Very. I expect Emacs heckling from Vi enthusiasts at my funeral.

FreeBSD 😉

Edited to add: I still do use Linux for media and gaming; on those systems I run Mint because it just works out of the box, and seems to randomly change things less frequently than Ubuntu.

It’s not something that can really fit on a vest, but I suppose you could hide it in a fat suit, a wheelchair, or a fake pregnancy belly.

Maybe that’s why people keep backing away from Trump. It’s not incontinence, it’s their dosimeter badges.

As a paying customer, can recommend Sourcehut. I prefer the workflow to GitHub’s PRs as well.

I’ll believe him when he tears off his skin suit.

I too came to “Comic Strips” for fair, sober, straight-laced sociology.

Sorry, I was being snarky. What I meant was that a computer running Android (or iOS) can’t really be counted as a PC, in the sense that Google (or Apple) control what you do with it.

There is no such thing as an Android PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8

What a load of shit.

“Company cuts ties with leopard after customers notice leopard”.

At this point, as a tech industry insider, you don’t partner with the likes of Thiel or Karp without fully understanding who you’re getting into bed with, or why.

A browser. Just make a browser. A FUCKING BROWSER. Don’t bloviate on other topics. Don’t bake AI into it. Just do ONE THING well … make a FUCKING BROWSER.

That depends entirely where the Tesla stopped, and under what conditions.

Electron!

Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?

Yes. Clearly yes, for everyone. This sort of shit only continues because people don’t do that.

OMG yes

Probably worth mentioning: https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/people/

Comparing Trump to Stalin is funny, actually, because no matter the mistakes and errors Stalin made over his decades as the leader of the soviet union, he was never a genocidal imperialist.

Wait, what? The USSR wasn’t an empire? The Holodomor wasn’t a genocide?

Here’s an idea: a catalogue of companies who pulled this shit during the bubble, so we know who not to buy from when it bursts.

No, though they did see if they could bend the process for me. Turns out not.

Keeping doors open is important. I once had a great contracting gig as an exec EM with an org that had more or less fired me (declined to renew my contract while keeping the rest of the team) some years ago. Second time around they wanted my approach, first time I stepped on toes.

Unless the reason is something truly egregious, don’t burn bridges on your way out, even if you’ve had a bad time. Organisations change as their management changes, and you never know where you’ll be in a decade’s time.

I experienced a similar thing a few years ago, applying for a management position with a nonprofit. (A nonprofit!)

My reply …

Hi $PERSON,

Your application was strong and we’re really pleased to advise you that you’ve progressed to the next stage.

Great! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

We’d like you to answer a few quick questions using our online video platform, SparkHire. This will help us get to know more about you and what skills and experience you can bring to the role, the team and $NONPROFIT.

…

A set of questions will appear on the screen (some filmed, others just text) and you’ll have the opportunity to create video recordings of your answers, within a specified time limit. You can review and re-record your answers as many times as you need.

I’d love to catch up either face to face, in a video chat, or even a phone call to discuss how I could use my skills and experience to help out the $NONPROFIT team. To be honest though I’m not at all keen on recording a one-way video interview.

I do have several concerns with SparkHire (no data retention policy that I could find; and enhanced privacy protection for EU customers only; email instructions years old that referenced Flash).

But my main concern is that the idea of one-sided video interview feels … well, one-sided and dehumanising. To be honest it’s quite the opposite of what I’d have expected from the employee experience of an organisation like $NONPROFIT.

Even if I were placed in the role, I’d be reluctant to refer friends if they were also required to participate in a one-sided video interview.

Please drop me an email at $EMAIL or give me a call on $PHONE if you’d like to chat further, either virtually or in person.