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Old 12-04-2020, 12:18 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by spike021 View Post
It's even weirder when you're a software engineer at one of these big tech companies and get the work email invites to dogfood (internally test) new features.

I can't say what but let's just say I got one the other day and was like why the heck is this really necessary??
Lol.

One time there may or may not have been some functionality that was casually implemented for ... science?... on some equipment regarding geo tagging of devices based on a live stream of such data, available commercially by subscription, just to see if it would work. All copies of the alleged code may have then been deleted due to the somewhat terrifying implications of said possible implementation.
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