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Satya Nadella’s admission that Microsoft “can do better” — made in the wake of sweeping layoffs, a newly enforced return-to-office policy, and a widening employee protest movement over the company’s cloud work — is the clearest public acknowledgment yet that the tech giant faces a crisis of...

Satya Nadella’s blunt acknowledgement — “I think we can do better, and we will do better” — landed during an unusually tense internal town hall and has become the most visible signal yet that Microsoft’s leadership recognizes a widening credibility gap with its workforce. The admission followed...

In a recent podcast interview, Coinbase’s CEO said he fired a small number of engineers who repeatedly refused to use—or even try—AI tools the company had provisioned for its developers. The CEO described going “rogue” in a company Slack announcement to make the priority clear, then hosting open...

Im on a W10 1903 gigabyte 17 laptop and after logging on I get the following .net framework error. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? Ive run all driver updates and windows updates. Thanks, See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of...

Practices, the tools and culture that the organization needed to evolve as it transformed to the second decade of Agile. Link Removed

Toys always reflect the larger culture -- its biases, fears and, most of all, its technology. New York's Toy Fair 2015 happened this week, and the latest round of new tech toys is bringing some of the most disturbing tech trends to children. Continue reading...

A very short clip, and I won't translate it, because it's 80% bad words. But I guess you can get the meaning? It could be Politics too? Man just trying to get it done, gets a swamp, wants to turn it into a field to feed wife and kids - survival.

This is an old, ancient from 1960's, showing a simple protest by a simple man, against a world that is totally against him. Translation is freely mine. Yes well it's the way that there's a lot wrong and boring in this country You don't even need to ask your pals about it Just take a slight...

All languages and cultures have some strange sayings. In Finland we say, You put your shoes in your foot [singular] - not your shoes on, that is. We also say, Pull your trousers in your foot [singular]. This might be a funny topic? What the heck are Aussies saying? Eh?

Whoosh has done a great job in introducing a very important part, comedy and humor, in a Forum that could be very numb and dumb, merely dealing with dull technical issues... Don't shoot the messenger, please. Psychologists and psychiatrists and philosophers and ones who know the human existence...

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Bieber vs. Beethoven (Test Post)

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Don't blink, or you will miss the subliminal message missile.

with the Hallelujah Chorus like you've never seen it before! This video from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska , was a school computer project intended for the other Yupiq villages in the area. Much to the villagers' shock, over a half million people have viewed it...

These inadvertently erotic billboards spotted outside various places of worship look like the work of some extremely naive — or severely repressed — church employees. Luckily, those of us who've already double-stamped our tickets to Hell are physically incapable of overlooking a dick joke...

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A flashmob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. Flashmobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails...