...another really terrible reality TV show.

He should be too. Have you seen what septic engineers make these days? No seriously, it's insane. Some of them even get in to the six figures.

...and yet, despite all the issues you see with PHP, they're still using a language derived from it. Even though they have more than enough manpower and money to remove it entirely if they so choose.

Please define "programmer" for us.

The thing about companies of that magnitude is that unless you're a rockstar programmer (most of us aren't) you're just signing up for some bullshit lord of the flies atmosphere where the job is so internally competitive that it becomes overly stressful and completely unenjoyable. Yes the pay is probably good, however the environment is anything but healthy.

Bell, talking about "socially acceptable behaviour" and "theft".

Has anyone had a look at Bell Canada's pricing and services lately? They epitomize theft.

Nope, but they should stop trying to look like the good guys. The number of human rights violations that plants they work with have racked up is amazing, and it's not getting better. They ship all the jobs overseas to china where they can abuse all their workers, and then sell the products for a 500% markup.

They constantly attempt to put on this air that they're working for the greater good, but it's bullshit. Apple is as evil as they come. They work for greater profit and nothing else.

Anyone at Apple trying to sound altruistic just looks like the pot calling the kettle black.

...another person shows up just to show them exactly how wrong they really are to think they have an end-all security system. Making claims like this is pretty much issuing a challenge to people you really don't want looking at your systems.

I used a TRS-80 CoCo 2 as a controller for a ribbon winding machine (ribbons for dot matrix printers). I'd feed off a master spool through a tenson arm on to a smaller spool. An old tape drive motor was used for the winding which could be controlled as well. A button cannibalized from an old joystick was pressed by a small arm on the bottom of the spooler in order to count the revolutions so it could stop winding at a predefined number of revolutions. Then I could use a ribbon welder to close the loop.

"Netflix, this is the quickest way you can loose customers."

Are they going to start firing them from catapults? I would be strongly against this!

Are you that stupid? DVDs come with ads from the companies that produce the DVDs. Netflix had no control over that. Almost any bluray/dvd you buy right now has ads in it. It's the industry standard model - the studios always advertise their own stuff on the media they create.

If they start serving me ads, they will stop getting my money entirely. I absolutely despised cable for this. They make you pay ridiculous sums for tons of channels, most of which you'll never watch, and then cram ads down your throat as though the amount you just paid them wasn't good enough.

I like what netflix is doing right now with no ads, and I want them to keep on this trajectory. If they do, they'll have my business until I die.

We get to hear about micro and nano robots every year or two, but nothing practical ever comes out of it. It's like they pop up every so often just to hype up the tech that still hasn't done anything useful to keep the funding rolling.

Raising that cash is part of the job you'll need to undertake. Sorry. That's really the problem with people like you. You sit in your armchair and tell everyone how badly they did, giving the notion that somehow if you had been in charge that it all would have been problem/mistake free.

I doubt you have even a fraction of the expertise required to even begin doing what they tried to do.