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Unfortunately UX people seem to hate boring and/or simple stuff... Many years ago I was working on a project for a major UK high street bank, and on the team was a designer who gen…

Isn't this a little ironic from a company whose sole purpose is to promote whiteboarding that serves no other purpose than to stroke the ego of interviewers?

Rover.com seems to be pretty shady https://www.gofundme.com/rovercom-sitter-killed-my-dog https://www.gofundme.com/my-rover-sitter-killed-my-dog http://www.roversdirtysecret.com/ta…

poor countries are poor India has nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and a space programme.

but people tend to remember when that's been done to them, and aren't exactly keen to have it happen again. Companies stick with Oracle and IBM for multi-decade stretches, maybe th…

CMake is very powerful but unlike most things there’s no underlying principle or theory that when you grasp it, everything just clicks, and you also can transfer the knowledge to o…

Every day I bitterly regret that they decided not to use Tcl for CMake in the end.

can't pay insane rates for education of either university level or trades. Well, yes and no. It’s true that university is expensive (but you don’t need to repay loans until you are…

Apparently yes https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/novem...

It doesn't take 5 years to teach yourself Machine Learning. The low-hanging fruit in ML is absurdly low these days, the tools are very good and there is loads of sample code availa…

"piss off" is accurately interpreted as "go away and leave me alone". Whereas "fucking come on then" is often a precursor to violence. But sure, intonation is a thing. "I beg your …

A workflow I'd like to see: you write your code and ensure that it is functionally correct, all the tests pass. Then you go home and overnight, some ML/DL/NN whatever tool works on…

Intel has its own compiler, surely they could ask their compiler gurus to help with ISA design. Well that kinda was the concept - but they greatly underestimated the difficulty of …

People who think UBI will include people voluntarily going out to work at jobs that aren't fun... this study is a wrench in the works! I bet the younger generation will play fornit…

And one of those countries is Switzerland, which has a world-class army, better in fact than many of its European neighbors without conscription Citation needed. The Swiss have don…

Both of these (the public's worship of the military, and the military's disdain for the public) have experienced a clear upward trend over the last 20 years But "the public" isn't …

the suggestion to reduce the number of people promoted by 2 percent—which meant that some qualified people Wasn’t it from 10% to 8%? That 2% is misleading there, it makes it look f…

Gen X were 20-something’s in the ‘90’s, that group is just hitting the ageism barrier themselves. The problem is the massive influx of newcomers to the industry who have no experie…

Private companies don't have any obligation to continue showing anything. They don't have any such 'moral' obligations at all. Consider that We The People developed a legal framewo…

HR: no sorry, it’s policy Worker: but you set the policy, it can be whatever you want it to HR: ... Saying “policy” must be a cover for a real reason that the company wants kept se…

This means that Google has the login details for your bank. You are almost definitely in violation of the bank’s ToS by divulging them

If you want your info to stay private, do not send it to untrustworthy parties via untrustworthy means Well there’s the rub isn’t it. I don’t think most people would consciously de…

Sure, but maintenance of the confidence of a friend shouldn’t need a law.

You dodged a bullet, that guy was just telling you what you wanted to hear, lacking in moral fibre

The BBC are reporting they signed up as a 14-year-old and there is no parental consent sought