seeker61

Some of the twitter users in the linked thread said that the Ecobee reverts to defaults when it loses internet connectivity ... not quite the same thing. Not sure which one is true, but if it's the latter ...

Oh well, I'll never own one of the stupid things anyway.

My experience with people, and your quick accusation, lead me to believe that you are a grifter.

Just as competently written, and also facile and shallow, as I remember from 30 years ago when Bill Buckley ran the show. How do they do it?

Wow, that sounds to good to be ... the exact word escapes me at the moment.

It's probably part of their metrics and counts against them come review time. Just a guess.

Thank you for doing your part to protect us from clickbait while Facebook ... what was it they were doing again?

Another sign of the end times. Fall, mountains ...

I suggest that you re-read the things you've written about her with the following question in mind: "Am I making excuses for her behavior?"

In other words, she doesn't respect the deal she made with you.

Don't you have some coding you need to be doing ?

Mercifully, the presentation referred to Apache as an operating system on slide 1, saving me lots of time.

Extremely confusing discourse. I can only assume that was your goal.

I believe that the main objections to this approach are subconscious and unstated. Or perhaps people just feel silly saying "That isn't fancy enough!" and "But but but you have to use a computer to do everything!"

I see what you did there! LOL

Superweeds have been talked about before, in terms of weeds that are herbicide resistant. Kind of a yawn, really, unless you're a farmer.

But a weed that grows 40% faster than anything else out there? That's some scary stuff. (Palmer amaranth, for example)

Real reason: that's the only thing most beginners are taught. (For better or worse, but that's the facts.)

I'm glad to be old ... I think I'll be fortunate enough to pass by the bulk of the crap that is coming downstream at us all.

So it's about time for that license audit! lol

There's no shortage of new frameworks to learn. To paraphrase Tony Soprano: "You could build a jetty with what's coming out."

Is this an accusation of takfir? Do you have evidence for this accusation? Or is it just that you find it easier to impugn a brother Muslim's practice than to argue the facts? (I'll bet you're really fun at parties.)

The more complex a system is, the more people it takes to maintain, write, test for it. It builds the manager's empire and also increases mindshare for the complexity-driven approach. I've seen it many times.

Hopefully the author had a bright intern on staff who was able to crunch the initial draft through this old, old technology, then recommend revisions so as to point it away from his or her real identity.

New sharding is but old partitioning writ large. Partitioning sounded too much like what grandpa did, so they gave it a jazzy new name.

It would serve to undermine the credibility of current glorious system currently in place in Russia, whatever they're calling it at the moment. (Please. I'm being ironic.)

At least blockchain is cool, which means that code weenies will actually take the time to figure out how it works. The same is not true of databases; code weenies find databases dreary and boring.

Re-inventing it. (And yes, that's worse.)

Look what I discovered! If you try to think of what can go wrong, it can keep you from making a mistake! My dad just harumphed at me, but he doesn't know what's cool!