We used to call that eXtreme Programming: that was the rage a while ago, then went out of fashion in favour of other agile development methods. But that happened a lifetime ago (the early 2000s:p ), and computer fashion have changed more times than I can really keep track.
I guess that the people who were actually programming 10 years ago are now managers, gurus or architects and want to bring back their happy childhood memories (id est, programming with their buddy) back to reality, imposing it on the newer generations.
I always saw the minitel as a technological leap forwards (the first data network targeted at the general public), and a terrible anchor that weighted us down and prevented most of us French people from moving to the Internet : that's the usual consensus about the impact of the Internet on the human beings that used/could have used it.
But I never looked at it from the interactions between the technological service provider and the business models relying on such new media.
As a French student, 10 ago, we were still spending time during our telecomunications class to study the X.25 protocol (the Minitel protocol covering the layers 3/4 in the OSI model)...which was an aberration at the time when compared to the (much simpler, and much more useful) TCP/IP protocols that were used in the Internet. But it was the turn of the millenium, Internet was not that used in France (except maybe by the students, hardcore gamers and porn addicts) while the Minitel was the last remnant of French technology, even if it was losing ground in the main population in the battle against the
Anyway, I believe I still have nightmares, sometimes, waking only to scream "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, not the X.25". I guess that 's better than "Cauchy-Schwart theorem!", but only marginaly.
SpaceX should rename to Space(Se)X, and switch to a less traditionnal space tourism business-model. The porn industry has been pivotal in spreading the use of the Internet (much more than sharing art pieces, scientific papers and all that nonsense) : likewise, it will be strip clubs in geosynchronous orbit and zero-G sex experience that will make space travel popular.
I was shocked that The Big Bang Theory was not mentionned. When it comes to stereotypes, geeks and comics, it should be the reference show.
In particular "Captain Sweatpants" who so much looks like the typical comics reader...:p
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We used to call that eXtreme Programming: that was the rage a while ago, then went out of fashion in favour of other agile development methods. But that happened a lifetime ago (the early 2000s :p ), and computer fashion have changed more times than I can really keep track.
I guess that the people who were actually programming 10 years ago are now managers, gurus or architects and want to bring back their happy childhood memories (id est, programming with their buddy) back to reality, imposing it on the newer generations.
Interesting.
I always saw the minitel as a technological leap forwards (the first data network targeted at the general public), and a terrible anchor that weighted us down and prevented most of us French people from moving to the Internet : that's the usual consensus about the impact of the Internet on the human beings that used/could have used it.
But I never looked at it from the interactions between the technological service provider and the business models relying on such new media.
As a French student, 10 ago, we were still spending time during our telecomunications class to study the X.25 protocol (the Minitel protocol covering the layers 3/4 in the OSI model) ...which was an aberration at the time when compared to the (much simpler, and much more useful) TCP/IP protocols that were used in the Internet. But it was the turn of the millenium, Internet was not that used in France (except maybe by the students, hardcore gamers and porn addicts) while the Minitel was the last remnant of French technology, even if it was losing ground in the main population in the battle against the
Anyway, I believe I still have nightmares, sometimes, waking only to scream "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, not the X.25". I guess that 's better than "Cauchy-Schwart theorem!", but only marginaly.
SpaceX should rename to Space(Se)X, and switch to a less traditionnal space tourism business-model. The porn industry has been pivotal in spreading the use of the Internet (much more than sharing art pieces, scientific papers and all that nonsense) : likewise, it will be strip clubs in geosynchronous orbit and zero-G sex experience that will make space travel popular.
Thus experimentally answering the old debate whether ninjas are cooler and better than pirates.
I was shocked that The Big Bang Theory was not mentionned. When it comes to stereotypes, geeks and comics, it should be the reference show. In particular "Captain Sweatpants" who so much looks like the typical comics reader ... :p