You don't need to create a new one, just use DevOps!

Agile is great in theory and if you can get everyone involved to understand it then it's great in practice, too. The reason I say agile is a failing concept is because those of us in the industry understand it but are remarkably terrible at selling it to the non-technical people we need to have involved in order for our projects to be successful. What good Agile methodology really drives at is an effective amount of involvement from all parties -- customer, analyst, technical team, testers, operations, etc. Most businesses want to fire things at their IT department and then go off and do other things while the project is underway. This is clearly more conducive to the "waterfall" model (which we all know is terrible) and it prevents them from ever seeing and effective agile development implementation.

So, yes, Agile is a failing concept. Not because the idea bad, but because it's so incredibly difficult to implement fully, and it's not very valuable when partially implemented (you basically just turn it into mini-waterfalls).

I foresee DevOps ending up with a similar problem.

If the society I am part of is brought undue harm because of my actions, I fully expect that society to hang me out to dry. Freedom does not mean irresponsibility. What we see here in Texas is petty religious bickering which ended in two deaths and at least one other injury. For these people to be representing two religions that claim to value life, that seems like a pretty shitty way to conduct yourself.

Members of BOTH religions should be denouncing what happened there.

Layoffs don't get rid of low talent, they get rid of excess workers regardless of talent and skill. If you want to get rid of low talent, you fire them, or "manage them out"

It is called a train, not a huge bus. 300 people is about 6 busses.

Buses. Yes, I know it's stupid, but that's how the English language determined that the plural of "bus" is spelled.

I was about to ask how many seats you have in your butt.

You only really need one.

The southwest has tons of potential for producing solar energy, let's not shut down development there yet.

So maybe we should develop solar plants there and not almond farms. Just sayin'

My thought is: More than half of Washington is desert (or semi-desert) and they want to pipe water from that state to another state to water a different desert...? How ridiculous. Although, I was pretty sure he was going to suggest diverting from the great lakes and nearby rivers, so at least we aren't going THERE again.

Quick read if you think all of WA is as rainy as the coast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Good point -- I was about to ask the GP where he planned to store the 20 character random passphrase that was also safe from fire or other disasters...

I don't know how much I'd classify myself an environmentalist, but I do care about what's happening and think we should do something. I'm all for building new reactors to replace & reduce fossil fuel consumption. Put a candidate on my ballot who actually wants to do it (and who doesn't want batshit crazy social policies).

I don't know anyone who only wastes 1.5% of their money

I don't disagree with your post, but it always strikes me as funny when people compare federal government budgets for the largest economy in the world with their personal finances. It's NOT the same, no matter how much the presidential candidates like to pretend it is. No individual's revenue comes from within itself like a government's does. No individual has their own internal "economy" to mind.

FYI The article is dated Tuesday 31 March 2015 03.40 EDT

Just curious, couldn't they make it out of bulletproof glass? Then the aesthetics would be great because it's clear and yet the glass is slippery so there's nothing to grab hold of in order to climb over.

I have not clue how this relates to their business model, but more power to them anyway. I hope society learns a lot from experiments like this -- will its solar panels really supply enough power? At 60k feet they can cover a humungous land area, which potentially means millions of customers. I can't imagine the power consumption of laser communication between this unit and all of the potential customers. Can this really cover an area that big or is it just flying that high to stay out of flight levels of commercial aircraft?

So many questions that this experiment might be able to answer.

I think her best chance at the nomination was in the 2008 election, and she failed to secure it. If she runs again, there are lots of other options who would be much better both politically and from a competency standpoint.