Then you might find this paper about the French tax code compiler interesting

Politicians object because it would cut into their donations from lobbyists over something that isn't a political wedge issue.

They lost track of Wordpad and are trying to find it again.

CGP Grey has had some interesting videos on the getting rid of the penny and the nickel.

What we need of course is a greater abundance of even more shittily coded shovel-ware iPhone apps helmed by developers without the skills to understand how to fix any bugs!

Ok, I'll just stop saying that I have ADHD and all my problems will just go away. Didn't realize it was so simple. Thanks!

Relying on leaks probably isn't safest way to run an Enterprise OS. So people will keeping mostly paying for safety rather than a copycat. Their mission accomplished.

It makes it too hard to rely on as the basis of an Enterprise Operating System, which is the whole point of the agreement. All the code for the packages are all released upstream in CentOS Stream, but what exactly is in each point release, including fixes and backports that will eventually get merged in has value. Oracle and CIQ et al see that value in being "bug for bug" the compatible. But it's not really that the code itself isn't available or eventually released.

There's the real reason. Brings me back to the days when I worked for company that did offshoring and yearly assessments, but the assessments were braindumps of certs where they did a find and replace on versions and didn't include images that made the questions make sense. (Like questions about Office 2010 that reference the new format .docx...) Since promotions and continued employment were tied to the evaluation and likewise customer billing on certified knowledgeable staffing, cheating was rampant. It's all a billing game though, because if people passed they met the contractual knowledge requirements they sold to their clients.

When IT workers have to be replaceable cogs, offshoring to get the same knowledge seems thrifty. But then some of the realities set in, like being a different time zone and being disconnected from business processes that technology is supposed to enable. So the workers that you'll get are ones that have to work graveyard shifts. So the people you'll get are the people desperate enough take jobs at awful hours. Which leads to willingness to lie about experience and knowledge. Then when those people do get the experience to be qualified, they'll disappear into gigs that aren't as bad. Then later they'll realize the burden on the onshore staff is greater than expected.

At least, it seems like they are running their own service which shortcuts some of the other pass the buck games.

It's amazing how many things can suddenly not be in the Statement of Work, but can be "Value Add".

Who would have expected a SWITCH firms to abuse the visa system...

That strategy falls apart when the patent troll doesn't do anything useful to sue about.

I doubt he's crying too much. Buying that platform helped cement him some political power and it's not his only source of wealth. Twitter isn't going away even if it suffers a bit.

Hank Green had a recent video on why having a less aggressively polished algorithms and relying on community lists makes for a better experience on Blue Sky vs Twitter/Threads that I thought was enlightening.

Also they've been calling it that since the acquisition...