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Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not. But if you’re right i think it’s more “investor wishcasting” than developers. It really doesn’t matter what us devs think. Investors and indus…

It’s not that their employees are no longer needed, it’s that their product (jira) is no longer needed. When you’ve got AI agents taking bigger and bigger steps, you don’t need to …

According to this survey, Linear: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...

The article says this has been running since 1963 though. The program would’ve been running through the post-war period of economic growth, as well as during the lost decades. It a…

Pretty cool that you have a system where poor people pay for your fraud protection, cash back and rewards!

Paul Allen has this Dell monitor

I used to do that too, but now I go to my spam folder and grab the latest phishing email and use the reply-to address. I like the idea of some sales guy following up a lead with a …

Who considers them politically suspect? I’m guessing the people who live in the countries that use them don’t, and on the contrary would increasingly be seeing the USD as political…

>> This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage > This is normal for asian maps, Japan does the same thi…

The title also mentions that it’s open source, so it could be marketing for potential contributors.

Looks like the Mozilla deal is still ok? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-...

Yep, I was referring to the license suspension for 6 months though, which is what the earlier post was talking about. What you’re referring to is a license suspension for 3 months.…

I'm not the person you replied to, but in a 110 km/h (70 mph) zone you'd get away with just a fine in Australia if caught/pulled over. To lose your license for six months, you'd ne…

> Kubernetes was a foreign concept to them and pointing to GKE docs wasn't sufficient This doesn’t surprise me one bit, in my case our auditors didn’t have a clue what GitHub was a…

From the article: > SOC 2 is a security and compliance framework created by the AICPA How is it that a group of accountants (the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)…

I followed the links to the study they referenced, and it says: > Unlike the camera and audio APIs, the APIs for taking screenshots and recording video of the screen are not protec…

One problem with the idea of a “standard drink” is that what people typically get at a bar (eg a pint of beer) is actually a fair bit more than a standard drink. It’s unrelated to …

Where I live, and it seems in most places in the world, a standard drink is 10g of alcohol. > The definition of what constitutes a standard drink varies very widely between countri…

I’m just going by the article, which describes it as a “surprise update” that “came out of nowhere”. Am I missing something?

Having an “aged battery” is very different from having a battery that was suddenly ruined by a buggy update that can’t be rolled back though.

A place in Oceania. Might be called something else in Newspeak though.

This is probably above your paygrade, and definitely outside of your role as an IC. In this case, I'd suggest accepting that it's just your job as a relatively senior engineer to c…