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A coworker had his work Macbook synced up to his iPhone messages app, and was getting blown up during a meeting by his friends in a group chat ranting about Trump. It could have be…

That's weird, that's not the case for me. Mine still goes through the length of ringing with the call on the screen.

That's pretty funny, and would be better without the old "blonde" trope. I forgot that was ever a thing.

Hey Xi Jinping - you look like Winnie the Pooh, your government sucks, and I hope your regime collapses. How's that?

Not surprised. Tech companies (Facebook and Google in this case, and probably others) have been known to retain Pinkerton agents to monitor employees. Yes, those Pinkertons. “Among…

> My company is generally behind the curve so now people have been bitten by the REST, JSON, Microservice bug. They don’t know why or what it really is but things have to be done t…

> At the end of the day Uber/Lyft will be just another taxi company, albeit with a less professional set of drivers. What city do you ride taxis in? Because the taxis I've ridden h…

I think the point of the person you're replying to is that there are other methods of assessment which would render plagiarism ineffective - such as in-person presentations and con…

> we all know the project will fail unless someone develops well-perfoming, human-level AGI before Q4/2020 This is hilarious, and makes me wonder how many similar corporate AI init…

Surprised I had to scroll this far to find this - same here!

WorldMaker's answer to this comment is great. I would TL;DR it by saying that while there are always multiple phone companies to choose from, there is usually only one cable or fib…

> If preserving wildlife and forests can be equated with preserving suburban lifestyles and property values It can't, and shouldn't, be equated to that. Denser urban living, i.e. b…

I wish I had enough karma to downvote this. Snide comments like that are not helpful to productive discussion. Save it for other sites.

I disagree that it's an automatic red flag. 8 hours? Yeah that's too long. But I would rather do a 2 hour take-home project than a 2 hour whiteboard coding interview. Edit to add: …

Yup. When the State wouldn't help communities who needed protection, the Mafia families stepped in to serve that purpose. Of course, that's not to lionize them, but it explains why…

I think the underlying point, as expressed by the author, is that trendy new architecture patterns will never be a panacea for bad engineering, though that's often how they're impl…

I disagree. If that were the case many of those smaller species would have gone extinct ages ago due to natural predation from wild foxes and ferrets. Domesticated cats are a new i…

I tend to agree with you, but I think this lends itself to a bigger philosophical debate of how much social responsibility a company has when it wields the incredible amount of pow…

The linked article heavily implies that legal action could be taken against Amazon for this, by bringing up other antitrust investigations that are happening. Hence the debate abou…

No one is saying you should be compelled to like it, they're saying that the fuss over it is moot because it's not as big a deal as it's made out to be.

I'm honestly not sure if they're entitled to fairness. Sure, I guess they choose to use Amazon so they could just as well choose not to. But Amazon's massive market presence means …

I agree with your sentiment that their gadgets are mostly glorified surveillance apparatus. However, that's not a valid reason to bar them from promoting those products. It doesn't…

I don't like it, but I don't fault them for it. My exact thought when browsing their Cyber Monday deals was: "Oh, looks like they're mostly promoting their own stuff. Meh." close t…

To be the devil's advocate, what if those deals really were the best? What if Amazon sold those items at such a loss that no other deals could compare? (That's probably not the cas…

Same here. The big areas where I find DDG lacking and Google to really shine are technical questions (e.g. "what's wrong with my code, I'm getting stack trace X"), live sports cove…