Reading the summary, it's clear the problem is that people are confusing what it means to take an iterative approach to development.

Production code is production code, and they should never have stopped shipping production code. The amount of scrutiny/rigor applied to code shipped in an agile environment should not decrease vs. waterfall. You're just shipping smaller chunks a lot more frequently.

All this means test, test, test, the entire time.

Thanks for letting us know you watched An Inconvenient Truth.

Tolkein? Is that you?

Whups, lol, year fail.

I hear this fallacy a lot.

When I work from home, I'm still pairing up with another developer over skype/tmux, and I am super productive doing it.

It's 2012, there's no reason remote working should incur a penalty in collaboration.

Why does everyone wonder why locally produced food costs so much, instead of wondering why the over processed megacorp garbage is so cheap?

Pointers are pretty essential to a kernel.

Does that quote imply Doug Stanhope believes in God and free will?

When the smartcard is given a public/private key pair, it registers the public key with a basic centralized keystore. Then the ssh server starts refusing key authentication with any client not trying to authenticate against one of the public keys generated by the smartcard setup process.

Due to my moderation threshold missing the comment you were replying to, I had assumed that you were one of those fundie-athiests bringing up religion out of nowhere just to let everyone know how stupid you thought religion was.

But then I read the comment you were replying to and then yours made total sense.

Carry on.

So you assume the bad guys have a first name of Mohammed? :)

Heck, why don't we blame sprinkling iron sulphate on the pacific?

So what you're really saying is something more like, "you know, I've met Muslims that weren't terrorists, but at the same time, it seems like all terrorists who want to destroy the US happen to be Muslim."

I see green people! EVERYWHERE!