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In the civil engineering world, at least in Europe, the lead engineer would sign papers that would put him as liable if a bridge or a building structure collapses on its own. The c…

I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool. Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their to…

If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?

Plot twist: the IAM policy that got fucked up was the one giving access to Q

Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to r…

As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going…

If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals? Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposi…

rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)

spoils19 has been awarded +200 corp tokens, congratulations!

But many many other people won't, or can't. And there will be companies offering the product for free in order to grab that market share and steal users from the paying ones. That'…

Money is also nice

Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire; the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ? the drunk guy who now has…

1910s had the spanish flu, we have (had??) the COVID-19, so...yep

I hate being pedantic, but before the 1600 anybody with some education knew already that the earth was round (see: Columbus, Magellan). Funnily enough, the "flat earthers" of that …

I agree, I got bitten already more than one time, and it's ridiculous how can they get away with it. How's not that an infringement?

and it was a successful business. "don't fix what works and bring money" ...until someone comes and disrupts you and all the assumptions that keeps up your business

Holy moly, it's like COBOL was one of the original PaaS , with lock-in as a feature

Missed opportunity to end the last comment with > She eventually gave up

Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup +…

You're talking about the biggest IT company which in 2006 was redesigning their whole big boy Windows. Ballmer was deriding the iPhone by not having a keyboard, therefore being jus…

the original iPhone had no 3G (only Edge supported), no copy-paste, no app store (by design!), no MMS. Edit: and most likely no enterprise directory integration (Exchange et al) BU…

> If nothing else, it's _amazing_ for negotiating. "honestly I'm really happy where I am, but every man has his price, what can you offer?" does wonders My cynical self is thinking…

As I recall, the iPhone originally had little to none integration with enterprise infrastructure, as Blackberry and Windows Phone had . In my view, The iphone was just too cool not…

Wait until we start to reach 2038, it's going to be either awesome or an epic shitshow