Funny how it coincides with the highest union density, none of the new deal being rolled back and the rest of the world basically still being rubble from WWII.

And it’s been in the news for almost a year, this article from January mentions it, in the context of the dangers of a next Trump presidency.

It’s being mentioned more now because the Democrats decided they should actually do some messaging on this instead of their usual messaging incompetence, and they’ve been at it for months as well.

What do you mean? It’s everywhere.

Until you get rejected for a job at your own dad’s company.

He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he’s still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.

Having worked with designers in an ad agency (although not a designer myself), the male designers didn’t ever have a good thing to say about the work of any of the female designers. Consequently, none of them stuck around for long (one of them is a creative director in a big agency now, so presumably she wasn’t that bad).

Then again, they were assholes in many other respects as well, and the guys in the next companies I worked for were a lot better.

I mean, it would be nice to see a comparison between a Chinese loan and a loan by the IMF. Maybe the sting still has to come because they haven’t been doing it for as long, but there’s got to be a good reason those countries go with China instead of the IMF.

To me it seems like IMF loans involve privatising revenue generating assets, lowering taxes on the wealthy and austerity on the masses. The biggest criticism of the Chinese way of financing is that if you default on the loan you used to build a port/highway/railway line, they keep that specific asset. And I guess instead of using local labour they use Chinese workers.

There’s definitely things to criticise there, but I know which option I’d pick if I needed a port in my country.

And now job boards are full of ads for ‘salesforce developers’ that pay ridiculous amounts because nobody really wants to work on salesforce.

Yep, do we want to have 2 parties where the candidate isn’t accountable to viewers, or just the 1?

Yeah, my bad,I thought they were linked (in the sense that the weapons from Iran Contra were promised in exchange for the hostages), but I guess they were seperate.

Rumoured? Iran-Contra was well publicised and accepted as fact.

It doesn’t make sense either. There’s probably 100s of apps that are capable of serving Disney content to people. This is another case of ‘young people are broke and you’re greedy’. Whereas old Disney was a VHS tape or DVD that you could play over and over again, currently basically all their content is on Disney+, which is an expensive monthly subscription.

Hamas had a whole investigation and remediation in the space of days, in the middle of a war zone. Meanwhile we’re still waiting to find out who killed Shireen Abu Akleh over 2 years ago.

It pissed people off so much when they did it in 2008, and they just kept doubling down on the strategy. Never learning any lessons (even when they partly did the right thing during the pandemic by cutting everyone a check, they had to pair that with the even larger TPP program that had barely any oversight).

To visit relatives mostly. And it’s a big tourist destination in the Muslim world because of some more permissive laws regarding alcohol and the like.

Eh, I can see why you’d want something like that in a language like JavaScript where pretty much all native ways of validating input have weird edge cases. Sometimes you just want the community to figure it out for you instead of reinventing the wheel and finding out you missed something later on.

A whole package that handles validation of inputs, or a math package would be better than a package that just has one function tho.

Is it because they included a crypto miner in the package?

Which definitely wouldn’t have been a single developer’s fault.

Yeah exactly. You’d think they’d have a test suite before pushing an update, or do a staggered rollout where they only push it to a sample amount of machines first. Just blaming one guy because you had an inadequate UAT process is ridiculous.

Probably like $50/month in cloud resources if you turned off all the extra stuff and only did redirects and kept it around in read only mode. You’d need to do some dev work up front and price that in as well, obviously.