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New comment by marcodave in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

marcodave — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:10:25 +0000

In the civil engineering world, at least in Europe, the lead engineer would sign papers that would put him as liable if a bridge or a building structure collapses on its own. The civil engineers face literal prison time if they make a sloppy work.

In the software engineering world, we have TOSs that deny any liability if the software fails. Why?

It boils my blood to think that the heads of CrowdStrike would maybe get a slap on the wrist and everything will slowly continue as usual as the machines will get fixed.

People died for this bug.

Google Is the New IBM

marcodave — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-is-the-new-ibm/ar-BB1j644j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39594207

Points: 23

# Comments: 2

New comment by marcodave in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

marcodave — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:16:44 +0000

I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool. Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their tools (because other companies do not open source them, therefore being un-cool), which begets a "simpler" and "engineeristic" approach to UX, which do not need UI experts and designers.

New comment by marcodave in "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?"

marcodave — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:43:28 +0000

If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?

New comment by marcodave in "Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies"

marcodave — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:34:19 +0000

Plot twist: the IAM policy that got fucked up was the one giving access to Q

New comment by marcodave in "I skipped to the ending"

marcodave — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:56:53 +0000

Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to revolutionize

New comment by marcodave in "I skipped to the ending"

marcodave — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:52:03 +0000

As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going up.

New comment by marcodave in "Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts"

marcodave — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:02:59 +0000

If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals?

Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposited in the $bank_where_i_put_my_shady_money, I want to take/move the money, but doing so will raise some eyebrows, so I deliberately try to debank myself so that I can get all my money cash OR move it to $partner_bank

New comment by marcodave in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

marcodave — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:36:44 +0000

rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)

New comment by marcodave in "Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned"

marcodave — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:46:10 +0000

spoils19 has been awarded +200 corp tokens, congratulations!

New comment by marcodave in "Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3"

marcodave — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 10:32:31 +0000

But many many other people won't, or can't.

And there will be companies offering the product for free in order to grab that market share and steal users from the paying ones.

That's how the internet companies strived since ~1998

New comment by marcodave in "Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?"

marcodave — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:00:12 +0000

Money is also nice

New comment by marcodave in "When the Stagnation Goes Virtual"

marcodave — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:19:00 +0000

Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire;

the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ?

the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ?

the crowd cheering crazy at the mention of the [buzzword] ?

it all seems too... weird and alien to me; I'm not a boomer, but I'm almost 40; I've cheered at the age of digitalization and I was publicly derided on my views of the internet in the mid-90s.

Now... is this how older people felt in the 80s-90s, when faced with news about the digital era? or the idea that internet will replace this-and-that?

How similar is this to the late-90s dot-com craze? I bet my ass off that at the time they had early-adopter parties like the one in the article.

New comment by marcodave in "When the Stagnation Goes Virtual"

marcodave — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:10:32 +0000

1910s had the spanish flu, we have (had??) the COVID-19, so...yep

New comment by marcodave in "In defense of flat earthers (2020)"

marcodave — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:39:03 +0000

I hate being pedantic, but before the 1600 anybody with some education knew already that the earth was round (see: Columbus, Magellan).

Funnily enough, the "flat earthers" of that time were the ones spreading the idea that the Earth was moving :D (see: Galileo)

New comment by marcodave in "Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation"

marcodave — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:59:13 +0000

I agree, I got bitten already more than one time, and it's ridiculous how can they get away with it.

How's not that an infringement?

New comment by marcodave in "BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart"

marcodave — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:30:00 +0000

and it was a successful business.

"don't fix what works and bring money"

...until someone comes and disrupts you and all the assumptions that keeps up your business

New comment by marcodave in "Why and how COBOL is still used"

marcodave — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:48:06 +0000

Holy moly, it's like COBOL was one of the original PaaS , with lock-in as a feature

New comment by marcodave in "Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox"

marcodave — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:32:41 +0000

Missed opportunity to end the last comment with

> She eventually gave up

New comment by marcodave in "Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement"

marcodave — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:09:59 +0000

Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup + shared folder/drive letters.

of course security was near nonexistent, but it was home LAN, and convenience trumped all.

Nowadays I have NO idea if I could do a similar setup with Windows 10 without resorting to the cloud