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It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest. I'm a Blurb Engineer
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Hear! Hear!
No way in hell can you succesfully engineer this way.
Unless maybe you're Toyota.
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imho a very poorly written article that belabors an insignificant point. Consider:
The Volkswagen diesel-emissions exploit was caused by a software failing, even if it seems to have been engineered, as it were, deliberately. So a deliberate implementation of a fraud is a "software failing" ?
«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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I am an Engineer and use that instead of programmer, even if 90% of my job is programming. I have to mix Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Electronics, Telecommunication and Mechanics knowledge to build software for complex integrated systems. When things become heavily multidisciplinary and involve a large amount of designs I think it's better to call it engineering, as that's what it is.
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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I agree, Engineers have professional qualifications to pass before being let loose on public work, and can be struck off if they fail to follow professional standards.
If that occurred in software, half of us would be redundant.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IMHO, companies that build faulty software will go the way of the Dodo. The market weeds out the garbage that doesn't meet the need of the customer. I consider myself an "engineer" because this is how I view software. Bad solutions are not a predicament but a consequence.
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Developers want end users to engage with their applications, and a new way of trying to achieve that is having devices learn from the user and adjust accordingly. This capability has been seen in technologies such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now, IBM’s Watson, and Microsoft’s Project Adam, but has been mostly too complex and too time-consuming for smaller companies or independent developers to implement.
But one company wants to change that. I see you when your sleeping...I know when you're awake.
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The end-goal of a DevOps transformation should be that we stop talking about DevOps. It's the first rule, after all
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Seriously. Do we really need a name for working together as a team?
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With the Open API Initiative, the Linux Foundation and its partners -- including IBM -- plan to make the next generation of APIs easier to find, use, document, and transform. Because that worked so well with SOAP
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As important as they are, software and network security seem so often ignored. Every month I hear about a data security breach even more egregious than the last. What's going wrong? You only have to be wrong once, they only need to be right once
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Every month I hear about a data security breach even more egregious than the last.
I thought the standard was weekly  "Patch Tuesday"
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I've decided to check the first commercial version of Cfront, released in October, 1983 as it's this version that turned 30 this year. Never look at your old code. That way only leads to madness (and sadness).
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Never look at your old code. That way only leads to madness (and sadness).
Anyway, C++ is a write only language. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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APL is a write only language.
TECO[^] is a write only language.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I didn't say C++ is the only one 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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"released in October, 1983 as it's this version that turned 30 this year. "
That don't add up.
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Microsoft is looking to get into the hearables space with a dedicated Cortana device, currently known as Clip. "I am Locutus - of Borg. Resistance - is futile."
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I am C-3PO, I am a protocol droid and fluent in "over six million forms of communication"
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
modified 5-Nov-15 18:54pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: currently known as Clip
I can't be the only one who read this and instantly thought: "Great, a device from Microsoft that will listen to everything I say and offer helpful suggestions like 'It looks like you are trying to bake a cake, here are some places that sell industrial adhesive.' or 'It sounds like you are trying to get out of a traffic ticket. Here are some lawyers in your area.'"
If it has googly eyes, I'm claiming SkyNet.
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Just what we need, the return of clippy!
(As an example of the rule that any internet search will eventually turn of NSFW material, searching for Clippy managed to find "Conquered by Clippy, an erotic short story". The mind just boggles).
(Naturally, I've saved the link for later er, investigation, when I get home  )
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Facebook's chief technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, says that when the company thinks about where it wants to be by 2025, it aims to "effectively build a teleporter."
"Facebook wants to build a device that allows you to be anywhere you want, with anyone, regardless of geographic boundaries," Schroepfer added at a press event on Tuesday morning before his appearance at the Dublin Web Summit. [^]
You gotta understand that Mike is just plain bored counting his stock options and planning new ways to hi-jack and monetize Facebook users' personal data and private communications.
«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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Wasn't that Microsoft's tag line (years ago)?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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