Really good point, "well my fingerprint is compromised, time to have this one burned off"

Do you have any personal tricks or methods to learning new things, and what are the benefits/shortfalls or situations where it didn't work?

will you continue to be friends if he hates it, you duty as a grind is to dispense advice (if requested or appropriate). and empower the decisions he does make, it is NOT your duty to make sure he makes the decision you like.

and it would quickly turn out that only the rich would be able to afford it while the poor die at the same rate, how does this improve society?

It only effected a small handful of people unlucky enough to have windows phones.

See, they told us about it! Surely we can trust them. Don't worry next month we'll get some new tidbit after this calms down, as they "turn up the heat a little more".

Because publicly traded companies breed and promote people who stay within the box, and apply the model that the investors, accountants, and whoever else are OK with. Bureaucracy and politics are self perpetuating cycles that assimilate good ideas to meet their wold view.

That's hard core millitary logic right there. "lets not fix the real problem, lets just fire people who could point them out"

How about, if it ever was misused in those ways, will we even know...oh right, that's number 1.

Surely they won't abuse it after this!

Ask about the problem children and squeaky wheels (regarding to servers), that will get you down to the one-off fixes that are held up by bits of string and expect scripts that rely on chaining ssh across 5 machines to touch a file that doesn't exist. Ask about the oldest equipment, and spend some extra time getting to know your world. Leverage the time you have with him, when he goes home for the day scour the network and start looking at boxes and going over notes, when you run into problems write them down and ask him about those.

And you dont have a week you have 4 days, because the last day he may show up but you most likely wont get much out of him unless its a quick Q and A. That and keep your resume up to date because you may want to use it again soon.

I was referring to the narrative that since Microsoft released software for Android Linus won. Pointing out with the title that Google really builds and controls the SDK to a point and that Microsoft has released Office on Mac's for a long time, before windows in fact, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office. So if Office is the measure of making it, isn't apple on top? Or more to the original point, this isn't really a good metric since "it's just on android". Now Office running without wine on a desktop Linux distribution, where Microsoft actually has a large market share would be impressive. Microsoft has never done well with mobile, and continues to do bad, they've just started caring about it because its starting to displace full blow desktops.

Android is not Linux, and by that definition apple won a long time ago.

Some day Microsoft will make a really good case study as a company that had the PC world on a string and ended up making themselves irrelevant by trying to copy a model that works and turning it into something that doesn't.

Controversial or not its not a permanent position

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