antoinevg

I'm so sorry you are being downvoted. The current enthusiasm for psychedelics is making it very difficult to talk publicly about all the dimensions of a highly nuanced topic.

Oh believe you me, after decades of this kind of crap us non-Americans have become quite cautious about buying American products!

It took me a decade of tackling no projects at all to get back on a (different) horse.

Healing takes as long as it takes and you cannot predict the person you will be on the other side.

Buy one of these: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics...

…and read this: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/

Highly recommended!

You don't have to screw the engineers to safeguard your investment from fraud.

Come up with a different mechanism if you ever want anyone competent to work at your startup.

Same thing on my 2018 MBP 13"

My apologies.

Yes, you still get this UI.

Don't be a cunt. We have a load of mission critical software that is not supported under Catalina.

The world he created was all around you by the time you were born so you probably wouldn't understand.

No accident the article misses facts, it's a propaganda rag: https://spectator.org/about/

1. Not making it clear to the client up front that I'm charging for the week whether they have enrolled me in their IT systems or not!

2. Not making it clear to the client up front that if they wanted me to do the work the following week I've also have to charge them extra for having to reshuffle my schedule.

With big companies this stuff is very hard to fix after the fact, it has to be part of the initial negotiation.

Unless you are a founder or investor even a massive exit won't cover the money you would have made if you took the FAANG offer.

Employees don't make money working for startups (anymore).

At some point we may need to discuss the cumulative effect of all these ill-considered UI changes on system security.

“Amazon could be a leader, and they have the resources,” Fagan said. “They could be a leader in providing good occupational health care to their employees. And they are not doing that.”

BEZOS, YOU HAVE FAILED YOUR PROFESSION!

We specifically invested in UI equipment because it respected the boundaries of our networks.

If this is their final position we will no longer be purchasing UI hardware moving forward.

Please enhance your understanding, your world will be richer for it:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Privilege#Privilege_blindness

You mistake my intent.

I'm not trying to "go to the wall" because I want to win an argument with you.

What I'm trying to do is use an example of another kind of discriminatory behaviour which is socially unacceptable to demonstrate to you that many people will find your words to be obnoxious and judge you harshly for them.

But hey, if you don't care about that kind of thing then it's not your problem I guess.

Of course, I'm sure you'll find plenty of people who vehemently disagree with me ... and will make you a protected class soon enough.

Not asking for special privileges or protections.

Asking for the same privileges and protections afforded to everyone else.

Let's face it: for neurotypical people, a lot of autists are very hard to get along with. Their behaviour is not always predictable in the way that we need behaviour to be in a workplace; and when more pronounced, their specific needs are not something that we want to have to address in our coworkers.

Or try it like this and see how it feels:

"Let's face it: for white people, a lot of black people are very hard to get along with ..."

…or has a sense of humour about it! ;-)

...which really makes it worse:

1. Our programming language has an attribute called "autocomplete" with two possible values: "on" and "off"

2. We will now (without consultation or announcement) simply start ignoring one of those values when you specify it. (and certainly not document the new behaviour!)

3. Here, I made you a convoluted (and undocumented!) workaround for getting the original behaviour of the attribute back.

I'm not sure which horse these FAANG kids who excel at programming challenges rode in on, but this attitude is RIFE in their product SDK's and API's.

Dijkstra must be spinning in his grave.

How about we just stop generalising across each others projects, teams and environments?

This stuff is always highly context dependent and the ongoing efforts of everyone to pretend it isn't makes it extremely difficult to have adult conversations on the topic.

You absolutely do not need free hardware to build free software.

It was decades before the PC's we used to build FreeBSD, GNU, Linux etc. had even a free software BIOS available.

Historically, free hardware availability has followed in the wake of free software.

Exactly.

Everyone keeps bringing up this legendary "app store featuring safe curated content" keeping the "ordinary user" safe but the reality is both Google & Apple's stores are riddled with deceptive apps, scam subscriptions and spyware!

The real story with iOS (and to a lesser extent Android) security has been the switch to restricting the damage any particular app can do through process and resource isolation.

If Apple banned it _without_ Chinese pressure it would be even worse!

Self-compiled Android without Google services is not a bad place to start.

That said, these single-vendor proprietary mobile platforms are all dumpster fires so it may be time to start developing a free software alternative.

No one should get to decide is the point.

You may be a bit young to remember this but it was once possible to install any software on hardware you owned without permission from the manufacturer.

Antitrust moves slow but when it comes it hits like the proverbial hammer smashing a wall-sized tv screen.

Remember when all the Microsofties were gloating about how it was never gonna happen to them?

Pepperidge farm remembers…

What's wrong with 'to see how you program', though?

* Dear dentist, can you please show me how you fill cavities?

* Dear lawyer, can you please show me how you law?

* Dear surgeon, can you please show me how you operate?

* Dear accountant, can you please show me how you do taxes?

* Dear architect, can you please show me how you design?