More Software Engineers Over Age 40 May Join a Lawsuit Against Google (yahoo.com)

More trouble for tech giants and how they are dealing with people. Google suffered a setback in an age discrimination suit this week. A judge ruled that other software engineers over age 40 who interviewed with the company but didn't get hired can step forward and join the lawsuit. From a Business Insider report: The suit was brought by two job applicants, both over the age of 40, who interviewed but weren't offered jobs. Specifically, the judge has approved turning the suit into a "collective action" meaning that people who "interviewed in person with Google for a software engineer, site reliability engineer, or systems engineer position when they were 40 years old or older, and received notice on or after August 28, 2014, that they were refused employment, will have an opportunity to join in the collective action against Google," the ruling says. While this isn't good news for Google, the ruling was strictly focused on whether the suit could be broadened to include more people. It doesn't mean that Google will ultimately lose the case. Google says it's fighting the suit.

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Modern App Design

[fyngyrz]

...trying to explain why you need 100 lines code, a transpiler and knowledge of css+js+typescript+node+whatever they can pile up to write an angular js hello world "application" where the programmer spent 6 months agonizing about "UX", the post-build footprint is a five GB executable (not counting dragging in a few more GB of frameworks it needs to run), which in turn requires a 4 GHz multicore CPU to run it without dragging the computer to its knees, which would fall immediate prey to the first hacker who decides it's a target, will only run on the very, very latest bleeding-edge OS's, and turns out to be infected with the GPL so Corporation X's nest of lawyers forbids its use before it even gets to market anyway.

FTFY. :)