Without sounding like a curmudgeon, "An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company. " can happen when new developers come up with ways of re-writing applications without understanding the full problem statement or spending the time to understand the existing codebase. Usually, they might have worked on a small to medium sized projects and show up to work on a project with millions of lines of code with teams in different geographies and expect to change things across the board. When the same explanation has to be given the 15th time, you can turn into a toad and start saying "NO" first. :)

Is there a write up on how this is implemented? I want to find out more about this model of delivering content.

Nevermind. I should have googled first. https://medium.com/@okonetchnikov/long-term-caching-of-stati...

QuoVadis as the authn framework

if you are naming kids and want to save them a lot of bureaucracy in their lives, give them short names.

- Thing One and Thing Two.. I wonder if it will fail..

Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius and Decimus — Roman names for fifth...eighth, tenth son.

Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Septima, Octavia, and Decima — first to tenth daughter.

Octavia survived into modern English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Spencer , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

Balinese use birth order in their names. There are a lot of Wayans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name

It seems to be to avoid using currentKey inadvertently. If someone refers it elsewhere they get deadbeef.

The way I read this article, It is less about building new smartphone but more about the next technology shift that is going to change the direction. Basically, as oft repeated Ford statement goes, 'if you asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horse'. So, at this point, smartphone business is settling into a faster horse business.

So, I would really expect the next big thing to be not a be an iPhone but something utterly different. Neural implants, anyone?

The biggest problem the smartphone solved was boredom. That's the reason for it's popularity.

At it's core ,boredom might be manipulated neurologically, so maybe you won't feel bored and just feel content with whatever. If we're going to aggressive means as neural implants ,this seems a more interesting option.

Another options(without opening skuls) is something that offers far better experiences.

Maybe more immersive (up to a point we can't differentiate from real life).maybe something that enriches our daily interactions without interfering with them. Maybe something that help us manage emotions and brain states optimally. Maybe something that augments fluidly our cognitive capabilities without interfering with what we do.

It solved boredom by enabling to play a game a megadrive would run.

Yes but a megadrive did not fit in your pocket, and the game gear, while backpackable, had awful battery life. The smartphone is successful running game gear level games because it will do so all day, and has a setup time of four seconds from impulse to game.

Plus the game gear was more a master system than a megadrive even if both would run columns (I was wondering if ppl from the US understand what a megadrive is since I think they call it genesis). Talking about battery life, I had a lynx which was even worse I think.

I think you've got the tone right. Also... I hope you're right about Neural implants! I've wanted one ever since I read that MT Anderson book in JR high school (minus the dystopian homogeneity and fields of filet mignon).

Maybe Amazon will debut them on 60 Minutes prior to cyber monday 2014!

I'm sorry, but fields of filet mignon sounds great. Make it fields of bacon-wrapped filets and I would call it my own personal utopia (for as long as my heart held out)

> So, I would really expect the next big thing to be not a be an iPhone but something utterly different. Neural implants, anyone?

Google Glass seems like a good candidate.

Yep, augmented + wearable tech seems like the future

I have had lasership make mistakes couple of times (dropping of at the neighbors, claiming no answer when never attempted).. I complained to amazon about the shipping and I have not received any shipment from them via Lasership after that. I am a prime member though. (not sure if that changes)..

I think the problem is that it is not 'hate' like people are hating java. I think it is more that MS has become 'irrelevant' in circles that matter :) i.e. the consultants who go around telling new companies what to develop in.

If you see the pattern of adoption by developers, I see more developers walking around with Macs, and linux boxes and running VMs to test out IE compat than anything else.

So, MS has become another OS to work with than the OS to develop on. imo.

I had been in MS ecosystem for 10+ years before moving to other technologies and it has taught me more about concepts of distributed computing (dos and donts) than anything else. I can apply those to any problems i see today. But, I will likely not not develop another asmx and aspx page.. :(

No one does asmx and aspx anymore. It has been ages since ASP.NET MVC had been released - now it's just controllers, models and pure HTML - especially if you use the latest flavour - Web API.

You never know. (http://www.babynamespedia.com/start/m/ann) just saying! :)

I think there might be a need for providing a decent layer between the various closed layers created by Amazon, Google et al. At least, that would allow apps to be friendly to Android without marrying Google Play.

(Is there one?)