What a thumbnail. Look at these proud parents.

That depends on how many things you NEED it to do. My kitchen knife is not more obsolete than my air fryer just because it does fewer things.

And this is a misuse of the term technical debt. Technical debt does not mean OLD. Finished software from the 80s that was complete and bug free has no technical debt. New software almost UNIVERSALLY has more technical debt than older software because nobody has cleaned up the first draft yet. A continuing, rolling package of spaghetti code, patches, unvetted dependencies, and jammed in features that are sold for subscription fee purposes rather than customer need is OVERFLOWING with it. That’s what “move fast and break things” MEANS.

If it still works for the purpose, it is NOT obsolete.

Stop fetishizing the new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)

At a practical level, I agree with you.

That DOESN’T mean that if you do shitty things just because they’re legal, you get to be exempted from people’s judgement.

For example, shorting stocks and collapsing basically profitable companies for short-term gains is totally legal. Doing it still makes you a piece of trash, and I will judge you, and encourage others to judge you, as such.

I do. I empathize with it completely. I’m not even saying that condition is WRONG. But I AM saying that turning someone’s lamentation of the situation into an attack on them is crass. It’s possible to acknowledge the bad situation one group is in, and acknowledge their actions are reasonable, while ALSO being sympathetic about the collateral damage of the situation.

Yes, this is a satire account, but I’ve heard the exact same crap from so-called “small landlords” who think clearly the problem is someone else.

Every small contributor that makes up the bulk of the problem thinks the REAL problem is the one that’s bigger than them and they’re the small potatoes, or the good one.

This applies to EVERYTHING. Not just property.

This is EXTREME hyperbole like I’ve rarely seen before.

Is all empathy secret projection for one’s own insecurity? Or only when the empathy is for someone who isn’t a member of a traditionally/systemically victimized group?

PHRASING!

Gave me a heart attack.

Undemocratic thing is undemocratic.

Shocked Pikachu

No, I didn’t expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can’t turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn’t make claims that it can’t back up?

I’m not saying it’s right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn’t. That’s on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn’t mean it. And furthermore, why give them the benefit of the doubt? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To a company that wouldn’t care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?

And sure, they can "clarify"all they want that he didn’t mean the words that he said precisely and accurately in unambiguous English. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s not some random employee. He is an executive. He knows, and everyone else should know as well, that he speaks as a representative of the company. Otherwise what’s to keep them from lying through their teeth about whatever features they want? “It prints free money! It’ll cure all your diseases! No, no… he didn’t mean that.”

He’d probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don’t know…

THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY’D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

Pepperidge Farm remembers, Microsoft scum.

So tiptoe around the bully and change your behavior in the hopes he decides to leave you alone?

Screw him, and screw his feelings. We have the right to free speech, it’s not “free speech as long as we don’t upset a jerk.” If he goes off the rails and pulls a Nero over it, that’s on HIM. I’m not gonna tiptoe around him with this “he who must not be named” crap in the hopes that he can be appeased by keeping quiet, and I’m ESPECIALLY not going to do it for MY servant, which is what he, as the president, is.

I want to believe this is real SO badly, but it’s just too perfect… It can’t be… can it?

They don’t have to. Geniuses behind the movement picked a copyrighted character owned by a scummy corporation who is NOT on their side to express their outrage. They can just DMCA it down and everyone gets reverted to a lovely solid color block with their initial in it by default.

Does my code have to not suck?

Oh, I didn’t say they weren’t. But everyone who voted for Trump is.

To be fair, they’re INCREDIBLY fucking stupid.