This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How’s it any different when a window isn’t maximised and the user resizes it? Either I’m seriously misunderstanding this or it’s a completely made up excuse.

I’d rather they just say “we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn’t prioritize it”.

To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can’t make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.

Imagine the possibilities!

• Heated camping mattress
• Sausage roll warmer
• Car windscreen defroster

When you log into the console and all your shits gone and you start to have a mild panic, when you suddenly realise it’s switched you to a different region.

28 pounds = 12.7kg, for those wondering.

Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.

Bit of an over-reaction to one incident. I’d be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It’s absolutely not worth going back.

Millions of customers using AWS also weren’t affected - the company I work for certainly wasn’t, although some of our tools like Jira were.

From a UK perspective:

The pensioners would never vote for party that would introduce something like this. They HATE the idea of younger generations getting “free money”. Honestly they’re the real problem. But they’re the demographic that vote the most and have a huge sway.

Just don’t point out to them how their triple locked pensions are probably the biggest financial cost to our [UK] country…

Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.

Why would they have to come in at 7am?

“Yes, but I’ll be quick, I promise.”

Isn’t quick.

The meal planning app that I use got bought out by Samsung and they did this. Put a load of ads in and then advertised a “+” version that got rid of ads. The ads were just advertising the “+” feature. 12 months later they said they were going to remove the ads for everyone.

• Spending a day or more every quarter/half sorting out your roadmap, prioritising stakeholder needs, tech debt and enhancements
• Someone from senior leadership decides they want random thing they invented and blows the roadmap up
• Much wanted feature (X) or issue gets pushed back
• CEO makes a comment in a company wide meeting how they can’t understand why we simply can’t do X thing yet
• Everyone in Product scrambles to make X a priority
• Go to step 1

I bet this service would cost an arm and a leg though.

Yup. They spend a lot of money to make their products as addictive as possible to make people keep buying it, and use emulsifiers, gums, stabilisers, flavourings and artificial sweeteners. A lot of it is barely food and we’re only recently starting to understand what this is having to our bodies.

The problem is that they can mass produce this junk and sell it for cheap, while actual food and non ultra processed foods cost a lot more for consumers to buy.

Not for everyone. Think of it like an addiction. Some people don’t suffer from it and can just stop and never think about it, but for addicts they just can’t.

Yeah. The last thing I want to do when I’m not working is to get on another computer.

Password must contain at least one upper case number.

Does it work out the box with Chromecast yet? I gave it a go a while ago and it seemed incredibly convoluted, where as Plex just works.

Well you see he’s stopped using the internet for his university work. But he still uses the internet for research for his essays.

I’ve got images of the lecturer giving him death stares every time he starts typing, filling the room with the cliter-clatter of the keys.