"Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time."

This is basically 2001 prior to 9/11 again. Even the Slashdot comments could be substituted. I must be getting old.

Sucks to be graduating right now.

It's the same picture.

That's what gets me. First thing I saw was the lack of perspective. It hurt my brain. Just no.

Everyone knows that regulation are burdensome and a net drain on the economy. If people cannot trust their banks, it just means they will live with the consequences of their decisions. Weak men who cannot calculate risk should not have money anyways. I for one look forward to a return of wildcat banks, massive fraud, and increased market panics.

The Tory government policies are very unfortunate, pigheadedly ignoring basic math and reasoning. Backdoors do not work.

Several issues come to mind. Where is the City in this? I can't imagine all the financial infrastructure in the UK will be happy about weaker controls over security. What would Lloyds or Coutts say regarding government mandated backdoors?

UK has set a stronger policy of government support of the private sector with cybersecurity as well. They would be giving that up. NCSC and other governmental organizations and regulators have been remarkably effective at promoting a new path forward for the British economy. This places all their good work in jeopardy.

I must expect Labour will make hay of this as well. The Tories will be destroying good jobs. Britain cannot afford many more tech positions or firms leaving for the US or Canada.

I logged in after more than a decade to say this:

MLK didn't write the Constitution.

Fair enough. I don't entirely agree with the logic, but everywhere is different. We tend to have very similar cross-squad comms as we used to because various squads were geographically distributed anyway, even when in the office. Can't walk to someone's desk to interrupt when they're 500 miles away. Funnily enough the last in-person cross-squad collab had people on a flight with some Covid cases, so there's that little reminder that being in the office ain't all that. Lots of the newer non-technical people are gagging to get everyone back in though.

Well said. There's definitely a type that promotes the in-office argument. It's usually not the type getting the work done.

Oh god. Is this a trend, because folks are trying it in my organisation too.

There are teams (silos) that work really well, and then there are teams that don't, people who aren't so experienced or competent, and projects without "resource".

So the solution was to break down the silos, which in practice means taking busy people from the teams that work well to do the work that the other teams and projects aren't able to do. The result of course, is that now everyone's fucked and there's even more work piled on top of the same people.

Don't do it. Pay the current rates, hire good people, train good grads, and grow the damn organisation. What you're doing will very likely result in good people who enjoy their work and their team leaving for somewhere that respects them a little more.

So, same as in-person meetings.

Could be nice for industrial control interfaces and similar.

I didn't see that one on the website. What's the country of origin?

Love the idea, but I think the swappable connectors could have been internal for durability. I don't think those swappable pods will age well.

Casual conversations can be had online. Use virtual collaboration drop-in rooms, open all day in the calendar. We do that with voice & sometimes music enabled and it works just fine. You don't need to book a slot with someone just because you're physically distant from them.

It's not really ok. It forces people to co-locate with the office location which limits living choices, and it's still a massive waste of time and carbon on commuting those 2 or 3 days a week.

That hum of activity is the reason we wear noise cancelling headphones in the open plan offices they make us commute to.