but if you are starting the creation of a web backend or an account receivables app

In other words, comparatively trivial stuff that can be done in many languages. Got it.

They should have merged the java and jaxax packages and called it Stdlib.

It was aspirational - they were hoping it would transform the original subsidy into positive cash flow with the small warehouse getting the original subsidy, giving them a nice profit and a free warehouse.

People are starting to smarten up. Every few years the same faces, older and more tired-looking, try to get professional baseball back to Montreal. Of course they want a new stadium for fee, and subsidies. Any government that goes with this is dead meat - citizens groups will sue their asses off. Those days are gone.

A stadium? Forget it. Build a hospital that creates good-paying high-quality jobs, not part-time seasonal jobs selling hotdogs in a stadium.

When someone pulls that shit, you walk away, sue for dam, and put them on your shit list.

Let them renegotiate the deal once, you don't have to pray they won't renegotiate the deal again - it's inevitable.

I consider myself a pretty liberal American

Dunning-Lriger strikes again. You can't tell the difference between socialism, communism, oligarchy, and kleptocracy.

but when I think of Socialism, I don't think of Finland or Bernie Sanders, I think of missile parades in Red Square and Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN.

The USSR was not socialist. It was an oligarchy hiding behind the label of communism.

Socialism can work well with democracy. Look at Canada - a social democracy, universal health care, capitalism, elections where we know the winner the next morning and they take over immediately .

No lame ducks allowed, no electoral college bs, etc.

There's also Germany, France, etc.

No wonder Trump found it so easy to manipulate the US population, when you don't know squat and are proud of you ignorance as a form of patriotism. Same as not wearing masks, election a QAnon freak, etc.

It's not for your benefit. Now you won't be able to return anything because it's "custom fitted", even if it was pulled off a pile of stuff all the exact same size.

It also doesn't take into account that sometimes you want something a little loose fitting, and sometimes you want something form-fitting.

Bought an Android Motorola the week it came out in 2015. Barely 2 years support. The iPhone 6 I'm posting with came out more than 6 years ago, got another update a few weeks ago.

Wouldn't be surprised if it makes it to 10 years:

Momputing? Seriously, momputing? I know plenty of women who use Apple, not one who will touch a Chromebook.

Adds a whole new meaning to the term "code smell."

Twenty years ago when I started my engineering career everyone was going on about how to develop an innovation lead company. But the reality is that nobody really knows.

That's not true. The real innovators were small startups in gagages, basements, and kitchen tables. A few smart nerds, no management types who didn't understand what was going on or what they were trying to do.

Non-tech people were only hired as needed, and kept in their place. Which was handling the non-technical aspects of the business and letting the developers manage themselves.

That drove the innovation that drove the PC revolution.

When was the last big innovation? The iPhone and App Store - and Jobs was vehemently opposed to the App Store.

I don't think you you can call the M1 Mac innovative - it's more like the natural evolution to faster, lower-power-consuming devices.

So, one big innovation since the turn of the century 20 years ago. Sounds like an industry that is stagnating. -

Because burning through billions and going broke isn't innovation - Enron has prior art.dating back to 2001, and there are plenty of bankrupt US banksgoing back over the last 100 years.

If a programmer has the answer to an artist's issue, why wasn't the programmer sitting by the artist in the first place?

Because I don't want to hear the artist exchanging porn sites with the marketing droid.

It's their responsibility to ask.

I made it easier by going around with the coffee pot, milk, and sugar a couple times a day and asking them if they needed a hand while offering refills because most nerds won't ask for help in front of others if their lives depended on it. But that's the toxic bro culture for you - can't afford to look weak, ever.

So everyone working from home would actually make it easier to ask for help without loss of status or face.

Scheduled meetings are an innovation killer. As Kirk said about genius when referring to the creator of the M5 computer that went rogue, "you can't wake up one day and say I will be a genius." Innovation goes to Silicon Valley to die.

You can't say "today I will innov." Well, you can, but you're probably going to be more wrong than right.

Innovation is done by small groups. The basement dwellers and garage startups innovated. Then they got too big to do new ideas.

The SR-71 is an example of a large corporation (Lockheed) realizing this and creating a skunk works outside the normal corporate structures.

The 737MAXX, on the other hand, was corporate structure and corporate strictures almost killing the company.

In a skunkworks, somebody would have said "what the fuck is wrong with you" early on, and stopped the farming out of critical software to $2/he software "developers " in India and brought it back in-house because rework and supervision costs meant that even if they worked for free, the Indians were too expensive:

' In good news, WeWork went bankrupt, and since there's no longer a stigma from working from home, small entrepreneurs don't need to waste money on that shit. A years worth of WeWork rental pays for a really nice home office setup.

Uber had to admit its plan of getting plenty of people to destabilize the taxi industry with cheap labour, then replacing them with Uber-developed self-driving cars and cutting loose their drivers, is dead. They sold off their self-driving cat unit at half it's evaluation, as well as their flying taxi business.

Amazon is doing gigabit, but the average Amazon retailer is doing shit. Most of them would be better off working a minimum wage job. Like anything else, 90% of the profits accrue to 10% of the vendors.

Google is about to enter antitrust hell. And their main money maker - targeted advertising - is now known to be no more effective than showing ads to random users. So pretty much any startup can compete. Say, a group of news organizations, or a network of TV stations.

Facebook growth has stalled in their most profitable markets. Which is why they are so upset about Apple removing advertiser IDs for Apple users, who are far more profitable than Android or Chrome users.

The current situation is too much stupid money and not enough good products to spend it on, which is another way of saying that the software industry is stag.

Ghost downtowns are already here. Stupid cities spending money on street performers, artists, events when the streets are deserted to show the business taxpayers they're "doing something."

For what? Trying to attract shoppers. But there's nothing they sell downtown that isn't also sold in the suburbs, so it's not going to work. The little niche shops? Put yourself online, get rid of the brick and mortar overhead, or you won't survive the taxes on your dwindling revenue.

The people who like living in the city? Not my problem. Let them pay their fair share of taxes instead of leeching off the suburban taxpayers.

The innovative software startups that gave rise to Silicon Valley were born in garages, basement, and kitchen tables. That was the golden age of software - everything was new, different , it was as an exciting time filled with innovation and limitless po.

The current Silly Valley is devoted to financial speculation, copycat software "platforms" that all have the same goals - milk peoples data and get bought out or do a crazy-shit-for-brains IPO evaluation.

When the Big One hits and wipes out Silly Valley for a generation, maybe we'll see the lack of predators give rise to a new generation of innovation from garages, kitchen tables, and basement dwellers.

But innovation won't be found in Silly Valley any more, whether people return to offices or not.