jettison

So they approve the plan, bring him on, and then when people don't like it, jettison him as a scapegoat.

That feels more like what Apple did with USB and floppy drives: jettison tech on the way out while it was still useful in some contexts.

It's much more in the companys interests to jettison as much of their workforce as possible.

At some point down the line you can jettison Win32 altogether and replace it with whatever you want, or even leave it in place.

The first thing Jobs did when he came back to Apple was jettison superfluous products and concentrate on what Apple was good at. Seems to me like he was giving genuine advice.

Documents on a desktop is an outgrown metaphor that just nobody seems to have the courage to jettison.

I worked for a time doing "transitional project management" read "once we acquire you, figure out what we are keeping and jettison the rest".

Or can you safely jettison them and just sell this as: "Write your ML/graph analysis/whatever code in Java, have it execute on a GPU"Also, what are the limits like for input data sizes?

Unless you jettison the climber at the top, only one climber could be on the cable at any one time, and that would put a lot of strain on recovering the initial cost of building the elevator by putting an upper bound on how often you can send a climber up to anything between every 6 days to a month.