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Software designers: Lose your inhibitions, embrace complexity

Good IT isn't about buzzwords, it's about people

"Few software architects are business domain experts"

So fire them and hire ones that are.

Seriously. Good IT isn't about buzzwords or "Disruptive Architecture". It's about people.

Are you an IT pro? It's no longer safe to bet your career on Microsoft

Re: duh

I don't know what market share Windows Server HPC has in different markets, but it's certainly a lot more than 0%.

As a vendor selling enterprise software to very large organizations (global banks), we choose windows HPC because their IT depts like windows servers - certainly more than Linux servers. Can't see that changing in the next 5 years.

As HPC creeps out of labs and IT-specialist companies and into business, the market share for windows HPC (a specialized version of their windows server OS) is increasing and will increase. It isn't cutting-edge, but most IT work (and pay) isn't at the bleeding edge.

No 'tipping point' for Arctic sea ice - latest science

Lewis, you misunderstand the journal article

They're not arguing that there is no feedback mechanism whereby lack of ice leads to overall warming which leads to more lack of ice.

What their model shows is that this feedback mechanism is not a quick short term effect powerful enough to dominate everything else. In particular their simulation shows that one anomalous hot summer can't suddenly tip you over the edge in a situation where the world has warmed by only 2.1 degrees C.

I'm not aware of any of the major climate models having assumed that one anomalous hot summer *can* tip you over the edge. So honestly, I don't see the fuss.