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Elon Musk tweets: “Check out this guy’s video of a Tesla he saw at the racetrack.” GM pays the guy $100K to update the video to a GM ad.

I like my headphone jack but I’d rather have none than one of those janky condoms.

Your non-lousy product stewardship would let me replace the video file of a John Carmack tech talk with an Amway recruiting video?

Unsolicited tip: cultivate some misanthropy so that you can relish downvotes.

Just bought an iPhone 6S four days ago because of this and the physical home button. $140 brand new.

Then surely a generic CEO can be referred to as “him” since 29/30 of Fortune 500 CEOs are men.

It’s not surprising. The people most interested in encryption want to trust nobody. That’s the goal of strong encryption, but as Ken Thompson says it’s not possible. Between the US Government and Moxie I’d trust Moxie but I’d rather trust neither.

Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. Upwork would rather say “you types all day, you get paid.”

Between those companies developers have checked in tens or hundreds of thousands of exploitable bugs. It's not far-fetched to think that at least one of them might have been intentional.

The fact that the article says that “oil and tobacco” are the Bad Industries (that CS shouldn’t become like) says everything you need to know. There is no CS without oil.

But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.

Not necessarily. Zuckerberg is basically accountable to no one as CEO. He can’t be fired even by the board. So Facebook’s motivations are whatever his own personal motivations are.

Email is effectively closed these days. You can’t really send email from your own server and expect it to be read.

How many elementary school children have perished in school fires in the last 25 years?

Why is it considered good to minimize walking time and hallway time in schools?