This is quite possibly the most ingenious comment I have ever seen on Slashdot.

Oracle, is that you?

My phone updates have been driven in the past by getting whatever is the current model when my two-year contract runs out, but now that those are ending, I may just hang on to my current model (an iPhone 6 Plus) for a while longer, since it still works fine a year and a half after ordering it.

I hate that goddamn phrase. When the inevitable time comes when suddenly the old system *does* break, it's no longer under any support, nobody's left at the company who knows how it works, there's no budget for a modern replacement, and it has to be fixed in four hours or the company goes bankrupt. Been there, done that, ate the T-shirt after hours of working with no break for food.

People who say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" are the same idiots who brag about uptime.

Pro tip: *every* system is broken. The trick is being able to repair or work around the broken parts without disruption, not to just seal it behind a wall and rediscover it years later when trying to track down what's still pinging.

HA-ha-ha! Promote that man.

Frankly, I would consider a system that worked like that a big improvement.

> There was guaranteed to be blood, devastation, death, war and horror in this discussion.

And gardening?

If you are not with me you're ?TYPE MISMATCH ERROR

Sure, but if every project gets replaced with something brand-new every couple of years as management chases tech trends, what's the value of institutional memory anymore?

"Don't you forget,
It's my site,
It never ends!"

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for the record No Doubt did a pretty cool cover version of the song as well, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well not any more it doesn't.

Well, Ron Paul *is* crazy, so that's not the best example.

Well, OS X does include a modern version of the Newton's old handwriting engine; if they can get that ported to iOS, *then* it'll be the return of the Newton.