Ruby on Rails founder DHH joins Shopify’s board of directors.

When I was starting my current job I still thought that planned obsolescence in consumer stuff was bad enough. Now I still very much think that, but enterprise hardware is worse, so much worse! It’s almost surprising, you’d think that this is serious gear, for serious people, therefore it should be easily serviceable and indestructible, but in reality it’s nothing but a front for a much more lucrative operation. Support contracts.