Exactly this; there's no story here except that hiring of *junior* programmers is down.

Seconded. It just keeps on going, supports Qi wireless charging and runs the newest Lollipop release with only a light coating of surprisingly-not-worthless Moto add-on crud.

I'm no prude, what what the hell does this story have to do with "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"?

Fsck this crap, I'm out.

Think of Yahoo of a steamship carrying $53 billion worth of precious cargo. The ship captain has been piloting the ship aimlessly around the globe, selling off cargo at each port to pay for fuel to get it to the next port, for no reason. How much would you pay for that boat?

Fuck Netflix too. We know that telco's are evil. You've just given them a big win, and a taste for blood.

Thanks for nothing, Netflix. You broke the Internet. We won't forget this.

I usually get away with shopping late, but I guess I got my hand caught in the cookie jar on that one. There was no way I'd show up to the family X-mas party without a gift for my nephew (who is also my Godson). I'm just annoyed that Amazon displayed so much confidence in their shippers, and it ended up causing me headaches. The other 51 weeks of the year, 2-day shipping means 2 (occasionally 3) days. They're probably as good as anyone on the planet at shipping consumer goods to people, so when they said, "We've got this," I believed them. Meh.

I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim. I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.

TFA presumes that we as engineers are smarter, better humans than everyone else, that we can and should forsee all of the ethical implications of our work. It's pure hubris, and I call shenanigans. By and large, engineers do what their employers pay them to do, to feed themselves and their families. IMO, every link in the chain should be held to the same standard of moral accountability. We're not exempt, but it's unreasonable to expect us to take any more (or less) responsibility for the bad things that our work makes possible.

That said, I once quit a job working on systems that could be used for what I perceived as evil. My girlfriend (also an engineer) works for a military contractor, and I give her a hard time about that occasionally. Her response is that she works on detection systems, not weapons. To my mind, it's at least a waste of good engineers to further meaningless political power struggles, and keeps the warmongers in business.

Who in their right mind would run an exit node in the first place? Who is this person who thinks it's a good idea to send data and requests on behalf of anonymous users who don't want to get caught doing it themselves?

All I can think of are:

1. Good Samaritans with fat data pipes and legal immunity
2. People who want to get on watchlists, to prove a point
3. Underinformed nerds

These were awesome, back when you could get 'em: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDilberito

So your job has a culture of peer-pressuring each other into working yourselves to death, and pretending it's a choice?

It might also have something to do with the fact that all the torrents that, umm, my friend could find when he looked were shitty camcorder recordings.

But how do you know it's 3AM where Grandma lives? You would have to know what Time Zone she is in, what Time Zone you are in, what the current (they change frequently in some areas of the world) offsets are and then do some math to figure out what time it is for her.

Or, you can just ask Grandma, "Is it ok to call you at 3am?" and she says "That's wonderful, we can talk over lunch."

You don't need to know Time Zones, and you don't need to know what everyone else's Time Zones are. You just need to know what time you wake up, when you get to work, when you take lunch, when you leave work, when you go to bed. Things you already know. Then when someone says "Meeting at 10am?" you can say "That's my lunch time, how about 11am?"