Yes, important to not leave that implied.
HarkMahlberg
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I have the board game and I quite like it... even if it's a pain to setup and teardown.
Cheap labour isn’t the same as slavery... it’s still just a job employees can leave...
You're gonna get a lot of flak for that take, even though I agree with most of the rest of your post. Let's reframe the problem: you're currently paid a low wage. It's barely enough to pay for food, rent, and getting to and from your job.
You want to leave that job for one you know pays better, but it's farther away. Even if you get the job and have the better income, you would be spending the net gains on the extra costs of commuting: it ends up being a wash.
You would move closer, but because your current wage doesn't allow you to save money, you can't afford the costs of moving, let alone a down payment on a house or a deposit on an apartment.
You would get better educated so you qualify for better paying jobs, but again, you have no savings from your current job to pay for schooling, and you have no/bad credit to afford a student loan.
All the problems arrayed against you require money to solve, and because you're "cheap labor" you're never able to gather enough money to solve them. You're forcibly stuck with your current job. They pay you, yes, but you can't leave. You're "free" to leave, but that's just saying you're free to lose your home and starve. Now none of these problems are unique to Kenya, I could be describing any country with poor Economic Mobility, I could be describing any job or industry. Globalization was important for many reasons, but it has allowed companies to identify the parts of the world where labor is cheapest and pay them... exactly what they're "worth."
Oh man... I remember reading this years ago and aspiring to be the Fantastic Programmer.
This did NOT age well. Seriously consider some of the traits that this article is describing and play the game "Are We Describing a Programmer or a Zuckerburgian Psychopath?"
- A tendency to suggest wacky and unrealistic solutions in meetings
- Routinely applies for an extension to file taxes
- Antagonistic when asked to maintain code for
backwards-compatability - Dropped out of high-school, university, law or medical school because they didn't see the point anymore
- Disinterested by the outcome of elections
- Cashes-in their 401k to fund their next venture
- Has tried every pick-up line there is and has the slap-marks on his cheeks to prove it
- Owns swag from Enron
- They suddenly pause and stare into space in the middle of a conversation, then abandon you to hurry back to their terminal with no explanation
- A destructive pursuit of perfection
- Contempt for delivery dates
- Substantial refactoring on the eve of a deadline
You know Mozilla's statement is actually pretty prescient. I haven't seen much discussion about this that didn't center around AdBlock or DRM or whatnot. But yeah, web development as a software discipline would be harmed by WEI too.
which as described would likely obstruct many existing uses of the Web such as assistive technologies, automatic testing, and archiving & search engine spiders. These depend on tools being able to receive content intended for humans, and then transform, test, index, and summarize that content for humans.
Like imagine if Google locked Inspect Element behind the site you're going to requiring the Human signature... Or the opposite!
I thought you were kidding.
The bottom line: Electric vehicles, whether they have two wheels or four, nearly always come with sophisticated software that needs to be maintained by the manufacturer.
- Buying such a vehicle is therefore a bet that the manufacturer will remain in business and will continue to support its legacy vehicles.
- The problem is that consumers don't have enough information to be able to realistically judge that risk.
Fucking hell, this was begging for a corporate boot to lick.
You posted this to programmerhumor, am I to assume this site is satire? The site doesn't look like it, so if I'm taking you at face value, I couldn't disagree any harder about your mission. What makes you think anyone wants "2 right leaning" sources? Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, New York Post, and Fox News are all pushing fascism narratives, to say nothing of the mockery you are making of professional journalism. You gonna start writing articles with them as your sources?
Shut your doors.
The Verge is a hit or miss outfit for me. Sometimes they're fine, but then you remember when they tried to build a PC and you wonder if they really actually know what they're doing over there.