Can any one man manage a company with 600 million customers? The sheer size and magnitude of that company makes it impossible to manage or run. The number of layers of management makes it very difficult to see vested interests, empire builders, incompetents... Apparently Microsoft has this compensation model where some people make it to "partner" level. They get a cut in the revenue stream of the products they manage. If this is true, it would lead to perverse incentives. Failure that big is rarely one man's fault.

In Soviet China space moves through the particles. [I know I know it is weak and does not make sense. But if I bring the meme back from the dead someone might make a better one.]

Going from point A to point B without going through any intervening points is quite easy for the chinese. They have gone from authoritarian regime to 1% - 99 % split oligarchy without going through the intervening democracy phase like America.

What? Help each other? Avoid buying the new and shiny things? Continue to use things even after there is a perfectly good reason to throw them away? Go through extraordinary lengths like actually lugging stuff out and meet actual other human beings and fix each other's gadgets for free? What kind of anti-corporate attitude is that? No wonder job creators are fleeing Europe. What is the big point in having a society or government or laws if it does not create more profits for the big banks and corporations? Let europe rot its way from socialism to communism. Yoo Es Yay! Yoo Es Yay! Yoo Es Yay! Yoo Es Yay! Yoo Es Yay!

That guy who wrote cow clicker is going to be a millionaire. Joke's on you pal, you made fun of facebook and wrote cow clicker. Now it is going to make you a millionaire.

You talk as though wallpaper means something other than the background image on your computer/device screen.

Then all the smilies would come out wrong. You would not have to tilt your head to make sense of the smilies. That is why they dont let you rotate the screen.

Many mods give "interesting" instead of "funny" because funny does not earn the posting any karma points.

The anti-WiFi wall paper will be the second product to be certified by the Tin Foil Hatter's Institute. The first one to earn the esteemed and much sought after certification was Reynolds kitchen aluminum wrap.

True. And we can even have best practices guidelines for developers about naming the functions. All functions that is meant for purely debugging purposes should have the string _dbgfn_ in its name. The entire body of all functions with _dbgfn_ in the name will be automatically protected using the #ifdef at the time of checkin. We can have all such rules. But all these rules assume the developers will follow the guidelines and the code review will be done and peer will not miss it.