Posting a lawyer at every microkitchen and cubicle does not confer universal side-wide attorney-client privilege for all communications. This might bum them out since they're one of the few companies that can afford that many lawyers.

Hackathons were designed for people to try development ideas in draft and test a concept quickly. We don't want to develop world economies on top of this basic development model.

The government has pushed itself away from financing students to reduce costs. This puts the financial risk onto the student which causes students to want to perform better. Now try to remember what your financial chops were up to when you were 18 - $30K isn't a number you can imagine. There's no way we can make these decisions. Now we're seeing colleges offset their responsibility to find jobs for their graduates which completes the circle-jerk. We're left with no control on the purchase of the product, no responsibility for the quality of the product, and a 100% pure profit motive. The only thing keeping check here is employers who will flat-out refuse to hire which creates a surge of invisible unemployment that we can handily ignore. If we keep dumping these issues on unprepared teenagers we can't expect much more than a broken generation of delinquent youth and a stalled economy. You must *invest* in your people or you can't be surprised when your non-investment doesn't pay back.

I too have seen these people that manage their dependencies. They're easy to spot because they look like horses, but they have a spiral horn protruding up from the bridge of their nose. I once saw one but it could also have been the mushrooms.

Ideally I'd like to see more code audits going on but there isn't the time to do it. Anyone who works in software is probably used to the idea that we're expected to do all of these things per the rules. Unfortunately they kneecap themselves by never providing enough time to possibly do the work. The smart programmers learn to harmonize with the bullshit politics and scapegoat others when things inevitably go wrong. This is a large part of why software teams can be intensely toxic - they're deflecting dishonest policies while desperately trying to stay on payroll. On paper everything should work. In reality nothing does.

Until it hits someone on a VPN or someone who had the wrong locale set. There's no API call for if (isBadPerson(thisComputer)) { destroyEverything(); }. If you can find an accurate way to implement "isBadPerson" then please let me know.

They'll just implement it badly such that the implementation fits the regulation. The outcome will, however, be utterly nasty and unexpected. Once the first 8 years olds start seeing beastiality and beheadings the pitchforks come out and the companies say "don't blame us, we just turned off the algorithms like they told us to". We saw the same thing with GDPR and those incessant consent dialogs.

Nobody should be telling anyone who they need to hate. Hate is a useless emotion that just saps away your energy and shaves away your sense of ethics and morality. It's a bad mindset for making logical choices.

It seems the only way to get ahead in business now is to blatantly rip people off and screw them over - "Work 2.0". Fortunately I don't work like that, I'm a fully certified bridge salesman.

Working on a DNS isn't sexy - it needs to have more AI or Blockchain in it. Have it mine Bitcoin on the client resolver and you'd have this project finished in 72 hours.

Nobody gets to speak about me unless I'm in the room, and I extend that to not talk about anyone else unless they're in the same room. Gossip is childish and completely non-productive. An organization with too many of those types can be brought to its knees easily. I have no room to talk here but any escape from that environment sounds like relief. In that sense moving on is a sensible choice. Also, demoting the un-hired help is probably not a lucrative strategy. Someone may have been too quick to judge and too eager to bust out the ban hammer.

I'm normally not an Apple fanboi but I'm also not a Microsoftie. We should take away the brand names and look at the hardware for what it is. Apple hardware is generally excellent build quality with middling performance so I'd buy it for point-of-sale and other client facing requirements. This device doesn't fit the role of client-facing, nor is it server grade. It's a device designed for someone that needs mucho extra horsepower for video processing, 3D visualization, and massive data processing, without the general hassle of the Windows world. If you're a professional designer by trade it's basically a no-brainer. I wouldn't buy one but I know plenty of people who would, and I think they'll end up with one heck of a nice machine.

Go back 15 years and the concept would have been utterly absurd. There's something strange about doing most of my Linux development on a Win10 box.

We know you're joking but there's going to be knee-jerk OS swapping going on. Every OS has its troubles but we should never dogpile on it if the authors reveal the issues in good faith. Note that if this had occurred in Windows or OSX then you probably wouldn't find out until after you're hacked. Then the vendor will claim you're holding it wrong. Either way your insurance claim is going to fail but at least Linux never tried to say it was 100% bug-free. It isn't. No software is.

Accurate. Most businesses have no idea what they're doing in software so they look for the latest development fad and then apply it. They apply it incorrectly, inappropriately, and carelessly, with a classic cargo cult mentality. The way I've seen agile implemented in most teams is that the senior programmers are cynical of it, the upper senior research programmers utterly ignore it and disregard all the standups, and the juniors spend all their time on Facebook or Amazon shopping. The actual application of agile is used to blockade work and technically eliminate staff who are too critical of your Facebook habit and/or total ignorance of process. I.e. it's been weaponized, but it's certainly not being used for software.