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The same MBA-ization of Boeing has been happening in other companies as well, including in the IT sector. Seriously, how can we allow non-engineers to lead aerospace or tech compan…

The curse of software "engineering". Well, don't think you can call our discipline engineering at all. If buildings were built the same way modern software gets built, we would nev…

If there's anything that needs to be discussed, we discuss it, good or bad. Otherwise, we fill the rest of the 30 minutes with discussions about the weather, our hobbies, our daily…

Have a read of David Grabber’s essay “On the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”, it explains this phenomenon quite well.

Agree, well summarized. I believe this is all due to the phenomenon of "bullshit jobs" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs ) which has taken a lot of traction since the o…

Web browsers have been trying to imitate operating systems for far too long now. We need to get away with this current model of using a document rendering language such as HTML/CSS…

I was expecting the prize to be awarded to mRNA vaccines related work.

It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Reddi…

It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Amazo…