I ended up very happy I didn’t go into software once I heard the hell of agile and Jira. Like, I can do this all in Python … what are y’all talking about?

Agile just sounds like a stupid modeling method. Has anyone ever said without irony “we’ll get it better next sprint”? Really? You want better software as a software company? Thank god I was sitting down.

Of course you fucking are. If your company is hoping for reversions via this may as well die. The whole point is control, not output, efficiency or quality.

Since you’ve admitted to being argumentative, I’ll point out that you misspelled Berkeley. I was accepted there into EECS, though neither MIT nor Oxford. As it turns out, if you don’t apply, they don’t notice you.

Cool. I’m drunk and don’t care to do any digging, so if you’d like to do that on my behalf …

Musk doesn’t need to know how to make kids, but he does need to learn how to name them. It’s a child, not a password requirement.

The CS department at the University of Washington with all sorts of tech companies starting up? I mean, sure, if you want to believe your timeline, you’re free to feel that way, but claiming this was standard by 1992 is ludicrous to me.

I started as a CS major in 1997, and the term was not used.

Just as Windows 10 was the “last version of Windows.”

(it was the last version anyone liked, but the two are not the same)

while (idiocy continues);

do nothing;

end while;

He’s been dead inside for 20 years, and likely before that.

Why don’t you trust Techdirt?

This is so poorly formatted, it’s difficult to know where to start. As a liberal, I’m apparently “kinda dome.” I in no way resemble half a sphere.

The Kingdome was a sports arena in Seattle that was demolished while I was in college there … the hed was “Kingdome fall down, go boom” as the strip story. I was not yet in any position of power and winced at this absurd hed.

If you want to get involved in leftist circles, this is not the way to do it. Speaking in absolutes and cliche sounds more like an LLM than activism, except ChatGPT would have done a better job.

Also, apostrophes are a thing. Check out Wikipedia if you don’t believe me.

Zuckerberg is involved in training the AI avatar, the Financial Times reports, and has also started spending five to 10 hours per week coding on Meta’s other AI projects and participating in technical reviews.

I call bullshit. He may participate in technical reviews, but there’s no way he’s still coding. That’s why he has staff.

Extensions are not, themselves, security risks. If it’s FOSS, you can see what they’re doing in the code.

Kindles are very specific about exactly which cables they allow.

Just as a folo, consider the difference between fast food and a full-service restaurant. People will head to Taco Bell for a known quantity and pay before the food is served. In a restaurant setting, being expected to pay before your meal arrives will make customers leave.

Amazon (and other companies) want you to think of entertainment like going to a movie, where you could waste $30 on a shitty production. I don’t care to do that at home.

Oh, I’ve got more than I know what to do with. Thing is, as with all USB cables, just because it plugs in doesn’t mean it will accomplish the desired goal.

Oh, AI companies still have the budget to take things they don’t like to the Supreme Court. This will be a lot of wasted time and money, which could have been spent on, say, housing the unhoused.

I’m not a betting man, but my guess is it was bullshit from the beginning.

With the right cable! The world has long since moved onto USB-C.

Ebooks are to me like music and movies/TV shows. I pirate first, and if I like it, I go back and pay. But the critical thing to remember is that discovery is the gateway. They want to act like it’s the '90s, and you have to pay $20 for a CD to find out if anything but the one track played on the radio was any good.

Must suck that people know how to try something on for size before making a purchase. That used to be common at things called “shopping malls.”