Back in about 1981, Apple did this. Steve Jobs was changed forever after seeing Xerox Parc. Soon Apple employed the top who's who of every great computer science person on the planet. Like with everything Apple did back then, it took Microsoft a long time to copy.

Taking an old saying, and exhaustively expanding it to its logical conclusion, I come up with the following observed hierarchy of value.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, become managers.
Those who can't manage, teach on the subject.
Those who can't teach, become consultants*.
Those who can't succeed in consulting, run for office.
Those who can't get elected, become lobbyists.
The problem is that everyone lower down than "those who can" incorrectly perceive the value hierarchy to be inverted to make themselves feel better.


* Insultants

This is the best evidence why a free market should not be allowed for the employment of smart people.

/sarc

I assume communication failures also count as 'system down'?

It seems like the easiest way to give the average backhoe operator launch authority.

Don't worry. Robots have no reason to want to harm slow, inferior, annoying humans.

If the NSA had only been spying on terrorists we wouldn't even be having this conversation. (although it's not really a conversation, but you get my point)

Why would the NSA and CIA be spying on Congress? Is it someone's goal to set up the apparatus of a police state?

Why is the NSA spying on the EU Parliament? Are they looking for terrorists in Parliament?

See: TED How the NSA betrayed the world's trust — time to act
at: 4:30
also see at: 12:40 (or at 12:00 for better context) "I don't think they're looking for terrorists in Parliament."
(see at: 6:00 if you believe in encryption golden keys)

Maybe Space X will have a requirement to sell space launches through dealer networks, but United Launch Alliance will not have such a requirement.

I like getters/setters in Java because in practice, the JVM compiles everything down to native code and aggressively inlines. So typical getters/setters cost nothing and are direct accesses to member variables. But it gives you the flexibility to later make the getter/setter do something else without affecting other code.

Suppose you were to change the getter/setter and then dynamically re-load the class at runtime in a running system. The JVM will immediately de-optimize (go back to interpreted bytecode) for all methods that now have stale inlined code (from the old version of the class). Dynamic profiling may then quickly reveal that the de-optimized code is (still, as it was before) an actual CPU hot spot, causing it to get re-compiled again, and if appropriate, to have those getters/setters inlined, or not.

The JVM compiler is like having a global -O 5 optimizer that can optimize globally across the actual code running on the machine, and the code generator of the compiler is tailored to your actual hardware and whatever instruction set extensions it might have.

The JVM as a runtime platform will probably outlast the Java language.

> It seems the hackers are demanding money else they will release the rest of the data.

Would the hackers instead release the data in exchange for money?

Your never going too get you're weigh on this. Their are just two many people out they're using there words wrong too get to upset. Sew don't loose you're cool about it. You can sea mini common examples that exist of incorrect usage. People pick the write words two use according too there porpoises. But you'd have two be a fool to begin or end a sentence with the word "but". And only an idiot would begin or end a sentence with "and". And a preposition is a very bad word too end a sentence with.

I made such an effort to conceal my sexual orientation!

Or not using a large enough font or large enough monitor. Or using a font where the asterisk glyph is visually similar to a quote glyph.

Hey, it's always easier to blame the programming language for things done by stupid developers, stupid practices, stupid managers, stupid organizations, stupid vendors, stupid requirements, and stupid teachers.

But your list of the bashing comment types is right on the money as evidence in these comments.

While operator overloading can be used for good, it is far more often used to create huge messes. It makes the simplest expressions impossible to understand locally because now, everywhere there is an operator, you cannot be sure what is actually going on. IMO, operator overloading is evil, despite the good intentions.

I hear you about type erasure for generics.

Lambda statements in Java are a recent addition. But I hear you about first class functions. There are a lot of other languages that run on the JVM platform and are interoperable with Java. And many of these have first class functions. JavaScript (Nashorn), Clojure (a modern lisp with concurrency and immutable structures), Groovy, Scala and many others. And the interoperability is very real -- because they all pass around the very same underlying types and objects from the underlying runtime system.

I hear you about lack of properties and the annoyance of getters/setters. IDEs help, but its not the same thing. (like kissing your boyfriend through a veil)

Please don't assume that bad developers and practices are intrinsically tied to a language or platform. As I said in this same thread, that kind of stupidity transcends languages. :-)