Tesla manages to do the UI so well that I feel like all the newest cars are 2-3 generations behind them. Perhaps I'm institutionalized, but when I first drove a 3 everything was intuitive. It was off center, but it made sense. As long as they leave the UI as-is, it'll remain excellent. We've owned a Y for months and we love it.

3 weeks ago we were test driving cars and the interfaces all annoyed me. VWs id4 was absolutely the worst interface. Ever.
Subaru has a much better interface, but the '23s are worse than the 22s. Bigger screen and nonsensical button placement with data stern about the screen seemingly randomly.
We bought an Infiniti because, among other reasons, the interface wasn't a PITA to navigate and it was super easy to manage the temperature and music.

I would like to see how well each make does with it's voice commands. Teslas have always worked flawlessly, but the BMWs, VWs, Subarus, and even the Infiniti we bought all failed to comprehend complete commands that I found in their manuals

I've been Agile exposed in so many different ways I can barely remember what the hell Agile really is supposed to be anymore. The worst thing that can happen to developers is "We're running or own take on Agile", because "our own take" means "negatively effective".

I've got colleagues who have been required to go to 10-14 hours of ceremonies each week because they don't need a scrum master and PMs murder them with meetings where they demand to be heard for hours for no reason other than the PMs have nothing better to do with their time. Hell, I have colleagues in that situation right now where I work.

I know of other teams that (and this continues to be a complete disaster) that have an open door policy on requirements. Work gets tabled all the time because the manager wants the internal customers to feel super special and any new requirement that comes along can out-prioritize something that is 99% complete. Makes the manager appear great (somehow) but the devs look like idiots because they never finish anything. Thankfully everyone I knew in this company has vacated...

My boss had been running a relatively successful Kanban but was forced to move to Agile Scrum recently due to some guy's decision up the ladder. As a team we've made the transition relatively effortlessly in the mind space. I mean, before I'd assign work to my team based on requirements that may not fit into sprints, and it worked very well, since I knew their skills very well. I could time manage the whole thing without a lot of thought and everyone was busting out good work left and right. The only difference now is I have to fit all that into sprints, which makes things harder. I'm not supposed to give out anything that would split an iteration, and therefore I either have to spent a lot of time cleverly breaking up projects so that work can continue, or give out 1-2 day assignments just to take up my developers' time.

As I'm the senior/lead/architect of the project this is definitely the wrong way to do things. All the above reduces MY time to develop from about 36 hours a week to 25-28 because I have to play scrumbag, as well as all the other rolls, and we've been saddled by a tools that doesn't' work so well. But I do a damned good job insulating my team from PMs and other managers (ours is really good at wasting time, too, but at least understands Agile).

It sorta could.

Cord-cutters (generally) have no choice. Internet can travel over cable lines (fastish), voice lines (meh), or satellite (barf). This "choice" drives the innovation that leads to a-hole decisions like this. So you have a-holes with decent internet, a-holes with bad internet, and a-holes with terrible internet.

Well, they may need to pull in some analysts. Because $2,667,328 is being spent over weeks. Perhaps a cool $3M now up front is a bargain.

Or they could invest in real storage/backup/BC/DR solutions for much, much less.

37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.

I can't watch stuff and do real work, but some years ago I had a crappy job that required no brain power, and I binged (using a USB drive and portable VLC) all sorts of shows and movies. I was a top performer consistently in my department and basically had to spend a lot of time NOT working to keep them from upping the workload on everyone else, who somehow couldn't keep up with their heads down all day.

With all the consumer products that have little back doors and 'oopsies' in regards to security, how on Earth did they ever think this would work? I'm not a security researcher, but I'm willing to bet that these will be cracked open in days by various white or black hat hackers. And you know that government agencies will be prying into them in no time.

So at a price of $250, and a camera for another $120, this is a 370% 'no' item. And I get EVERYTHING on Amazon.

If it was free, AND I had some kind of room at the front of my house with another, stronger locked door on the inside, I'd consider it.

Seppuku time?

