- "I always buy a midrange. My last one cost $400 and is fantastic" That is a lot of money. I payed ~30 euro for my Nokia Asha 302. I can check my email with it, but I just don't feel the need. I play games on it (J2ME) just enough for when I have to wait somewhere and I am bored, it has calculator, camera etc. I don't really use them, as I am usually close to a computer when I need those things. - "I always keep mine for 4 to 6" Yes, if you pay $400 it may be possible to keep it for that long, but if you pay $150 to $200, no. - "There are a million times more things" yes, but if you are not traveling, you usually don't need those things when you are out, and when you are in, there is a computer that you can use.

No notifications means you don't need to be available all the time. If that is true you probably can check your notifications when you get to a real computer, you know, with a proper keyboard, mouse and screen. So you actually don't need a smart phone. But you buy a "smart phone" with a lot of money and have to buy a new one every two or three years, just to use it like a dumb phone and prove that you have self control?

24 senior developers say half their shipped code is Ai generated. This should be the title. Not very impressive.

I am afraid the situation will be worse: the "companies" will not wait for super-intelligent AI, they will just get high on the hype and will destroy the life of people by replacing them with over-hyped AI that will not be able to do the same jobs. So we will get enshitification AND poverty.

No I never said that, I replied to "FYI, Dan Bricklin [wikipedia.org] invented the spreadsheet" And it is not just manipulating, it is also display and everything a tabular application does. It is not interactive, true, but check out the patent, it looks pretty good, comparable to VisiCalc.

No, It was not Dan Bricklin who invented the spreadsheet. The first commercial software to work with spreadsheets was "LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random" (LANPAR) by Rene Pardo and Remy Landau. This was in 1969, ten years before VisiCalc and Dan Bricklin. The spread sheet itself being just a table, and as Wikipedia says being quite similar to accounting work sheets, the concept is of course much older.

This is exactly why automatic updates should not be on by default, especially for work critical tools that are used by people who should know what they are doing. If I break my own tools it's one thing, if someone else breaks my tools it's a completely different story and should not be allowed.

Still smaller than an actual cat :-(

According to the video, the developer (an UI/UX enthusiast) states that the Thunderbird UI is outdated and old. But two questions arise: is he aware that Thunderbird exists exactly for the users that want that old interface? and is he saying that potential users that might want a newer interface can't just use another email client? So, who's need will be addressed here? The old users that like the interface as it is, or the potential new users that can already use a more modern client?

"Security flaws found in the "open-source" software created by volunteers collaborating online, building off each other's work." If a company uses the work of "volunteers collaborating online" it should at least do some checks on that software, improve it, make it better, more secure and make sure it suits their needs. That's the difference from proprietary software where you buy it and then discover that it has a quirk that works against you or it has a security hole that you can't fix yourself, not even hire somebody to fix it. And companies, at least responsible ones, are doing this, of course. The author is just naive to think they don't. The simple fact is that with "open-source" there are more eyes looking for security holes and fixing them, including programmers employed by companies.

Doesn't seem to work. Tried "former CEO of Merill Lynch" and "Merrill's mess". Neither gives me a link to the article, so it seems the article itself was removed from the index.

It's not about his beliefs. It's about his actions. He participated with lots of money to an act of discrimination against people who did him no wrong. And he didn't have the decency not to drag the name of his employer into that mess.

No, but his actions of agression, based on those beliefs, towards people who didn't do him any harm, kind of speak against his ability to lead.

Good, do that, but remember that you are also just an employee and can get the boot just as well for firing people just because they don't like you or agree with you. If you can't take criticism, you will be either fired or left to rule over cowards.

I think you are turning the story on it's head. It is Brendan Eich who attempted to impose his own moral views on people that he had no connection with, other than the fact that they lived in the same state. So why would the people at Mozilla think he would be more considerate to them? Why would they trust him with power and responsability?

So, because you were pro US invasion of Irak, now you feel you also need to support the Russian invasion of Ukraina? Interesting logic, but clearly flawed.