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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: This article is too focused on the benefits for the employers.
Yup, very one-sided.
It does also does not mention any obvious drawbacks. Too much flexibility means that some key-players may abandon you in the worst possible moment. It also means a workforce that is less loyal and less 'involved'.
It is an evangelist, not someone who is doing an analysis - it is obviously promoting an opinion, and not very succesfull at that either 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Experienced workers, who are able to jump into a project quickly, save a company valuable time and resources
BS. I've never seen a project that I can jump into quickly and be effective. The reason I'm hired is because the project is an elephanting mess, and being effective usually means spending a solid month or more just figuring out how all the crapware is glued together. And that doesn't even touch learning what bizarre tools a company uses, or even worse, setting up communication, version control, bug tracking, QA, testing, etc. because they're non-existent.
The funny thing is, the first few months of any major contract that I've ever had involve very little programming, and very much getting to know the politics (especially when two or more managers rank priorities completely differently) and getting everyone on board with tools and formal processes.
So yeah, I guess I am pretty much immediately effective, just not in the way the recruiter (or the company) expected.
Marc
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A rogue chunk of debris that orbited Earth far beyond the Moon is making a homecoming on November 13th, astronomers have concluded. Mental note: bring umbrella
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Hide in your cave those who suffers from friggatriskaidekaphobia.
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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If it's Lore, please don't reactivate him.
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No, it's a statue made of validium[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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How can vendors expect to migrate reluctant users to more reliable and up-to-date operating systems like Windows 10 or El Capitan -- especially when upgrade notices and reminders break earlier versions? Well that's one solution to, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" (break it yourself)
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Looks like disabling winupdate is the solution after all 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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In the last 11 years, since I got the first WinXP and then Win7, the only things that broke my computer were updates.
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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So true
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The lawsuit alleges new on-by-default Wi-Fi Assist feature blows through data caps. The Reality Disruption Field ends when you get the invoice
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For the past few months, a “very large fraction” of the millions of queries a second that people type into the company’s search engine have been interpreted by an artificial intelligence system, nicknamed RankBrain. "I know that you were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
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There is certainly a lack of evidence-based methodology around what we do, and I attribute this largely to the fact that it’s really, really hard to gather and interpret the evidence. "She blinded me with science" (but not code)
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If IT had it's Archibald Cochrane[^] we'd be a long way further down the road of answering these "difficult" questions the way that other sciences do - using statistical meta-analysis of multiple studies to reach our conclusions and to factor out variables we aren't testing for (such as programming language in the author's example)
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I'd have to say that programmers practice "computer science" the same way that computer scientists practice "programming."
While, of course, "practice never makes perfect," programmers and computer scientists may not understand each other when they use the words "practice," or, "perfect."
In many cases, this mis-understanding is deliberate.
«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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When your product has millions of users, any change that you make is guaranteed to impact a significant number of people. So, when you decide the time has come to remove a traditional feature, you are sure to encounter some resistance. Fondue Tasting Protocol?
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Holy mother of FUD.
Someone suggests that Chrome consider moving FTP support from a core browser feature to something that's only present if the user opts to install it. It gets zero positive support there. Over a year later someone metoo's it to bugzilla, to an equally negative response. Some mouth-breathing (when the hob on his shoulder whispers into his ear to remind him to do so) so called "journalist", concludes that it's something that will be done and writes a hysterical piece that hyperventilates on the fact that it's being tracked as a "bug" (because bugzilla doesn't make formal differentiation between bugs, suggestions, feature additions, etc) and then slaps [confirmed] in a way that implies that he got confirmation that Mozilla intends to remove the feature, not that Mozilla just confirmed that someone made the suggestion that it should be remove.
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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To be fair, in this case Mozilla have confirmed they are looking at this due to the insecure nature of FTP. (See the update at the end of the article).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In celebrating Java's 20 years, former Sun CEO McNealy laments James Gosling's departure from Oracle. Braces and semi-colons?
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Today Mozilla is launching an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. Our initial allocation for this program is $1,000,000. We are inviting people already deeply connected to Mozilla to participate in our first set of awards.
OSS-some, get it? awesome? 
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Now I am puzzled, whether to make a living by a commercial software release or an open source software release. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In 20+ years of professional coding, I’ve never seen someone go from novice to full-fledged programmer in a matter of weeks, yet that seems to be what coding academies are promising, alongside instant employment, a salary big enough to afford a Tesla and the ability to change lives. Everyone knows the best way to learn programming is in 21 Days
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Everyone knows the best way to learn programming is in 21 Days
Drawback is it's only for dummies. 
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Only for dummies?
Hey, that covers 98% of the programmers I have met! Those who are asking, "Please send codez! Urgent!" 
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I've been coding for way longer than that and I'm still learning. 
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