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by ionised 8y ago
> Software engineers are professionals and they should have ethics exams, a board, and licenses like other professions. We never will be a true profession until we have those things. Calling ourselves professionals now, or pretending lik
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by ionised 8y ago
Why? If Australians are legally obliged to implement back-doors on behalf of the Australian government and not mention it to their employer, why would any of these tech companies want you? You'd be a massive security liability to them.
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by ionised 8y ago
How exactly are you supposed to value the humanity of someone who doesn't value the humanity of others? Put another way, why tolerate the intolerant?
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by ionised 8y ago
I don't get it. This just seems like an attack on an entire group of people that I'm guessing have annoyed or belittled the author at one time or another. For what purpose? I don't believe he is genuinely trying to advise and
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by ionised 8y ago
Well, they conspired to keep developer wages low so why wouldn't they do this?
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by ionised 8y ago
That's the fairy tale version.
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by ionised 8y ago
Sounds like Chromium.
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by ionised 8y ago
CBT without a therapist already exists (at least in the UK) and I was referred myself. I'd be interested in hearing how yours differs, because my personal experience was that therapy without the human element was borderline useless.
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by ionised 8y ago
> And in the 60s, and 70s...re-read my comment. It is clear you are being intellectually dishonest, and no point in continuing this discussion with you. Okay, firstly, calm down. Secondly, I missed that part of your post the first time I
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by ionised 8y ago
The first step would be admitting that capitalism is far from perfect and that we should start looking to change it. Of course, a sustained decades-long propaganda campaign has been waged to portray capitalism as not only 'the natural
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by ionised 8y ago
He said that's why the EU was started . Now you are talking about the EU in the 90's. A modern take on the EU now or in the 90's doesn't change anything about how and why it was started. He said something that was simpl
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by ionised 8y ago
Killing a company for repeated rules violations is perfectly okay with me though.
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by ionised 8y ago
He is being downvoted because his comment was factually incorrect. That's not why the EU was started.
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by ionised 8y ago
Copyright law is already hideously draconian (in the US especially). Every fucking time the copyright cartels push for more power, more control, more leeway, they get it. It's been going on for a century or more, which is why we end up
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by ionised 8y ago
GDPR was never meant to help business. It was intended to protect individuals from business. Honestly, if your business can't survive without adhering to basic data protection principles then the world is better of without your company
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by ionised 8y ago
We can, we just chose not to.
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by ionised 8y ago
No, I'm with you on this as well. I trust an elected government far more than any for-profit organisation. I'm just saying, both are ripe for abuse by tyrants, plutocrats and oligarchs. Corporations moreso though, for sure.
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by ionised 8y ago
I'll find sources for my numbers after work, but I recall: - 8 million due to lack of clean water - 7.5 million due to hunger - 3 million from preventable disease - the millions killed by 'friendly dictators' and their regim
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by ionised 8y ago
> How would it be in a corporations interest to abuse either their employers or customers in a competitive market? Ask AT&T and Verizon. Or Facebook. Or Monsanto. Or Nestle why they behave the way they do towards their customers. You
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by ionised 8y ago
The only reason corporations haven't behaved in this way is that at the moment, they can't. Given the power, they absolutely can, and will.
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by ionised 8y ago
The government is the one writing the laws in that case. If there were no government, you would still have the same problems, only now unrestrained corporations would be at the root of those problems. Government and Corps are no different i
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by ionised 8y ago
Yeah, stream overuse is definitely an issue at our company.
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by ionised 8y ago
We start using new features pretty much as soon as the new JDK version is released to general use.
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by ionised 8y ago
I'm already doing it mate. No Microsoft (for two years now), no Google (for 6 years now), no Facebook (for two years), no Amazon (for a year) services here. The reason I don't use their services is that I don't want to suppor
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by ionised 8y ago
I don't think it's a question of skill. The US has more big tech companies because of its approach to business and regulation (if that's what you mean by culture), not the raw skill of its US-born workers. I mean, look at the
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by ionised 8y ago
Don't make assumptions about people's lives. I'm far from rich and am on a not-even-competetive UK dev salary. I still and pick and choose which companies to work for based on whether they align with my personal principles. I
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by ionised 8y ago
That would be a good explanation if people from other cultures couldn't program worth a damn, but they clearly can.
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by ionised 8y ago
> I assumed HNers would be big fans of something like Google Analytics. Why?
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by ionised 8y ago
You mean the tech companies that repeatedly refuse to follow the laws and regulations of the companies in which they operate, like shitty house guests? Filling the coffers is just a nice bonus on top of dispensing some much-needed slap-down
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by ionised 8y ago
What the hell are you talking about?

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