Okay cool, but what about the games you’ve already had out for like a year?

Like, idk, ff7r2 on PC?

You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

99% of their “innovation” comes from pubic sector academia or stuff NASA already figured out anyway.

IMO SpaceX shouldn’t have exclusive rights to any of it, really

The only thing they’re really bringing to the table is money. NASA could be doing exactly the same stuff if the government actually treated it as a priority.

Well I’m glad someone has done this so everyone else can see for sure that this is a dead idea

That thumbnail lol

Okay but what if you use emoji in your password?

Putting everything else aside:

Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?

Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?

I think that would categorically be world war at that point. I was more going on about seriously denouncing this kind of thing as being on the road to world war, before we get to that point

When the gap was only £10-20k a few years ago, you could justify to yourself that sticking in the public sector was probably affording you some quality of life benefits.

Now the gap is more like tripling your salary and nearly everyone good has left for greener pastures. Hell, the work/life balance didn’t even change much for me

My understanding is that if you’re working in tech at GCHQ, you’re dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.

You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.

~£40k isn’t even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they’re probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.

There are even other parts of the government that don’t have all that baggage and pay more.

So when do we start seriously saying this is looking like we’re escalating into world war here?

And people will be going to prison for this, right? Ballot boxes will have definitely been put in view of CCTV, right?

The man is demonstrably not smart enough to pull off a joke that good deliberately

The link to the forum discussion in the article probably

There’s no way that’s satirical, there’s too much of it

I think heat typically intensifies over time: anecdotally, leftover hot food is always hotter a couple of days after it was freshly made

I have a voice in my role, but I’m not going to pretend I’m the only person at the company.

I’m more making the point that your single voice will not be sufficient to affect direction regarding cloud provider choice in a big enough company, that dice was probably already rolled a decade ago. I’m not saying it’s impossible or anything, but you’re gonna need to come up with an incredible business case for throwing away years of hundreds of engineers’ work building on top of platform A for a costly switch to platform B all for no customer benefit.

Now vice had its problems, but how the fuck was this goon one of the co-founders?

History tells me that if the US is disenfranchising a group of people, it’s usually racism

That mentality only works in the “adopting cloud” stage. Vendor lock-in is real, and AWS was doing what it does long before there even were competitors, let alone ones with feature parity.

If you start a job somewhere of any reasonable size with incumbent AWS infrastructure, switching to another provider will be an uphill struggle in the best possible circumstance and in most cases it will be a Sisyphean exercise that’ll probably end up with you out of a job before the AWS bill goes down

Great.

Now do trains