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are not happy with the quality of updates and the cadence of feature releases,
You mean continuous deployment isn't what the customer wants? I'm stunned. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: You mean continuous deployment isn't what the customer wants?
Yeah, all us users know we don't want it.
All them software pushers say we do want it. 
Even though the Ivory Tower has been surrounded it still thinks it knows what we want, refuses to listen and insists it knows best. 
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raddevus wrote: it still thinks it knows what we want, refuses to listen and insists it knows best.
And THAT is the very definition of "ivory tower!" 
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More like an Indian parent.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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What I dislike most is W10 will turn on a laptop that is in sleep mode with the lid closed, have it update itself, and then leave it on. All with the lid closed. I can not believe anyone thinks that is a good idea.
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Yeah, it's crazy stuff on these updates. Complete take-over.
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Well, I commend her for her politeness, I would have been something like: I Fart In Your General Direction! - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Thieves obtain platform's private key, use it to destroy coins, then create new ones. Except for the part that it was detected
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AI is teaching robots more elegant movements, but they still can’t match humans in learning power It rolled a 19 on 3d6?
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Introduces a new flexible and scalable way to structure your projects, powerful new support for operating on parameter lists, new types to enforce explicit checks, better JSX support, an overall better error UX, and much more! I'm not sure if, "A Better JavaScript" is a compliment
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Rio 2.0 rates potential signs of extraterrestrial life from 0 to 10, with 10 equivalent to ‘an alien shaking your hand’ Rates a 3.0 on the silly notion scale
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My system is far easier; every potential contact is rated on a scale of zero to zero.
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My systems has only two settings: "yeah, right!" and "run, hide!".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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As we wind down work on standardizing the XML stack at W3C it’s worth looking at some of what we have accomplished and why. W3C XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is one of the world’s most widely-used formats for representing and exchanging information. The joy of angle brackets
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XML on the Web is Dead - Douglas Crockford
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When we talk about COBOL the first question on everyone’s mind is always Why are we still using it in so many critical places? "Math class is tough"
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Given that some COBOL programs have been running (with successive modifications) successfully for over 40 years, if you were looking at rewriting that, which technology would you use that you felt confident may have anything like that longevity. I suspect that may be a major factor in its continued use.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's a really good article!
For a great many of us, the inherent inaccuracy of floating point variables is never really an issue but when things get recursive those tiny little rounding errors can result in huge differences. The Muller recurrence sequence is an excellent example of the way that a series of marginal errors can suddenly explode into spectacular wrongness - the "butterfly effect" in full effect.
Similar things are going on somewhere in a computer system somewhere near you right now, albeit probably in a much less dramatic way. That's maybe something you don't want to ponder too deeply while the autopilot's flying your 'plane.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Tech firms like Facebook should be made liable for "harmful and misleading" material on their websites and pay a levy so they can be regulated, British lawmakers said, warning of a crisis in democracy due to misuse of personal data. For the record: I never 'post fake news', just 'news, posted fakely'
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With the caveat that "fake news" is whatever news the accuser disagrees with.
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To a certain extent, yes. But seeing some of the “news” sites debunked on snopes, there is some truly fake news out there.
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, but that's not what most politicians are complaining about.
(Unless politicians are concerned that it IS "the year of Linux on the desktop".)
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True dat (especially whenever politicians are involved).
Wait?! It’s not The Year of Linux?
TTFN - Kent
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The "fake news" hysteria has never been about actual fake news; only politically inconvenient news.
It seeks to censor disadvantageous news and highlight advantageous news on social media, regardless of the truth or fiction of either.
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