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"Human readable" means "forward-compatible and debugabble without specialized tools". Humans aren't actually reading these things.

But why? The iPad is a game console for people not into the "gaming culture". You don't run compilers on your Nintendo, do you?

Fake news, sorry. Also unethical. Big Food would like nothing more that to get you addicted to expensive sugary food products. (Cheapest to make, most expensive to buy, and with an…

DevOps = sysadmin who can write simple automation scripts. Which is a good thing. (Compare SDETs with manual testers for a similar thing in another domain.) All of which has little…

Why would you want to visit sites that aren't Google (c)? They're probably very unsafe and full of very annoying ads!

Judging by the so-called quote-unquote mobile browsing "experience", they don't.

Maybe clueless employees self-select to work for clueless bosses, have you ever thought about that?

Yes. "Free as in freedom".

Are you reading what I'm writing? No? Let me repeat again. PII is a crutch used for matching, because current matching/segmenting technologies are crude. Advertisers don't want PII…

> for one: hillary never paid off a porn start to conceal their relationship You're right, Hillary never paid people off. She just orders them to be murdered.

"Known"? Probably not. Like I said, knowing real identities is the last thing on the list of ad tech priorities. If shadowy entities are collecting "real identities" then it's not …

> every advertiser I’ve interacted with is either doing individual-level targeting or striving towards it. Only if they're clueless. For example: Nike really wants a dataset of "pe…

There's nothing to whistleblow. Advertising is applied sociology. As such, advertisers want to aggregate large data sets into large segments that are easy to manipulate statistical…

"DevOps" == "sysadmin who can program a bit". This in contrast to "sysadmin who can configure your Cisco and your Outlook". The difference is crucial in data centers where you need…

> Which is fine, but their experience is usually constantly worrying people under them will work more slowly when given more freedom. Protip, they will. In fact, they won't just wo…

Testing "Linux server architectures" without considering keepalive is worse than useless.