Bending Spoon is not owned by a PE, but they act like so. They somehow managed to borrow huge amounts of money from banks and investors on their own and use that money to buy other companies like a PE would do. Did not know Harvest, but Komoot, Vimeo and more, all of them ruined.
I believe the problem is related to staff using free plans of Claude and ChatGPT.
I don't know for ChatGPT but Claude claims that it will keep your chat private and not use your data for training if you are on a paid plan [1], unless you decide otherwise: "By default, we will not use your inputs or outputs from our commercial products (e.g. Claude for Work, Anthropic API, Claude Gov, etc.) to train our models."
The same statement is missing from the free plan policy page [2]
So it's totally reasonable for a Government to block its staff from using free services as this may leak sensitive information. We are doing the same in my organization hoping to protect our intellectual property.
I like the approach. As interesting as certain JVM languages can be (e.g. Scala, Kotlin, Clojure) they are not widely adopted in the industry.
I have been working in product development for 25+ years, and I have friends in different organizations all over Italy, where I live. They told me many horror stories of clients who had custom software built by consultants using Scala because it was cool, and few years later the consultants disappeared and the client remained with a sophisticate piece of software that is crucial for their business, which was written in a language that no other consultant wants to touch.
In short, while there are better languages out there, Java is a decent language with a large developer base and from a long term perspective and from a risk management point of view, Java is still the best choice for me. The latest revision of the Tiobe index shows Java at fourth place while Kotlin and Scala rank respectively 32nd and 40th place.
> which was written in a language that no other consultant wants to touch.
...or maybe they are not willing to pay a high enough price for said consultants?
I can guarantee you there would be many takers for the right price.
Some could say that the higher price is not justified, but that is a different discussion. Some others could also argue that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys...
The higher price is perhaps not justified in the sense that the software could surely have been built in a simpler language for which more (cheaper) consultants were available to maintain it.
i.e. today's consultant is justified in charging that price, but yesterday's developer was not justified in using Scala which caused such high future maintenance costs.
Not disagreeing you, but can we please stop using tiobe? It's by far the worst metric that doesn't mean anything (even though it is correct here, but so is a broken clock twice a day)
I live in Italy, Amazon opened its Italian branch about 15 years ago.
Initially it had a smaller catalog of products, with products sold almost entirely by Amazon. They were delivering packages in 3 days and the price was almost always much better than any other online or physical shop.
Over the years they largely improved the delivery time. Now if I am ordering a package before 4PM there is a high chance I will get it the next day in the morning. Prices however became higher and higher, at the point that for many products Amazon is not that convenient anymore: if you need home appliance (TV, dishwasher etc) other online or physical shops are now significantly cheaper. If you look sport equipment (e.g. climbing, mountain bike, hiking) the specialized shops are usually cheaper as long as you are OK to wait for longer delivery time and maybe combine 2 or more products to reduce the shipping costs.
I still find Amazon convenient during prime days and black Friday, and because of the large catalog with many alternatives and sometimes useful reviews (need a new shower head, a new mouse, a hole puncher, a tire for the bicycle...) but prices are not as good as they used to be. But if you need something in a hurry, the fact that you can order today and get it tomorrow is a big plus.
This is a balance bike meant to attract the dads who are fans of the brand rather than a balance bike meant to be good for kids.
First the handlebar is too large for small hands and comes with no grips, second the top tube is too wide to be comfortable between the legs and the whole frame is just edges.
If you want a good balance bike look for brands like prevelo [0] or woom [1] who have been designing kid bikes for years.
Woom is the best - not only when it comes to balance bikes, but also real bikes. As they really are bikes. Other, even serious, brands make kids' bikes that are just too heavy. Also, Woom keeps it's re-selling value very well, much better than anything what Tesla makes.
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