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As Elon Musk is now CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, The Boring Company and Neuralink I'm wondering: Do CEO's generally not have so much to do that they can run so many companies at …

Ah I see it now: "prefix=true" is the property that apparently includes "networking" when searched for "network"

Not for "home network": https://ibb.co/59yFDT5

This is not a rant rather than a serious question if I a) use the tool the wrong way or b) in case not, if it's possible to change it. Yesterday I searched for an article I read 2 …

It would already help if the rules of the app stores were decided by a parliament. And kicking a provider out of the store requires a court ruling.

It would be the downfall of the Google empire (and probably half of the Internet) if the majority of companies realized that most of their online/mobile ad budget is absolutely was…

My basic assumption is that most people at the big IT corps either just want to a) make money or b) work on interesting things. I don't think the majority there enjoy torturing col…

I still don't see or have read about a useful use case for GPT-3. Maybe for procedurally generated chitchat between NPC in video games or an advanced Lorem ipsum generator but that…

Not the same story but related: Microsoft had to rebrand his online storage SkyDrive to OneDrive once because the television broadcaster "Sky" won a trademark lawsuit in UK. Can an…

Average employee tenure at Google is a little over 3 years so it doesn't seem to be the ultimate goal in life.

One good thing is, you can officially use it as an API¹. I used it to automatically search for training images for an algorithm. ¹ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognit…

Using chatbots to solve support/sales problems is like solving the problem of autonomous driving by putting a humanoid robot behind the wheel: It's unnecessary complex overhead, ju…

It's like if you would have to ask Google or Apple for permission when you want to open a coffee shop or any other business and have to give them 30% of your profit. App marketplac…

Imagine you had to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard just to create something like this...

Does someone want to set up a stadiacountdown.com for Google TV?

I would agree to work for Shibu Philip if he applies the same rules to himself and workers can see his keystrokes, mouse movements and websites visited. And if he's not spending hi…

The question is: What do you want to build? What problem do you want to solve? If you don't know yet, then figure this out first. It is useless* to spend your time reading about ho…

This is an interesting general question that would deserve more attention: What do top executives in a company really do to bring the business forward and how do you measure it? Ho…

So "too dangerous to release" really meant: Too commercially important to release it for free.

This sounds horrible to me. I mean, do you really want to spend your life having to deal with leetcode for several months every 2-3 years? Maybe some people find coding interviews …

Maybe because the audience on Twitter and Hackernews is different?

The solution would be simple: Stop supporting Apple. Don't release apps on their platform. As long as everyone is just blindly following their orders, nothing will change. And chan…

Why do we have to make everything so forcefully career driven? Just enjoy writing code and showing it to the world if you want - no strings attached. Github helps in this case.

tl;dr: A Github competitor is looking for reasons to rage against Github/Microsoft.

It's interesting to see how Google turned from a respected company everyone wanted to work at to a "persona non grata" within just a few years. I wonder what were the main reasons …