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However, I don't see any benefit to this latest change in their stance. Everyone already had to wade their way through the confusion from that initial licensing change, and many (most?) spent a lot of time and effort getting to a new stable configuration on a different distro. Why spend more effort, again, to run back to Oracle JDK? I think most organizations have better things to do than deal with all this.

Also, who's to say Oracle won't change their licensing deal once again for Java 21?

My particular project had a simple web UI, and all the PM wanted was a feedback link added, and he was frustrated that it wasn't there yet. Although this was trivial and not critical at all to the application, I made sure to get that link up on the page - it was nothing more than a link to a feedback form or a mailto:, it was basic.

Anyway, the PM was super happy when that link showed up. It definitely wasn't because this was some whizbang new feature, or scratching some itch that had been annoying a lot of people. It was because the team showed that we were listening and responsive to him. That's a win, too.

https://grammarist.com/grammar/use-vs-utilize/

As an engineer myself, I'm usually scoped way down in the weeds of a mass of technical problems. It's an expensive context switch to come all the way up to thinking about broad customer issues, and then get back down. OK to do on occasion, but not regularly.

And besides: Why do customers feel less "heard" without an engineer on the line? Why are all the others on these calls under- or over-committing, unless an engineer is there? It seems like the problem isn't with lack of engineering presence, but with what everyone else in the organization is doing.

Still, the consequence may be that the social media activity moves to venues that the SEC can't observe as easily.

https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

This does change the test to no longer use Python 3.5, but considering a) we'd already dropped support for Python 3.5 for the code we were testing, b) Python 3.5 is EOL and c) Ubuntu 16.04 will be soon, it didn't seem worth trying to stay on 3.5.

I'm not seaside, but bayside, and my experience is similar to others in that regard in this thread. Great for family and all that, not so much if you don't like feeling a bit isolated. In the before times, I'd travel to one of the company motherships three or four times a year to get in-person time with the team. That works well to keep the team gelled.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...

It's too bad that we'll have to trade off browser efficiency for privacy.

"On the first day he took me to the officer’s bathroom and told me I would be responsible for keeping it clean. 'Here’s how you clean a toilet,' he said.

"And he got down on his knees in front of the porcelain bowl, in his pressed starched spotless dress uniform, and scrubbed the toilet with his bare hands.

"To a 19 year old who has to clean toilets, something which is almost by definition the worst possible job in the world, the sight of this high ranking, 38 year old, immaculate, manicured, pampered discipline officer cleaning a toilet completely reset my attitude. If he can clean a toilet, I can clean a toilet. There’s nothing wrong with cleaning toilets. My loyalty and inspiration from that moment on were unflagging. That’s leadership."

I use this after my long-running Maven builds to play either a happy sound if the build succeeds or a sad (mocking) sound if it fails, based on the value of $?.

From the hiring company's point of view, this is bad, not just because of the people who they miss out on who are still highly skilled, but because those who do interview might not be the most honest. If they are willing to claim they have experience that they can't, then how will they be as an employee? Will they give trustworthy status information, or honest estimates? Will their interactions be customers be forthright? How will their social interactions with their coworkers go?

If a hirer won't take the time to be quite sure they have accurate and realistic requirements in their requisitions, they may end up with quite a problem on their hands down the road.

https://nvultra.com/

If they post information only on Twitter ... well, it's not that important. I bet some of us lose perspective on the relative importance of messages when they are coming in from all directions.

The poll was conducted on 8 - 12 year olds (https://theharrispoll.com/lego-group-kicks-off-global-progra...) so I agree that there's time. When I was on the younger end of that range, I wanted to be a garbage collector, probably because it seemed like it'd be great to ride on the back of that big truck. I might have gotten wiser with age.

I've always told myself that I'll code until I can't keep up. So far that hasn't happened. Once it does, I will happily transition to more of a management role to be of the greatest value that I can. Along the way (and even now), though, I've had a good number of management-like responsibilities which will help a lot. So, I encourage you to take advantage of those opportunities as they come along. There isn't a bright, hard line between management and individual contribution. There is a space between.

A good manager will look out for your career path and help you get to management, if that's what you want.

That follow-up post says that they're "going to delay the implementation", so I assume that today it's still all CC-SA. I haven't found any further information, but would love to know it, or be corrected on my assumption.

My company is struggling with the code license situation and I'm stuck with dealing with it for my project. Clear, up-to-date information about it would be fantastic.

There are analogies to broader threats, say, to entire countries, and these days a lot of people are more interested in being antagonistic and hostile in dealing with the threats than working to understand them and their grievances. The two sides may never agree, but the effort makes all the difference.