> You shouldn't need it, but only a sociopath would try to get rid of it. > Almost all of the software we write is now affecting people's lives. Don’t twist a

> You shouldn't need it, but only a sociopath would try to get rid of it. > Almost all of the software we write is now affecting people's lives. Don’t twist a technical disagreement into some kind moral outrage. We both have the same goal of providing reliable software to people. The problem is that for the past decades, resetting the machine has deleted countless term papers. Nowadays, people generally put their term papers in cloud services that are always on. This is a huge step forward. We can bring this kind of reliability to offline usage. I think this requires taking lessons learned from cloud/server farm/mainframe world (always-on) and figuring out ways to apply them to personal computers.