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It's why planned obsolescence features so prominently in the modern world.

> At work, we are pretty much a Windows shop, and I am often frustrated by the state of Microsoft's documentation

I have to agree. Every job I had after college was a windows stack shop while my college/personal experience was purely linux/bsd. Microsoft's documentation has always been terrible. My assumption also was that they did this to sell training, books, etc to customers.

But as you noted, they have improved in recent years. Their .Net and SQL Server documentation is very good. Still wish that microsoft didn't have such a stranglehold on corporate america and we could live in a unix-based world.

I wasn't talking about hacker news. I was talking about the bbc.

I was asking why the bbc published a non-news story, not why it was here. I was just saying the news industry should publish news rather than conjecture or predictions.

We don't need NAFTA. Corporations need NAFTA. Free Trade Agreements exist to expand/remove borders for corporations. While it disadvantages citizens who are "trapped" in their own borders.

Firstly, when did prediction and conjecture become news? Would be great if the news industry stuck to actual news.

Secondly, lets hope so and lets hope that will finally put an end to the crazy amount of hit pieces by the media on facebook and social media. Has anyone older ever witnessed anything like this before? The media, both in the US and the UK, has been obsessed with facebook and social media for past year. It's like someone declared war on facebook/social media and ordered the entire industry to attack them. The only thing I can compare it to is north korea's media's rabid attacks on SK, US and Japan.

Anyone else "entertained/exasperated" by the media blitz against facebook.

If you are more hands on, you could look through the F# in minutes. A quick intro into the language.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/

We already have ethics in the philosophy department. I'm was CS major and I took ethics and liked it so much I double majored in CS and philosophy.

Ethics has no place in CS, nor more than ethics is required in biology or physics or algebra.

If universities want students to learn about ethics, then make ethics 101 a "required elective".