Seriously, though. Holy shit. The only way that company is going to survive in tact is if it is balls deep in some American politician's pocket that's willing to write up a bailout... Yay, capitalism.

I'm pretty sure they're just trying to put VI and EMacs to rest by making the ESC key too much of a pain in the ass to activate reliably. I've been using one for a few months now and I'm still certain it's a giant step back.

I can't recall a single time in my entire internet history that I've ever purposefully clicked on an ad. Relevant or not, I blanket ignore them and always have. I've been trying to figure out how so many people use ads on the internets that they're a lucrative business.

I SEE them. Sometimes they're for things that I might actually want or use. But even when Google shows me exactly what I want in my search, I skip past the advertised slots. There's 1/100th of a penny they may not get, but there's a slightly weaker advertising profile they have on me.

I dunno, I think every other year is fine for Android. Mostly because after 18-24 months post-release, stock phones are crippled by software updates and newer versions of Android that don't seem to be optimized for older hardware anymore. My S5 (at&t) was given to me by my job. When it was new, it was slow and buggy as hell. And somehow the at&t S5 got super locked down after 4.0, which was on it when I got it, and so I'm stuck with a crappy phone until they replace it. Really all I care about is that it's not locked down and I can stick Cyanogen or something else on it and never worry about at&t's shoddy products.

As far as personal phones go, I buy them, I don't spend much, and I generally stick to whatever runs closest to bare Android. The N5 was great for almost 2 years, then it broke. I tried out Blu for the wife and a few others. She loses a lot of phones, and even if you look at how much we'd have spent on a leased phone with "insurance" vs us buying a sub $200 phone once or twice a year, we're still (barely) ahead. Having recently moved to an area where every providers coverage is spotty at best, we're now buying the older generations that support Google Fi. And it's been good so far.

Just like the internet...

Can you even buy a new TV that isn't "Smart"? Five years ago I bought my LED TV and to get to the range of features I wanted there weren't any dumb TVs. They all had some kind of networking involved.

We did use the apps a few times, but as soon as my game systems had the same features I unplugged the ethernet cable.

I'm guessing that all you did was deactivate the TV's wifi, or did you delete the wifi information and it still connected? That would be be pretty damned shady...

I'd have filtered the MAC as well. HELLS no... But even then it's possible it's looking for open APs. :/

Pay someone to do even a light check of your network. You never know.

Something very similar happened at an old employer. We did network and voice support for an auto dealer. Every month their long distance and international bills were unjustifiably enormous, but they didn't tell US about it, preferring to bitch at the phone company directly (company was horribly run, really). At some point or another they finally got fed up and told us they didn't want international calls to go out (this was the first thing we heard about the problem) and I turned it off for all but a select set of phone numbers. Over the next few months we get requests to turn off LD on all these extensions and back on. The boss is getting paid so when I get a bit angry about all the stupid switching around he doesn't want me to ask. We started looking into it anyways, and it turned out that one of their headless phone numbers was basically an open relay. The system had been set up by engineers that were long gone, so we just closed off the relay.

However, someone noticed this and used the relay to call around... for about a year. Got thousands of dollars in free calling.

Agreed.

Even though it's sort of backwards due to PTSD and all that, people fighting and supporting each other need to be mentally steady at all times. I say "steady" because I mean that someone who is manically depressed, wetting themselves and crying uncontrollably whenever they hear gunfire, fighting the voices, etc, have no business being depended upon by the rest of the military and our country. So if someone is mentally struggling with anything that keeps their concentration from being fully engaged with whatever job or task they have at any given time, they need to go.

On the flip side, once the horrors of breaking things and killing people have sunk in, we damned well should be doing everything we can to get them back to the healthy state they were in prior to joining up.

Because if we can't get people back into their original, normal lives (or at least get as close as possible), we need to start cutting off all military reproductive organs. Let our eunuchs fight the wars and if they no longer can function, push them into their retirement six feet under. It's may feel kinder than what many people deal with once they get spit out of our current system.