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NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets

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Translation of "raising the bar on our performance

"get to work you filthy scum we're doing more with less. More unpaid overtime with less work/life balance"

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Break up Google now, says US govt in ad monopoly lawsuit

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I'll throw in Exxon-Mobile, The defense industry, Wal-Mart, Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Kroger-Safeway as part of a short list.

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Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

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Re: 50% not needed...

twitter is losing 4 million USD a day since Musk slashed workers. Sorry, the facts don't back you up?

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British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base

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Re: So, his "genius" is mainly..

I'd bet his parents were the same.

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Re: If you owe the bank...

Hmmm.... is Special Branch still around?

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Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

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Re: Bit ridiculous

"Freedom Toast"

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Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

In progress. The current movement is in removing the word "squaw" from maps and place names.

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Re: Oracle? Sun? Java?

They could sue Anderson for infringement on windows. https://www.andersenwindows.com/windows-and-doors/

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Re: PLease stop this...

They were forced to.

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Re: Bit ridiculous

That's the version I read in the 1990's

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Re: Bit ridiculous

Sphagehtti Westerns where they had Romani play the Mexicans

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Re: Bit ridiculous

Every year God smites the Bible Belt. It's not that he hates those people. He just doesn't approve of thier "lifestyle".

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Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US city

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Thermal pollution

There is such a thing as thermal pollution. If you change the temp. of a river or lake from normal ambient it can profoundly impact aqautic life

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Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

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Re: When they own the business............

I'm the type that doesn't say anything, I just tell the wife. If you've ever experienced karma catching up with you and you have no idea how it could've happened, it might have been one of us.....

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Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

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Unmaintainable code

Oblig. Dated but many of the principles still ring true and hilarious.

https://cs.fit.edu/~kgallagher/Schtick/How%20To%20Write%20Unmaintainable%20Code.html

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Re: Explosive demonstration

I worked in a refinery and we did "lock out tag out". You had a brass name tag that fit on a pad lock. You used said pad lock to loch machinery in the "off" position. Thereby preventing an intense emotional events in the form of electrocutions or being sucked into large moving machinery. So if working on a system, lock it out because Mr. Murphy.

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Elon Musk picks fight with Apple for slashing advertising spend on Twitter

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Re: he should probably be trying to win friends rather than alienate them.

He's bought plenty

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Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much

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Killing off products could be a strategy. If your new product doesn't take off in x amount of time kill it. the alternative is the fallacy of sunk costs.

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Let's turn it into a McCompany!

Let's race headlong for mediocrity in a downward death spiral like all those other tech companies (though it could be argued that Google+Alphabet is a marketing company that happens to produce tech as a side effect).

Take a one size fits all approach and let it become a McCompany with McJobs run by McManagers.

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Just follow the instructions … no wait, not that instruction to lock everyone out of everything

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We used to embed passwords for the test environ in documents as a safety. Much like the left-handed valve.

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Training opportunity

I learned to use documentation for backup/recovery/installs etc. to new hires or interns for training purposes. There is nothing better at finding the bugs in documentation than a naïve user. Of course all training was done in a test environment.

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Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

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A boon for the death penalty

Primitive nations with a death penalty would see this as a win.

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Boffins find COVID changed the way sysadmins work – probably for the worse

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Agile to waterfall

Has there been a shift from a more agile approach to waterfall? The quick survey they did has a lot of flaws but what do people think about this?

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Re: Making changes

So basically, one person on the team became the embedded DBA

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Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab

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take it to a soft landing area and then let the parachute do the rest.

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Parody Elon Musk Twitter accounts will be suspended immediately, says Elon Musk

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Re: This Is My Only Account

Money? That is so passe'. Payment in crypto currency only. I think I'll suggest it to the twit....

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To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess

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Re: The human race could be safe after all

Being a Yank I guarantee there is at least politician, perhaps several, who would jump at the opportunity.

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Re: Manual is optional,

for a long long time in education there has been an understanding of learning styles. Some people learn best auditory, others by reading. Some prefer visual. Some are kinesthetic. Most people are a combination of styles. So the best way to teach is by lecture and text, then some sort of example like an instructional video, and then hands on.

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Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

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A friend of mine did a MS degree on Social Media, Geography, and GIS in disaster recover. Which required Geography, Programming, Social Media, Sociology, Database, and at least an intuitive understanding of Topology. Go ahead, tell me now Geography isn't STEM.

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Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s

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Re: Managers beware

Unpaid overtime.

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Re: Not quiet quitting, work to rule

Most of them won’t

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Not quiet quitting, work to rule

Basically what they are doing is not taking on responsibilities which are not in their employment contract. They contract being the *maximum* the *company* negotiated. they are not shirking duties or quitting, they are in fact meeting their responsibilities. If the company wants more than that they should either pay more or staff up.

They are not slackers or evil. The people who go "above and beyond" are suckers.

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Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers

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I sure did. He’s finishing my basement after all

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Re: re: in the 'scripture'

About to head towards a facist state? This has been going on since Reagan. It’s only in the last 20 years ppl. Have begun to notice

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Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

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so why not make education free?

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why not just make education free?

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indentured servitude actually. Unconstitutional in the US.

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Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years

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Re: It never ceases to amaze me ...

or blew up on the launch pad

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Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

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Re: Erm...huh?

That's AI for you...

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public/private partnership for the reintegration of offenders into the slave, er ummm job, market

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Tech hiring freeze doesn't mean people won't leave

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Re: Allow me to warm up a bag of microwave popcorn...

I don't think I have the capacity to take these jokes anymore.

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Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m

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Re: A lesson learned...

so that's what, 72 jobs?

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The Return of Gopher: Pre-web hypertext service is still around

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Re: Gopher never dies

you should throttle down to 9600 baud to enhance the experience.

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Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’

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Re: 41 hours of latency sounds bad...

Compiled code does not imply correct code

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Re: 41 hours of latency sounds bad...

Don't forget to run it through a simulator. The one you wrote before you sent the probe up so you test them side-by-side for months.

You do have a simulator, don't you?

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Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

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Re: So technology works as intended...

clearly reading google maps

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Re: So technology works as intended...

they're sandwiches.

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Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub

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Re: Happy Days

Keysight is what HP was when they were first starting out. Instruments and measurements equipment. Real engineering.

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Re: First Amendment

Civil law is different than constitutional law, unless explicitly stated as in the bankruptcy clauses of the US constitution. That's why labor laws are needed. This is also hwy social media platform owners can restrict speech without strong regulation in place.

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