Requirements: you need to acquire brand new hardware, approved and supported by M$slop with spyware features. BZZZT: No way, No how, EVER.

See most publications by nature. I've read multiple article abstracts with > 50 'authors'. And automatically reject them. WITH REASON.

Such a corporate shill. Sewer systems are cleaner and less full of garbage.

In 'Agile', Everyone gets a say, so the entire team gets to interview. So take the team size, double it, and that is the number of interviewers that have to be satisfied. And wimpy managers can shoot down candidates on any single less than satisfactory interview feedback. EXCEPT: managers in Agile are NOT rated on their story points/sprints. Nor are the Corporate bigwigs.

Ah, yes 'AGILE' every managers loved (but moronic) phrase. How many story points did the C-Suite folks complete (with details) this week. Same for the managers? Oops. Only developers have to deal with this. Total Hypocracy.

The last multiple of years that I stayed in a hotel/motel, the cleaning cycle was less than daily. No, I did not require, let alone need, a daily cleaning of my floors, bathroom, or bedding. How often does the original poster change their bedding? (I am guessing one every 2-3 weeks).

Politicians can fundamentally be STOOPID. Here in the US, there are notable exceptions: Jimmy Carter, former captain of a Nuclear Submarine. That does NOT happen due to anything other than being HIGHLY competent.

Ed Markey wants to require car manufacturers to support AM Radio: https://www.boston.com/news/lo... I'm Astounded. The last time I listened to AM radio was in the late 1970s. And then it was mostly because there were either no FM stations in reception range, or I was riding my bicycle and only had a transistor radio. Based upon signs/billboards that I've seen, AM radio stations seem to be heavily focused on religion. Personally, I have zero interest in such or 'sports radio' or 'news radio'. Nowdays, most people get their news from the web or texting. What is even more sad is that a lot of people actually trust social media posts about 'news' without doing any critical thinking

The notion that 'pure' functional programming can solve real world systems programming is a total fallacy. Writes to hardware can, and DO fail. Network accesses can and DO fail or timeout. Functional Programming simply fails to take hardware indeterministic behavior into account. And/or OS based requirements. You, the functional programmer assumes no OS related bounces (permissions). Come up with a functional language that can cope with all of these, and I'll buy into it. But do NOT call it a 'pure functional' language. Perhaps a better description is 'purely functional without hardware considerations' language.

Sigh - a typical trend by so called "scientists" get 20+ [possibly twits] to sign off on the 'paper' to get it validated. If it requires more than about 5 people, it is both bogus and garbage.

Disclaimer: I worked @ DEC/Compaq from 1992 to 2000. And I worked the two engineers who effectively brought up/booted Linux on Alpha (Jim and Jay) starting a bit earlier than Linux 1.3.5x. DECnet was NEVER, relevant outside of VMS environments. Whining about the removal of a truly obsolete protocol from the 1980s is just that - whining. I suspect the Original Poster is a 'death or die' VMS user.

Fortunately for the world, MS appears to have seen through the BullDroppings called agile. Agile works for pure web-based offerings, but for other software such as compilers, runtimes, OS's, safety critical applications, Agile is EXACTLY the wrong approach. Yes, some of the development practices in agile can be used to help develop these, but I would not want to trust my life to an 'agile' avionics/medical system running on a perpetually beta system using agile releases of compilers/runtimes/OS. Agile is not dead, it is the DEATH of stable software. Unfortunately, I do not have a good sense of that the future of software development really needs. Other than NOT Agile.

My web site is a totally static, read-only, thing. ZERO interaction.

Quoting Rocky Horror Picture show in the subject Waaaah! Chinese Govt. is trying to deflect from reality almost as much as 'The Don-Tard Trump' tried to deflect from reality on a daily basis.