Seems that years ago the courts ruled that CC companies' demands that retailers hide CC fees in their prices to all customers were illegal, and retailers can and should charge a separate fee depending on the credit card's fee level. In my opinion prices should reflect the cash price and then at the till, the buyer pays the entire CC fee. I'm sure the CC companies don't make it easy for a retailer to find out what the fee is before the transaction is run, though, which needs to change.

I use a credit card to make business purchases and most of the business vendors I buy from do implement variable fees, and have for years. For my card with the highest fee, I typically get charged around 3%. The reasons for using a CC card with high fees is that its a way of getting a bit of tax-free travel out of the business. In the US the IRS ruled years ago such rewards are not taxable. In other jurisdictions they certainly can be.

Of course for personal CC cards the rewards wouldn't make a lot of sense when you, the buyer, pay for them! It's quite a racket these companies have had going for a long time.

Even when you talk about users, it's only to dismiss them.

I don't understand what people are doing that they need to summarize Jira tickets. They usually aren't very long...

Oh good point, it explains why the article feels so wanderingly pointless.

The new stuff is under copyright.

I think if my coworkers were writing Jira tickets that were too unreadable, I would ask them to write shorter tickets.

It is surely meaningful that a leadership council and directors got funding before the people who were actually doing the work maintaining the code.

I should have said "the financial industry."

Who said that engineers love indispensable things?

My observation is that engineers like well-engineered things. I've never heard any engineer anywhere say they like indispensable things. What was the source of information, Gemini?

I'll be happy if we make it through the next three years without a world war.

In the post-chat-gpt world, if you want to SEO, you need to write for chat-gpt.

Seems you don't care about users either. There is nothing in your post that shows you even thought about them. You're not an engineer, you're just an asshole.

Engineers think about user requirements.

Wow, just take a statistics class. You are embarrassing yourself.

If done correctly, the inclusion of Rust wouldn't break anything. And yet here we are.

Clearly things are not being done correctly (ie, with established engineering practices). If he actually had an engineering license, it would be revoked because of decisions like this.

Breaking architecture to improve parsing security on files that are almost always received from a trusted source is really a horrible choice. It's saying, "Fuck you" to those users.

The engineering decision is made worse by the fact that making a fallback to support those platforms would be simple, and is already mostly implemented. It's a bad enough decision that I'd have to say the person who made it is not an engineer, he's just an asshole.