1986 DEC PDP-11 Minicomputer (youtube.com) 60-Year-Old Cobol Code? (pcmag.com) 'Doom' at 30: 40 years of Turbo Pascal Did Slashdot's algorithms just go off on a nostalgia tangent or what?

Does Slashdot's memory not go far enough back to remember Don Box's "Essential COM" book (which I still have a copy of) or his co-authoring of SOAP?

He has a longer history of Microsoft related things than the Slashdot summary lets on to.

The reason NASA faced this so-called "graduation exam" in the first place was the human organization of NASA and the engineers. It is well documented that the engineers were telling corporate and NASA management that the shuttle had various problems (such as the o-rings), but their upper management and NASA refused to listen and launched anyways. I don't believe this is the same human organization framework that SpaceX is working under now.

I don't know what "this never should have happened" means. The reason why all the other ICE car manufacturers didn't and will not build EVs in any large quantity is because ICE CARS ARE SO PROFITABLE to them. They are making a ton of money off of ICE cars and have a large infrastructure for repairs and (especially) maintenance which brings in even MORE MONEY. Did anyone on this Elon hating web site ever watch "Who killed the Electric Car"? So, why are they going to invest 10s to 100s of billions of dollars to maybe make money 10 or 20 years in the future when they are making tons of money RIGHT NOW??? Heck, Ford is already losing billions of dollars on what little EVs they've made so far.

Jeez, does this blind hate of Elon obscure everyone's memory of GM's ill fated venture into electric cars decades ago? Does anyone remember what happened? My , GM went out of their way to CRUSH AND EXTERMINATE EVERY EV car they had so there was no record of an EV even existing. And they did it as soon as CA dropped the incentive for GM to do this. And now, we're supposed to believe that oh, GM and Ford always WANTED TO BUILD EVs, and Tesla just lucked out and beat them? Really? REALLY?

Yeah I look at somebody's code I have to maintain and it's structure reminds me of M.C. Escher's "Relativity" or Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory".

The only problem with this philosophy is what happens when ALL manufacturers see this and all of them start offering subscriptions? What happens when you have NO CHOICE but to fork over money for subscriptions because there aren't any cars manufactured which DON'T have subscriptions?

Interviewing a millennial for a reporting or Slashdot editor job:

Have no idea what this article is talking about...

If you are blinding oncoming traffic to the point where they lose control and swerve / crash into you or someone else because they cannot see what is in front of them, then yes, there IS such a thing as "too bright" for your safety. There are other people driving on the road also.

Problem is 95% of the time the sum total of knowledge imparted to a function AddWidget goes like "function to add a new Widget" or this line of code "i = i + 1" will have the the comment "add one to i". Virtually all comments I've ever seen by others add nothing of value to any code base I've ever seen. Which is why I don't bother unless there's going to be some value added insight which you cannot get directly from the code.

Things such as plumbing shift / corrode / break over time, so how are plumbing built into concrete walls and floors going to be repaired? For existing houses with concrete poured over plumbing, slab leaks are fixed with a jack hammer and a lot of dust, mess and tearing up the house. Heck even just installing a new light fixture after the house is built may be a royal pain.

Your interpretation of what I said was pretty lawyer like. When you develop a system using micro services, how do you present a GUI to the user? Let me guess, Javascript and Node.JS is one way? BTW I just participated in a micro service based project and guess what, I wrote a GUI for that micro service project using Javascript / NodeJS / React.

Is it popular because programmers actually choose to write an app in this language or popular because some manager decided to hop on the micro-service cargo cult and forced programmers to write in this god forsaken language?

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Know what's worse? For some car manufacturers, it's almost impossible to get a vehicle WITHOUT all those crappy assist features. For the vehicle I bought, only the cheapest version of one model came without the driver assist package. All other models and variants had the driver assist standard across the board so you can't buy a car from this manufacturer without it. Never used the driver assist, the cameras on board are crappy because of the limited field of view, restricting steering assist to straight lines, If the windshield cracks, the replacement is going to be expensive because of the cameras. It has a audible "warning" telling you that a line was crossed, and it dings constantly. Turn it off? Yeah, but now the dash has a big yellow light telling you the lane assist is off, so now I cannot just glance at my dashboard to see if something is wrong, because there's already a big yellow light on because I turned the assist off... Believe me if I could buy a car WITHOUT this crap that had the other features I want, I would opt out immediately. Any why does this manufacturer do this? Because their stupid marketing crap of "oh we love you so much", and "we love you so much we're going to protect you" bullshit.