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Many executives still don't understand basic tech
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Their bank accounts now overflow
Not exactly the type of news I usually post, but I figured some may be interested. (Meaning that I don't usually post items about acquisitions and whatnot)
edit: added that bit in parens at the end for clarification.
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I don't understand how things will NOT change under new ownership. Eventually, they always do, right? And when they do, some changes are terrible.
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The new owners will need to make money out of it. Either they asset-strip it and sell it on or, perhaps more likely, they fund further development to maximise monetisation and growth. Either way, I agree: Things will necessarily change.
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Maybe they'll add a "Your EGO is showing" emoji?
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had to laugh at the pontification. It's nice to have so much money you can do whatever you want. Happy for Joel, but I despise SO.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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i hope they will still have the copy the code and paste into production option
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quote: Prosus to acquire Stack Overflow for US$1.8 billion
From the Prosus page. Wow. Joel just got rich.
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Nice read from Joel and good for him. I didn't realize he was a founder at SO...also didn't realize that SO only started in 2008.  I remember how it was before that and still have the relics from Barnes & Noble on my bookshelf! (including Joel's book) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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A browsable 3D map of just one millionth of the cerebral cortex has been created using 225 million images and a whopping 1.4 petabytes of data. Is it available on Google Maps?
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I know some guys whose brain map would be really easy and every 2 or 3 years old could manage to draw it and a couple that a blank paper would be enough  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Are they in your management chain? 
TTFN - Kent
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If only... 
M.D.V.
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Researchers at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA) recently developed a framework that can create Android applications from text descriptions. Write a program that makes me a million dollars. Compile.
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What could go wrong?
M.D.V.
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Oh, yes. I keep fearing he’ll notice one of my “plain English” posts lately. 
TTFN - Kent
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NortonLifelock has added the ability to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency directly within its Norton 360 antivirus program as a way to "protect" users from malicious mining software. Why just hunt for computer viruses when you can also burn out your computer?
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What's worst... pest or cholera?
Norton... 
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Linux GUI?
I thought Linux was run in console mode...
hides and ducks
M.D.V.
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It's an example of what can happen when your incentives aren't aligned with your values. You have to throw them back for the next person to catch
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I just changed my resume objective to: Seeking to be fired to make you look good.
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Good grief, that is a mentally ill corporation.
Small companies that acted in such a toxic manner would go bust quickly. But, above a certain size, it seems impossible for certain businesses to fail no matter how badly, wastefully, incompetently they are run. Their inertia, and especially B2B corporate revenue (which is driven by sales to similar businesses), drives them on regardless.
I'm not sure what to think about this. Is it acceptable, how things naturally are? Or is it something that regulation could properly deal with?
I am no fan of regulation due to inevitable regulatory capture.
I suspect that this type of madness is an example of "how things naturally are" and it doesn't matter -- as long as there are competitors, both in terms of sales and jobs. But when one business comes to represent a very large proportion of certain markets (and Amazon is already there in some markets) and can effectively prevent new market entrants by its mere existence then perhaps there does begin to be an objective problem.
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