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Snap Circuits are great: https://www.elenco.com/snapcircuits/ Also a big fan of Legos (and so are my kids). Highlights magazine is great for that age and can fill up some time. Ste…

My wife was shut out of her paid accounts, and had difficulty reaching customer service. She met many others who experienced the same as paying customers of Google.

Paid accounts. She got through to customer support, they just weren’t able or willing to provide any information.

We have bad support and customer service experiences quite a bit, and don’t feel a need to “tell the entire world.” Our experience with Google led to a considerable loss of income.…

No. She moved to other services. No more eggs in one basket. I moved my side business off of GCP, and switched my personal email from gmail to another provider.

I posted this in another thread, but it’s relevant here: Google disabled my wife's voice number and business account for several weeks, right after she ordered new business cards, …

I donate money to some open source projects, and also to the FSF and EFF. I was also able to get previous employers to match my donations. Good reminder for me to see if my current…

> I do see a lot of people extrapolating from what is essentially individual customer support up to company customer support. It's not far off extrapolating from a bad experience a…

Typo, corrected. See edit.

Typo, corrected. See edit.

edit: typo, changed $700,000 to $70,000. Also note that isn't income, but revenue. > For a certain size of customer this problem does go away > We have an account manager, have rec…

Google disabled my wife's voice number and business account for several weeks, right after she ordered new business cards, signs, and started a marketing campaign. They continued t…

Several years ago, I worked on some open source projects that involved Racket. The community and Matthew Felleisen in particular were very helpful, and it sticks with me that the p…

> One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date. Athletes aren’t competing day in and day out, and they have time to rest and recup…

I can see that story ending like this: "... and that's how our startup failed."

> Are you suggesting there might be an issue because they are ‘using your resources’ to do this? Not suggesting, but asking. It certainly feels invasive to me, though.

Here's one of a few articles that I found: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/13/854014403/your-boss-is-watchi... Your company might be less intrusive than the norm.

Do managers or HR personnel have the ability to dig deeper?

It occurred to me that the only employer provided equipment that I use for work is my laptop. The monitor and peripherals are all mine. Can an employer use my webcam and microphone…

interested in this, too

Curious about the name - why Floyd?

I'm a customer, not a Thimble employee - but here are the instructions for the 1st kit: https://learning.thimble.io/modules/wi-fi-bot-part-1 Should give you an idea of what's inclu…

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with your suggestions. It is meant for people who've never coded before, with the end goal of introducing programming concepts in a friendly, easy-…

Great job! When will comment voting be implemented? Also, in comments - would be great if links were clickable, and if the user could highlight and copy text.