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If iMessage is such a killer feature, why hasn't Google developed their own alternative?

Just upgraded to the iPhone 14 Plus, got it for "free" by extending my contract for another 3 years. Works for me, I was already paying the monthly fee anyway and had no plans of leaving my carrier.

Completely agree and that’s why I was so disappointed with the post. Instead of something insightful it was just a random rant from someone feeling miserable about their job.

It’s the biggest lie out there that self-fulfillment comes from working.

Was intrigued by the title, disagree completely with the content.

You can have a rewarding job and still be unhappy, you can have no job at all and be the happiest person out there. Happiness is not one-dimensional...

I still think it's a fascinating topic, anyone got any better recommendations for reading up on this?

If you can afford it then lock in now for 6%, re-finance in 5-10years when interest rates go down.

I "almost" cancel my subscriptions periodically, they usually have a "wait before you cancel" offer in the last step

Ah, the old synergy effect, a corporate executive's best friend.

Easy peasy, I don't want to have cables cluttering my desk and am willing to pay a premium for any device that comes in a wireless format.

If technically feasibly, I would pay a premium for every single device and peripheral to be wireless.

I want my desk to be 100% free of clutter and cables and am willing to live with having to recharge devices, paying a premium and am not at all concerned that someone would hack my wireless webcam.

I just looked down on my laptop and my 2022 HP has a trackpoint, never used this feature though. HP Elitebook 830 G6.

This is the feeling I get with some of my engineering colleagues, you ask them what time it is and they produce this list.

It means Personal Time Off, essentially any time an employee has a paid day off work. (There's also unpaid PTO)

Basically paternity / maternity leave, sick leave, vacation, jury duty, bank holiday, or whatever else is in the company's PTO policy...

> For example, "Kitchen Girl" needs "A G" for the first half of the tune (confusingly called the "A part")

This is standard notation, especially in American folk music, that sections are labeled A, B and sometimes C. This makes it very convenient when playing with others who're not familiar with the tune (e.g. This is Kitchen Girl, key of A, two A parts, two B parts)

A small dev shop in my view is a company (1-20 employees) that typically develops bespoke applications as turnkey projects, either from scratch or leveraging some existing stack (e.g. Wordpress applications, Salesforce applications, etc.)

I would look for companies that describe themselves as:

- Website design agencies

- Creative agencies (look at their webpage if they also have development and not purely design)

- Design & Development agencies

You should be able to find a handful just through a Google Maps search.

Reach out to them and ask if they could use some junior development support, and if there's a particular area they need support in.

I don't think it's vastly different from someone younger who wanted to shift career into tech without previous experience.

I would recommend him taking one or a few bootcamp classes to bring him up to speed, maybe focus on one area in particular (e.g. web development) then find a smaller dev shop where he could come in and support in a junior support role to start with and then take it from there. Maybe develop a few pet projects to build his portfolio in parallel.

It's not impossible but maybe manage his expectations a little bit that he's going to have to start more or less from scratch.

GDPR has entered the chat

Hoping for something cool!

I absolutely loved Turbo Pascal as a kid and hold that IDE as the golden standard still to this day because of its simplicity. I think what we need isn't visual tools, we need an extremely simple IDE where you press one button (F5) to run your program without leaving the environment and without any clutter.

Better is a 100% subjective term and there's a huge discrepancy between what engineers believe is a better product and what users/customers do. Our product was and still is technically inferior to competition but we still have an NPS of 9 and are extremely sticky, why? Because of our amazing sales, marketing and customer success teams who've built excellent relationship with the customers.

Don’t know where you live or what you refer to. Public schools where I live are paid through (very high) property taxes, anyone who wants to put their kids through private school needs to pay that tuition on top of what they’re paying in property taxes, essentially paying twice for schooling.

Maybe it’s different where you live?

It's called Biological Immortality[1] and there are a few examples of animals that are considered immortal.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality

You could potentially run some sort of "guest account" on your OS that is wiped clean on logout.

Right. In the best of worlds, websites should of course respect the "Do Not Track".

The rate of change is of course an important factor, but some things like the order of how you installed fonts (which depends on the order you installed the software that fonts came with) or the plugins you have installed in your browser are still going to be constant.

What we saw was that people tried to spoof their UA only made it more unique. (E.g. your UA says Internet Explorer but you have Chrome specific plugins). Or even worse if you have a completely unique User Agent.

Hi, I did my thesis on browser fingerprinting. Most algorithms that build profiles and look for combinations of features that are unique. The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible.

So that means use as much of the standards as possible that comes with the OS. Do not use anything that would not be considered mainstream (e.g. don't be the only person from Guatemala on Opera, Linux, DVORAK Keyboard using an odd screen resolution.)

The absolute hardest thing to create a browser fingerprint on is corporate laptops as they have identical setups!

How does the world work then?

Nope, at the current rate of consumption it will last 70-80 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#:~:text=According....

Cool idea, but how would you keep it maintained? It's tricky enough to keep maps up to date. A 3D Mesh would be even more complex to maintain.

As someone who's been involved in setting up a corporate incubator, this is a pretty common dilemma.

The way that we viewed it at my previous company was basically it's two different businesses, two different P&L's and two different sets of metrics and KPIs. You could see them as two different business units that can succeed or fail independently.

If one Business Unit is struggling, you can't just fill the holes by taking funds from another BU to fill the gap. You need to solve the inherent profitability problems in the struggling Business Unit in some other way, typically by selling more, increasing the price/mix or reducing the cost.

Don't know if this is how Mozilla reasons, but this was definitely the way we reasoned in the last two large corporations I worked for.