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Wonder if the reaction would be the same if Wine was conditional on buying a license to Windows.

In my experience, good mature organisations have clear review processes to ensure quality, improve collaboration and reduce errors and risk. This is regardless of field. It does sl…

BT was only successful if you take a very narrow view of success. They dragged their heels on rolling out ADSL to maximise short-term profits from ISDN which has had a hugely negat…

If this is the case, why are many other EU postal services still state-owned (e.g. Ireland, Poland, Cyprus, Greece)? The UK left the EU 5 years ago yet it’s still being used as cov…

On a similar note, I’ve always liked the idea of being able to mark functions as pure (for some reasonable definition of pure). The principle of reducing state changes and side-eff…

That telephone monopoly was privatised - and later dragged their heels on rolling out broadband because ISDN was so profitable, causing untold damage to the UK tech economy as the …

I’m beginning to think my reluctance to shamelessly copy has held me back in life. It’s clearly more widespread than I naively assumed (and I say that without casting judgment).

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I’m convinced a major reason Windows Phone failed is because Google didn’t support it for self-serving reasons. It rarely gets mentioned but no YouTube or Google Maps apps is a big…

If nothing else, it’s clear communication and shows they have seen the online discourse. We’ll see if they follow through. There’s a certain logic to it too: they’ll be far more in…

My understanding is that these sorts of sites allow companies to pay to boost positive reviews to de-emphasise negative reviews, not remove bad reviews. Still somewhat shady.

The biggest problem with Bristol is how much of it has been taken over by upper and upper-middle class people moving from the South East.

Yes and no. Isn’t there an argument that Gmail and Outlook.com (combined with Microsoft 365/Exchange Online), while superficially interoperable, have enough market share that their…

Real-life stores do this as well - make individually profitable changes (local maximums) that eventually make the whole experience so miserable that you no-longer want to shop ther…

I mentally group Flash, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro together as dying because they were unfashionable in tech circles despite being highly productive and practical. They never g…

I wonder how many VPN providers are secretly government honeypots set up by security agencies. I suspect most of them.

Can you expand on “supply-side problems”, “economic reform” and “structural issues” without filtering it through euphemisms?

Stop making me feel old you insensitive clod.

I’d argue a major role of a manager is to make decisions and take responsibility for them - it’s not employees don’t “want to”, that’s usually not their job. Everyone unilaterally …

There was a 3-part BBC TV series by the author called "How It Works" which convered essentially the same material which I far preferred to the book - I don't have a stream link, un…

I'm convinced the inability to easily play Blu-Rays and similar on computers is a major contributor as to why the format hasn't had the same traction as DVDs and may have accelerat…

I agree there’s nothing inherently wrong with non-experts, typically journalists, expressing opinions, perspectives, and anecdotes in long-form, especially on topical subjects. I j…

This feels attempted shakedown of the console manufacturers to get them to pay for Unity for their licensees. Looks like Sony and Nintendo have coughed up while Microsoft have not.…

The basic salary for a UK MP is £81,932, with additional pay for additional responsibilities (such as being a minister). The median UK salary is around £30,000.

Couldn’t you say the same for most industries?