What can explain the speed of media articles on Ballmer's exit from Microsoft, pre written Obituaries

The rate of articles and tweets on Steve Ballmer leaving Microsoft is amazing.

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    This week in tech stock: Microsoft scales Ballmer peak one last time

     
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    How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech, via

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    Inside Ballmer's Exit And Who Definitely Won't Be Microsoft's Next CEO by

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    Who thinks that this Steve Ballmer resignation is a euphemism for him being canned by the board which has had enough?

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    Better Late Than Never? Ballmer Product Pipeline Shows a Very Mixed Record for Microsoft -by

     
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    With Ballmer ceding Microsoft's top job, let the handicapping begin via

     
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    ICYMI: and I taped a special live episode on TWiT about Steve Ballmer's retirement:

     
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    We talked to Microsoft employees. The reaction to Steve Ballmer leaving is universal: They're totally stunned.

     
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One of the interesting posts is from the infamous mini-microsoft blog post which has been quiet for a long time.


A well prepared blogger, even a crusty spider-web covered 99.9%-retired one like me, would have at least had a post ready to go for this glorious circumstance, like how most news organizations have obituaries written up and ready to publish. I had no such optimism that this would be happening before 2017.

The point made on how media companies have pre written obituaries is one that gets you thinking.  How many media people were ready to fire an article on Steve Ballmer retiring?  There are some who said SteveB should have retired 10 years ago.  

The tweets are at a rate of many per minute for the past 24 hours.

Here is a stream for the last minute and the news is 24 hours old and it is Saturday.

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    Por qué la retirada de Ballmer es la mejor noticia para Microsoft

     
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    Artículo Web: Las razones por las que Steve Ballmer se apea del trono de Microsoft

     
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    Artículo Web: Lo mejor de Steve Ballmer, CEO de Microsoft - A Steve Ballmer, CEO de Microsoft, le quedan lo...

     
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    New iPods - Steve Ballmer says goodbye - Crosscut: Wall Street JournalSteve Ballmer says goodbyeCrosscutBut th...

     
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    Steve Ballmer, Meet Ibn Khaldun: The barbarians always take over in the end. '(by Paul Krugman)'

     
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    Steve Ballmer, Meet Ibn Khaldun: The barbarians always take over in the end.

     
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    Por qué la sucesión de Ballmer debería comportar un cambio generacional

     
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    Por qué la sucesión de Ballmer debería comportar un cambio generacional: Después de leer los artículos publica...

     
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    Por qué la sucesión de Ballmer debería comportar un cambio generacional

     
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    's on his biggest regret, the next and more | ZDNet

     
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    Ballmer’s Departure From Microsoft Comes 10 Years Too Late

     
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    Five reasons Ballmer had to go

     
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    Steve Ballmer names Windows Vista as biggest regret while CEO: submitted by samipk1234 [link…

     

SF fire up those Diesel Generators, Yosemite Fire puts Electrical Infrastructure at Risk

California's Governor has declared a state of emergency for SF's electrical infrastructure.

FRESNO, Calif. –  California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco late Friday after electrical infrastructure serving the city was damaged by a giant wildfire raging out of control on the western edge of Yosemite National Park.

The fire has damaged San Francisco city and county electrical equipment and poses an "imminent threat to critical infrastructure assets" of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, according to a news release.

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Two of three hydroelectric powerhouses in the area have been shut down because of the fire, the commission said, but the city has been able to make up the difference through buying power on the open market.


SF data centers should be making sure their back-up systems are ready to pick up the load if there is a brown-out.

Another candidate for future Microsoft CEO, HAL 9000

GigaOm's Barb Darrow does a good job of identifying possible candidates for CEO of Microsoft.

With Ballmer ceding Microsoft’s top job, let the handicapping begin

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Who’s your pick for next Microsoft CEO? Now’s your chance to weigh in…. Insider? Outsider? Young un? Veteran? Sheryl Sandberg? Paul Maritz? Steven Sinofsky? Satya Nadella? Who?

It is phenomenally complex to run a company than size of Microsoft.  With the one million servers Microsoft has imagine if HAL 9000 could be set up to be the CEO running on let's say 10,000 servers.

Can you imagine if a CEO was replaced by HAL 9000.

HAL's capabilities, like all the technology in 2001, were based on the speculation of respected scientists. Marvin Minsky, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and one of the most influential researchers in the field, was an adviser on the film set.[18] In the mid-1960s, many computer scientists in the field of AI were optimistic that machines with HAL's capabilities would exist within a few decades. For example, AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon at Carnegie Mellon University, had predicted in 1965 that "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do",[19] the overarching premise being that the issue was one of computational speed (which was predicted to increase) rather than principle.

If you don't like the HAL 9000 persona, you can use the Wizard of Oz version.

Introduction to Continuous Delivery

I am off to PuppetConf to spend a day in the world of DevOps and Continuous Delivery.  DevOps is pretty familiar to most of you.  What is Continuous Delivery here is a pointer to a GigaOm Research paper I wrote and was published back in Oct 2012.

Continuous delivery and the world of devops

Summary:

Thanks to the rise of online business, companies must now get their products and services to market as fast as they can, and releases that occur in periods of months or years are no longer competitive. As a result, the pattern of how to release software is changing from large, infrequent releases of new software to small, frequent releases. This paper explains the world of continuous delivery and its underlying philosophy, devops. It is intended for executives who determine their organization’s business strategies. If you are looking for ways to reduce time to market and are considering a realignment of traditional assumptions about the roles of development and operations, you require knowledge of new tools and new approaches.

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  2. Executive summary                                                                                                    
  3. Introduction                                                                                                                 
  4. What is continuous delivery?                                                                              
  5. Trends driving continuous delivery                                                              
  6. What is devops?                                                                                                        
  7. Technologies                                                                                                            
  8. Constructing a continuous-delivery pipeline                                          
  9. Infrastructure as code                                                                                      
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