>Does anyone actually care?
>This news has come up on HN like four times already.
It would seem so, yes.
2,297 karma · joined June 12, 2013
>This news has come up on HN like four times already.
It would seem so, yes.
OK, then it places the developers and PMs convenience ahead of the users privacy and autonomy.
Yes, absolutely.
That website's code is being executing on my machine, consuming my power, then using my internet service to phone home with a data package of arbitrary size.
I didn't.
As Cyphase said [0], I posted the non-mobile link which many people -- including myself -- appreciate.
No I'm pretty confident that the majority of people don't know what's going on because why would they?
How do you know this?
>They don’t care if Amazon, Facebook, and Google know what they are doing online. They opt in to tracking by joining loyalty programs to save a few bucks. Privacy is just not a concern most people have.
I disagree. Most people have no idea what's going on behind the curtain.
It's not.
>You generally wouldn't say a man was "screeching".
Sure you would. I've never seen it posed any other way or with any other intent.
Kerbal Space Program 2 Cinematic Announce Trailer
You're describing some thing being outlawed. A government may censor information that is otherwise available via legal alternative avenues of delivery.
>> world’s most successful author.
>> J.K. Rowling is arguably the most successful author in the history of publishing, with the possible exception of God.
> lol alrighty, that is one way to start an article.
Success does not preclude Witch Trials.
This is a public school. It is precisely censorship from the government.
Right, because "near." It's in the title.
>They came close to having a collision
What?
>but there was nothing like any sort of collision
Because "near"
Also this: (Note: This is under the opinion section, however.)
Has Twitter ever had an outage before the Elon Musk kerfuffle?
You're trying way too hard.
>Eventually Firefox is just gonna be an SVG renderer with “ethical cookie tracking”
lol, the Firefox shitposting has become so lazy.
The core concepts which make engineering engineering? Yeah.
>The group that wants to protect or maintain ownership of the word "engineer" is dependent upon the people whom it objects to also using that title.
They are as dependent on software as any other institution, on a day-to-day basis, which have transitioned to computerized automation over the last ~60 years. Software aids efficiency.
The argument that engineers are incapable of designing and constructing sound solutions without software is unsound.
Engineering was a thing before software.
akin to engineers as well.
It does not.