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My concern about this state of affairs in software engineering is that it may be producing generations of engineers who couldn't actually build/conceive things better (eg. Building…

Same here. Unless all parties use the same encrypted email service, this made no sense to me actually.

I think one should write the code that's most suitable for a specific scenario. Senior vs junior has nothing to do with this (at least not in a categorical way). I have met many wh…

I can't see how these accidents point to cheap incompetent labour unless you are saying that the product managers, chief engineers, principal engineers are being outsourced. Are yo…

"We just lined up electeons" :)

Inspiring! Looks awesome. Hope this will go on to become a huge success. All the best!

Didn't you guys get fined for reporting bs recently? I'm gonna just give it a few more weeks before taking this seriously :p

Well, it's not like the professional journalists don't lie at all for profit and self-preservation. Lol. Facebook does a lot of disageeable things but making everyone a journalist …

That's an excellent point!

I studied that book for my literature course in high school. That book is a joke. It tried to imitate the story of the buddha but twisted it to fit a western narrative. Author did …

The issue I had with the original article is the way it starts by shedding what the author considers as myths. As I mentioned, to understand Buddha's story, it should be done in th…

It's often hilarious when I hear western analyses of Buddhism and the Buddha. It's like a trying to understand general relativity using analogies and guesses. You feel like you und…

Wasn't beating about the bush. I just forgot her name. Either way, her name wasn't important enough for me to look it up. The point was, someone who has no credentials about gender…

There's a whole lot of people who have studied fields that are irrelevant to today's industry needs and have ended up with no real marketable skill. Various forms of activist movem…

I use Duck Duck Go and I actually find it better than Google Search (better in the sense that there's something refreshing about the results I get as opposed to the stuff I see on …

Or you are just so bogged down in history that you have a difficulty changing your opinion. Few decades is a long time in our line of work. Microsoft didn't change out of charity o…

Loved that story about the video decoder. Simply brilliant :) All the best!

Not really sure if Google is the right gatekeeper for this kind of thing. Google as a company has often take clear political stances.

That's a very good observation. I think it's true that having the free option changes the context very much. There are people who pay for paid password managers when free alternati…

Nowadays if a site does this I simply don't visit it. If it's a really important site (which often does support FF anyway), I just use Edge. Chrome is now like an absolute last res…

I don't think the comparison with literature makes sense. API is what defines a software. For instance, if someone copies Microsoft suite full public interface (including the UI wh…

I was about to set up my own domain with a paid email account too. My reason was privacy. But then I was wondering even if I have my own encrypted email service, does it defeat the…

Recently I switched from Chrome and Google search to Firefox with Duck Duck Go and found it refreshing actually.

That's so nicely put.

I agree. Possibly to just give a bit more weight to what they say. So far, I've mostly seen this with Google employees here. Can't remember seeing anyone else mentioning this excep…