Genius doesn't own the copyright to the lyrics and Google has their own license. The title is deceptive and this was the dumbest attempt at a shakedown. Genius was trying to claim that because someone from Google visited their site once (and never even agreed to any terms of service), Google the company is not allowed to display music lyrics on their search results.

First off, the body of material covered by the professional engineering exam is based entirely around other disciplines, so I will assume we're talking about a hypothetical new exam. Let's start with a basic logistical question - what would you even test on? If you want to evaluate coding practices, you have to pick a language - and there is no single right answer. Many of the common languages are even tied in some way to a major tech company, so supporting some but not all could be seen as biased. Ok, so maybe coding is out, but engineers should at least know the process for gathering requirements and turning that into working software, right? Great, so are we testing on Waterfall, Agile, Kanban or something else? Best part is, each of those will teach you that the other methodologies produce terrible results. Besides, you can already do certifications from various vendors to show you have those skills. Except, here's what's interesting - the companies that seem to be the best at software engineering care the least whether you have those certifications - probably because they've found that virtually anyone can memorize some content to fill out a test, so it's more meaningful to put them on the spot and ask them questions they aren't expecting.

While I have not taken the PE exam, all the material I saw my civil/mechanical engineering friends prepping for seemed wholly irrelevant to computer science/engineering. I have a degree from and accredited institution that says "engineering" on it, so I see absolutely no reason not to call myself an engineer. I certainly can't claim "Professional Engineer" if that's some organization's trademarked term but that's not what's being discussed. Thankfully, this regulatory overreach has already been tried and shot down in the USA (I believe it was Oregon specifically).

Entirely incorrect, he was a citizen at birth by virtue of the fact his parents were citizens. The fact that he was born on a military base has no impact on that.

Former Bloomberg developer here - it seems clear you have very little understanding of the terminal business. If you're someone making investment decisions for hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, data is the last thing you cheap out on. Most of the publicly available data isn't of much value. Take stock at quotes as an example - you can get the 15 minute delayed for free, but that doesn't do much good for professionals. There are also some proprietary data sets whose usage is legally required - e.g. from ratings agencies and the like. There are others that, while not legally required, are considered the industry standard. Those may be referenced in things like prospectuses for how a particular fund invests its assets, so professionals need access to the same reference data to model risk correctly. Basically, the open source version of Bloomberg's data feeds is Google and, while amazing in it's own right, there's a reason professionals are willing to pay up for a tailored product.

So the "free" movement wants to take away the government's choice of software. There are a number of libre offerings they are quite good, but also plenty of areas where there's a reason commercial products are dominant (e.g. no way around the fact that Libre office is ugly and less functional they Office).

I have some insight on this one, as I worked at JPMC during this time. I actually recall email blades going out firmwide telling people not to use unapproved apps for any regulated or proprietary communication (still allowed for stuff like coordinating lunch plans, etc.) It's a tough situation for client facing functions though - often it might be a client reaching out via WhatsApp and you have to either get them to chat on an approved platform or look unresponsive. Either one ends up coming off as inconveniencing the client, which is probably a contributor to this issue.

That's not really true for performance intensive apps. On die cache sizes are still only a few MB and main men memory lookups cost a hundred or so clock cycles.

Ruby was early to the MVC party with Rails, but the language is nothing special. In particular, once other dynamically typed platforms like Python and NodeJS had equivalents, those languages have enough of the same feel but are also widely used for enough other purposes that there isn't much reason to learn Ruby just for web dev.

Let me guess... You're a humanities teacher.

Probably because a significant number of people using it are doing so to dodge paying their fair share of taxes, facilitate scams or other malfeasance.

I originally got into Roku years ago because it was simple, and they seemed content to just be a neutral device manufacturer so I could get all my apps, whereas my cable box was proprietary garbage. I don't know exactly when that mindset changed, but the device doesn't really do much more than a Raspberry Pi and hasn't really improved much in 10ish years, so I don't see why they feel positioned to force everyone to turn over a slice of their pies.

I bought a habitat to replace my smartthings hub - I like the concept but the UI is a flaky mess compared to the old experience.

It was a device that did it's job well: easy to use, seemngly a neutral an open playing field for streaming apps, and cheaper than cable boxes that you could only rent, never own. Too bad they've become a leech - trying to squeeze a recurring revenue stream out even though they provide no meaningful ongoing service to justify it.

The entire plot of the Last Jedi was complete trash and the attempt to turn Star Wars into an in-your-face cheese party was just lame. Worst was that the whole premise of the movie was a slow chase in starships with hyper drives. Somehow we have to believe that the empire had no ships that can catch the rebels, but yet, the rebels have time to go on an spring break trip to Monte Carlo and listen to the Most Eisley cover band. Also, why made the central drama something something as ridiculously stupid as Laura Dern pretending she's entirely incompetent and had no plan... even to get own officers.