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If you don't have a culture of such infantile frat-house behaviour, you don't distribute such memos. It might surprise you, but this isn't how adults communicate, or want to be tal…

LittleSnitch also makes you totally paranoid about how almost every piece of software is spying on you without explicit consent. Also, Microsoft really needs to clean up their doma…

> The CEO of a flat company probably has a need to see everything And Slack does an excellent job at demonstrating why that is idealistic nonsense and simply bad management that do…

Let's not kid ourselves. This is not about energy, creativity, flexibility and all that shit. It's about two things, young people are a) cheap and b) gullible and easy to manipulat…

> "You must like dealing with people to be great at management." This is what I always assumed, and why, as an introverted programmer, I avoided the management track until my late …

For fuck sake, how can you have such a blatantly anti-European headline and pad the article with anti-European propaganda phrasings like "Europe’s attempts to get access to encrypt…

Schneier is missing one major reason why companies keep data: regulation. So many regulatory bodies and laws requiring companies to keep all kinds of data for all kinds of reasons …

It's not "perfectly fine online". In fact, much of it is already illegal in most civilized countries, and has been long before internet was a big thing. However, any attempt to exe…

Feels like we're chasing our tails on this one. We went from "programmers" to "developers" to "engineers". Every time it started well, because only people with the right mindset re…

It's stories like this that cause everyone in Europe except the blind SV worshippers and libertarian fundamentalists to just shrug and shake their heads every time a rant comes up …

The part that makes this kind of crap so infuriating is that there's usually a large group of people that, despite what the author casually claims, do care: the people on the payro…

You realise millions of us happily and peacefully live in smaller countries that are the successful result of secession?

If only publishers had put that much thought and effort in sneaking in increasingly bloated advertising in with http requests for content until the ratio ads/content was a 100/1, o…

It's not just you. I've been an Apple fan for a long time, but the only Apple app I regularly use is Keynote. For everything else I use alternatives, and that has never been any di…

You start with being ethical. In the online business, that pretty much covers most things with the exception of VAT, the clusterfuck known as "intellectual property", and the fine …

The lack of any kind of introspection is painful. Sure, new tech will be abused for anything, but no industry has so completely and totally unethically abused tech as the advertisi…

"Hire Doers vs Tellers". I agree with the statement, but I disagree with the method. You can separate doers from tellers by how they talk about the work and how they (non-verbally)…

Also, this callous attitude will run afoul of labour protection laws in most civilized countries that aren't the US.

> the hostility that's constantly directed at him and Facebook Methinks you are confusing cause and effect.

Because the lack of credibility of someone who gets his fortune from creating a severely ethically challenged corporation? The benefit of the doubt only applies if there is no evid…

I know this approach as simply "being Dutch". And it's a major source of culture shock for expats working in the Netherlands.

It's so weird. Everything I have by Apple still works and still looks good. But all my Apple data and power cables are held together with Sugru.

People who share a certain ideology aren't an "ethnic" group. We do exactly the same with nazis. Whether those measures are effective or desirable is up for debate, but the constan…

I'll believe it when Google start acknowledging human being's desire for privacy as a real thing instead of a technical and commercial obstacle.

It's embarrassing that the tin foil hat suggestion that the European Court has a political agenda isn't downvoted into oblivion. Not to mention the simple fact that through this ru…