Great article. Sorry to say though, Windows does manage all this in a more consistent way - but I guess they had the benefit of a clean slate.

Also session data is often Blobs which db's don't process as efficiently as columnar data.

Was also interested to hear one of the background clips mentioning how the greenhouse effect was 'really starting to bite', and this was in 1990.

>Hopefully they own up to this, and explain what they're going to do to prevent another global-impact process failure

They probably needn't bother, every competent sysadmin from Greenland to New Zealand is probably disabling the autoupdate feature right now, firewalling it off and hatching a plan to get the product off their server estate ASAP.

Marketing budgets for competing product are going to get a bump this quarter probably.

This is what chills me to the bone, there's loads of these installations worldwide on heterogeneous OSs but with very little oversight of the code. Companies have basically rolled over and stated, 'OK, we trust you'

I'm not usually a fan of strident calls to open source everything, but the source code at least for the channel file parser on all OSs should now be made public so that we can have an oversight of what so many have placed their trust in.

The aim obviously being to have an easier time surveilling the populace whilst also denying them access to any information not spewed by the Party.

It can't be long now until Moscow has a big sign that reads 'War is Love' plastered on some nameless building.

edit:typo.

Tell that to Parsons, Winston Smith's loyal to the Party neighbour who's betrayed by his own child. If surveillance is allowed to become pervasive enough, nobody is safe.

Poor CmdTaco, after all these years, still can't get a break.

April 16 Oh, it actually is a compiler bug!

Can confidently say I've never experienced one in my career, but at some level of abstraction I guess it's less rare to find them.

An iterative model which has been up-front loaded with a firm architecture, feature elaboration, a rough development and testing plan, resources allocated and some basic milestones to hit so that upper mgmt. can get an idea when useful stuff might land.

The development _process_ can be as agile-y as you like, so long as the development of features moves incrementally with each iteration towards the desired end-goal.

But you have to be strict about scope.

Last night I cooked 2 packets of fresh Udon noodles. Each packet contained 2 plastics bags of vacuum packed noodles, so in total I had 6 separate plastic bags to throw away, for a total of 200g of noodles.

Russian propagandist, on Russian tv. You just have to wait for some horrendous act of indiscriminate killing by Russia to occur in Ukraine and they come out to justify or glorify the horror.

I don’t particularly blame them for their cynical actions, it’s their job.