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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> This is quite an incredibly toxic and negative piece The author might have a negative take on things and you might not like the article but to brand the article as "incredibly toxic" is a bit of a hyperbole.
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We rolled out security keys at Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
If that (single) mail qualifies as harassment then I'm harassed continuously by various companies about end user agreement changes, products they think I would like and what not.
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> than I did getting paid to knife fight for their scraps. Seriously, cut the drama. Amazon fulfillment workers can say they are "getting paid to knife fight for their scraps.". There is no way that statement needs to apply to
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> but you're asking them to strike (refuse to work) in response to unethical demands, without the collective backing of their peers, We are not talking about some poor sod blue collar worker here. We are talking about techworkers wi
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> I’d be seriously ashamed at this point if I was a Google employee assigned to AMP. "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." [1] [1] https://despair.com/products/irresponsibility
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> In 2015, Uber founder Travis Kalanick gave a TED talk in which he vowed the new rideshare business model would get “more people into fewer cars,” dramatically reduce air pollution and, as he put it, “reclaim our cities today.” At the r
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
This might be a bit of a disingenuous take on it. As far as I can tell they first created the membership and then when they happened to get some (limited) PS5 stock made it a membership exclusive. I don't think it's super weird th
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Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector(igorslab.de)
86 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|176 comments
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Aside from that your comparison with Europe is quite flawed (there are plenty "at-will employment" type of constructions possible here, you don't get unemployment benefits if you quit yourself, etc.) these are all tech worker
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> I am not versed in all the details here You should probably read the conversation in the PR: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/778 > there is a dire need for professional communications trainin
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam. Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which wa
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Interesting. Here in the Netherlands this is called "laag frequent geluid" and is becoming more and more seen as a health problem. Primarily because it can drive people nuts... In cities with a lot of industry you can call the en
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> That this would have been an awesome opportunity for gitlab to show how OSS they are and fund a PostgreSQL developer to allow gitlab to design these boundary pushing designs. As you can read in the article they also hired Nikolay Samok
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> I think it is unfortunate that a benign email (even if it was poor judgment to send) went viral the way it did. But I fail to see how the university, or anyone, is legally culpable for private companies choosing not to retain his servi
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
What I find puzzling is that tech workers at Amazon apparently don't have any problem with being a cog in a wheel that is consistently making life more and more miserable for the working class.
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I think I would be generous if I stated 10% of the .net applications ran on Mono instead of MS CLR without source modifications. I even doubt more then 60% of the .net applications ran on .net Core (needed for other platforms then Windows)
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
People didn't get this 100% tax exemption because the government felt "they deserved it". They got it because it's a means for governments to bootstrap things. Like EV car adaption or tech startups. Once that goal is rea
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Even worse: C# came as a response when Microsoft failed to apply their embrace, extend, extinguish tactic on Java like they did with Netscape[1]. In the end the case was settled out of court and MS agreed to pay more then 1 billion dollar t
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Thats kind of a hyperbole. .net didn't add support for macOS on ARM64 years ago. .net also didn't implement 2D rendering on macOS via Metal. etc. As a matter of fact .net didn't even support any other platform then Windows un
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Starting from 1.6 they only showed the minor version number. So 1.6 = Java 6, 1.8 = Java 8, etc. I always assumed this was because .net (arguably it's main competitor) was churning fast through version numbers and they "wanted to
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I get what your saying but maybe in a weird way we should Oracle be thankful that this is now cleared up in a definitive way. Smaller companies who do not have the resources to fight such a thing can now refer to this case without having to
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I don't want to sound too cynical but I don't know of an ombudsman which has binding authority. Here in the Netherlands all ombudsman I know are non-binding. I personally know of 2 dealings with an Ombudsman in the Netherlands. On
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I guess stripe wasn't kidding when they said they would disrupt online payments. On a more serious note; How much further is society going to allow this kind of thing? Hiding behind templated e-mails without any explanation. Disrupting
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Servers for the original LittleBigPlanet permanently offline(twitter.com)
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Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules(nltimes.nl)
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Twitch Sues Users over Alleged ‘Hate Raids’ Against Streamers(wired.com)
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
While the top 20% at FANG's probably do interesting stuff I think most of the people there don't do terribly interesting stuff. If you have to game the hiring process I don't think you'll expect to be in that 20% with th
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> A girl pleasuring herself isn’t the same thing as encouraging people to storm the White House and overthrow democracy That comparison doesn't work because calling to storm the Whitehouse is calling on people to perform an illegal
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
You could apply that argument to about anything that isn't standard office furniture; Arcade machine, ping pong table, etc.

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