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by st3v3r 10y ago
"I am a Surface convert after Apple discontinued OS support and updates for my still powerful, healthy, relatively new Macbook." Which one? Cause anything they discontinued support for isn't really "relatively new".
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by st3v3r 10y ago
"I am surprised that for all of the online ordering we do in today's society, so many people use bricks-and-mortar stores for their high-tech purchases." Many tech products, like laptops, are quite personal. You're going
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by st3v3r 10y ago
That sounds like an entitled mentality to me.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
And we should never be coerced into death marches. But it still happens in reality. The offer of a contract might bolster one's bargaining position a tiny amount, but usually it is still dwarfed by the huge power the company still wiel
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Not really. They're experts in law. We're experts in engineering. Doctors are experts in medicine. Would you say it's tragic that one needs to pay a doctor to tell you what's wrong with you?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Were they successful? I can't imagine any judge agreeing that, since you left a company, you can no longer make a living.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Those who don't want their employees to burn out?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
That's cool, and I'm happy for you. But is this something that should be a luxury only reserved for those in a good bargaining position?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
I have to say, I'm really, really sick of the entitled mentality that companies take towards those that actually do the work keeping their business afloat.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
This is when governments need to step in and just seize the property of those who ran the companies. If their employees don't deserve pay, then neither do the owners.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Well, why would those capable mid-level engineers, who probably already have decent jobs, want to interview at your company? I'm not saying this to be snarky. If you don't have a good answer to this, that probably points to your i
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Then work to change your company's culture. Speak out against those doing what makes headlines here. It's not on us to make sure that Amazon employees are positively represented. It's on you to make sure that Amazon employees
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Nobody with talent wants to interview at your company. Either your company has a bad reputation, or you're offering crap pay.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Because if you haven't written them, odds are the code is not particularly well suited to be testable. Side effects out the wazoo, tight coupling, etc.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
I cannot disagree more. If you are bothering to write a test in the first place, do it right. There is nothing worse as a developer than receiving a ticket or a user report saying "It broke; fix it" with no other information. Not
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by st3v3r 10y ago
I think most people here have had the experience that the agreement will be made that the fixes will come "later". And then later never comes.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
"if I had a patent and Facebook infringed on it my license is terminated if I assert my patent rights against Facebook even if it is valid and doesn't pertain to specific React technologies." Do you have a patent that Faceboo
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Honestly, probably. Because then the precedent wouldn't be continued that companies can shirk responsibility for things they acquire.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Then Open Source Software needs to get better.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Because they bought the assets? Why should they be able to only get the good stuff, and not the responsibility?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
So if you don't like paywalls, and you don't like ads, how do you expect the content you consume to be paid for?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
It's never been a secret that the company is controlled by the founders. Any investor who invests not realizing this, and that they're going to throw money at research projects like this, has only themself to blame.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
It'll look like this, except on Android. There, despite constantly being asked when newer improvements to Java would come, they still had to ask if people wanted them to update to Java 8, and why they'd want that.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Everything startup/tech related is political.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
"I this had happened at any of the companies I started, I would have fired several people in the aftermath." And then no one would ever try to block a code review ever, and your code quality would go in the toilet. Then, something
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Cause when you say, "You can fix it later," later never comes.
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by st3v3r 10y ago
At the same time, if someone has indicated that they want to give my app a bad review, am I obligated to take them to the review point so they can do it?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
AdSense also had the massive data Google had on users to entice advertisers with. What would entice Google this time?
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by st3v3r 10y ago
Is it a dark pattern, though? You're respecting the user's wishes to not use that permission (ignoring for the moment that you couldn't use it even if you wanted to).
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by st3v3r 10y ago
I don't think either platform lets that happen. Still, if you know your user is going to rate anything less than 5 stars, why would you still take them to the store to rate? And the amount of people who lie on those dialogs is quite sm

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