shovelful

Elop's comment is not so much the last nail in the coffin as it is the last shovelful of dirt on the grave.

The answer to "which shovelfull of dirt has the highest priority" is all of them. Just start shoveling.

The problem clearly won't be solved with twice the tiny-shovelfuls of dirt. It needs a qualitatively different type of action.

You can get stuff of this quality by the shovelful from your typical bad subreddit, although usually not by one person all at once.

If you can dredge up 64kB of fresh data every time, that's 511,744 tests per shovelful which is quite a bit to sift through from a performance perspective but it's also a trivially parallel task. Additionally, folk might know of even better ways to narrow that down.

Anyone can run a "pretty good service" with massive shovelfuls of taxpayer dollars propping them up every year. The US should remove all the mandates from the Postal Service and all of the subsidies and open up mail delivery for competition from FedEx and UPS.

I am not an entrepreneur so take this is a shovelful of salt, but I wouldn't venture into creating a business on a technology that I have to learn along the way. Also, I am now confused that Rails is turning into Java, yet you recently saw a beautiful piece of Java.

A unique proprietary blend of flavorants would certainly be a competitive advantage over all those beers that just use the four major bittering herbs: hops, more hops, even more hops, and a final "screw you" shovelful of hops. In double-blinded taste tests conducted in my home, the adults concluded that Vienna lagers are the best, and IPAs are the worst.

Concurrency could also be having one guy with one shovel, but digging iteratively in 5 separate places and digging a shovelful or two at a time. Or to put it another way, parallelism is digging two ditches with 4 people 4 times as fast as 1 person digging two ditches; concurrency is 1 person digging two ditches at the same time, alternating; determinism is making sure that the two ditches are being dug correctly, at an even pace, etc.

The industry itself is killing the golden goose, and I may just go back to reading fantasy novels by the shovelful, and trying out all those games I licensed on Steam/GOG/Humble and never played, and binge-watching niche shows on Netflix/Hulu that would have been canceled from regular television.