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cxf12··on Making the web fun again (2013)
This was a period where web site discovery services like Stumbleupon were all the rage. It was like spinning the Wheel of Fortune anticipating where you'd land. It was fun! Then poof. It disappeared.
cxf12··on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
WFH is a huge improvement in the work-life balance metric. You provide WFH and at least half of that W-LB issue is solved.
cxf12··on Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
I'm in the BI space. I'll answer anecdotally since I pay attention to the job boards in the US quite a bit. I've got no hard data for my assertion full disclosure. For the last 3 months entry level work has dried up. I'm seeing very few postings for underling positions. Mid level 4-7 years jobs have markedly declined as I'm seeing fewer postings across this same time span month over month. 7+ years experience seems to be flat, but not down as the other tranches of work. You asked for a sense. That's my sense.
cxf12··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Cohen plead guilty to the hush money as an excessive personal campaign contribution. Going forward, it's not likely that the contribution can be recharacterized for the purposes of charging DJT with a crime. This case is going to be tossed out of court.
cxf12··on The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
We have no idea who you objectively are and don't care.
cxf12··on Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
"The former mayor has offered a number of explanations for the missing messages, including that she dropped her phone in water, that she inadvertently changed the phone’s deletion settings and that “someone” set a new phone to delete messages older than 30 days, resulting in a rolling deletion of previous messages."

Could the writers of this piece not come up with a more lurid and entertaining headline?

cxf12··on Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Layoffs hurt. But at the end of the day, save for a little empathy, no one really cares.
cxf12··on Goiânia Accident
The awful irony is that these teletherapy devices are used to treat cancer when used improperly will cause it.
cxf12··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
And Vanity Fair is a pillar of concise and objective information?

Come on, at least be fair.

cxf12··on I don’t want to be an internet person
I now know that giving my 10 yo daughter a phone for Christmas 3 years ago was a huge mistake for the exact reasons this article sites.
cxf12··on Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower
A trite example, but your HOA dues are likely going up not because the cost of maintaining common areas has increased that much, but your HOA management and legal salaries have been adjusted for "cost of living."
cxf12··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
When business pays the ad dollars, the customer is never the user who's policies and features are at center.
cxf12··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
its pretty interesting that maps.google.com has an SAP Concur listing with about a 3.3 rating.
cxf12··on Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)
Imagine how I feel! I was heading into my sophomore year in high school in 1983, the same month this article came out. I wasn't a subscriber to BYTE then, but the memories of us learning Assembler and C at the time are almost as vivid now as they were back then.
cxf12··on Hacker News is a masterpiece
Like all things internet, if its history isn't being curated and cataloged, yesterday links eventually break and old content is lost. This is the only weakness in an otherwise solid technical and professional atmosphere.
cxf12··on Who's Attacking My Server?
Russia represented a whopping 2% of his naughty list.
cxf12··on Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?
Software Development is a sedentary life. It is in and of itself a risky career health wise, especially into the later years.
cxf12··on School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
The World Bank and the UN have a polar opposite view.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/l...

cxf12··on Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
This reminded me of the kind of creativity I used to find on site called stumbleupon. Wonder what happened to it?
cxf12··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
Welfare and Food Stamp Entitlements are Basic Income. And its been proven time and time again, that it incentivizes some people to avoid work.
cxf12··on Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
"Given how covid is currently affecting Texas, the next election cycles are going to be interesting."

Educated people should be able to see the current graphs. Hint: Covid will be gone in 4-6 weeks.

cxf12··on The delights and the dangers of deplatforming extremists
"Deftly removing noxious propagandists is good" She writes.

Twitter notably didn't care until their reach became too much counterweight to the approved political philosophy and the analytics were showing sky rocketing monetization from these shock jocks.

Howard Stern can objectify every female that walks onto his set, but God forbid Hillary Clinton get relentlessly mocked by the right on Twitter.

cxf12··on Something weird is happening on Facebook
Clicked on the Cambridge Analytica story Vox ran that you linked. As quoted the author of the piece states "It’s not clear to what extent Cambridge Analytica helped".
cxf12··on Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
To be fair, Milo was pretty thought provoking.
cxf12··on Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
You don't have to imagine it. Side affects are tracked by the CDC.
cxf12··on History of RSpec
The instant I read this headline I thought... Ruby on Rails.
cxf12··on IMF would use your search history for credit scores
They said search was free. It could cost you dearly.
cxf12··on Winning back the Internet by building our own
Read the Trump administrations policy views at whitehouse.gov

It's right there in the open.

cxf12··on Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google software, not Apple hardware
Samsung Pay has not disappointed.
cxf12··on Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google software, not Apple hardware
Samsung pay has not disappointed.