coffeegeek

Agreed, but it might also serve as a signal of an engineering organization that is open to exploring different technologies that might be better suited for the problems at hand.

It's still up to the candidate/interviewer to determine whether that choice was a wise one, or whether they're trying to ride a wave of popularity of a specific language or framework.

I see that you don't know what the Climate Corporation does, even though most people know you can visit the website and read.

You can lose money and make it back, but you cannot lose time and make it back. That's the real fallacy when comparing money and time.

"The only theory I can come up with is that their real customers are the banks"

Unlike Visa in the US, Visa Europe is still owned by its 3000+ member banks. It's only responsibility is to make its shareholders happy.

And the NSA is archiving Twitter and everything else.

What does "forgotten" mean in this context? There are plenty of people that if I hadn't read about them in history class, they would, too, be forgotten. Is Gladwell saying people will stop writing about Jobs, or any popular literature that mentions him will be burned?

And from the article: "no one will even remember what Microsoft is" I guess that assumes we'll all be dead in 50 years. Actually, less time than that. This assumes that at some point in the future, Microsoft disappears, and shortly thereafter its memory. After reading that I stopped reading the article.

Exactly...isn't that what you're paying for?

It's confirmation that the current pharma R&D and patent system is broken.