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@mathias You are a PR flack at Google. Your boss asks you to write a response to EU customers leaving Google for an obviously more sensible alternative. You have 4 hours. What do you do?

@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @raiderrobert@mastodon.social Also, I was brought up to ignore tact in code reviews. This sometimes has consequences.

@cstross@wandering.shop @pluralistic@mamot.fr Whoa! I am of that vintage, but today I learned.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Back in the '90s, a company I worked at forced a 3 !month Death March to develop a browser-basec client for our EDI service. Every developer associated with that successful effort quit within the next six months. Be careful out there.

@cstross@wandering.shop So Fun!

@cstross@wandering.shop @futurebird@sauropods.win !! Learned a new word today. Thx.

@cstross@wandering.shop Doesn't the word originally mean a stage in larval development? ( I on purpose haven't looked it up yet )

@cstross@wandering.shop Huh. Knew that was going to be a slow-motion train wreck when it happened. I'd be curious to see a vote. I wonder if they've learned.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run INTERCAL will make programmers obsolete by next year. Anyone can code a business application using it.

@cstross@wandering.shop It feels so good when you stop?

@cstross@wandering.shop Ooh! In the '90's I had a whole system with a computer, a cassette recorder, my FM stereo amp, and a serial port->X10 interface that would automagically record a radio show on Saturday afternoons, when I was usually out. Worked like a champ as long as I remembered to set it up on Friday. Proud of my Geek Heritage.

@cstross@wandering.shop "AI can't do your job. But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job." ( Corey Doctorow )