Google did NOT âoeimmediatelyâ prove its superiority. In fact it was inferior in particularly significant ways.

As an example, searching for the phrase âoeto be or not to beâ would yield no results with Google (or garbage results), whereas AltaVista understood the query fine. This is because Google was cutting corners and throwing away short words.

AltaVista ultimately killed itself. I remember an internal email thread that made this defeat well understood to most of us. Someone asked if it was intentional that we were serving pop-under ads on the front page of the site (pop-under ads were where a popup window would be created and immediately be moved into the background.. you typically saw this on seedy porn sites). The short answer came back âoeyesâ, and it was almost universally interpreted (from my experience at least) as the most clear sign that weâ(TM)d lost.

AltaVista kept making the front page more and more complicated. Google kept its front page empty simple and clean. That was the only way that Googleâ(TM)s engine was superior at that time.

Goodness, you're right. Let's also ease up on organised crime for the same reasons, eh?

Among the best comments I've ever read on Slashdot.

While I'd argue that any good developer should have more than a passing understanding and empathy for operations, what is being described here is not DevOps. Let's steal a definition from Wikipedia: DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) operations professionals. DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software development and IT operations. It aims to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services.

DevOps is NOT A ROLE. DevOps is a methodology concerning increased communications between development and operations. For example, DevOps tools may help coordinate software releases across environments -- e.g., helping to ensure that the same software is deployed in the same way in Dev, QA and Production, thereby avoiding potential issues created due to different configurations or dependency combinations. Going the other way, a system monitoring tool which collects information on software failures may be augmented so that IT can choose to collect more detailed information (e.g. stack traces or memory dumps) and have all of that data attached to a bug report published into the developers' bug tracking system. Analytics are a growing area of interest in DevOps, facilitating the collection and consolidation of product and feature usage, making that available in a consumable format for business analysts.

That's what DevOps is in an established organization. It's a Really Good Thing, and once you've experienced it, it's hard to work anywhere that doesn't take DevOps seriously.

Your claim is provably wrong in just a few minutes' worth of Googling. I would say that *most* basketball aficionados explicitly criticize players and others when they discuss the sport. Same with most other sports. What planet are you on?

In any case, doesn't your claim mean that you yourself cannot criticize the original poster? After all, to do so would mean that you yourself must participate in that activity also.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

This story is well over a year old. There's absolutely nothing new here.

No that was the Nvidia drivers.

It's always good to see law enforcement working together in a joint investigation.

Headline by Yoda written it is.

It means he whinges but he has a tan.

WOOOOSH