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Most people here seem to forget that ads is what pays for the free internet services. The main issue with them is not making the consent more explicit to the user. I think the business model: you either get this for free with ads and targeting, or otherwise you have to pay X, should be more common. I bet most people would pick the free option with ads and targeting.

I got to understand from personal experience that the anti-SOA people are usually the ones who stayed at the same company their entire carers, never saw any model other than the monolithic one, see SOA as a threat to their domain knowledge within the company and simply are not able to see its downsides (because they have adapted their ways of work around it and never experienced anything better).

For better or worse, open source software is competing with paid software, so expectations for basic support and maintenance need to exist. If there is not enough capacity for this, the maintainers should make it clear upfront in very visible ways so people can use that information when deciding what to use.

Yet another manager not knowing what being a manager is. It is your responsibility to know what your reports are doing and making sure their efforts are recognised and their flaws corrected (or ultimately fired). If you don't remember unless someone keeps sending you self promotional messages, you are the problem, not your reports.

People who bash capitalism after the last century of expansion should just be considered negationists at this point.

Sure it is not perfect but it's infinitely better than any other economic model available.

A Guide to Twitter 5 years ago

It seems like someone made a huge personal investment on twitter and is now trying to convince others to do the same in order to increase the value of whatever they achieved there. Maybe Twitter is amazing for you, that's great. You can keep it.

There are many miscategorizations like that. It is also clearly written by an American leftist, with, for example, Michelle Obama's biography as "mind expanding books everyone should read". I am sure they are completely oblivious to their political and geographical/cultural bias though, as typically happens.

DJI Mavic 3 Drone 5 years ago

We can speculate all we want, but there was no official communication from DJI to their customers, which shows their disregard for their clients.

DJI Mavic 3 Drone 5 years ago

Now they just need to explain why they stopped updating their app in the play store and force everyone to download it from their site.

I see the opposite... For example, since a couple of months/updates ago Finder doesn't show me new files in a directory unless I force the search with spotlight. It is remarkable that a bug like this can happen in such a basic feature like the file browser.

Don't forget salaries. That is what will make or break this theory of "temporary inflation". If it continues for too long people will start asking for more an then it is certainly no longer temporary.

Another article where managers show how detached they are and just regurgitate empty manager speak about how emotional and empathetic they are. No single mention to promotions. For some reason companies prefer to waste money and time hiring and training replacements rather than having proper career progression internally. For most developers leaving is the new career progression.

Open your eyes. Reality is shouting in your face. The dozens of dubious management books by "experts" are just making you feel good about not tackling the problem.

I would have to get a 5x+ opportunity to consider leaving London for the US and I am not even British. I think you have an idea of American exceptionalism which is not really shared by most people in Europe.

Even clinical psychology seems to me a very dubious area. In many cases it is not linear to evaluate success when the main identification of the problem is based on necessarily limited, indirect and biased data (patient testimony) and the result of treatment is behavioural change. Who controls for potential unintended damaging consequences of behavioural change? Fixing one issue can't be the definition of success when dealing with such a complex system. The approach seems too simplistic. I have seen people coming out of "treatments" with their initial problems apparently fixed but with new perspectives on life that proved to be just as damaging. Some level of scepticism is probably a good thing.