Also I wish that Brits, as the inventors of the English language, would ban using "uber" as a verb.

the genie is already out of bottle - the Internet has been very well centralized by Google, good luck changing that.

IMO it's not the language itself, it's the life time and complexity of applications: there is a a little value in developing a well designed and thought through application when its life time will be weeks and its doesn't do anything but parse a trivial request and fetch something simple from the storage.

Stitching together something that "just works" using the (almost) same set of tools as the UI is much easier.

The trend towards simplified stateless cloud-based backends is to blame.

Am I the only person who turns off Android and apps updates on each brand new Android phone because after while they make the phone sluggish?

Liberals are desperate to buy votes any possible way.
They know the middle class will vote them out, so now they're bribing the low income/unemployed.

BS
Who here is still believe into good intentions of the Internet monopolies?
We all know know what that means when something is free for users

What really sucks in this whole story with the Ubuntu Unity (besides the software itself) is the fact that the entire Ubuntu community was mislead by one individual.
I really don't care if he admitted he was wrong, what I care is about years of engineering effort wasted and the Linux desktop platform reputation affected because of one person dumbness.
I would expect that the Ubuntu Foundation look into this shameful failure of common sense and do something to prevent it from repeating in the future.
But I'm not holding my breath as he pays their salaries.

The most surprising in this story that Custom officers were able to come up with the quoted questions.

Of course I mean achieved

Don't you dare to make fun of this!
During those 11 hours TWO CATS stuck on trees and froze to death!

This noble initiative was to save taxpayers money and it has archived it.
While I'm not arguing with Commissioner Paulson's opinion of the current support quality, I'm well aware of what existed there before.
Any sane IT person would agree that it was a rather inefficient way to run IT services.

Another vanity product from Google. Yay!

India's IT has been devaluing our skills and jobs for many years, it's about time somebody does something about it.

I'm done with Google phones, guys
They have become too expensive, too large and as bloated as other vendors phones, while nothing on them is unique and somehow stands out.
Improved camera? Who cares, really?
How about more than a day without recharging instead?
Removable battery?
Two SIM cards?
SD card (at least one, better two)?
Size that fits into pants front pocket?

very true
I'm a professional programmer and have been avoiding anything that is not Gnome 2 on Linux (e.g. CentOS).
On MS Windows only Windows 7 is tolerated.
Mac doesn't work for me either: ridiculously expensive non-upgradable hardware and lack of connectors any professional needs.
I feel like in the last few years OS software vendors abandoned us, developers.
Whatever; we'll find a way to configure it they way we want it, as always, right, guys?