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New comment by squiffsquiff in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

squiffsquiff — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:37:41 +0000

By this logic you should factor that android was an acquisition, as were YouTube, doubleclick, deepmind and Waze

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Microsoft must face $2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences"

squiffsquiff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:55:13 +0000

LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft must face a mass lawsuit alleging it overcharged thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

Microsoft must face $2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences

squiffsquiff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:55:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-must-face-28-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-cloud-computing-licences-2026-04-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859186

Points: 2

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New comment by squiffsquiff in "Moving from Serverless to Functionless"

squiffsquiff — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:50:05 +0000

Can someone translate this from marketing puff into something meaningful? All I'm seeing is

'lambdas should map to micro services'

'please use more managed services'

New comment by squiffsquiff in "I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon"

squiffsquiff — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:04:02 +0000

Appears that our author was present whilst either he gave a talk with no questions or a tame interviewer asked Werner soft questions with no follow-ups. Absolutely no pushback or challenge to anything he's reported as saying. Nothing along the lines of 'I keep reading AWS customers describing the quality of support and support staff declining over the last year or so. This seems to correlate closely with AWS push to full time RTO. How do you respond to this data?'

New comment by squiffsquiff in "F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs"

squiffsquiff — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:11:44 +0000

> 32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian

Deprecated for Debian

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues....

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Mouthguards that flash red with head impacts to be used at Rugby World Cup"

squiffsquiff — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:44:57 +0000

Wearing American football style helmets does not reduce the risk of concussion which is primarily the result of sudden acceleration or deceleration causing the brain to move around inside the skull https://ideas.ted.com/football-helmets-dont-protect-against-... This is why they have 'soft' helmets in Rugby. American football likes the macho look of its helmets and body armour but for concussion it's essentially safety theatre.

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees"

squiffsquiff — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:21:29 +0000

So naturally AI will be in the office 5 days a week and not working remotely right? right?

New comment by squiffsquiff in "When will M&S take online orders again?"

squiffsquiff — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:10:52 +0000

This is an ignorant position. Look at e.g. https://engineering.marksandspencer.com/mobile/2024/09/05/re...

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign and more"

squiffsquiff — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:40:11 +0000

The man who hopes to become Sonos’ next permanent CEO talks about the app, the now-canceled video player, subscriptions, Google, and more.

Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign and more

squiffsquiff — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:40:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/speakers/664329/sonos-ceo-tom-conrad-interview-app-speakers-subscriptions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43948805

Points: 1

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New comment by squiffsquiff in "Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison"

squiffsquiff — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:56:05 +0000

Scheuer allegedly went into action quickly following his termination, and by early July was said to have used his work credentials, which still functioned after his termination, to access the menu creation system Disney contracted another company to create and change all the fonts in the system to wingdings symbols.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/fired_disney_employee...

New comment by squiffsquiff in "[dead]"

squiffsquiff — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:02:43 +0000

Client Caution Weighs on India's $280 Billion Tech Services Industry Infosys, TCS and Wipro report disappointing results as Trump tariffs and economic headwinds prompt corporate caution

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Why Crypto Developer Activity Is Declining"

squiffsquiff — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:44:47 +0000

Article appears to blame developers for not attracting VCs to crypto. Right... Because every other industry would blame the developers for not attracting VC's to their industry, right? Right? And of course VC's are where it's at...

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

squiffsquiff — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:37:52 +0000

I'm sure that we'll still be able to spot candidates doing the needful, and kindly reverting the same

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

squiffsquiff — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:08:09 +0000

I think the better/mature response to this cultural change is to design takehomes anticipating the use of AI and then seeing where the canddiate got lost in the weeds or gets lost when cross questoined about it

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

squiffsquiff — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:59:31 +0000

There were 30% layoffs at a company I worked at and one of the 'survivors' was so traumatised by it that they took their own life. It's a known phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt

New comment by squiffsquiff in "The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate"

squiffsquiff — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:51:40 +0000

I had a Nokia n95 at the time. It also had superior hardware and a fully functional web browser. Yes the iPhone was attractive at the time but not initially a smartphone and certainly not the first

New comment by squiffsquiff in "The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate"

squiffsquiff — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:22:31 +0000

Apple did NOT create the smartphone. When the iPhone released in 2007 it was a feature phone- no app store and famously missing featured like copy and paste. Besides Palm who you have mentioned there was Symbian and Windows Mobile which each had third party after market apps available.

New comment by squiffsquiff in "Superheavy element half-life measurements push back the limits of stability"

squiffsquiff — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:38:33 +0000

Ah ok thank you for clarifying