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Don't forget that in ubertechland if you complain about sexual harassment or racism, you get punished! And your only recourse is to complain about it in social media. Or hire a law…

It says that Amazon had cameras pointed at the mailbox, so all Amazon has to do is hand over every single second of footage they took. I'm sure they have nothing to hide.

How to does breaking existing compatibility with 3rd party products fit in to that?

If anything Australia's success was in spite of the federal government. Quarantine is a federal responsibility, and they keep shirking it just so they can blame state governments w…

Politics

Every highly paid software dev doesn't see the point of unions until they get screwed over by management. USA has this really perverse view that unions are about dragging everyone …

Before the council cut down the gum tree, they used to deliberately drop branches on me when I was outside. Any they could bite through, up to maybe 1.5cm thick, they would wait un…

But then we need something to interface with the db. Getting any programming language installed isn't going to happen in government.

Impressive. I worked at a financial software firm written in python that used Excel behind the scenes to run calculations and modelling.

We use spreadsheets to manage data that would 1000% be better suited for storage in a database (and extracted the data would be sooooo much simpler than my monthly half day job of …

And there is no such thing as a guaranteed job, or job for life. My parents are boomer generation, and their friends insist that their kids are too lazy to work and should just mar…

It's probably because baby boomers were the generation most effected by lead poisoning. Their children don't have the associated brain damaged that causes the impulse control, lack…

I wrote documentation for software that replaced set rules with a library that would determine the 'strength' of a password and only accept strong passwords. My feedback was 'this …

It runs Linux, and they could have at least opened up the firmware for opensource updating. WDs response to Windows 10 blocking network access because the My Clouds use an old vers…

Your only justification for forcing people to come to your office is to suit your needs. If a role can be done successfully 100%, people like you need to think about others before …

Google changed YouTube monitisation so that videos had to be over a certain length to make money. Short to the point videos mean that the creator gets zip, so padding with unnecess…

Yes I in particle hate how when I buy groceries thousands of computers worldwide have to burn electricity running trillions of wasted computations aiming to find the correct random…

GTA 1 and 2 taught me how to reverse parallel park years before I got my license

I have a rule that helps me be a decent human being. Automate to make my jobs easy, never automate someone else's job. Too many hot shot software developers think that putting some…

It also has massive costs

Apps are not Apple products.

What a stupid suggestion. If a company cannot be trusted to fix a simple billing issue, I sure as hell wouldn't trust their choice of random foreign company that for some reason th…

Saab sells a plane where moving the controls manually does not disable the autopilot....

Now reddit have gone from blocking 'adult' content on mobile browser to flagging stuff as 'unknown content' and trying to force you to install app. I was trying to research a vinyl…

Given that Google has a history of accidentally breaking things in YouTube that only impacts Firefox, I'm 100% certain they can be trusted to muck around in apps written by others.…