orig post said the seller is claiming it as their own code, which is a violation of pretty much any license I'm aware of. If the seller is honest, they'd correctly credit the author. Lying about the author upfront suggests they probably removed previous copyright notices and intentionally are violating the license.

I worked 30 years in astronaut training facility (full-fidelity simulators), and wrote many many documents on software that I wrote. I always kept my own digital copies, of course. Over the years, the contracts changed hands many times, and different document systems were implemented, and "all" documents were "always" converted from old to new. I was never able to later re-locate *any* document I had submitted to *any* of the document systems. So my copies of my documents were the only ones that actually existed that I knew of. This included meeting minutes, peer review notes, design and 'as-delivered' documents. So I think institutional amnesia is more the norm, and actual memory beyond 3-5 years is rare.

"each phase of the code compilation process is exposed as a service that can be consumed by other applications."
How bout if the 'other app' is a web browser window? TFA suggests this will be possible with MS's product.

I was thinking cpu-specific, not OS-independent. Sorry for ambiguity. CPU-specific compilation may allow for use of idiosyncratic features/bugs in the production of invasive code, something a little more difficult if the target hardware is unknown.

Now malware can be shipped in various partially-compiled steps and in different packaging (one,two,three modules, arriving from different vectors, etc), making detection harder, and can then be compiled targetting the cpu it lands on. Oh, what a fricken great IDEA! platform-independence for malware just got easier! It''s really getting hard to distinguish between the bad guys and producers of ideas like this.

Astronomers, as a group, are every bit as smart as rocket scientists. I've worked with both at NASA. I think they can handle the name change.

I searched for 'faster than light' on the CERN website, got articles posted in 2012, 2014. They put this new discovery to work right away!

Internally the SX had 32bits, only the data bus was 16 bits.

Cool, I would send you my resume ;)

OK, so lets say I follow your logic, what is it left to do, since I do not like PM work, besides being a manager? Cause I really do not see any more options to advance, unless I completely change career, as in sales men or whatever.

But how do you handle PM work without knowing the inner languages? I mean, I have done it, but I feel I'm at a disadvantage.

When kid my mother got me into a LOGO class. I liked it very much, got a TI994/A. Got an IBM PC, an older friend tought me BASIC. Then I started learning by myself most of the languages and all.

Correct.

In today's economy? Why not make two resumes: PM and Programmer. If PM skills pay the bills, hop on it and work on programming as a side hobby. If the right Programmer position comes up and the pay is good, consider it but don't set yourself up for failure or take too large a risk if your home/dependents/nestegg are at stake.

That is what I have done so far, but I really do not like PM work. Thanks for your comments.

Thanks. I have thought of this myself. Buy I also feel like I won't be able to do the best design, if I do not have a basic understanding of the technologies involved. Maybe I'm wrong. So, while I would love to do web architecture design, I steel feel the need to know.

Thanks. But when I asked the question, it was intended to be more like, "if i start learning web dev now, would I have a use for it"? And I ask because of the things said so far, being too expensive, etc.

Thanks. Totally agree. I have participated for ome time on OS projects and such. And I would probably start learning web dev soon, as I do not see a clear career path for me, besides being a PM or a manager.