I thought the whole point of devops was "Developers and Operations" working together? I see very little of that.

I see way more "DevOps engineers" who act like they are most important part of the entire company. I've been in meetings with IT/DevOps directors and this attitude of "we should be in charge of everything and we know best" is pervasive even though it is abundantly clear they have never done development or anything outside of IT. I am not exaggerating either. I think I understand why there is so much disdain for IT.

Devops has become IT with new shiny tools and massive chips on their shoulders. IT used to be "data janitors", which I also didn't like, to "engine driving things forward", which is just as stupid. ...

"But: instead of realizing that their IT is the engine driving them forward,"

This attitude has warped and become "We're the most important group of the company."

IT is a piece of the puzzle. It's a piece that is an important as all the others and should have the same respect, but get over yourselves, you are not the engine driving things forward. You're a gear in the transmission; one of many.

Almost all architects, in software and RTL, that I've worked with over the past couple decades, don't work with the implementers unless forced to. Software architect is a joke title. It has nothing to do with flexibility. it has to do with most of time their crap just doesn't work that well and the always forget something important.

Most of the ones I've had the (mis)fortune of working with basically spend all their time in Excel or Matlab doing modeling. But they almost never prototype anything, so you can guess what very often happens. "But it works in the model."
"Software architect" should be an entry level position because most of the crap they come up with needs to be reviewed by the implementers anyway.

I think that it is the norm, at least in tech. I've talked to others, including an Indian who's been in the states for 20+ years and he confirmed it. ;(

If an Indian gets into a management position (men at least, I'm not sure about Indian women), expect him to only hire other Indians under him (or all young, single females for those that are trying to build harems [yes, i've worked with one of those also. he was a complete jerk] ).

Indian men being aggressive in their drive to climb the corporate ladder is very common but that's a separate, but related, discussion.
Considering the soul-crushing competition in India due to population density, I can understand it and I would probably be the same if I were Indian.

But I'm not, and the US is not India. We frown on white men who only hire other white men, why do Indian men get a pass? Shouldn't we be consistent?

I feel kinda like a jerk for saying this stuff but it's honest and true.

"removes employers as the best judge of the employee merits they need to succeed"

You mean all those Indian managers, who once get a management spot, only hire other Indians? yea, it'd be a shame if they couldn't hire only other Indians.

I'm sorry but I've personally seen this multiple times in multiple places and it's no longer funny. I've had to deal with the bugs and blame-game that comes from this favouritism so much it's downright aggravating.

Yes, I know not all Indians are like this, and it's not just Indians, but there are enough that are, that's it's troubling.
And this isn't even talking about the sweatshop problem that other posters have mentioned.

You laugh but this is what ASIC/FPGA developers are going through right now. I'm old enough to remember the 4GL attempts from the 90's. A couple of the tool vendors (looking at you especially, Xilinx) are pushing the living hell out of tools that let you drag and drop blocks together and voila. You are correct that it works as well as it did 30 years ago.

This.

If current AI computer can beat a Go master, then it can likely outperform most existing CEOs (and CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, ...)

Google? IBM? You guys up to the challenge?

BMW's doors are double pump. The first pump unlocks the second opens the door.
I had a BWM a couple years ago. It was a 2010. Absolutely Everything in that car was electronic. The battery was going bad and I got locked in my car. After multiple tries, I finally just sat there for a few mins to wait for the battery to build enough of a charge back up that I could unlock it.

  I was trapped _IN_my own car!!!!

I got rid of that car shortly thereafter. F! BMW. 'Safety feature' my ass! BMWs are fun to drive and they handle very well, but holy crap you are completely at their mercy.

Colin Power used a personal yahoo.com (or AOL) account. He did NOT setup his own email server.

"Without something like systemd, Linux cannot be enterprise ready."

You are a complete and utter dumbass. You don't even know how much you don't know. Why don't you actually listen to some of the greybeards, instead of shouting them down because you know better.

Do you realize how many mission critical enterprise systems run on Linux, and have since well before systemd was even thought of? You understand how massively large some of those systems are?

Pull your head out of your ass and get some perspective.

I don't hate systemd but dumbass comments like yours make me think systemd might actually be the colossal mistake that so many people are screaming it is. You jackasses think that those old greybeards have no idea how business works, what's actually important or how to do 'real' computer things. F*cking arrogant jerks.

I'll agree with your first sentence but for completely different reasons. Also, i pretty much disagree with everything else. While Windows 7 is much better than 98 or 2000, I think it's not much better than XP. At work I got a memory upgrade on my Win7 machine from 8GB to 32GB and my quad-core computer slowed down noticably. IT is confused and there's nothing special on that computer. (These are competent guys, not outsourced-help desk folks 8000 miles away who just follow scripts.) My only guess is that Win7 has a memory 'sweet spot' and performance suffers if not in that sweet spot. I've had win7 blue screen twice on me and apps mysteriously hang for a few seconds very regularly. The machine is not heavily loaded and IO isn't excessive. It's extremely annoying. I'm not a fan of Win7 at all. But it's what the corporate IT dictates so I use it. IE has gotten better, but honestly I still prefer firefox as I think it performs better.

Even now, in day to day usage, a Windows box, cannot handle the load that a linux box can. Granted you did say non-technical, but I've seen non-techinical people load a box pretty well, so I don't consider them the same thing.

Linux will never be big on the desktop for entirely different reasons. Vista proved it and Win8 will reinforce that.

