There’s also a small mental cost to switching contexts, from reader to browser.
This is actually one of the better uses of AI I’ve seen because it is literally asking a large language model about language.
I probably still won’t use it, but at least it makes sense!
I thought everyone keistered their mangoes
This seems quite likely, especially given they are now a public company so they are desperate to turn their content into some kind of potential for profit.
It’s why they don’t even want sarcasm any more or people defending against bullying. It won’t put money into the failing machine.
He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.
He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.
He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.
Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao
Oh! That’s way worse.
Hopefully he’s in high school or something and it’s an immaturity thing.
Otherwise, no doubt all of the skilled people on his team want him gone.
I don’t go to bars but I vaguely remember seeing bar-top digital games at some point too.
I can’t remember when this was, I just remember being flabbergasted that someone might pay to play a bejeweled knockoff or something.
It’s such a funny example. He was so famous in the 80s!
Never Gonna Give You Up was literally #1 in 25 countries in 1988. He was nominated for a Grammy but lost to Tracy Chapman.
He’s sold 40 million albums.
During the period between his debut release and his fifth single (in 1988), Astley outsold every other artist in the world. (From his Wikipedia article)
I would argue he wasn’t accidentally famous at all, as he partnered with the Hit Factory. They produced Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” in 1985.
“I knew, though, that when I got my turn, it would be a big thing, because Stock Aitken Waterman were becoming this big hit machine.”
Having a big hit is why he started working at their production studio as a “tea boy.”
No, it doesn’t work that way on iOS in my experience. Swipe from the side of the screen is application-specific.
Swipe from left is always “go back to where you were previously” or “go back to the main menu of this application.” Swipe from right does nothing unless the application defines it.
The Independent’s feature might override an iOS browser’s “Forward” feature, if you already used the “Back” feature.
My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.
This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.
The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.
It’s both! Though Lay’s came first. I looked it up because I couldn’t remember.
Pringles is “once you pop, you can’t stop,” in the mid 1990s.
Lay’s is “betcha can’t eat just one,” starting in the early 1960s!
Now I want chips.
I think they thought it meant “veiled compliments” and not “veiled insults.”
Which isn’t hard to confuse really.
I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.
I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.
I actually don’t understand where manager/team ego ever fits in, as someone who hired a lot of bootcamp grads.
Not in the same way… which is the issue.
It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.
It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.
This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.
There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.
The first sentence of the article shows the problem.
For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.
The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.
I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.
The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.
I too thought it was bread. I was like “marbled!! Oh.”
This is one of the many reasons I didn’t buy a fridge with a screen on it.
It seemed pretty obvious they were going to try and advertise something on it.
Correct.
They are legitimately too stupid to tell the difference between their specific childhood and the state of the entire world, so they think they can go back there if they try hard enough and force everyone else to pretend.
Same!
The phrase “seven monkeys with switchblades playing piano” does not have a single, established meaning. It is likely a surreal, intentionally nonsensical image, and its interpretation would depend entirely on the context in which it was used.
A previously-posted Gizmodo article said
Which I thought was very useful.