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When I saw that HBO were doing a remake I wondered: who do they think they are that they can do better than Bergman?

never a day goes by without my mourning Google Reader

“Even if you DID get a first, what use is a degree from LEICESTER?”

Sadly tis true :) speaking someone with a degree from Leicester.

MSc in CS at Manchester University. Life-changing.

To misquote Richard E Grant: Let the forking begin!

A.I.D.A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk

Great - but if you're depressed / anxious then it's harder to persevere.

Teams & SharePoint.

yes! awful p.o.s. I've seen Service Now mentioned but it was wonderful compared to Cherwell.

And simultaneously doesn’t.

I Tulsa. Shame I live in UK.

Good news for once.

"Are you on track to meet the deadline?" is the worst 121 opener, I can't think why it's on the list. Unless you're an old-skool command-and-control type of course.

I'm very disappointed if I move from a company that uses macs, slack, Confluence to PCs, MS Teams (horrible) and SharePoint (worse).

It's a thing of strange beauty, tremendous nostalgia.

Yes I do, and I'm still annoyed about Google Reader.

Hardly 'from scratch', I was expecting an ELI5 article.

It's still a Macbook Pro, by miles!

the book is a great read

Best metaphor I can think of is coral - humans are the coral and we exist to serve the biome, not the other way around.

In other breaking news: the Pope is a Catholic.

I worked at a company whose name begins with K ... exactly this happened. The 'old' UI was an ASP nightmare from the early 2000s but it contained all that the users loved. The new thing never took off, despite the CTO putting his job on the line for it.

Another company had a green-screen nightmare from the 1980s replaced by some mouse-driven mofre modern UI - ditto. The users could easily naviate with arrow keys, tabs, function keys. It was FAST. The new UI, and it's even newer HTML replacement, both needed the mouse.

Hard to sell and 2002 nightmare or a green-screen to a prospective client - but they LUURRRRVE a cool modern Angular UI, but the people who buy thing thing aren't the ones who have to use it.

She needs to realise that times have changed.

I found I was being 12% less than my peers. My boss said yes I'll get you a pay rise to match. 6 months later, nothing had happened. It then took me 3 weeks to get another job paying 20% more. When I told my employer I had this offer, all of a sudden the 12% appeared. I said no, too little too late - a few weeks later they said "Name your price" to stay.

Simple explanation: they saved money. Of course now they have to recruit, and then the new person needs a lot f time to learn what his company does (it's complicated). Cost is WAY more than that 12%, but it doesn't show up on the balance sheet.

So to answer OP's question: because companies don't really value their people.

I work to help build up their self-confidence.

Disengagement: we get emails saying how profitable we are, the directors drive super-nice cars ... but we get cost-of-living pay increases, no bonuses. Why should we be 'engaged'? Feels like we're getting ripped off.

I thought that TypeScript transpiles to JavaScript rather than compiles.

What are 'parking minimums'?

It's got zero (0) new features that interest me.

It brings it alive - sounds corny, I know, but it's true. The article depressed me, which had it just been a piece about statistics and policy statements would have left me cold.

Interested to know why you're not interested in the human angle.