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Microsoft has made many recent decisions that have irritated or pissed off people including their customers and developers.

In this case I understand that they have valid grievances with Google, but there's this German word, schadenfreude, that comes to mind.

*schadenfreude requires a HN Enterprise reply agreement before being used in a post. :)

Charles Manson's favorite book was "How to Win Friends and Influence People".

Squeak is a easy way to learn Smalltalk.

The original poster is a developer. A developer for Apple platforms. Chances are this affected him and if not, it did affected his peers. Yet he never mentions the massively embarrassing outage...

Marco so conveniently forgot the whole debacle of Apple's developer resources and sites being down for almost two weeks.

I agree. It may be useful in certain web applications, but chances are it will end up being used for advertising and "effects" that are annoying and unwanted.

It's not go. It's the fact I work with admins and analysts that are not formally trained developers. Python and PowerShell are their tools.

"And the farmers will continue to over fertilize."

The smart corporate farmers don't over fertilize, it costs real money. Research the technology that they use, satellites, GPS and automated tractors/spray rigs that adjust in real time for specific soil needs.

"majority of the population is absolutely fine with the status quo"

The majority isn't happy, they just aren't hungry enough to make changes. Plus what can the majority do when the political/economic/information system is totally rigged against them? Voting doesn't work in the national arena, protests don't work and revolutions/social disorder have a high chance of failure, death, destruction and worse government.

My coworkers whom aren't gurus can read and edit Python code. Go? I doubt it...

Including "friends and family". (Except for OSS and local user group training...)

Family? Yes, family. I only do free computer work for my spouse and her mom. No one else. Any siblings, aunt's, uncles, neighbors, etc... get the standard look of stupidity and are referred to my cousin who will charge them, but does good work.

This is an issue among programmers and technical people because it affects us politically and monetarily. Who wants to use SAAS (aka Amazon, Azure, etc), when security is compromised? Why can't I trust Google, Yahoo or Microsoft? Why should I build any services or web sites when they can pulled/compromised just because a certain user or group accessed them or I pissed someone of power off?

Yuck is right. The truth is yucky. "The truth will set you free, but it's gonna piss you off first"

In the case of many consumers and Walmart, the consumer doesn't have the money to pay for the alternative. It's the only affordable market in their area.

In the case of Goldman Sachs, consumers are not involved, the company has so much power, no one in government dares to strongly enforce the laws, short of a slap on the wrist. In a utopian "ethical" world, GS would have been dead in the 1930s...

Stop bagging on Microsoft!

;)

" It isn't a meme, its a rule. And it is enforced (or not) by the SEC and the shareholders themselves."

Enforced "selectively" by the SEC...

"Now, there are bad prosecutors out there. People motivated by politics and self interest, but they are the few."

There's probably more than a few. Consider the large number of cases that have been overturned in Illinois and Texas over that last decade or so. Many of these folks were railroaded and only saved by volunteers and brave attorneys.

And for all the damage these "common" criminals did, consider that much of the recent massive economic fraud done and damage caused by well connected "businessmen" and "bankers" will not go punished due to lack of enforcement and statue of limitations.

TANJ!

Which has been replaced by: Low cost, low power ARM based computer...

Probably will cost $50,000 and run as fast a new smartphone...

It's easier than you think to "capture" selected chunks of the RF spectrum. DOD, etc, have had this capability for decades, civilians have had scanners and broadband radios for decades. Amateurs can record entire HF bands and decode multiple CW and other signals in real time with modern receivers and computing power.

Amateur radio can be rewarding. You can build radios/antennas, explore physics, yak with folks around the world without internet/telecom companies or do public service. Current nifty ham technology is SDR, (Software Defined Radio).

Problems with pay were one of the primary reasons I didn't reenlist. This was an issue in the 80's. I lost days of personal time talking to yeomen, chiefs and officers just because every other check was late or missing. Turned out for the best, since I would have ended up on the USS Stark since my current ship was going to be decommissioned.

You can go to any tech conference and find attractive engineers and programmers of any gender.

My bad! Those are recruiters... :)

So a possible theory is that the images are being rejected because they are attractive?

Not really.

Inferring epoch from constellations is an old sci-fi theme and a topic that's discussed in basic astronomy classes. Considering the knowledge base and nature of this web comic's readership, I'd expect that this would intrigue and capture a certain percentage. (Smart people are smart and usually inquisitive...)

Why boycott GS? It's their state, country and mostly their world to loot. They have been above the law for over 80 years. They own the current administration, courts and congress. I wouldn't doubt it if someone claimed they had access to much of the NSA collection due to the amount of influence they have...

Consider the readership that xkcd appeals to...

We are much better off in the State with our well working democratic republic based on a advanced enlighten populous!

It's been fun watching the shills from Redmond squirm this year after all the stumbles...

I wonder how well Fat Cow BBQ, (local joint in Lewisville), ships...

I wonder how hard it would be to modify PyRF for another SDR?