I think one of his main points is server .net was (and is) great.

But the UI part of it was cloudy.

I see it as complimentary to the post not contradicting it.

That Bill Gates?

Seems he might have other priorities these days?

lift and shift into the cloud used to be the path of last resistance on Azure.

Kind of crazy considering how while teams (even dev) were forced into using it be the designers.

I haven’t even seen it mentioned at work recently.

The manager class sees worker units as fungible.

Should Legal exist?

Should Facilities exist?

Surely your average employee could own each of these functions.

I don’t think that supports your argument.

What is probably happening is the job crisis for young people.

The army is once again an attractive job.

Seems so. All the breaks from the first system in the name of “we’re doing it right this time” probably killed the momentum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Even the best and brightest of us are still human.

Most engineers have to take at least one programming class in college.

Be happy to find out I’m wrong.

So that govt money went to the wealthy to buy up houses (Californians bought real estate in the Midwest as investments and it drove up housing prices along with small immigration to these states)

Farmers etc benefited from bailouts when they were doing very well. It was a large blunder.

I can’t stand it and every update makes it worse.

Been running popos abs everything I can and it’s petty nice.

Installed it on a new LG Gram and everything works including fingerprint reader. Is my favorite laptop and my old Mac sits gathering dust,

If this is the quality of product produced what’s the point?

Our Harvard/Stanford etc management seemed less capable than products of state schools. It kind of shocked me as I thought once I got into startups and scaleups with Ivy League talent I’d be way over my head. Very much a let down.

I don’t think he was particularly kind to any proselytizing religion.

Did you read the Cantos?