andrevan

There are billions of dollars SAVED by strategic use of tech debt as well.

"The criticisms above are not matters of taste" Actually, yes they are.

Exactly, you know the least amount about the problem when you first start.

Science!

Suggestion: 3D scan and release as open source 3d models of everything in the British Museum as well.

You'll note that the Jenkins guys were able to recover all their work. They also use a non-standard branching and access model.

I actually made money in the mid 90s making websites for people and I was born in 1989. I made websites for local teachers and the middle school. I had lots of walking around money as a kid in high school because I had a recurring payment from work that had begun in 2001 at the height of the dotcom era.

Funny that he started the article seeming like he was going to show using math that the lottery was a good investment idea, when in fact it isn't according to his own estimation.

As to the entertainment value of dreaming that you've won the lottery, obviously nobody should be told they CAN'T enter. But what some call a dream I call self-delusion. We have a pervasive idea in this country that we're all going to become rich eventually and it's simply not true.

Why are we apologizing for and defending Tim Cook? The fact is that the difference between Cook and Jobs wasn't that Cook apologized for putting out an incomplete product -- it's that he would put that product out to begin with. Jobs was infamous for signing off on and testing his products himselves. This version of Maps would clearly never have been released by Jobs -- that's why he would have never apologized for it.

Yes, someone had to do something, except Cook /hasn't/ done anything except put out a shitty map app. Unless you count apologizing and pointing to Bing Maps as doing something. Why not tell people to buy a Microsoft phone as well?