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My wife (a music teacher) was a Mac only video editing person. She now uses Open Shot almost exclusively, even though for $40 I bought her Sony Vega (she was complaining about Open…

I couldn’t agree with you more. I wish I could do more than give you an upvote, so here is an internet cheers and just know there are a lot of people who feel the same way. I also …

Has to be the financial industry... because it is also eerily familiar.

This a million times over. We have a very similar environment except you can add in a mainframe and a few MS SQL Servers in addition to the ridiculously expensive Oracle stuff. How…

I believe the company I work for is writing just under 500K lines of COBOL code per year... now... how much of that is "new" vs extending vs maintaining is a good question. It is v…

I can confirm this. I don't know why they aren't mentioning the entirety of the broadcast in the article. My favorite is that Simms and Nantz had to think really, really hard about…

I work in a very similar environment. I thought forcing a change would work, "they'll see, if I just work on this and show them", and technically it did. Except it then became the …

I was just thinking the same thing... We have lines of commented out code from 1988 (yes. that is a correct date) that people flat out refuse to delete. I am so glad I got out of t…

Ditto... it was a way for them to standardize reports from various teams veiled as a cost cutting initiative. Since they are unwilling to pay for anything (read plugins), our JIRA …

I am now left to wonder if IBM Watson will soon follow suit. IBM is really a very well constructed consultancy company.. I wonder if they plan to keep their IP for Machine Learning…

This is just a high level thought : Will we eventually converge to the point where Flux will also provide an abstraction to the GPU to help speed up rendering? I know there are som…

I just migrated from working directly on the IBM Mainframe in COBOL ( gasp ) to my true love of .Net and JS (yep, both of them) within the same company. I have been on a number of …

Oh Ada. In college (six years ago), it was the language solely responsible for dragging down my grade right before graduation. I very much disliked the prof who taught it, which pr…

The scale is achieved through the local communities. I understand we would still need large scale farming ventures, but local communities can use aquaponics to be more self-suffici…