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At the low end, where the vast majority of people are, even in the US, an extra $120 will double the price.

See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216714 . The hatred of BCL was due to people not understanding the benefits of a restricted language with carefully chosen…

> But it's almost a general-purpose language, so why not just use one? The usefulness of not being a general-purpose language it that it makes static analysis very good; that's wha…

Indeed, those doing frontend work would not interact with Borg or the SRE tools directly, but they would use Blaze, Critique and all the development toolchain, which is still much …

You have no clue what you're talking about.

Angular is not a developer tool, it's a UI framework. Closure might qualify, but it was not a general tool used by the entire company. The developer tools we're talking here are Cr…

> GCL is a whole nasty programming language. They came so close with Piccolo and Gmon but still made it not Python. The GCL designers made several mistakes in its design, but the w…

> I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated. In 2015, the SRE org started project "Pro…

The process was, as we were informally told during orientation, that "Preview" means some SVP thinks this has a chance of going over the minimum threshold of 200M worldwide users a…

Sure, a privacy screen makes things a bit more difficult for surveillance, because the camera would need a line of sight at a low angle, but once the code is known, the attacker ca…

Reputation is collective prejudice.

I used to think that way when I was young and with plenty of free time. Nowadays I want stability more than anything else and I'm fine with software that's 1 year old. The only pro…

I vecchi hanno così tanto potere politico ora, al punto tale che stanno facendo chiudere i campi di calcetto degli oratori, lamentandosi del rumore. I bambini non hanno più dove an…

What you call "reputation" is just your prejudice.

> Has it not occurred to you that the job of manager has changed in this time? Maybe, but that still doesn't answer the question. In my many years working for a FAANG in Europe, al…

> How big of a deterrent is a millionth of a cent per page going to be? A non-existent one. In practice, this would seem to be false, according to the admins of said sites.

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Rather, you're the one stuck thinking this is about yourself. If you read more attentively, you'd see I carefully phrased my reply to avoid mentioning you. You say you aren't good …

In an organisation made of mature people, some of the highly skilled people would recognise the need for them to become people managers (not Architects), and so the organisation wo…

And furthermore, in the last decades engineers have become infantilized to such a degree that most don't want to learn to be a good manager and prefer to stay Peter Pans for ever. …

Upstream developers declaring a release as "stable" isn't sufficient to make it so. Distros and users are the ones who decide what is stable and what isn't.

Your words betray your prejudice, nothing more.

That can be helpful only if surveillance cannot film the screen directly, and surveillance relies on the position of the fingers. Given modern 4k cameras it's unlikely the latter c…

It took Charles Ross 50 years to build it.