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because that's exactly where people like me came from. Not sure what to do differently here. Maybe it's a matter of poor opinion mixed with horrible sense of humor.

Thank you for posting this, I honestly wasn't aware of this yet.

That would make Windows 9 so much money. Having to shell out a huge amount of money for upgrading is keeping our customer base (school districts) from making the leap before the last possible moment.

With the advent of thin clients and visualization, having a low-powered machine with a low-overhead operating system is looking more and more normal.

More than I thought. Nice. Well, nice in an "interesting things to come" sort of way.

Agreed. I find that merely experiencing it (books, movies, video games, any media) is enough to form some bond with people later on down the road. "Did you watch X?" conjures up memories and emotions, enough to start a conversation to add your own thoughts to "X", so why do you have to have, "Remember that time we all watched X?" instead?

Brilliant.

Very sad.

That's all I'd like to write, right there: "Very sad." That's all most people will usually give these kinds of stories. There's not much help out there for the abused, not much help out there for the mentally ill, either. Oh well, on to the next story.

As one of the only people to actually purchase an Nvidia Shield, I can't see this working out very well. There just isn't a very good market for Android games, nothing worth a dedicated console at any rate.

Wow, amazing. I always thought Square was going to rise to top by being better than Paypal in the customer support corner. Guess I was way wrong.

I'm addicted to these blog posts, the guy is like some sort of magician.

A cynical but rational outlook on life.

Considering our leaders in America, I think it being a joke fits right in line.

Setting up bureaucracies = we're going to take a long time to figure this out, hopefully long enough for everyone to forget this. Then our crappy committee will get nothing accomplished, except this smokescreen act of course.

Wow.

One special McDonalds ticket to machine-repair college, let's replace the workers with technicians and then make THOSE jobs minimum wage.

That'll be the future. People groaning at minimum wage jobs for repairing current-day minimum wage jobs.

When I went shopping for Christmas party baking and cooking supplies, I noticed a metric ton of Velveeta wherever I went. I think the "shortage" is just "We have less from the holiday eating rush, let's make some news."

That everything is baited with stuff like the all "white/male bro" tech industry is really what gets me. You're not inviting anyone to change anything with that mindset. I was eager to read and consider their suggestions up until that last bit, when I immediately backed off and just shrugged.

How many gender-blind software architects were out there through this entire technology boom we've seen in the last 40 years? Just tinkering away at platforms and code and programs, not really thinking about anything other than their craft. Someone will jump in and say that it was their privilege to be able to just focus, unlike X minority trying to do the same, and I'll agree with you there. To think that there's some odorous force emanating from these privileged folks, working to keep others out, strikes me as strange. The "bros" in tech are hardly the ones that built or stand near the entry-gates.

Isn't the incentive to show them that you're still willing to work with them in the future so long as they get their crap together? I'm honestly not impressed with this stuff happening to people, even as a mistake, but at the same time I don't see people writing off entire companies that have otherwise acted in good faith.

Of course, if it happens to many more people, you can only do so much with so little.

If they're in California, their over-time without pay is illegal and I've seen more than one company get reamed by the Department of Labor over it.

I don't have any applicable skills for the team, but the company perks remind me of a fun start-up that wants its workers to work their asses off (free lunch and -dinner-? Better throw in the Dr. Pep). I like that. Hope you guys do well.

I'm a manager for a fairly big SIS and I think this is great news. We deal with a lot of nightly CSV files and it's awful. I'm hoping we take a look at working with Clever in the future.