Wow. You launched in 2008? Congratulations!!! 17 years, privately owned, in the business of search which is tough because google just dominates.
I wish you another 17 years bro. DuckDuckGo is my primary search now.
Correct me if I am wrong but I think, Russinovich may now be the CTO of Azure because once upon a time as an independent developer he wrote sysinternals. Its one way to show your talent as an independent developer.
I like github's solution to deleting a repository.
A popup makes you type the repository name before confirming deletion.
In this case, if the value is unusually high say greater than 100 billion, make the trader type 100 billion before proceeding.
I confess that I also ignore popups and just click ok. This is where i appreciate github asking me to type the name of the repository, just to make sure that I know what I am doing.
I am not surprised. When in doubt and when you have screwed things so badly, blame the people who don't look or speak or earn like you.
Boeing did have $9 software engineers working for them. They were working on the accounting and ERP softwares. But as soon as 700 people lost their lives, apparently they were working on MCAS, a core system that only NASA engineers should have worked.
I dont believe anything that Boeing says or does, the company is pure evil.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
In university, he and his friends contracted with a cook who would make them lunch and dinner. The cook made his money from students in the university especially student sick of canteen food.
Around the end of the month, which was payment time, the food would keep getting hotter each passing day till he and his friends paid up.
The cook never asked for the money directly, something to do with his cultural background.
I thought it was brilliant. The students had to figure out themselves why the food kept getting hotter. Debugging in real life.
What an interesting story... Where did it happen? Those friends contracted a cook and didn't pay him because they thought he will be working for free? Why would they thought that? And the cook is basically poisoning their food - I wonder why they didn't fire him without paying.
Never miss an opportunity to be a kill joke!!!
Python was named after Monty Python the British comedy group.
If you have not watched them, I highly recommend.
I don't really like the headline, it makes it sound negative.
Big Tech tends to have negative connotations, nowadays. So, here the FT is trying to say that a democratically elected government is living in fear of private firms.
While it may be true that our government are now living in fear of not just Big Tech but all types of Big whatever, the fight was way beyond just big tech. Sure Big Tech helped but it still is a badly written and badly thought out think-about-the-children type law that was being fought by everyone not just big tech.
I didn't bother to read the article. Headlines are important There are other things to rage about Big Tech, this is not the one.
You're making it sound as if the headline was poorly written, perhaps by accident or by a poor writer.
I can assure you that isn't the case. Whoever wrote that headline is a copywriting genius. The headline conveys almost the exact opposite of what really happened, without being factually wrong.
lol the uk gov has more negative connotations than bigtech.
Also not quite democratic when the uk electorate last voted for a gov in 2019 but we have had 3 prime ministers since all with vastly different strategies, where the last 2 were chosen by anyone who wants to pay for a membership to the tory party, including fake identities made by journalists who registered from france.
If you had some context, bigtech are actually fighting to keep encryption alive and are the goodies in this story.
Context is important, so is reading. But thanks for your insight in the article you didn't read.
I think you misunderstood OP. Their point is the article headline sounds like democracy loosing out to evil big tech; they, like you, don't see it that way.
In the UK parties are free to choose their leader by any means they like. They have a lot less power than a President - which is part of the reason the previous two were deposed.
Do you read it regularly? It is centre aligned but as a reader, I wouldn’t say it was Conservative aligned. It certainly is a mile off its alignment with the “Tory press” that typically set the new agenda.
I'm a subscriber and I'd say it is small-c conservative (which I'm not really, I just appreciate that it's relatively open about its biases and enjoy the quality of writing), but it isn't aligned with the Conservative Party, which has become almost entirely unmoored from reality.
Usually I would tend to agree that the articles are well written and well researched, however after reading this steaming pile of surface level dross on a subject I have technical knowledge of, I might be less trusting of their editorial slant and quality of journalism in future.
The Conservative Party, and parties on the far right parties across the world, have left conservatism behind. Something the the left and centre parties are having to take up.
> experts say, is mostly a function of the increasing role of power and velocity in the sport. Even clay courts, historically the slowest surface, play hard and fast these days.
Yeah this line was the key for me. But I think it is the opposite. They don't play hard and fast, they play hard and slow. This is why, I think, we do not have a lot of serve and volley players nowadays or one-handed backhands, not like the 90s. Because the baseliner has enough time to return your serves.
I watched the Wimbledon final and although Alcaraz went to the nets, it did not feel it is his style like a McEnroe or a Sampras. It felt like it was a strategy against Djokovic. Barely managed to hold on though.
Anyways, I stopped watching tennis a while ago (except the wimbledon finals), there is too much power and bullying involved, not enough grace and beauty. It feels like, I dare say, when field hockey decided to use astroturf instead of grass. In one stroke, all the flair players that relied on the unpredictability of grass were out and "hard running" and "precision scientific passing" won the day. Field Hockey stadiums are now almost always half-full, the beauty is gone.
Football and Rugby, I hope they stay the same.
EDIT: One other thing I noticed is that, in the 90s and early 00s, you had clay court specialists, hard court specialist and grass court specialists. The 4 grand slams were called the Vivaldi 4 seasons, they were that different. Winning all 4 was exceedingly tough. I think, now they are all the same, hard and slow. The variablility and unpredicatability is gone. You win 1, you can win them all.
