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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The disturbing thing is that they never, ever learn.
And what's really disturbing is the money they've spent on this project. My god, man, if they have that much money, wouldn't it be better served pumping it directly into education / training programs for people on welfare, heck, anybody?
By the way, the article says:
Touted as the world's biggest agile software project, the £2.4bn Universal Credit programme was supposed to showcase how the software methodology could be used on a grand scale.
Well, wasn't the failure of the prototype of Agile Development, the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation project, sufficiently "grand" to show that agile doesn't work?
Marc
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The former Apple CEO, who fired Jobs in 1985, gave his most illuminating explanation ever of the move at a Forbes conference in Bali last week. Ooops?
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Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. Maybe someone will buy the new ones?
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Inside the massive data centers that drive things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps, you’ll find tens of thousands of machines — each small enough to hold in your arms — but thanks to a new breed of software that spans this sea of servers, the entire data center operates like a single system, one giant computer that runs any application the company throws at it. My brain's not big enough to understand Docker, but it apparently rocks
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My favorite strange-loop story. It’s actually
a story about software security, and the kinds of stunts you can play with
software if you’re clever and subtle. It’s the story of the Unix C compiler, and the virtually invisible back-door security hole inserted into it by Ken Thompson – a story he told in his Turing award lecture.. Fun and games with compilers. Hopefully not for profit.
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The release is available for download now on the Visual Studio product website and is a "go-live" release. Starting today, developers can also download Windows 8.1 RTM via their MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. Oh look: new C++ features?! How did those get in there?
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Oracle's president argues that IT needs to change. Is he the right person to be making that argument? Do more with less (Oracle)
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Less than two months after the big “One Microsoft” reorganization plan was announced, more units are starting to learn how the high-level changes will affect their operations. I think the deck chairs would look better on the starboard side, don't you think?
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Microsoft is making the 'gold' Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 bits available to developers and volume licensees ahead of the October 18 general-availability date, after all. Everyone surprised, raise your mouse
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Guess I can upgrade my Surface Pro today instead of next month 
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In a post-Snowden era, it's getting hard to tell prudence from paranoia. 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'
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Cards are fast becoming the best design pattern for mobile devices. Is it the eight of diamonds?
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I read the intro and threw-up a little. Vile, disgusting marketing speak. How very dare you!
speramus in juniperus
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 I still think there were some useful points in there, it just took a bit of digging.
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TTFN - Kent
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Can you imagine if someone actually tried to market tripe? "The other, other white meat"?
I dunno, I saw a few good points in there, but I guess my patience for marketing lingo is higher than some.
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TTFN - Kent
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It actually happened in the late 30s and 40s; rather successfully, quite horrifyingly.
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From the article:
Cards give bursts of information
No, they give bursts of useless information.
Marc
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Spiegel is reporting that it has seen "top secret NSA documents" that detail the NSA's ability to gather information from most smartphones, including iPhones, Android, and and BlackBerry phones. How to keep things secret. Rule 1: never talk with anyone.
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Do programs exist in order to tell computers what to do, or do computers exist in order to execute programs? "Crazy? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?"
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Wow what have they been smoking ? 
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That sounds like a great topic to debate in the 1970's. Our current decade is dedicated to the holy wars over different web frameworks.
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Twitter is great for real-time news and updates, but searching through your history for tweets on a specific topic — that's much less efficient, even with hashtags. With more than 450 million tweets created every day, finding one from, say, 2007 may be harder (and more painful) than finding a piece of hay in a stack of needles. Find all those important milestones: What did I have for lunch on July 23, 2010?
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CoffeeScript has made the landscape of JavaScript development so much more interesting. There is no doubt that CoffeeScript has emerged. Rails and any other framework worth its salt ships with support for it. This of course assumes it has a present
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It's hoping to dismiss the class-action suit over privacy Peeking isn't evil
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