There are a lot of things he hasn't done, but it can be hard to have a reasonable discussion about the finer details of it without getting ratholed, given how partisan it's all gotten. So I'll just mention one thing that is hopefully easily verifiable by everyone:

He hasn't gotten the numbers down. Every other developed nation on earth (and even many not-so-developed ones) has managed to do this, or prevented the numbers from getting very high in the first place.

There has to be more to it than that. I'd personally feel extremely embarrassed to have suggested something as stupid as injecting disinfectant in front of even a single person.

This isn't the case of a man with normal intelligence accidentally saying something that was misinterpreted by a larger-than-expected audience. The fact is that we have a profoundly retarded president who spouts of whatever shit enters his brain without any filtering whatsoever.

Python is big. Go has been picking up a lot of traction lately.

Agreed, which is why I stick to phones from the Android One program, which has this exact requirement.

"Agile" is a product, sold by consultants. That makes it a proper noun.

There's another word in the English language, "agile", which is an adjective. But it doesn't get used very often in the corporate world.

Because it's more than just a "slight graphics refresh". The new Gmail UI brings in features from Inbox, such as snoozing emails and smart replies, and some new features like "confidential" mode, and add-ons on the right-hand-side (like Calendar, Tasks, etc).

Ironically TFA is on a site that's full of trackers. I'm using the EFF's Privacy Badger extension, and I get:

Even if passwords are excluded, the article gives other examples of sensitive information like medical info that would get logged.

The unencrypted channel thing wasn't an assumption either, the article mentions that some of the dashboards are served over HTTP, so sensitive information would be sent unencrypted from the third party tracking company to the developers looking at the dashboard.

Let's suppose that there are no malicious uses of web tracking, that it is solely used to improve the user experience. There's still a big problem, which is that a lot of software developers are just incompetent when it comes to security. And sorry to break it to you, but your post proves that you're one of them.

If you don't see the problem with a key logger on a site that contains a password field, and then sending those logged keys to a third-party, and through unencrypted channels, then you need to be fired from your job as a web dev asap.

More than any other company, Microsoft showed how control over a platform and the ecosystem around it can be used to build and maintain a monopoly. If you wanted to write software in the 90s, you had to write it for Microsoft's platform, because that's what people were using - consumers and business alike.

As Microsoft loses control over the web and mobile platforms, their desktop operating system monopoly and the businesses that depend on it are increasingly exposed to competitors. It doesn't matter if it's only the unsophisticated consumers that are moving. The world is definitely heading towards a more mobile-oriented computing culture, even if mobiles never take 100% of the market away from desktops, and this is bad for Microsoft.

These side channels look kind of like the bank-like intermediaries to me. If the bulk of Bitcoin transactions have to be made off of the blockchain, doesn't this negate the benefits of an untraceable currency on an untrusted distributed system? Or am I missing something here?

Even if Bitcoin does raise the block size one day, it's still not clear to me how it's ever going to scale high enough to become a general purpose currency. Going from 7 transactions/second to 56 sounds nice and all, but Visa and Mastercard handle about 2000 transactions/second. Each.

Are they going to eventually go to a 600+ MB block size? Or are a sizeable number of transactions going to have to go through bank-like intermediaries?

If people are leaving after 3 months, then yeah, that's too temporal, and things are goalless, and it's bad. But the average time at a company for young people is more like 3 years. In my experience, people generally get up to speed in around 6 months, which still leaves plenty of time to get stuff done.

There's a balance to be had here. One thing that I've noticed about a lot of people who've been at companies for a long time (7+ years) is that they've been a little too heavily indoctrinated into the company's traditional ways of thinking. It can be good for a company's culture to get some external influence.

But more importantly, from an individual point of view, it's good to be a well-rounded person, and it's hard to do that when you're a lifer.

I'm thinking of a scenario more like this:

1. The Australian guy signs up for a Twitter account
2. The OP receives an email, and marks it as spam
3. Later, the OP signs up for a Twitter account
4. Gmail sends it straight to the Junk mail folder

On most sites, you'll can reset this person's password any time. Rather than lock them out immediately, wait a little while until they've been using the account for a while, then reset their password, log in, and figure out who it is. Then you can contact them and ask them to stop (or play pranks, if that's your thing).

Also if you're in Europe, and the other person is in Australia, the emails that the Australian person generates will be from basically the opposite timezone. You could try filtering signup emails based that come in the middle of the night to a separate folder.