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Perhaps they realized how bad of an idea it was. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DevOps is cool. Correction: DevOps is mainstream. Correction: DevOps has broken through the mainstream and is now quickly catching up on “Agile”, “Big Data” and the almighty “Cloud” as an excessively used buzzword. So how much substance is there to the hype of DevOps? As in "hole"? (for money and time)
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It seems to me that at its core, "DevOps" is: Don't use humans to do the tedious stuff computers can do (metrics, test, build, deploy, maintain). This seems like ComSense to me.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: This seems like ComSense to me.
Scarce good this days 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Among the most "oversold as a cure" methodologies introduced to business development teams today is Scrum, which is one of several agile approaches to software development and introduced as a way to streamline the process. It's Tuesday (or Wednesday), time for a new methodology!
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Agile is old and Scrum is older, we're so cutting edge our next project will be Emoji.
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I have always followed an agile methodology, long before the term was coined and capitalized upon.
Scrum was a formulation and a formalization that I never bought into, personally. I mean "pair programming", for example... Who has ever had that kind of money to burn!?
The article is excellent. Thanks for posting a link to it here.
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Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. "That's it! Game over, man! Game over!"
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Quote: We know we don’t live in isolation. You have a heterogeneous environment and we need to operate within it.
Translation: That's why Windows 10 has to spy on you.
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He's talking about the other meaning of security - insurance...
Windows 10 security (sometimes called spyware) is there as an insurance of Microsoft's future income...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people's honesty varies significantly between countries. It must be true: he comes from an honest country
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No shiz Sherlock! It's a cultural thing, "white" lies and all.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Or in the words of Billy Joel:
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you
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Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we're all just puppets bending to its many whims. 
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Lot of my Thai friends use 555 in their comments and I was wondering what that is until I found out Thai word for 5 is "Ha"...
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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What better testimony to the impending extinction of literacy than making an emoji the "word of the year."
Endangered species: vocabulary, eloquence, fiction, poetry.
curmudgeonly yours, the Poet formerly known as Bill.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Moore's law combined with ever increasing hardware reliability means that the days of needing to replace a PC every couple of years are long gone. "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
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In a sane world this might be true, but, for better and for worse, there a billion hardware-freaks and status-obsessives out there who will always want the latest gear. Not to mention the party-hacks (tech reviewers) who increase page-views by hyping the latest updated whatever no matter how trivial the improved-increased-faster whatchamacallit ... is.
Meanwhile software stumbles along ever more-bloated, more memory greedy.
Of course, I look on the bright side of things with my one good eye.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BTW I went to lok at the new Surface 4 machines and I want. Better yet, my wife approves when we get back from wunter break.
Heading to Bolivia for a mobnth and a half. This is basically apermanently to retire! We'll see how it goes.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I also don't think there's enough landfill space to deal with disposing a billion PC's.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the days of needing to replace a PC every couple of years are long gone.
I own a PC since 1991 and changed it only 6 times, and two of them were for extraordinary reasons (one fried and one I left at home when I moved). 386 -> 486 -> 166 MMX -> Celeron 1700 -> P4 -> i7. My latest PC is a 4.5 years old laptop which I really hope it lasts at least one more year before the hardware fails, it saw a lot of use.
There never has really been the need to replace a PC every couple of years...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Intel probably plays a part in that. They didn't update their desktop architecture for a whole two years (Haswell to Skylake).
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Google's search app is getting better about understanding the core meaning and intent of your questions, the company announced today, as it can now handle superlatives (tallest, largest, etc.) combined with ordered items. Hey Google: What's that search site everyone forgets to use?
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Bing?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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As I look at frameworks, I see the ergonomic benefits, but I can’t help but feel that, for many developers, investing in knowledge of the web platform itself is the best long-term bet. Lock-in isn't free
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