... and it's a very sad one. So, they're hiking prices right in the middle of an economic downturn? I mean, they already fired the game developers, what could go wrong? How about a major economics crisis?
The Xbox brand won't recover after this in 2026. The most likely outcome is that, they'll exit the market. Consoles feel 'antiquated' anyways, you know...
It's all over, folks, time to close the shop, now.

It's so sad, yet so true. Xbox is basically dead as a brand, it feels like anytime soon, MS will just pull the plug and exit the consoles market. But yet again, it has felt that way for the past 20 years, so maybe...
I was subscribed to Game Pass for many years, and it gave many hours of fun. So, I'll remember it fondly... but no sane person can recommend it. So sad...

Look, I understand they would take any safety measures available and double safe precautions and restrictions in regards to TV all-time-titans like Bill Shatner, ultra company-men like Bezos, or plain and simple state employees like NASA astronauts. They're worth it. But a layman like me? Come on!
I mean, Elon wants to put us in ultra-cheap aluminium tincans with one-way tickets only, on a 18 months voyage to Mars, cryo-suspension optional, and maybe restart civilization there.

What could go wrong with that?

... or what is even worse, victims taking the side of their executionners.

Let me be explicit: I do not believe for one second that SVB ex-employees are the victims here. I just wish I earned as much as them.

But yet again, there's no way on earth, that employees WFH would cause SVB going bankrupt, or even being remotedly linked to it going bankrupt. Employees are for a bank, what dimes are in your pocket: they matter, yes, but they won't make you loose your home any time soon. Small change for big executives.

More than a week since the banking crisis started, and we already have a pretty neat picture of the causes: atrocious, outrageous greed, cupidity and stupidity.

At any given time, a bank has a huge portfolio of assets, with varying degrees of risk. A minuscule number of executives, with paycheks tens or hundreds of thousands of times larger than their employees, are the ones in charge of rebalancing said portfolio, with varying degrees of freedom and rewards.

Don't these people never read the news, didn't they hear about inflation, rising interests rates, the war in Ukraine, the changing economic tides?

Of course they did, but rather than take decisions that would make them loose dimes, but save the bank, they preferred to stay as they were: preserve their change, take their millions, and let the bank tank.

It's even worse than that: we're in the middle of a huge confidence crisis in the tech industry. Massive layouts, inflation, the war: people just want their cash, because the conditions have been created that, it's the last resort.

Blaming WFH and 'woke' mentality? Oh man, you really drank the kool-aid, you're really that dumb.

Loved this, +5.

I had exactly this in mind. I mean, for Norwegians, it's such an enviable situation: the whole country is one of multi-millionaires, at least on paper. So rich that they don't even know it... and then they may claim zero emissions, while still selling what would otherwise be a poison to the planet, the source of the country's millionaire fortune.
Rich people have problems, that only rich people know. Like, creating a tax hole out of a lack of petroleum tax revenue, a major tax source in most of the other countries of the world.

Trump wants a "digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network".

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As a left-leaning Democrat, all I would say is: "yeah, sure, why not, sounds good to me".

So you're basically telling us, you're a closeted Republican with ties to South America.

Allow me to reply to you by saying: grow up. Drop the 'Independent' tag you obviously don't buy into, and make a choice.

Either follow blindly whatever your family is telling you, or become a contrarian. But please stop justifying your obviously terrible politics: you're not the victim here.

Children in cages are.

GWT intended to kill Java in the browser, and it succeeded.
No framework did more to kill Java in the browser than GWT. Unnecessarily complex, incompatible with anything on the market by the late 00's, lots of undelivered promises and way too slow to compile... it cemented the idea that anything Java related on the browser was a bad idea to begin with, and it spawned a lot of children frameworks and languages that just ran away from it.
It even managed to deprecate the previous Java technology stack of Swing, JSP, JSF, JSTL with its dubious goal of an 'object-oriented front-end', but weirdly, it could never have replaced it entirely because it was just a severely flawed and incomplete implementation.
So, thanks Google for making things way worse for a while for all programmers on the web, for a while. You killed what was once a promising idea.

