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Funny you would post about such an obscure subject now. I was just checking that book out a couple of days ago, probably because of a reference from the tz database or Joda Time. In my spare time I'm working on a library for calendar calculations so this might just be the push I needed to order that book.

DAE absolutely hate the 😂 emoji?

Specific cause it was exactly the situation with my last employer

When there is both Cisco video conferencing equipment and Skype/Teams-certified devices in the conference rooms because they are managed by two different departments that purchased conference equipment separately.

Or GNU HURD, FreeBSD, ReactOS, Singularity, TempleOS, ...

Says a company that makes an ad blocker

I'm 45 y/o with a job, a house and two teenager kids. I can probably count the games I finished on one hand.

I would be surprised if they didn't. They must see where the tide is turning.

When the C-suite says "innovation" they tend to mean either "things other companies did that this company hasn't done yet" or "obvious stuff that we should have done already but didn't".

I have lost all interest in playing any future Bethesda games because of their engine. It was pretty crap (but acceptable) back in 2011. Now it feels like a scam to pay for their games. Like one of those "GameStation 5" you can buy on Wish.

Even the gigs have a thread running through them, though. You can puzzle together stories by doing them.

Oh but they're not selling it, they're leasing it.

He probably thinks this thought and rejects the proposition over a million times per second

Sorry, I can see from the first screenshot on their web site that OnlyOffice is not conducive to legibility. A user interface that promotes direct control of the typeface (instead of styling rules based on semantic tags) is going to produce inconsistent documents.

User interfaces should be designed to make it easy to do things right, and difficult to do things wrong. This UI encourages people to produce crap.

Their other screenshots further show that they do not care about things like appropriate margin size or inter-word spacing, leaving me with little trust in the product.

I just think Microsoft Word is actively making the entire world less efficient. It's not made to produce documents that are easy to read. Don't have an obvious contender though. LibreOffice Writer just tries to be the same shitty product but free, LaTeX is way too technical and has horrible error handling. Markdown usability and quality breaks down if you make any serious use of tables and figures.

Since I'm not a US citizen I also think it's a threat to our country that our entire administration and every company is dependent on storing documents in an effectively proprietary format controlled by a US company, on cloud servers controlled by a US company. If compelled by the US government, Microsoft could put all of EU to a halt with the flick of a switch. National security calls for formats as central as this to be open standards supported by multiple competing products.

Relief, not excitement

It doesn't need to be paid. Many journalists are happy to receive a pre-written article that they can just push out with zero effort.

Anything I would actually buy if I couldn't pirate it.

A decade ago I said it was 3-4 decades away

Give it a decade or two, and Java will be the new COBOL