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"Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses with VMware products. VMware, whose $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom closed in November, also announced on Monday that it will no longer sell support and subscription (SnS) for VMware products with perpetual licenses. Moving forward, VMware will only offer term licenses or subscriptions, according to its VMware blog post."

“ There's been a Murder in SQL City! The SQL Murder Mystery is designed to be both a self-directed lesson to learn SQL concepts and commands and a fun game for experienced SQL users to solve an intriguing crime.”

"LoveByte’s Tiny Code Christmas is an event to help you take your first steps in demoscene sizecoding with Lua based fantasy consoles like TIC-80 and PICO-8! Over 12 days, from the 11th to the 22nd of December, learn the effects and techniques used in Byte Jams, Byte Battles, and Tiny Intros!"

A large number of CS programs are already glorified Java training courses.

Trying random things seems to be how a large number of professional software engineers do their jobs. Stack Overflow and now CodeGPT seem to contribute to this.

No, it is terrible. Most instant coffee is better. National fast food coffee is better at this point. Good coffee is worlds better.

FYI, you should just assume that plastic isn't being recycled, even if you put it in the recycling bin.

There are drip machines that will make one cup and even if you had the roaster grind the beans for you, it would probably be far, far better than anything you can get for a Keurig.

And how many non-technical users do you know who do this?

The difference is that most people don't write their business logic in a single flat function in most programming languages, and there is a good chance that individual pieces would have tests.

I think a lot of people might be missing this part:

"Modular inputs - it’s also modular in the sense that we can add inputs (via cartridges we call 'pods') to add all old and new and future display inputs: RGB, composite, SCART, S-Video, RF, HDMI and everything else. Either we have a solution now or there’s one in the pipe for later."

Comments like this make it difficult to take the HN community seriously.

Not using something more intuitive than cron's schedule format seems like a missed opportunity.

I have never had to do anything like this, and I have never applied to more than a few companies before receiving an offer except during the dotcom crash. Even then it wasn't dozens of companies.

Resume tricks like this are nonsense. Are there recruiters who are swayed by things like this? Sure. Do you want to work for those companies? Probably not.

Stop shotgunning your resume to dozens of companies. Research a few companies where you might actually want to work. Do this from time to time even if you aren't looking; don't wait until you are desperate for work. And the most important thing is to actually have something to offer. If you do the bare minimum and accomplish very little, you probably aren't going to trick some great company into hiring you with resume tricks.

I would not allow any company's AI product near my company's private info.

I virtually always read a book to learn a new language. My point is that memorizing every language feature as a starting point is not a great way to learn, but almost every C and C++ book/tutorial/course seems to do this. There is a reason why people love K&R's C book.

There are at least a dozen C++ intros that go through every little detail like this and I don't get it. I have a pretty good ability to retain a lot of information presented this way, and I've been programming in various C-like languages for long enough that much of this isn't new to me, but this doesn't seem like a good way to learn the material. I'd much rather work through actual programs and iterate on them. I imagine that a lot of people who would be looking for something this basic aren't even going to retain most of this nor understand why they would need most of these things they are memorizing.

And fill it with even more ads and clickbait articles.

Texas is another laughable example of the pseudo libertarian fantasy. Also this week: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least-free-state-personal-fre...

I think the point is that ultimately, only 3 bugs were platform specific and most of the additional reports were bugs that affected everyone.

Based on the fact that everyone seems to turn every desktop app into a service, yes?

I hope the robots are okay.

Is there a single large tech company that doesn't fuck over the customers of their acquisitions?

Thanks for proving my point.

It will almost certainly be used make customer service worse as well. In "Ways of Being" James Bridle provides other examples of how corporations are going to use "AI" to exacerbate the problems they already cause in pursuit of profit.

Yes, this is what Americans mean when they parrot bullshit about freedom: the freedom for corporations to do whatever they like in pursuit of profit.

You aren't looking for your soulmate and you aren't a psychologist. The only way you are going to know whether they can be trusted is working with them. Be prepared to move on when things are no longer to your liking.

I worked on healthcare software for over a decade. The healthcare industry attracts the lowest quality people generally. Software engineers aren't giving up working at FAANG to go work in healthcare. A significant portion of UHG's revenue comes from billing and other healthcare software. Most of it is under their Optum brand.

Half the country ends up paying their local cable monopoly for Internet access now, and it costs about the same as cable TV used to.