Linux devs don't care about the actual desktop. They care about reinventing plumbing...all the damn time. They will spend weeks or months debating and arguing about "python vs perl" rather than "Hmmm, is a button that does X useful?) Actually, the usability people seem to have a disproportionate say in things now. "We have 3 menu items, what functionalty can we deem 'too confusing' and therefore rip out of the app so we don't need a menu.?
I'm hoping this usability is like when fonts first came out in the 90s. People went overboard for about 5 years before sanity returned. I'm wanting to believe that in a couple more years the usability folks will have gotten all this crap out of their system and return from the land of whatthefuckistan.

Printing and CUPS were miles ahead of what Microsoft, or Apple provided, but they sat on their heels and it stagnated. MS and Apple both caught up and passed it. (Apple has done great things with CUPS, but Linux devs and vendors haven't done anything.)

Lennart Poettering is a good example of the normal mentality of Linux devs. They'll work on something they think is cool, then when it starts to get usable, ~70% done, they get bored and move on to something new, leaving it to others to maintain or die on the vine.

Sound is still a joke compared to Apple or MS. Pulseaudio for all it's warts is/was at least something. A common audio. Excellent goal(!!!) and it got some traction. But Lennart got 80% there and decided to go work on something else, it almost immediately stagnated and stalled out. (Yes, I still check the forums periodically. I'm comfortable saying there's not much work on that 20% being done.)

systemd is a pain in the ass compared to the old init scripts. If for no other reason, that it's very different and a lot of distros don't have backward compatibility, IE, simple init scripts that call systemd commands. Then he moved onto that stupid binary logfile crap rather than using the little used and semi-broken functionality in syslog to accomplish the same damn goal. syslogd, syslog-ng, gsyslog (forgot the name of the 3rd syslog variant). all little tweaks trying to accomplish slightly different goals because every g*dd*mn linux dev wants to rewrite a common tool because they know better, or will do it better without certain mistakes.

network-manager (lots of work on wierd edge cases, but little work into normal common things and you have to go through dbus commands to do anything), wicd (because enough people hate network-manager)
gnome-2, gnome-3, unity, mate, for Christ's sake.
printing still sucks butt on KDE. It's still behind where it was on kde3. ;(

But everyone wants to keep rewriting infrastructure and plumbing. Also, touch interfaces! (but that's a seperate topic.)

Linux will never be popular on the desktop because there are so many slightly different, slighly incompatibilities that avg people get sick of it. I've been using linux since ~95 and I'm sick of Linux devs. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm to the point where I want stuff to work. I'll take solid and working over shiny 9 days out of 10.

Linux does extremely well on the servers, in huge part I think, because it's not 'sexy' and therefore these plumber-wannabes stay out of that arena. Can you imagine if we had bash, bash-ng, kbash, zsh-ng,zsh-cool, zsh-lite, dzsh, top, top-ng, top-d, ps, ps-ng, ps-d, awk, gawk, ng-awk, gd-awk, glibc, glibc-ng, glibc-gd, etc? linux would have 0.1% server share.

I don't know the breakdown of paid devs vs volunteer contributors. I can't rag on volunteers for just working on cool and shiny things that interest them, but I don't have to say "wow, awesome job reinventing the wheel like the 30 people before you and the 10 others parallel to you"

To anyone reading this and wanting to put words in my mouth, let me stop you in advance.
I'm not saying everythign should be only one way of doing things, but having 6 ways that sorta-work, seems less effective and beneficial than 2 or 3 ways that actually work.

(not directed at you Billy Gates.)
To anyone who considers themselves a linux developer: I'm talking to you. Please think about what I'm trying to say here, and don't be a douchebag and get stuck on grammar mistakes. (If you think grammar or spelling mistakes reflect a point's validity, then you're a pedantic holier-than-thou tool.) I care quite a lot about linux but am growing weary over the years.

You mentioned hip and trendy. I've noticed that Microsoft is still trying to be cool. Watching their commercials and ads and comparing them against Apple, Android and even google's chrome. Microsoft seems to really, desparately want to be 'cool', but their definition of cool is the one that teenagers and early-20 year old men have. Maybe the XBOX division has a lot of influence in the company. Apple and Android commercials, at least the ones I see, are useful things you can do with their devices, and coolness is there but it's well done and comes across and supporting and not the focus, the usage is the focus. Microsoft shoves it in your face that they are cool, and usage is secondary. To me, it comes across as desperate and crying for attention. It's very offputting.

Wow, that site is the granddaddy of buzzword bingo. Created for PHBs by PHBs.

The tea party may have originally been about reducing government size, power and daily involvment of the federal government but I'm not sure that's been the case for a long time. My ex-boss was a tea party guy; hard core. After listening to him many, many times I can very definitively tell you he is more anti-liberal than anti-big government. He worships Glen Beck, thinks Obama is a socialist anti-Christ in cohoots with Soros, out to destroy America, and that all of our problems started when the US took prayer out of school. I was at the airport with him one time and some random guy came up, shook his hand and they started talking. (He was wearing one of those pro-tea party shirts.) They weren't talking about how to solve big government; they were just circle jerking about how liberals are the cause of all of our problems and how we should go back to daily religion (Christian only because "the US is a Christian nation") in every aspect of our lives. He's not an idiot mind you, I like the guy, but guys like Beck and other conservatives have zeroed in on the natural fears that most people have and convinced them to not even talk or listen to any other opinions. It's not about making America great, it's only about beating the liberals no matter the cost.

    I have yet to see anything that actually shows tea party people are about smaller government more than drinking the "liberals are what's wrong with America" cool-aid than anything else.

Check them out. I've heard that they are both looking. One of the devs at RedHat told me they are actively looking, especially on graphics stuff.