Re: A meditation on the Antithesis of the VMS Ethos

On 2024-07-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 19:41:06 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
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As we speak, millions -- or even hundreds of millions -- of different
Windows-based computers are now stuck in a doom-loop ...

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Microsoft?s count was 8.5 million. Not that huge a number, really.
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It's used mainly in business/professional environments only.

That makes 8.5 million a _huge_ number.

BTW, I found this while trying to find out more about the company and
I wonder if they are planning to update it anytime soon to tone it down:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/

They talk a lot about how they make people feel good about themselves,
but nothing about how they cultivate people to produce robust reliable
software.

That page above seems seriously OTT, so I just hope their development
processes are engineering-based instead of feeling-based, given how
critical a company they have become.

Simon.

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