Agile, waterfall, whatever. Software has never been that hard to build but it's increasingly hard to support due to all the decisions either made or not made along the way. The industry has been in the thrawl of consultants, stuck in navel-gazing paralysis for far too long. Whatever it takes to get things done should be the name of the game and, in some way, this feels like a return to that. Whatever the methodologies or technologies in play, it's great to see the software business still keeping the world turning.

As the only beer drinker in our family, and the one that mosquitos tend to avoid, I can attest that this is not true.

But the cloud replaced the nanotech. And the AI still can't do the voices, right?

Perhaps whoever new comes in will stop making Android a second-class citizen on Sonos. Having to use the Sonos in-app integration for Apple Music is such a poor experience....

I love how all it takes to rise to the level of C-suite is an unwavering belief that technology will save us all when, quite honestly, the very opposite is true.

One of those "wish I'd thought of that" kind of things right?

I was a loyal Hertz customer for many years but their systems have always been awful and they seem to getting worse. I got overcharged by them a year ago for returning a car late when my flight had already left by the time they alleged I returned it. I pointed this out but they just couldn't understand how this could be... Whoever comes in next (or is there now) as CEO needs to grab the systems by the scruff and make then 21st century ready. I mean, it ain't rocket science people.

Could this potentially help generate and authenticate SBOMs and prevent software supply chain attacks?

Microsoft misses because they don't engage developers - they said (Balmer famously said) it was all about developers but they really actually don't give a shit as long as the big corps still pay their licence fees. See XNA, see engagement over mobile, seeing the pathetic attempts at outreach with their bizspark programme. They do not care about providing an innovative, interesting and exciting platform for software developers to work on. It's a shame because I like Windows Phone as a platform but without spending a lot more money on developer engagement and support it was always going to fail.

Trust only comes through stability. Developers with nothing in common and different project managers sounds like a recipe for disaster and your role sounds like a potential nightmare.

"The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created."

In a call centre.

Great to hear the rantings of other human beings *also* getting older and *also* temporarily unable to cope with the realities of it.

First time I saw it was on Sun 3s and Sun Sparcs I think in 1991 - might be too early for Sparcs? X11 blew me away right after I'd got used to terminal sessions - having a graphical interface and being able to send windows anywhere was just.. well.. futuristic. It still is. Played a lot of xtank, perpetually fiddled with the .XDefaults.

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