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Elon Musk tweets: “Check out this guy’s video of a Tesla he saw at the racetrack.” GM pays the guy $100K to update the video to a GM ad.

I like my headphone jack but I’d rather have none than one of those janky condoms.

Your non-lousy product stewardship would let me replace the video file of a John Carmack tech talk with an Amway recruiting video?

Unsolicited tip: cultivate some misanthropy so that you can relish downvotes.

Just bought an iPhone 6S four days ago because of this and the physical home button. $140 brand new.

Then surely a generic CEO can be referred to as “him” since 29/30 of Fortune 500 CEOs are men.

It’s not surprising. The people most interested in encryption want to trust nobody. That’s the goal of strong encryption, but as Ken Thompson says it’s not possible. Between the US Government and Moxie I’d trust Moxie but I’d rather trust neither.

Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. Upwork would rather say “you types all day, you get paid.”

Between those companies developers have checked in tens or hundreds of thousands of exploitable bugs. It's not far-fetched to think that at least one of them might have been intentional.

The fact that the article says that “oil and tobacco” are the Bad Industries (that CS shouldn’t become like) says everything you need to know. There is no CS without oil.

But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.

Not necessarily. Zuckerberg is basically accountable to no one as CEO. He can’t be fired even by the board. So Facebook’s motivations are whatever his own personal motivations are.

Email is effectively closed these days. You can’t really send email from your own server and expect it to be read.

How many elementary school children have perished in school fires in the last 25 years?

Why is it considered good to minimize walking time and hallway time in schools?

Twitter doesn’t understand what makes it successful so it is loath to change anything.

I find it hilarious to put on a cheesy American comedy that I’ve seen before on the TV in a foreign language. I wouldn’t watch it actively but it’s something nice to have on while I clean up or do dishes.

The answer is: make elite connections. It’s entirely possible for someone with something real to offer but no other connections.

It’s a bit like saying, “How do I become a basketball player?” Answer: get a ball and start practicing. Sure, it’s easier if you’re 7 feet tall, and raising a seed riju is easier if your last name is Rockefeller. But you can get a long way on your own.

The GGRA includes nearly every significant restaurant in the Bay Area. Hope you like cooking.

Your position is something like, “Man this Donald Trump guy is f’in horrible. Give me a list of all Americans so I can remember to never talk to them again.”

That’s a great analogy. Almost all machines have consumable parts to save the rest of the parts from wear (in a car, it’s things like brake pads and motor oil). In companies, the workers are the consumable parts that are chewed up so that the executives and shareholders can thrive.

The Fortune 500 makes up 73% of American GDP.

No, it’s a hypothetical situation where a reporter can create the conditions for a money quote.

Teams is a shitty version of Slack but it’s bundled and included with Office 365 which almost every big business licenses. Free is a hard offer to refuse.

Could also be a reporter misquoting. Reporter says, “how do you respond to someone who says this creates fewer choices for people?” CEO: “There’s fewer choices for people, but they are better than choices.” Boom, first half is the money quote.

Not really, Teams is half as large and growing much faster because it’s glued to the side of Office 365.

Really surprised that a CEO would make a comment like that on the record.

I don’t know what you mean “blame...” Spotify licenses certain music in certain countries and not in others. That’s not some kind of crime against the user, so I blame no one.

Nothing in the constitution says that a jurisdiction can’t ban free food.

Everything in Spotify is extremely region specific. I’ve flown from the US to Asia and lost the ability to play some songs.

I'm not talking about the companies themselves... but media outlets who don't have a responsibility to market the companies they're covering.