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What big companies use it primarily? Banks - their back-end processing is often in Java.

Laying off people who weren't and aren't contributing anything productive Saying that UK public services are inefficient is one thing, probably true. Saying that the layoffs can be…

I totally agree with your analysis of how the UK got into the current mess. That doesn't really say anything about the best way out of it.

Well, the UK is currently testing the opposite ridiculous notion - that by laying off lots of government workers (when there already lots of people looking for jobs), reducing bene…

You'd have to know all the other frameworks in order to know that yours is simpler.

How many frameworks is the right number? One is too few. One hundred is too many, it will just fragment people's skills. Experimentation and inventing your own wheel is good for le…

One unanswered question: What specifically does this project bring that isn't present in ASP.NET MVC, OpenRasta, FubuMVC or MonoRail? Or that couldn't have been achieved by porting…

So, when Gates bought 150M of Apple stock in 97, was he betting against himself? Pretty much, yes. It made him seem like less of a monopolist. Worked out to be a winning bet for Ga…

Are you in the business of writing software that never gets used? I have, and I hated it. Quick feedback means quickly finding out if you're building the right thing.

there is a lot of anger towards the agile movement because it was sold as a tool to pointy haired bosses to impose, rather than a grassroots movement among engineers that embraced …

Looks like in cases like that the bug tracker is making the underlying problems more visible. In that case, removing the bug tracker is not the way forward.

A bet on Gates is not a bet against Jobs. Yes it was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh "The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially …

You can't successfully own code that you don't control. I believe that the best outcome for both of you would be 20% of time set aside for refactoring and increasing test coverage.…

Could you sit down with one of his books and read it on an iPad or kindle?

It takes a lot more that just http. I'd need to know the URL schema if you're restful, or the method names if you're SOAPy. Then there's the format of the data (SOAP, JSON, XML ..)…

It looks like Appleseed has at least being doing the "Release early, release often" thing, which is very important. I really can't say that Diaspora has been doing that better. Or …

Then give me open protocols and endpoints so that I can write C# code to talk to it.

I think you lost the typical user at "whoever wants to download the source". Facebook users don't want to do that Typical facebook users are not early adopters. None of these proje…

All words are cool if you don't know what they mean. If the reader knows what it means but the writer doesn't, the effects are less predictable and desirable.

He mentioned in passing that writing a typical README requires just the right amount of planning upfront "just the right amount of planning upfront" is exactly what Scrum should do…

SCRUM ... all irrelevant unless the software we're building meets the needs of those that are using it. That statement misses the entire point of Scrum. What are those short iterat…

Fusion works (in that it successfully fuses atoms) and has since the 1960s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor You don't get more energy out than you put in, but if your goal is to …

You're getting your midlife crisis in early. Damn over-achiever. http://twitter.com/#search?q=middleclassproblems

but if it has some level of transaction log trail (however asynchronous) "All transactions are settled between the card and reader alone. Readers transmit the transactions to the b…

topic is a dud link - it takes me to a login page.