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The Truck Factor designates the minimal number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a project is incapacitated. CP Newsletter has a moped factor of 1
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They have the same for programme managers - the Chicxulub[^] factor. I've been on projects where that number has topped double digits...
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Yeah, but there you don't need the meteor/asteroid to break the project, you want the meteor/asteroid to strike. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: CP Newsletter has a moped factor of 1
Ahh, quit your mopin'!
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When it comes to landmark achievements in space exploration, tomorrow — July 14 — will be a date for the history books as the day humanity reached Pluto for the first time. Planet or not, here they come
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Monmouth University in New Jersey is holding a special event tomorrow to celebrate and watch the coverage.
Q. What would you call a government on Pluto?
A. A Plutocracy!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Where's the :boo: CPicon? 
TTFN - Kent
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I can't wait for the conspiracy theorists to start claiming everything was photographed on a sound stage...
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Paul M Watt wrote: I can't wait for the conspiracy theorists to start claiming everything was photographed on a sound stage...
This isn't the sixties. Everything is simulated on a computer now. It's just better faked, that's all.
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Microsoft's head of Windows marketing has confirmed that PC buyers won't be able to get one with Windows 10 pre-installed on that launch date. I'll have to wait a WHOLE DAY? That's it, I'm moving to Linux!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The earliest you can receive a PC with Windows 10 pre-installed is July 30
Which year ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Microsoft has been building a new cloud service and light-weight apps, Project GigJam, on the sly for several years. Here's what's under the covers. OK, I have to apologize to InfoPath when I called it "Microsoft's worst name ever."
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Everytime I see GigJam I think of figjam[^]
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was worried that might be some sort of Oz cuisine, but I think that acronym might have some use in the future...
TTFN - Kent
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In the wake of its embarrassing, multi-billion dollar writedown and associated spate of firings, Microsoft is working to signal that it is not done with hardware. "And did you think this fool could never win. Well look at me, I'm coming back again"
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As good as the Rust project may be, its community is even better. To very rough approximations of 'success'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: its community is even better
Both of them? 
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You're on fire today 
I wonder just how many there are outside of Mozilla trying real projects with it.
TTFN - Kent
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Alex Stamos, the recently appointed chief security officer at Facebook, has called on software company Adobe to announce an "end-of-life date for Flash." How's next Tuesday at 11am? That work for everyone?
Today, maybe?
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What a self-absorbed idiot.  Does he think he has such power?
Tomorrow's headline: "Oracle Adobe to Facebook: 'Well, elephant you too'."
modified 13-Jul-15 17:37pm.
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Why is he an idiot?
He is not asking to kill Flash right here right now, but to set a end-of-life date so that web sites can set aside budgets to clean up their own stuff.
He calls to stop using Flash as it is a huge security issue, not only for Facebook, but other corporations.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nobody is forcing anyone to use flash. If it is a "huge issue" then it could simply be removed (or blocked locally like some of us do), but I guess that too much ads are still requiring flash for their animations 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The real problem is that every 2nd video website I visit not named Youtube requires a flash player. It's sufficiently irritating that I'm leaning toward reverting the click to play feature in my browser as too annoying. It's not like the flash ads aren't being stopped via another route anyway...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Maximilien wrote: Why is he an idiot?
Dunno. Sub-standard education? Poor drinking water? I have no idea what the causes may be; I only see the result.
He obviously doesn't understand technology.
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