Yes, but how would they get their next interview?!
Rock the boat too hard and suddenly you're outside the circle of trust. Enough talking heads out there kiss ass to the point that press releases posing as journalism rule the day.
But hey, at least you'll be on the guest list for the next Apple event!
I dont think the media "gets it wrong", although they do endemically, I think that media is reflective of ourselves.
If we dont see a threat, we dont react. If we dont see a threat the media wont react to it either.
This can operate in reverse, if we see a threat but the govt tells us its not a threat, the media will try to soothe our anxiety.
Maybe what the media fears is being drowned out by the mill of a thousand voices, none of which have any credibility, and so they follow the "dont throw pearls to swine" rule of not getting in the way and wasting their breath.
In the world of Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Ventura, Rand Paul, who wants to hear facts?
The "media" as we call it, is adjusting to the ability of our collective digestive tract to consume what they have to say.
And their adjustment is to say screw it. Its just (expletive ommitted)
I look at this a little differently, Im not going to opine on the character of the CEO or his employees.
Besides raw economic factors and the trend-happy game industry, I think its worth it to ask:
What on earth are we building? And why are we building it?
Its OK to build games we all need entertainment. Nothing wrong with that. But Zynga games were obsessive click factories which were as far as anyone can tell designed to be addictive.
As an engineer, I have worked at places that had so called "projects" designed to "get more clicks".
That may include a lot of web shops. Usually for ad revenue. But if you think about that from an engineering perspective, what a woeful, sad day it is to have your boss come to you with that mission.
Its the day you realize that what you built has no real value to the user, and is a self serving mechanism to get meaningless clicks out of your robot users.
In the old days we made software that people wanted to use and we didnt care how many times they clicked on a cow.
It seems the implication of the article is to say that we have potentially drawn the wrong conclusion on "which straw" broke the camels back.
And that if we drew the wrong conclusion that somehow this might impact or could have impacted the rationale for developing nuclear arsenals.
It's also popular in the US war college that officers attend, the statement that "Wars cannot be won by air power alone".
But beyond these details, whether the history is exactly right on what caused the Japanese to surrender, there is no doubt that the conclusion of WWII precipitated an arms race and a space race as Nazi scientists and technology were divided among the superpowers.
Nothing would have stopped the advancement of war making technology, no convenient conclusions about the strategic causes or effects.
Technology will advance whether we want it to or not. And whether or not its in out best interests as we perceive them in our posited "future".
There are many use cases for which EC2 is exactly perfect and not overpriced.
As a consultant recently I was tasked to build a service which (rather not say), I had good data on requests per day, total data storage, factored in ELB, etc.
The cost was less than 2K a year. Now consider that the company refused to buy hardware or pay anyone to support it because they had a full staff of sysops maintaining their (rather not say) at great cost in their own data center.
2K is absolutely nothing to a company. Most of us are not Netflix or Dropbox. Don't pretend you have those kinds of problems if you don't. It could have cost 3x that per year and they still wouldn't have noticed it.
AWS for manageable workloads is dirt cheap at scale. I think you'd have to be nuts not to use it.
If you dont know how to run DNS, then your the wrong guy to be running it.
Dont come out in public and whine about hackers. Its your job and yours alone to know how DNS works and what to do.
Its not even mildly interesting anymore than TCP/IP is interesting. So do your job.
Thats what my boss would tell me and thats what your boss should tell you.
Its not mean what Im saying. Its the truth.