“Back in the day” they were most certainly not called computer programmers or operators, since programmers are not the same as the people who run the IT infrastructure. IT infrastructure has grown in leaps and bounds since “back in the day” so there’s a whole swath of jobs that didn’t used to exist. The closest would…

This post seems to summarize what is, in my opinion, the least interesting part of the study.

Part 2 is etiquette for keeping a prostitute on a monthly retainer.

Heyyy... I was watching when they found this.

No doubt about it. But that’s subjective, so a study like this should at least present some real information so everyone can make up their minds about what’s worthwhile.

I mean, the delta between cost of living and salary is arguably the only thing that matters. If there’s a fixed cost attached to a certain area, that money may as well be deducted from your salary like taxes are - you’ll never see it and it won’t come home with you.

Fine, but the cause is not what I’m questioning.

Am I nuts or does there seem to be no cost of living factored into this?

Well, that’s not accurate.

Yep, it’s a great idea. And frankly, their coherent system is extremely nice. I’m just not confident that they’ve actually accepted that their desired target market (high quality multi-room music) isn’t big enough. Until they can internalize that in their business, I worry that their design choices will continue to…

Sigh. Oh, Sonos.

I got all excited, only to find out my most-frequently used Bluetooth headphones don’t seem to support it.

Agreed, every once in a while I get a rental car where the DRLs are bright enough and the dash lights come on, and I don’t notice that my headlights aren’t actually on.

Okay, I think of the various responses, yours resonates most strongly with me. I do understand what you’re saying and fully agree. I guess this just seemed like a pretty lengthy “dismantling” - that is, for me, 5-6 examples would have thoroughly destroyed any narrative that he was going for.

I guess I’m not sure what the point of this is.

I like the format of Outlook just fine and in theory it seems like a good service, but both my mother and my girlfriend, who use the service, suffer endless problems with it. Emails are frequently delayed for 20-30 minutes, so things like security code confirmations for logins are unbearable. My girlfriend, while we…

Proprietary charging cables are an immediate deal breaker for me.

I love Backblaze but for those interested here, keep in mind that last I knew they did not geographically distribute their data. You pay a lot less than Amazon, but you’re also not getting the levels of redundancy and replication that Amazon is capable of.

There is no scenario where it’s okay to add information to my emails without my opt-in permission.

As the old saying goes, “I am not a lawyer, but...” I don’t think so. The company hasn’t patented ECC so there’s nothing inherently wrong with supporting the encryption standard, not to mention it can be used by protocols other than HTTP.