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last 50 years of change includes modern nail guns, engineered lumber, hurricane anchors, plywood roof sheathing, vapor barriers, and countless other differences in how homes are bu…

yep, both are significantly different in many way, houses built 50 years ago have a lot of differences to modern houses. Software from 50 years ago, is also significantly different…

The whole point of my last comment was that the impact of bad software cannot be fully understood if we don't have ways to monitor and measure it. You are correct that many industr…

if you look at it economically, maybe. It's a complex problem. The economy doesn't benefit from contractor licensing either, but the consistency reliability and quality of our infr…

Are you sure? Construction materials are evolving and changing every few years (engineered lumber, modern environmentally friendly methods, etc) whilst we still use base operating …

Left up to private enterprise they will set their standards to the lowest they can get away with to maximize profits and reduce the time to market.

At NASA, sure. You can't say that with any certainty for all the other systems in the world where software has a huge impact on daily life and human wellbeing. We can't know for su…

How do you define mature? Is it about stability? There are newer and more modern methods of construction and engineering and the field is always evolving. Maturity in those fields …

It's complicated so we should just not care?

web apps are a small fraction of the software development world. Software Engineers are responsible for code that runs in hospitals, aircraft, power switching stations, and many ma…

plumbers, electricians, civil engineers, architects, structural engineers, etc. All these occupations have licensing requirements. Why is software different?

I'm with you, we should approach problems with optimism not fear. However, teaching that approach to kids is a long term strategy, and helping them adapt to a new routine is a slow…

My results show 1.3s for HTTP/1.1 and 3.0 seconds for HTTP/2 using Chrome on OS X. So, this demo wasn't very impressive for me.

Same bug for Utah... In 2014 the Utah software industry gave jobs to 1 foreign software managers, Infinity times more than the year before. Most of them made between $NaN and $NaN …

Once you scale your worker pool up beyond a couple of machines you need some sort of config management with Celery. We use SaltStack to manage a large pool of celery workers and it…

I used Redis for celery in production with great success for a year but then we started running some long running jobs that needed the ACKS_LATE setting and the Redis delivery time…

Convincing people to make the long trip to Mars in the future will be much easier if they can be sure there will be coffee served on the trip.

Ok, but large corporations are supposed to be able to avoid human centric mistakes with good operations workflows that provide checks and balances in their pipeline. I would assume…

I somewhat disagree, it depends on how QA fits into your organization and how you scope its role. UX needs Quality Assurance too, and sometimes things get past the UX team and into…

Yes, me too. However i'd hope that for a product as big and important to MS as this then there would be more checks and balances in place to make sure that such things don't get ov…

A lot of QA departments these days put their effort behind automated testing, which is very valuable but will never replace actual human usage of a device. Automation should catch …

It's admirable that MS is responding to criticism of their device and working for a solution. However, all the issues he experienced seem like they would be quite obvious to anyone…

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"... but this language, once released, will be fixed for a decade at least. Something with that lifespan should be great from day one." I'm not sure why the author believes that on…

You mean this one? Or are you talking about something else? http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/