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They will just move all business and all assets out of the country.

Having quite a big impact on US economy.

Or: Govt will seize control of Apple ... and destroy it within six month. Throwing technology back by 10-15 years.

We are overworked, underemployed and (feel) powerless, because social security has failed.

30% of my income goes to social security systems, so I have to work 50% to earn the same. I can earn (up to) 50% more from social benefits than from doing actual work, so why work.

I feel powerless, because it's easier this way. I don't have to take responsibility of my life, because "somebody" will do it for me.

Look around you. Every single item you see was given to you by "capitalism".

The premise is wrong: "constructing a larger string out of multiple smaller strings is a pretty common programming task"

No, it's not.

"strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(buf, "This "),"is "),"a long "),"string.");"

Just checked 20 years of C/C++ repositories ... not a single strcat. Actually I can't remember ever using c-strings for more than args parsing or debug logging.

Tried to buy a Visual Studio license for porting our game to Windows Phone last year. Ended up paying $2K for a version that was able to build WP apps, but not allowed to release them.

VS + VA used to be fantastic, today it's just a piece of ... overpriced crap.

But maybe expecting more from $2K+ software (VS) than from FREE software (xcode) is wrong.

Not sure about the "fans", but us mere mortals are quite ok with the quality.

99% of "rags-to-riches" stories start past 40.

The selfmade millionaires under 40 are statistical outliers ;)

(Not strictly "auto"biographies, but most of them have ghostwriters anyway)

"Virgin Rebel" (Richard Branson) "Return to the little Kingdom" (Steve Jobs) "Enter the Dragon" (Theo Paphitis)

(There are lots more, but they are in my bookshelf at home...)

Running a large scale analytics tracking backend for a game on AWS (written in swift, needs some hacks). About 5 million requests/hour.

Pro: - Dirt cheap (pay only what you need) - Scales fast and large - Just works

Cons: - Getting swift to run is very hacky

Considering to replace the game backend (scala on ec2) with Swift on Lambda (plus API gateway)

ps: Lambdas do run in containers/instances that get reused ... unless they are idle for too long.

The common misconception being that the poor are poor because the rich are rich;

But there is no causality. Not even a correlation.

The only reason we smoke pot is that the FBI can't coerce us into working for them.

So maybe putting the number that we can text from outside the US networks on the website might help.

To elaborate a little with one example:

1) One of our server goes down. 2) My watch tells me about it. 3) I can decide a) Reboot it b) Replace it c) Send a callout to my Ops team.

All in less than 10 seconds ... used to take 10 minutes, including taking out my laptop, checking what's going on, finding out who's on call.

We have a few dozen of these.

Looks like you have been living under a rock.

I constantly add new stuff to my watch. Ranging from simple apps to complete workflow solutions.

Give me 2 more month and I can replace one of my DevOps with my watch.

After struggling with a similiar problem for nearly ten years I finally bit the bullet and took 6 month "me time" last year.

Had to beg friends and family for money, but now I'm more stable than anyone else.

You need to step out of the system. Meds and therapy won't cut it.

Afterwards move to finnland. Everybody is depressive here 8 month a year, so your boss will be happy if you curl up for a week instead of killing yourself. (Even if it sounds sarcastic ... it's true!)

He wasn't "developing". He connected off the shelf components. It wasn't a "WiFi Router". It was a WiFi over HAM bridge. It wasn't for "Whistleblowers". It was to steal WiFi.

And it was insanely stupid. Just turning this thing on could - land you in jail for the rest of your life - get beaten up by all ham operators - make you infertile ... which might be a good thing for the gene pool

We recently replaced all (~300) our 2012 MPBs with 2015 MBPs.

We didn't have a single complaint so far. And we have a lot of power users.

Maybe you just attract bad luck.

My ASUS PB287Q is PLS and not IPS, but I just love it.

Not a single glitch in the last 8 month.

Almost forgot: Sharding 101 "Always shard via directory..."

I just love how startups keep reinventing the wheel to solve problems that haven't been problems for decades.

Come on, 25 pics + 90 likes per second... that almost like... [wait for it]... nothing.

I'm pretty sure you got your number wrong.