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Ah, so considering the miniscule loss in the overall scheme of things, Walgreens locking up products in the stores is just to be annoying?

I think its worth noting that inconvenience aside, the high rate of theft and stock loss is correlated to item price increases overall -- even above inflation. Watched a man walk o…

No doubt that there have been poor teaching experiences, but I would counter that my experience with EdTech teachers has been amazing and empowering. Really don't think we can tar …

Aside from the Knowledge Graph buzzword, isn't this exactly the same idea as Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web back in 2001? - web of resources, not pages - ontology-based schem…

Very interesting article and helpful to visualize the layers and perspectives in and more comprehensive architecture diagram. I would add that the layers of abstraction could also …

I agree with you, but I read this as: > No process and tools > No / limited documentation > No RACI or alignment (yay, kumbaya) > No plan or managed dependencies I'm not saying thi…

I would venture the implied discussion is about more than shipbuilding. Resources, labor, regulation, and other factors raised in the article are endemic across lots of areas and s…

I hadn't heard the term "architecture astronaut porn" before. Seems highly accurate in this context and wondered if you could point me to other resources on this term?

Good article on the high level concepts of a knowledge graph, but some concerning mischaracterizations of core functions of ontologies supporting the class schema and continued dis…

Paywalled, but not a huge surprise really. Sounds like part of the problem was the internal pharma team not having a plan for what to use CoPilot for and going for the "it's AI!" t…

>> The attitude this instills is that of having to work hard, while scheming against the taxman, to improve your life. Sounds like a lot of politicians I know. Really, how is this …

To take this a different way, Devs need AI-driven system design tools, not diagramming tools. The work to automate the process to define, code, deploy, and document tech/app soluti…

These are great questions and match my conclusion after many years of big5 management consulting: (A) Organizations are not optimized towards efficiency or value, they are optimize…

Wholeheartedly agree, however... It's well accepted that most developers would rather chew off their own arms than write documentation. The acceptance, sort of, of TDD shows that d…

Some much this. If executives were held accountable and terminated for performance failures resulting in layoffs rather than rewarded with earnings bonuses I would feel more sympat…

Ashamed to say, but this made me bust out laughing with concerned looks from co-workers. Thank you.

Kudos for sharing this and the implementation details. I guess I'll never get over not liking Cypher queries or the other ways property graph engines query the graph: (MATCH path =…

> you should ask yourself: With every decision you make, is this good for the company? (OfficeSpace, 1999) I'll counter that fake or self-serving cultures are more toxic and destru…

Pretty sad assessment if it truly was useless as you say. I've found structured approaches to solution planning and design (UML, and others) to be very useful in most projects.

Not exactly related, but this concept map looks amazingly similar to a semantic ontology. RDF/OWL may not be the easiest encoding, but is quite capable in organizing very large con…

Excellent comment and while maybe not UML, something like it is likely to emerge for exactly that purpose.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Definitely hearing the game console signal, although my resistance was that there would be better ways to spend his time as school only goes so…

My son is, thankfully, close to completing a CS/CE degree and I wanted to ask for advice or suggestions for a useful / meaningful birthday present to help him get started? He does …

Okay, so "Unobtainium" is a real thing now?

All respect, but regarding the UK economic situation I think you meant (Freedom and national autonomy, and Truss's job builders empowerment). Yes, self inflicted but also incredibl…