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Being the maintainer of such a big open-source application as Chrome used to grant dictatorial power: maintaining a fork represented too much work. It only happened in the most awf…

Smart move: now that they're an established player, and that they have a few billions of investors' money to spend, they comfort a jurisprudence that stealing IP to train your mode…

> it's questionable whether this is a net benefit for Romania as a whole. it depends what's most beneficial: having a few percents of very mathematically experts people in maths-he…

The choice is between: * be completely autonomous from day 1, and progressively increase the number of situations you can drive through; * or drive through every legal situation fr…

the magic power of spreadsheets is that they encourage improvisation, and it probably applies to that one. you have only one data structure (the 2D table), data types are super-wea…

If Google succeeds at banning ad blockers from Chromium-based browsers, there's no doubt that Firefox' usage will go back up.

Remote software engineer in the EU here. Remote has been fantastic, to extend our pool of potential customers/employers. Not working in an open space, not being disturbed by pointl…

That's what better IDEs did to Java codebases indeed: they made layered boilerplates and leaky abstractions somewhat navigable, therefore generations of careless contractors have b…

if your test can't tell a smart student apart from a dumb algorithm, the broken part is your test.

can't wait to see what people come up with when they'll start interfacing it with a modern AI.

Got one under Ubuntu 22.04. My only issue is that some transitions are frustratingly slow, much moreso than on my 2014 XPS13: * Getting out of sleep (deep RAM sleep, not hibernate)…

there's a problem between Bob and the bureaucracy. whether it's a Bob problem or a bureaucratic problem is left as an exercise to the reader. However, I'd be thoroughly unsurprised…

I've had a bakfiets for 12+ year in France; I did DIY electrification at the time, as that was the only viable alternative then; both kids have been moved around in it since they'r…

I prefer companies which are open about the technologies and languages I'm experienced with. That's a huge green flag, that they consider their software engineers as smart people s…

I believe the reason they don't post salary ranges isn't to lure new hires into underpaid positions, at least not primarily. it's in order to avoid renegotiation with current emplo…

Another spin to the same story: major employer agrees that forcing people to commute to office deserves substantial extra pay. Google employees are in a more-than-fair position whe…

with a "Jerome Kerviel" logo openly mimicking that of Société Générale, at least parts of the site or of the contributors are here as a joke.

It needs to be called for what it is in a capitalist framework: a _dividend_, not merely an income. It is a share of the nation's wealth, which you receive as a legitimate co-owner…

why isn't there a standardized API, to voluntary tell websites "I don't mind cookies" and bypass those messages?

If there's between 100 and 1000 people in a train, getting rid of the driver saves between 1% and 0.1% of an hourly salary by ticket. The economic pressure to do so is very low, co…

that's exactly what they did last year when the law came into force. Then newspapers could fill a form begging Google to accept their content for free, which most of them did. I do…

It's huge for stuff you'll still bother to go and fetch yourself in a physical shop. In the future, I'll expect more and more stuff to come to me, rather than having to go and fetc…

As read from Europe, it's really scary to realize that this question makes sense in a first world country.