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I, while working for a company that had lots of security-minded customers for its other products, was instructed to come up with a secure corporate email system that had nothing to do with SMTP. I did so, and the first people interested in it were the FBI. They didn't want a back door; they wanted to use it as a regular customer so their own emails couldn't be hacked. Before this deal was completed the company closed down after the president of the company fled the country with both the IRS and the FBI in hot pursuit (on unrelated matters). I wonder how it would have turned out if this latter incident hadn't happened.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Man, that's a hell of a story!
When is the movie coming out?! 
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Microsoft’s Jacob Rossi today announced on Twitter that the company will be releasing a porting tool which will allow developers to port their Chrome extensions to Microsoft Edge. If you can't beat 'em, port 'em.
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...and if it (apparently) works too well (see Android Bridge for Windows Mobile/Phone), we'll just pretend it never existed and push our own APIs as hard as we can. 
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Scala school started as a series of lectures at Twitter to prepare experienced engineers to be productive Scala programmers. Don't forget to bring an Apple for the teacher
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Why? ...just why?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Why post it? Because it's a slow Sunday.
Why Scala? Because pedants need to code too? 
Why Scala School? Because alliteration is wonderful.
Just why? A question for all time, and the philosophers
TTFN - Kent
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By using "alliteration" properly in a sentence you have proved your intrepid reporter credentials!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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With the proliferation of new languages and platforms, the ability to be technology-agnostic has evolved from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” — and developers face this reality daily. That's where you can't prove - or disprove - that a technology exists
Or you're too lazy to check
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Having seen a consulting organisation attempt to make one of these "agnostic" solutions work a few years ago I call bullshit on this approach.
Introducing disparate technologies and hoping they will work together based on the sales pitches is just wishful thinking. On going support for such a dogs breakfast is a nightmare with the various vendors being able to deny any problem is theirs and passing the buck to the next vendor in line.
Retaining the IP to support this type of solution is also extraordinarily difficult and Ghu forbid you are relying on the "consultant" for on going support.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I agree completely. Companies waste a staggering amount of money when they avoid making a commitment to a technology. The top definition for "agnostic" in the Urban Dictionary reads:An agnostic is a person who believes that the existence of a greater power, such as a god, cannot be proven or disproved; therefore an agnostic wallows in the complexity of the existence of higher beings. Wallowing in complexity... That is a perfect summary of technological agnosticism.
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While the software maker promised that all Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices would be upgraded to Windows 10, it's breaking that promise. Making it the first time Microsoft has broken a promise about mobile
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As a 1010 owner, I'm somewhat annoyed - one of my primary reasons for buying was the promise of updates.
Still, I'm due an upgrade, so I guess its Nexus now.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Developers have a year to prepare before modularity arrives in Java SE Development Kit 9 Are they going to call it "using"?
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To help provide greater flexibility for customers who have longer deployment timeframes to Windows 10, the support period for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices on Skylake systems will be extended by one year: from July 17, 2017 to July 17, 2018. Yeah, they've received "Feedback", and they're "responding"
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Unpatched "Stagefright" vulnerability gives attackers a road map to hijack phones. Android is the new Windows?
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Researchers are falling down on the job of figuring out the healthiest way to work. I guess I'm back to lying down at work then.
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It's really simple: do both - or rather, either, depending on how you feel at any moment. I have a desk that I stand at to work, and also a (high) office chair. SO I stand when I fee like standing, and sit when I feel like sitting.
It's hardly rocket science.
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We have these "standing desks" that have electronic extending legs, so the user can just press a few buttons on the small control panel to raise/lower the desk to a comfortable height.
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One thing I once read about ergonomics and "the best working position" said that the only meaningful advice is that "the best working position is the next working position". No matter what you think is best now, you will eventually become uncomfortable and you will change to a different position. You need to have options, and it seems to me that a standing desk limits your options more than a sitting desk does. Though, as has been mentioned, a desk that raises and lowers offers even more flexibility. 
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a standing desk limits your options more than a sitting desk does
How come? I can stand or sit at my desk (having a high chair as I do) - at a sitting desk I can only sit.
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Can you sit, leaned back, with your feet on the high desk?
Never kneeled at a low desk?
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The real solution is not to stay in one position too long. Every now and then you need to move around the office, get coffee or something. Long periods in one position are the worse thing whether it be sitting or standing.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forget about tests. If you have one part of your system that breaks whenever you change another part of your system, what can you conclude about the design of that system? Maybe he just needed tests for his tests?
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I love reading Uncle Bob's blog and find this conversational style of writing works really well at getting across his point. It's just like two regular guys / gals having a chat around the water-cooler. I wish more technical authors would take note.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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