Bulk collection of data has nothing to do with what I said.
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Long ago, I designed and developed a medical computer for a well-known manufacturer. If you walked into any eye doctor or surgeon today and mentioned its name, they would know what it is.
I started my own company but over the past five years, I would consistently see three former co-workers from that same company. I told them I was thinking of selling out and--jokingly--said I would re-apply for my old job. The response was always positive. "You should!", they'd say, "Put me down as a reference!".
Last October, I sold out. Last January, I ran into one of those co-workers. He's now a project manager. The other two co-workers were actually my bosses, one of whom is now a "Fellow". "There's an opening," he said, "Come apply at put me down as a reference."
So I did. Never heard anything back. I called my friend who talked to the "Fellow". That guy gave me the email of the headhunter who was now in charge of all hiring and told me to mention all three of their names. The headhunter replied and told me the job was, essentially, working on the same product I designed and would I be interested in working on a new version of that.
So I sent my resume which shows that I've been working on almost the exact same thing and that I had worked for that company for seven years on that exact same product and have three high level managers and former bosses who all encouraged me to apply for that job.
Never heard from him.
My former boss, who was the Director of Engineering and is now a "Fellow" is actually now retired and only works there part-time. He said he has no say into how they do things now and all hiring is done through the headhunter. The project manager is in a different department now so they don't care what he thinks. The other engineering manager also retired and, apparently, no one cares about his thoughts either.
Best advice. Don't be stupid. Don't smoke anything at all. It's unnatural. Your lungs are trying to tell you something when you first try it. Listen to them.
While I often hear this "draconian error handling" about XML/XHTML by such people who then complain that a language compiler is just as draconian and real programmers complain when it's not and doesn't catch their every little mistake.
It's this lack of education and drive for the pursuit of knowledge and understanding that caused XHTML to fall out of favor and no other reason.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2010/11/01/xhtml-in-ie9/
"Research estimates that, while not risk-free..."
Less harmful but harmful nonetheless. Not without risk. Contaminants and other unnatural elements are introduced into the lungs.
Vaping is harmful, too.
Besides nicotine, e-cigarettes can contain harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including:
>ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs
>flavorants such as diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease
>volatile organic compounds
>heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead"
While I do not have issues with using some well-developed library, depending on whose library it is, we are more likely to only use it till we develop our own.
That was years ago when I did that. I won't do it again.
EDIT: So I looked it up and it looks like something useful for a lot of remote workers that need constant, instant contact with people working on the same stuff at the same time. To me that's a pretty niche market. If I thought the phone or email wasn't good enough, I might pay $5/month for such a service. But irc works pretty good still today.
IRC isn't worth $16B
I have no interest in hurting anyone so the CIA has no interest in me
Or that they think there are enough intelligence agency employees to bother.
Apparently everyone here thinks so much of themselves that they think they are important enough to be a target.
That's what I said. Until marketing forces clamored for such things, other less interesting things that weren't sparkles and lollipops took precedence.