It's becoming the norm for Google's apps/software, and plenty of others, to have glaring issues that have made it into the public arena. Testing seems to have been dropped in favour of first to the post and/or just done not done right.

There goes my Skynet's comms strategy :(

People are just getting far to PC with things now days. Although I am hoping that Rocket Labs got some form of agreement from the other "interested" orbital organisations.

Don't forget "Get it done cheap".

That's why there's plenty of skilled developers (not toilet paper certifications, drop n drop, point n clickers) currently out of work or barely making a living.

Would that then be "Pornbook"?

Android development has also suffered the same issues. Showing my age... In the old days I remember trying to optimise some code and data to fit into 1K of RAM. It wasn't an easy task but eventually you'd work out a better more reusable function to serve more than one purpose and nail it.

<rant level="maybe"> Now days it seems that just getting something running is good enough to put into production. Agile projects run by PMs that think that teams working separately in little groups with no interaction between them is a good thing, and that "good enough" is good enough and done, are also to blame. As is the countless untrained and inexperienced developers working as Solution Analysts, Team Leads and Senior Developers because the company doesn't want to pay for experience and quantity not quality dominates the financials. </rant>

One step closer to Idiocracy. Add this to all those "conference" and "journal" sites and businesses that have been doing this for years now.

The major issue is that companies are forcing their workers to take less pay, work longer hours and train themselves, use lower quality tools and base products to increase the profit margins and make the books look great for shareholders and potential takeovers. The end result, in time, will be more reluctance to produce quality output, more failures, more dependence on borrowing, more unrest and unemployment. Perhaps this will be when the standard income, working or not, will become feasible? All I can think of is Idiocracy and feeding my peace plants Brawndo.

everyone knows that these overseas workers have full MS and Cisco certifications and have the documentation to prove it. And the bonus is that they are cheaper than most so the retail cost of products developed by companies using these workers will be reduced. YMMV :)

100% there's big money behind BitCoin and distributed crypto-currency failing.

What seems more apparent is that companies aren't providing opportunities and support to upskill employees that have had their position made redundant and part thereof. I have personally seen this happen when the core part of an employees job was automated and instead of offering to teach them the skills to maintain and improve the automated process the company just decided to offer them a lower income manual job and then let them off when they showed an interest in skillng up. The money saved from automation should be used to improve employee skill sets to enable them to make further contributions to the company. The problem appears to be not automation but profits getting maximised to the detriment of company health, fat cats and bottom lines being compressed.

Surely you just say something like... Look the cost is in the staff who you already have, it's Open Source and sits on top of an Open Source application, it's free, the platform to host it is either free or low cost commodity, plenty of people use it already (proven technology), it'll look good that the government is investing time not necessarily money from tax payers and it's using Open Source and Open Standards, so you're not tied into some niche technology only supported by a select few large corporation that when things go wrong give you zero support or guarantees (contrary to the contract). That last one is just my rant from an experience I've had already when I failed to convince a company to use Open Source and things went south big time.

How about the Naegleria fowleri amoeba mentioned in a later article. It appears to be getting more resilient and prevalent. Could it also be there? Or perhaps a similar amoeba?

Could've just said me but ... "I did it! Give me some love! The plan worked! The plan worked! I'm very clever! I'm the one, baby! Come on, time to robot! (robotic voice) I am very clever king. Tok tok tok tok tok. I am super genius. I am robot king of the monkey thing. Compute, compute."

And at the same time perhaps they will discover how to tap this energy, or at least a small part of it, for efficient power generation.