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This is really a lot more subjective than the write up makes it out to be. There's no generic algorithm for determining whether or not someone needs a new job.

It's experience that matters. An elder person with less exposure to different situations may not be able to offer good advice in general, but ask them about their own specific niche on which they've spent a lot of time, and you'll be amazed at the wisdom there.

I'm curious to see why you think this is Facebook's negligence. There's little they can do to control a user's browser extensions.

> Related question, What would you use a Postman Chrome Extension... for?

Postman started off as a Chrome Extension (ran in a chrome tab), and then became a Chrome App. The standalone apps for desktops came later. A lot of people use the chrome extension because it's convenient.

Source: I worked at Postman until about a year ago.

Quite honestly, I feel like most of the media websites do the same thing. Write negative articles for more clicks, virality, etc.

For example, this article could have been a piece on educating people on how to use Twitter correctly (follow your interests, don't respond to trolls, think critically), but instead focuses on how things are all dark and bad.

That being said, the solutions proposed here are actually sound IMO.

Some of these are not actually things that should be in the main kernel, which is also why they are being referred to as "components". E.g: Not every laptop user needs to be able to run BPF.

Personally, I really like Slack. It's just really useful as a centralized communication place, especially since it integrates with almost every SaaS platform under the sun.

I guess it's not suitable for every team though.

The Sony Ericsson K550i, amazing phone, with a beautiful camera cover which opened the camera app when flipped. Also supported J2ME apps, which was the best part about it.

Postman Collections do the same thing, and are more flexible. They support authentication tokens, and you can even write your own JS scripts if you need more advanced validations. You can use those in the desktop app [1], or there's a CLI, Newman[2].

(I used to work at Postman)

[1]: https://www.getpostman.com [2]: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman

I hope the Web Design Museum will have it's own screenshot too.

Is this five different OpenAI bots cooperating in the game, or a single engine controlling five boots?

A well deserved vacation! Thank you for the amazing stewardship over decades, Guido.

> That is a cultural reference because Europeans do care that much about scale. That is only important as a show of power.

I'm not really talking about technical scale here. I'm talking about economic scale. In those terms, it does indeed seem that the EU is falling behind.

Also, it is not just a show of power, because these companies are reaping economic benefits from their power.

> But it has little positive balance on everyday life.

That's really your personal opinion. Many people (me included) would argue that the scale of these companies definitely makes a difference in your everyday life.

> but to argue that Europe is falling behind you need to provide some evidence which is greater than all cultural differences.

The parent post does provide evidence: no EU tech companies have hit Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft scale. That's not a cultural difference, it shows that EU has not been as successful economically on the internet.

> But they come at a high cost to society.

That's such a hand-wavy argument. Can you prove that the cost of these laws is less?

> Amsterdam is better than any US city, for example.

Yes, for you. Not everyone's going to agree with that.

"Pirates of the Silicon Valley" and "In the realm of the Hackers"

I was trying to interpret what you're saying.

You should also look at the whole thing from a US perspective before calling people with a US centric view "dumb".

> The idea that rando customers can ask for arbitrary information like backup policies and safe-guards or the location of your servers is just silly.

Why is this silly? Does the law explicitly forbid people from asking stuff like this?

> On the contrary. I'd love to talk about those problems, but this isn't one of them.

So you realize that this is a problem, but you'd rather not talk about it?

Context matters, but the law should codify the context, and not leave it up for interpretation.

The not sucking part needs to be a part of the law. You cannot leave intentions up for interpretation and then call those who point it out "dumb".

Of course GDPR is a well intentioned law. It's implementation is debatable though, and you're basically asking people to not talk about its problems.

There are plenty of well intentioned laws which actually suck (such as the Cookie law). Surely you agree that it's important to point these out?

So the lawyer provided a letter which demonstrates what would happen in the worst case due to the GDPR. How does that make him dumb?

The problem is that even a few users opting out can create a bad experience for other users of the service.

Great, another button I've to click (apart from the annoying cookie notices) before getting to the website content. If this becomes popular, I'd think about creating a browser extension that automatically opts out of this.

I think businesses should just charge EU customers more for their products, in order to make up for the compliance costs of GDPR. That should make most people happy.

I had the same overall experience. Math helped me think very abstractly about problems, but most of the proofs and theorems and constructs I learned are not directly applicable daily. Sometimes though, they help me come up with surprisingly elegant solutions for certain problems.

How does Uber not have experience operating a physical business? They actually have customer support etc (Google has it for minimal products).

Wow!

What makes you think I'm not a programmer? I was marveling at how evolution can lead so something so systematic.

> Can you answer what was first? information (RNA/DNA) or the first cell?

No I can't. What are you getting at?

Hard to believe that no one has programmed this. Evolution is insane.