j_barbossa

As long as homeless people have to spend the night in tents in cities like SF or LA, I wouldn't talk so big as an American.

> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware.

What a stupid reason is that?! It really sounds like the Head of IT at Gitlab just doesn't like Windows and is doing what he can to find excuses.

You just can't trust any Google product anymore. They shut down your account by mistake and it's almost impossible to get it back. Or they shut down an entire service and all value you had in there is gone.

If you know Accenture you also know that they love to hire fresh graduates and put them on projects as quickly as possible. Needless to say as a developer coming directly from university or a bootcamp you rarely have experience with writing good tests or documentation, developing maintainable enterprise software at all.

The only thing I'm wondering is how companies can be so naive thinking they get experts with multiple YoE from Accenture.

Azure has an excellent product support, at least compared to GCP.

Wait, so all that text just for telling us that a company - driven by capitalism - is not giving away cloud compute power for free? What a surprise! And AWS is better in that regard because...?

Sometimes I wonder how articles like these can make it to the hot page.

Media productions are daughters of their time. We currently have a situation where the elite in Hollywood are desperate to bring diversity and blackwashing into the stories. When a new LOTR series is shot in 50 years from now, this will no longer be an issue.

Because it was mentioned in the article: I looked at the resumes on the Forbes richest people list and found not a single person among the top 100 who came from poor circumstances. The opposite was the case, many of them became rich only through inheritance.

> Believe me when I tell you that I could have worked on the entire software myself in 5 months.

I find this way of thinking very short-sighted. It may be true that this application can be written in net time in 5 months, but much more important than writing code is to know clearly what is needed, what users need. Moreover, requirements and wishes change over time. I have seen more than once that months of development time were wasted on something the users didn't need, so good product managers and senior software engineers who question things are often more valuable than engineers who write hundreds of lines of code a day.

That blog post doesn't state that _all_ collected data through Crowdsource will get published.

Crowdsource by Google aka "Help a billion dollar company to create datasets for free"

I really hate when fellow devs say things are "simple" like Casey Muratori said in the first place. Nothing is simple in the software (and hardware) world! If something seems simple then most likely because smart people have written libraries for you that abstract the hard part away.

It also shows a certain arrogance to call a topic "simple", because it is supposed to show the audience that you are an incredible expert in the field.

A pretty one sided view. I use Windows terminal because it supports multiple tabs - multiple cmds and some WSL bashes.

I don't care at all if this or that terminal uses a bit more RAM or is a few milliseconds faster.

Agree, pretty unfriendly tone. I would expect from a more senior developer that he or she has a high enough social intelligence to understand how to confront others with their findings in a clear but friendly way.

On the one hand you have idealists who think the most important thing in the world is getting the last bit of performance out of every program. On the other side you have businesses who don't care too much about performance of their applications (especially when no money can be made out of it) as long as 80% of use cases are covered.

Whichever side you sympathize with, it's pretty arrogant to think the other side is completely wrong.

Product manager, influencer or data scientist

One argument critics bring in I don't understand is that Bitcoin is too volatile to be a currency. If a zoned market solely accept Bitcoin and a good costs say 1 BTC, why does it matter if the BTC-to-USD price is increasing or decreasing? For the zoned market it's still 1 BTC for said good.

Nothing is democratized here, this is pure marketing.

Every time I see posts like this or about Taiwan I'm happily upvoting. I'm a big fan of the Streisand effect.

I claim the opposite. I believe that people who "make most senior devs of FANGAM feel clueless about programming and engineering" absolutely are able to quickly install tools like Node.js because they most likely have done something similar with another development environment already and know that looking into the docs/README is the quickest way to success.

Amazon treats employees like soulless robots. This already starts when you apply there (as a SWE) and instead of talking to people you get an automated coding test.

Imagine this would be the case for physical stores and only 2 companies in the world could decide what products you are allowed to sell. You start a coffee shop and 1 day later a representative of company X walks in and shuts down your entire store because you "violated our conditions but we won't tell you which one. You can beg us to reopen your store but first you have to tell us why you didn't violate our policies".

This sounds like a dystopia. And yet it's already reality in the app world.

As still so many people don't get it:

1) Don't make your business dependent on Google 2) Don't make any of your data dependent on Google (don't use Gmail, Workspace etc) 3) Don't make applications you build dependent on Google

Hint: If you can't migrate away from Google within a working day, you're doing it wrong.

Maybe it was the intern's fault to set a weak password but it is the CEOs fault for setting up an organization where things like these can slip through security review or monitoring.

I think the biggest problem about Google is not privacy. It's their way of ruining all sorts of businesses by offering services for free which only works because they cross-subsidize everything through their advertising business.

Consumers are not willing to pay for navigation system anymore because Google Maps is for free. People don't hire translators because Google Translate is for free. Office suites, eMail, mobile games, storage... all free just because companies blow billions of ad money into this corporation.

It seems like big tech companies live in a bubble where they think society is in fact an algocracy and everything is an engineering problem that can be solved with an algorithm.

Sorry for the rant but Google has time and money to build things like this and yet they don't have customer support for people whose account got suspended for no reason?

This seems to be a very one-sided view. I personally know a guy who makes ~3000 USD month with a book about worldly wisdom. I know about it because he pitches his book on every occasion. And I guess that's true for everything: Just writing a book is not enough, pitching and selling it actively afterwards is key.

> The contracts claim the company was the only “responsible source” to build the tool.

Looks like the CEO of Deloitte and the director of CDC played a few rounds of golf together before...

While we have found a way to establish and execute rules in the real world (legislature and jurisdiction) we have completely forgotten that we need something like that in the digital world as well.

And now a few VPs of Google and Apple dictate who's allowed to bring in their apps into their holy app store.