Entertainment is justified and good.
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Cheaper than paying off-duty cops to watch your customers.
Calling private CCTV Orwellian seems like a confused metaphor. The CCTV in 1984 was run by the totalitarian government.
We can go abroad to study it for much cheaper. Alternatively, foreign nationals can come to study here: they'll pay twice as much as us to do so. Our higher education is subsidised. Likewise, we don't have to work in this country. Immigration is not a one-way system.
The number of companies that can sponsor a Tier 2 Visa is limited. Those that do have to pay £1000pa for each individual they sponsor. The individual themselves will have to pay >£600pa to subsidise the NHS for you and me.
We no longer have the Resident Labour Market Test - it was abolished because unemployment rates were extremely low - but most people who have passed the 2 year curfew to be allowed to take an employer to tribunal are in a job where their employers first had to prove the job couldn't be filled by local talent.
Perhaps the government should update the SOC code for software engineers to be higher. They determine the going rate to hire into these 'skilled occupation' roles.
I can have an offline password manager that just works, for free, and I don't have to worry about backdoors or hackers or incompetence.
Cancelling the 2nd time, they refunded me for the unused month. But maybe that was to do with the linked case rather than the goodness of their hearts.
It's really astonishing how many obvious things like this aren't implemented on either Google Maps or Waze. And for those that do exist, they feel like they've been designed by someone who has never driven outside of California and never used mixed-mode transport.
Although, for some reason, it's currently sold-out everywhere.
Completely the opposite. It's the influence of having computers powerful enough to have massive multitasking. Arranging windows like papers on a desk is easy when you have a handful of simple programs and a couple of browser windows - it's very different when you have 100 tabs with their own task-swapping logic in front of 20 other programs. You've already lost easy swapping so you might as well gain the extra pixels.
Internet misanthropes contributing to the trend for people to lose friends and acquaintances as they age.
The difference is that these are replaceable, consumable or temporary. With 'platforms', it's not enough to make something similar to something that someone likes, you have to make something that displaces something someone likes. How someone spends their leisure time is a limited, valuable resource.
Ironically this is made worse by apps teaching users not to multitask. You can't open a tab to read later.
(old.reddit is noticeably less buggy and MASSIVELY faster...)
Obviously this is relative, it's a huge site! And there may even be value to gatekeeping users who can't figure it out.
That has no relevance.
That's why I don't like the conclusion of the article. Anand didn't fail the interview because the criteria were wrong - the interviewer failed because they suck at being an engineering manager.