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But not immune to missiles. Russia's already threatened to target Starlink satellites. Maybe they're bluffing, or not, but it does offer a reminder that these are just floating com…

OBE?

Simple answer: work for a bank.

Can confirm, these are legit. Make sure you're aware of any outlets on the outside of your building though, as these could be plugged into with malicious intent.

One obvious example of that is when Dropbox was presented here as a startup and was shot down in glorious fashion.

Nice. Mine's not so impressive, but when I was green and in college, I was casually job shadowing an older friend for a day at a major tech company, and was asked to take a look at…

That's an awesome experience. And the sword part may not be true, but it might as well be. "A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than th…

Perhaps they got there sooner, but at what cost to their health, relationships, and sanity?

I dislike this philosophy, that a person in one field of expertise can have nothing constructive to say about another, or can't learn it. Reminds me of "don't roll your own cryptog…

Agreed. As much as we talk about how programming is manipulation of ideas...at the end of the day it is a very physical process too. You are manipulating actual physical things in …

That's a really good point. Nothing is perfect, and frameworks are no different, so after awhile the friction points come to the fore. Also, I have a theory that with the more comm…

I wonder how many developers hate PHP because one is just supposed to hate PHP. I'm sure there are many with well-thought-out reasoning though, like seen in this thread. It's usefu…

Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!

Or a restaurant with a smoking section. Right next to the non-smoking section.

This is probably why rabbits have been getting abnormally bold in my yard lately...

Virtual Desktop already has many customizable features that allow you to work the way you're describing. I've worked in it before, and it was very immersive, though there was of co…

Just because there's possibly some survivorship bias in their viewpoint doesn't mean their statement is automatically false.

My place of work didn't have a soft-phone connection to our computers until this COVID-19 mess started. I imagine we weren't alone.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Sounds like most companies. Which is even more concerning

The thing about Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in.

Thank you.

Yes, nobody has a crystal ball. It always feels like other people do though. It's good to make decisions with a sober view of risk and reward. I feel so much market advice that fil…

I think most doctors make it a point to instill calm in their patients. And, the nature of their work is that they have likely dealt with emergency situations and dying patients, s…

In my opinion, Stephen King might be the best English language novelist since the mid 1950s or so. I think people mostly look down on him because he's generally identified with hor…