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Firstly, why do you need your users to write and run arbitary code on your servers? If your product is such that user access is needed, then publishing an API for access would appe…

The US govt outsources software development to the big consulting firms. Any one of them would take 5 years and $10B to create an equivalent app. And then it would only run with Mi…

There is a similar effect, but in reverse, when adding interdependent features. Early ones don't have a big impact, but once you get to a certain point the inefficiencies add up an…

Academia has become big business. Over a period of 30+ years I have observed that part-time admin roles that were filled by academics are now run by full-time corporate types. Thei…

I used to work for a small systems integrator. We used on-call mobile phones, the "hot potato" was carried by the on-call engineer. Any actual time worked outside of core-working h…

The problem at the radio frequency level is simply that not only is the 2.4GHz ISM band crowded by microwave ovens, WiFi and lots of other devices, but that one end of a BT device …

Ok, so X is your brother's sister-in-law. So she is sorta family now. From your telling of the situation, X appears to have had strong feelings for you. You obviously did many thin…

Sadly we live in times of capitalism's perverse incentives. Managers push hard to get one more "win" on their CV before skipping onto the next higher paid job. The company board ar…

Any system of meritocracy based on educational attainments is tainted by the fact that only the wealthy can afford sufficiently high level of education to pass the tests for merito…

People who buy and drive Teslas think they are a gift to humanity , because they are "saving the planet". They glibbly ignore the amount of fossil fuels that were consumed in order…

The focus on money is THE cultural meme of the 21st century. Do you ever hear of a basketball / baseball / football pro who turned down a multi-million deal? Or an actor for that m…

RISC-V is the wildcard. Although it is open, the amount of effort required to design and make SoCs that effective compete with ARM licensed designs could cost more than simply payi…

Often managers want to hold onto the very staff who are most likely to voluntarily quit. Simple reason being that the more competent, and sometimes underpaid for their level of ski…

Managers love meetings. Makes them feel important. And since nothing is written down, it allows them to deny or twist what they had said in the past. Seems to me that the majority …

I'm annoyed by the number of videos. What's worse is that in most cases what takes 45+ minutes on a video could be read in 5-10 minutes in written form. Where available I go for th…