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In the civil engineering world, at least in Europe, the lead engineer would sign papers that would put him as liable if a bridge or a building structure collapses on its own. The civil engineers face literal prison time if they make a sloppy work.

In the software engineering world, we have TOSs that deny any liability if the software fails. Why?

It boils my blood to think that the heads of CrowdStrike would maybe get a slap on the wrist and everything will slowly continue as usual as the machines will get fixed.

People died for this bug.

I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool. Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their tools (because other companies do not open source them, therefore being un-cool), which begets a "simpler" and "engineeristic" approach to UX, which do not need UI experts and designers.

If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?

Plot twist: the IAM policy that got fucked up was the one giving access to Q

Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to revolutionize

As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going up.

If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals?

Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposited in the $bank_where_i_put_my_shady_money, I want to take/move the money, but doing so will raise some eyebrows, so I deliberately try to debank myself so that I can get all my money cash OR move it to $partner_bank

rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)

But many many other people won't, or can't.

And there will be companies offering the product for free in order to grab that market share and steal users from the paying ones.

That's how the internet companies strived since ~1998

Money is also nice

Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire;

the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ?

the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ?

the crowd cheering crazy at the mention of the [buzzword] ?

it all seems too... weird and alien to me; I'm not a boomer, but I'm almost 40; I've cheered at the age of digitalization and I was publicly derided on my views of the internet in the mid-90s.

Now... is this how older people felt in the 80s-90s, when faced with news about the digital era? or the idea that internet will replace this-and-that?

How similar is this to the late-90s dot-com craze? I bet my ass off that at the time they had early-adopter parties like the one in the article.

1910s had the spanish flu, we have (had??) the COVID-19, so...yep

I hate being pedantic, but before the 1600 anybody with some education knew already that the earth was round (see: Columbus, Magellan).

Funnily enough, the "flat earthers" of that time were the ones spreading the idea that the Earth was moving :D (see: Galileo)

I agree, I got bitten already more than one time, and it's ridiculous how can they get away with it.

How's not that an infringement?

and it was a successful business.

"don't fix what works and bring money"

...until someone comes and disrupts you and all the assumptions that keeps up your business

Holy moly, it's like COBOL was one of the original PaaS , with lock-in as a feature

Missed opportunity to end the last comment with

> She eventually gave up

Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup + shared folder/drive letters.

of course security was near nonexistent, but it was home LAN, and convenience trumped all.

Nowadays I have NO idea if I could do a similar setup with Windows 10 without resorting to the cloud

You're talking about the biggest IT company which in 2006 was redesigning their whole big boy Windows.

Ballmer was deriding the iPhone by not having a keyboard, therefore being just a gimmick not worth of being a work device.

Plus, probably in 2007 having access a capacitive touch screens was most likely not so simple as today. The availability was limited. Plus, the apps were designed around having a physical keyboard and buttons available.

the original iPhone had no 3G (only Edge supported), no copy-paste, no app store (by design!), no MMS. Edit: and most likely no enterprise directory integration (Exchange et al)

BUT it felt the most futuristic piece of technology money could buy, and the high price point made it a luxury good that stood out of the Blackberries and Windows phones.

I like to think it was bought by CEOs and CTOs and executives who forced their IT dept. to support them because they were just so damn cool.

> If nothing else, it's _amazing_ for negotiating. "honestly I'm really happy where I am, but every man has his price, what can you offer?" does wonders

My cynical self is thinking whether this is (one of) the reason why young people are preferred in our industry.

Young = Less experience in negotiating = lower wage

As I recall, the iPhone originally had little to none integration with enterprise infrastructure, as Blackberry and Windows Phone had . In my view, The iphone was just too cool not to be in the hands of CEOs and CTOs , which most likely managed to bend companies rules to start allowing usage of iphones and basically making blackberry superfluous

Wait until we start to reach 2038, it's going to be either awesome or an epic shitshow

LEGO's always been expensive, in the late 80's early 90's as well, go ask my parents :D

and obnoxious kids

Or Dante's "Commedia" where each line contains 11 syllables

in triplets, that rhyme in chain

for 100 chapters,

for 4711 triplets

500ms ? you have it lucky , try 2000ms next time for real frustration. Bonus points if you can hear yourself back unless the recipient is muting him/herself

Dukan is that you?

it seems weird to me that with all the time and energy spent to measure everything to the point of obsession , one would not even take in account the rest of the nutrients. It feels like a made up story to prove a point.