"Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun."

Poor thing's life probably flashed before him at the last instant, right?

....who cares where they come down? That's not my department." says Wernher Von Braun.

(ok, not exactly the same scientific disciplines here, for sure....but the mindset is certainly close enough.)

....none of 'em answer to the name "Caesar"....

Pretty sure most of us geezers figured out the "life-draining waste of time" nature of most meetings long ago. Primary difference between the kiddies and us is that the young'uns aren't experienced enough yet to: a) be able to partition the useful ones from the non-useful at first glance, and b) learned the million creative ways of escaping the latter. And if they keep up with this taking the calls, texting and playing Candy Crush business, they ain't gonna last long enough to learn 'em in any moderately structured place of employment.

Back in the day, you had to actually be....thoughtful....to get out of a productivity-trap meeting. Nowadays, it's just easier to pull out the little hand-held whatever and mentally escape. Even if you're being immediately tagged as "lightweight", "rude", "arrogant", etc., by the annoying-but-still-in-charge-for-the-moment management.

You're absolutely right....except you're assuming there is an actual finding/admission of guilt.

The article speaks of a "settlement" being announced. To my eyes, the probability of that settlement including an admission of culpability approaches zero.

Infosys will not be blacklisted, they'll mind their manners and volume for a bit, then quietly pick up where they left off on the contract pile.

And....allowing for that tiny percentage sliver, what if they do admit guilt and are barred from government contracting for whatever period? They just slide the excess capacity over to the contractual pile of Walmart, Sears, etc.

As others have mentioned, $35MM, while not a drop in the bucket, is small enough to be absorbed as a carrying cost of doing business, given the revenue stream.

I hate the whole sordid "enterprise staffing" model that spawns this garbage and hope fervently never to work with it again.

I would agree Milo is laying it on waaaaay too heavy here....but, honestly, have you met the people he's describing? "Evangelists", "Community Developers", "Mentors", "Facilitators" and their ilk? They have no technical skills to value.

Not sure about the stuff you tagged on afterwards about route to future, etc....but if you'd like to propose an example of a truly out-of-nowhere, no-antecedents, Black Swan-class revolutionary *idea*, we're all ears....your thoughts?

but any language *less* popular than Haskell surely has very little practical value, and I haven't heard of functional languages *more* popular than Haskell.

There is this language called Lisp. Might have heard of it before.

Erlang, also.

I understand the kiddies are feeling the Clojure love these days as well (although I suppose that just ends up categorized as a Lisp subset)

C'mon Guido, you're smarter than this...

I'm not sure they're going for "better discourse" so much as they're going for "less-bad discourse."

So the next set of Snowdens and Mannings will simply have to select a communication nexus other than the Huffington Post website. I think they'll manage.

Since when is "I will find you and kill you" useful feedback, let alone appropriate? And who should have to listen to dreck like that?

Isn't that sorta like abusing the rowing slaves for the lousy conditions on the galley?

One of the strengths of the 21st century reboot has been the consistently good fit of actors to the role. If the franchise did decide it was time for the Doctor to be performed by an actress...who would be the best candidates for the part?

Exactly. Y'all come back to me when you're programming a cell phone switch and then you can talk about low latency...