Thank you, for this confident display of empathy.

I mean, come on: why would a driver even wanna hear you? Because of the guilt shaming you're embedding the word 'market' with? Maybe you think you're yourself as part of the 'elite', and since the market says so, it confirms your meritocratic belief that you do deserve your better part.

Such an arrogance would usually be corrected by new laws, but... these are not normal times.

It was one of the greatest sci-fi series of the past decade, so I'm really sad they're canceled.
I loved both seasons, and enjoyed the performances of both Takeshi Kovacs actors, and his long lost love. Plus, they had amazing sex scenes, please ignore the prudes!
So, to hard core sci-fi fans, this a major loss, there isn't quite anything like it on the market right now.

Of course it was always about an anxiety stress test.
Over the course of more than 15 years of career, I've been in hundreds of interviews, without any exaggeration: none at all ever was about technical competency.
Some were about the interviewer getting clues about the viability of a solution. Some were about the company communicating its development method and ascertain whether you agreed to it or not. I remember a few times that the idiot interviewer had no idea whatsoever of the technology stack they interrogated me about, but just wanted to get some feedback about the idea of introducing that mentioned technology to their 'stack'.
Solution ‘architects’ perform the worst kind of interviews: those are just about protecting their own asses and introducing you to who is the boss, or if not, a who is who of their company. Some tech leads do barely better: checking whether you can adopt to their bullshit way of doing things in an otherwise obsolete technical environment.
I remember one particular interview with a Spanish company I won't name: because I didn't interrupt it early enough, the interviewer humiliated me, questioning my experience and my personal life. I developed some high degree anxiety during subsequent interviews, and of course, it was the beginning of a long period of unemployment because despair is a major repellent for job seekers.
I mean, the thing to remember is that interviewers are people like you, but with different goals, sometimes dramatically different ones. Sometimes the interviewer is honest and wants an honest assessment of your abilities and how they compare against other candidates, many times they just are not. Sometimes the interviewer is focused on whatever you’re drawing on the whiteboard, sometimes they are just thinking about their cats.
In exceedingly rare occasions you get the privilege of talking to another programmer. But I mean, after I reached my first 5 years of experience, it became overwhelming to most other kinds of interviewers, and so the only way of communicating to each other becomes to put all of that behind you.
After all, they are assessing the possibility of making business with you, not of being friends: if the planets do align, it should be a hit for both parts. If not, please just take it as an opportunity not to work with people you will end-up disliking after a few months.
About that Spanish company: I learned a major lesson, and it’s about being picky: if the interview goes awry, please feel free to interrupt it and leave. Many times, people don’t know or don’t care they are being assholes.
And get something done about that anxiety.

I so much agree with your post.

Think about it: cryptocurrency is the perfect scam directed to paranoid people.

Paranoid people who hate government oversight, financial 'institutions', but are nonetheless 'risk takers' and self-proclaimed outsiders.

We finally have the text-book definition of what kind of leader Trump is: bad-mouth and insult everybody, humiliate, degrade, and above everything, complain and retaliate.

I mean, about Coronavirus, the UK was late to the party and almost beheaded, Italy was defeated once again, France was too little too late, and China was kind of a leader on Co-vid: they were hit first, then tried to cover-up everything, but finally embraced the challenge and imposed its quarantines, and now proudly proclaim they won the race, while it's obviously a lie.

Trump then went from denial and self-superiority, disavowing all intelligence sources and believing nothing would happen at all, to then actively sabotaging self-isolation and in anger defunding governors and doctors.

So, maybe in his mind, actively making the situation worse is to show leadership in improving things, maybe because on the long term, evil becomes good.

Or so would like the Trumpers us to think: this is leadership by dislike. Trump after all, copycats Macron, Johnson and Merkle in almost everything, but has an urgent need to fuck it all, in the worse possible way, like in a competition of who fucks it all the worst to everybody else.

Is the King finally naked? No way we let you get away that cheap, instead, let's just say things as they are: what a looser.