Yes, businesses value making something more than they do designing it, or making sure that it works correctly, or maintaining it. That's probably similary true for a whole lot of different field… (View Post)

The difficult part of software engineering has never been programming. That's the bit people are actually good at and enjoy doing. Requirements analysis, specification, documentation, testing, a… (View Post)

IBM still sell quite a lot of new IBM Z systems, certainly enough to produce new chips every couple of years. I think most systems are replacements rather than new deployments, but it's still a … (View Post)

Tehran is currently experiencing shortages of drinking water, so chaos could quite easily become worse than authoritarianism in very short order if government completely breaks down. (View Post)

They are short of water whilst trying to manage the problem. If government breaks down and nobody is managing the water they will be in a humanitarian crisis almost immediately. (View Post)