not on this stuff) Biggest benefit for me has been how simple it has made ssh on Windows. I got a nicer spec'd Surface Laptop 3 during my last …

If the field just needs messaging and positioning info, you're good. In my business, customers usually assemble a bunch of our products (and potentially competitors) together into …

I'd also give a suggestion that if you're working on a B2B product (especially one with "Enterprise Sales"), you might be CEO of your product, but you're not gonna be able to boss …

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I didn't know about this project. I've wanted something like this for like 2 years or so.

I was confused by this comment but I think what you're trying to criticize is this: "Mariott didn’t take enough precautions to pretend being victim of a hacker." I agree with that …

Put another way: Marriott is the victim of "cyber" crimes. Marriott's customers are victims of Marriott's negligence. I'd argue it has nothing to do with corporation or non-corpora…

Maybe they already have a Node environment set up and appreciate not having to context switch?