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by marcodave 2y ago
In the civil engineering world, at least in Europe, the lead engineer would sign papers that would put him as liable if a bridge or a building structure collapses on its own. The civil engineers face literal prison time if they make a slopp
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Google Is the New IBM(msn.com)
23 points by marcodave 3y ago|2 comments
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by marcodave 3y ago
I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool. Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their tools (because other companies do not open sour
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by marcodave 3y ago
If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?
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by marcodave 3y ago
Plot twist: the IAM policy that got fucked up was the one giving access to Q
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by marcodave 3y ago
Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to revolutionize
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by marcodave 3y ago
As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going up.
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by marcodave 3y ago
If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals? Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposited in the $bank_where_i_put_my_shady_money, I wan
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by marcodave 4y ago
rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)
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by marcodave 4y ago
spoils19 has been awarded +200 corp tokens, congratulations!
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by marcodave 4y ago
But many many other people won't, or can't. And there will be companies offering the product for free in order to grab that market share and steal users from the paying ones. That's how the internet companies strived since ~1
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by marcodave 4y ago
Money is also nice
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by marcodave 5y ago
Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire; the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ? the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ? the
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by marcodave 5y ago
1910s had the spanish flu, we have (had??) the COVID-19, so...yep
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by marcodave 5y ago
I hate being pedantic, but before the 1600 anybody with some education knew already that the earth was round (see: Columbus, Magellan). Funnily enough, the "flat earthers" of that time were the ones spreading the idea that the Ea
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by marcodave 5y ago
I agree, I got bitten already more than one time, and it's ridiculous how can they get away with it. How's not that an infringement?
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by marcodave 5y ago
and it was a successful business. "don't fix what works and bring money" ...until someone comes and disrupts you and all the assumptions that keeps up your business
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by marcodave 5y ago
Holy moly, it's like COBOL was one of the original PaaS , with lock-in as a feature
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by marcodave 5y ago
Missed opportunity to end the last comment with > She eventually gave up
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by marcodave 5y ago
Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup + shared folder/drive letters. of course secur
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by marcodave 5y ago
You're talking about the biggest IT company which in 2006 was redesigning their whole big boy Windows. Ballmer was deriding the iPhone by not having a keyboard, therefore being just a gimmick not worth of being a work device. Plus, pro
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by marcodave 5y ago
the original iPhone had no 3G (only Edge supported), no copy-paste, no app store (by design!), no MMS. Edit: and most likely no enterprise directory integration (Exchange et al) BUT it felt the most futuristic piece of technology money coul
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by marcodave 5y ago
> If nothing else, it's _amazing_ for negotiating. "honestly I'm really happy where I am, but every man has his price, what can you offer?" does wonders My cynical self is thinking whether this is (one of) the reason
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by marcodave 5y ago
As I recall, the iPhone originally had little to none integration with enterprise infrastructure, as Blackberry and Windows Phone had . In my view, The iphone was just too cool not to be in the hands of CEOs and CTOs , which most likely man
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by marcodave 5y ago
Wait until we start to reach 2038, it's going to be either awesome or an epic shitshow
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by marcodave 5y ago
LEGO's always been expensive, in the late 80's early 90's as well, go ask my parents :D
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by marcodave 5y ago
and obnoxious kids
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by marcodave 5y ago
Or Dante's "Commedia" where each line contains 11 syllables in triplets, that rhyme in chain for 100 chapters, for 4711 triplets
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by marcodave 5y ago
500ms ? you have it lucky , try 2000ms next time for real frustration. Bonus points if you can hear yourself back unless the recipient is muting him/herself
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by marcodave 5y ago
Dukan is that you?

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