Personally, I've seen a number of individuals (mostly Zoomers) upset by the void of purpose left by the deliberate aimlessness of postmodernist thinking turning to religion for answers. They can't articulate it like that, but they have consistent things they mention that led them to this, "I've been told my whole life to do what I want and I don't even know what I should want, let alone what I do want." "I feel like I've lived my life just laying around doing nothing, and now I feel like I suddenly woke up from a long sleep." Outcry against cancel culture has similar subtext to it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks like this. Every time I read someone referring to, "a DevOps," I wonder what they think they're referring to. No one person is going to be everything you need for effective development and operations combined outside of small, extremely focused scope. DevOps is about avoiding the, "Just throw it over the wall," mentality, not making one person handle the whole thing.
Has this actually held up? My understanding is that what specific and specialized areas of work on off-time is considered company IP have to be enumerated, and must depend upon availability of unusual proprietary information.
Public gathering points on scales much larger than any public square could facilitate ought to abide by the principles of the US Constitution, even if, and this is an if since I'm admittedly ignorant to this detail, their behavior is not legally obligated by it.
There are plenty of concerns around the reliability of a single payer system or a publicized care system aside from what has already been mentioned. For instance, the sustainable quality of care is brought into question, as is the incentive for continued development in the field. There are reasons to be upset about the current system, but these are two things it undeniably excels at.
There is also simply anxiety over giving one of the most if not the most powerful government in the world power over its citizens in such an intimate fashion.
These comparisons will be made all over the place, since these designs are always inspiring each other. When I see the new edge logo, I see something that resembles some of the unused branding of the Xbox One and Xbox360, something that resembles the Firefox logo, something that resembles the new design direction of the office suite, something that looks a little like iOS gradients, something that looks a little like the Chrome logo, and so on. I'd say it looks a lot more like old Xbox branding than Firefox branding, though.
I honestly don't think a chromebook accomplishes much I would want a computer in that form factor to do. Guess that goes to show I'm perpetually not the target audience.
It's typically considered the best approach to cast a broad net, then narrow down until a patent is granted. That being said, in the US, patents are given on a first to invent basis, so if you are awarded a patent that is overly vague, it's pretty likely it won't hold up if challenged. I find myself questioning the value of a patent office that awards patents that are vague enough that they wouldn't hold up in a dispute.
I wonder how two different teams can be so different in culture saying they do the same thing. My team looks at velocity only as an indicator of how much we think we can reasonably take on looking ahead and as a warning sign if things are falling apart.
It's much less amusing when it's used seriously by a lead engineer who clearly hasn't actually thought about what "the needful" is and who clearly just wants to pass off the "ask" you "brought them" to someone who clearly doesn't know what "the needful" is.
When I use emacs, I hardly have any shortcuts memorized. I just use smex, which has fuzzy matching for commands. When I wanted to open a file, I wasn't sure what command would do that, so I pressed M-x and typed "file." One of the suggestions was, "find-file," so I chose that one, and it gave me a prompt for which file to open, I entered the path in an interface that also had similar fuzzy matching, and I was ready to go. Afterwards, a brief hint told me the key command if I don't want to bother typing, "finf," but I don't really use it.
The command pallette in VSCode is pretty nice too, but I don't recall having quite as nice an experience using it. I still do my professional work in VSCode, though. Emacs is for fun.
One could spin it around and argue that what that maintenance level is depends heavily upon the individual's metabolic processes, which depend upon gut flora, diet, weight, exercise levels, timing of consumption...
I'm American born and raised. I find tipping as it has become in America to be abhorrent. It's purported to be a bonus for good service, but if I'm given poor service, the social expectation is that I still add at least 15% in tips or I'm stingy and rude. It's never even considered that perhaps the one paying my waiters is the stingy, rude one. Hiding an additional mandatory fee and enforcing it through social dynamics between two people who experience it as something entirely different from what it is purported to be while continuing to insist it's just a bonus is simply rotten. Tips should not be an expectation, and if it takes doing away with them entirely to separate ourselves from that expectation, so be it.
To turn it around, if I'm going to grind for you, I had sure as hell better be properly compensated for the grind. If I hustle to get you what you need, you bet you're ass I'm going to expect a commensurate return. If there isn't a mutual benefit to my hustling, why would I put it in? What makes you so entitled to my time and effort that you can't make an equitable exchange for it?
I have been blessed to have an office to myself. The day they move me to an open office (read labor pit) is the day I only come in half the week and take the rest of the week remote. Face to face has its uses, but I can't get meaningful thoughtful work done if I don't have my own space. Judging by my observations passing by open offices, I'd wager most people have the same take.