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Their entire research project is a giant Leslie.
In the 1970's I heard a radio 'news' about people who drink six or more cups of coffee a day have twice the chance of a heart attack as people who don't. And in addition, they found that tea drinkers seemed to average fewer heart attacks than the norm.
And this whole study is worthless BS because they forget to take into account the same thing:
In the 70's it was "coffee and a cigarette" and tea drinkers, on the other hand, were less likely to smoke than the average population. Most people who smoke die from the heart attack (nicotine) before they get lung cancer. Unfortunately in these studies, they always find what they're looking for.
Remember the three C's:
Coincidence
Correlation
Cause and Effect
And learn to observe the difference.
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And a fourth 'C' = Conflict (of interest). Always pay attention to who funds the study, especially with food-related stuff.
TTFN - Kent
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The vegetable in question looked like an ordinary, chunky Idaho spud, although protruding out of one side was some kind of antenna, a black plastic appendage bent upward. Welcome to the Internet of Tubers
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I have to say that I disagree entirely with the article writer.
It looks like a russet potato, not an Idaho.
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GlaDOS surely!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Can it be converted into a chip for faster processing?
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Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past. "Better, stronger, faster."
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It's the new ones who are the problem.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the new ones who are the problem.
Amen! 
(Don't trust anyone under fifty)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Analytical thinking can lock the mind in a box. New research from professors at Stanford and Santa Clara suggests engineers lack a basic ingredient. The academics' solution is, well, controversial. You might be an engineer if...
One of many /sigh-worthy articles today (just wait for the next one though)
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So the solution, as the writer went to great lengths to point out, is a new buzzword?
How utterly ridiculous and behind the times! So 2010s!
What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
Truly a broad-minded solution! 
TTFN - Kent
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As expected, the engineers on this forum are skeptical towards this article (which kind of proves the articles point, well done!) 
On a serious note, I don't have a technical education, but a "soft" study in arts, culture and media and I do notice a difference in thinking between me and most of my (ex-)coworkers.
In fact, it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer because I only learned that after my study.
How many developers do you know that can talk to users and managers without either of them being annoyed by the other? 
I'm not sure if mindfulness is the solution, but I do agree there's a problem.
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Sander Rossel wrote: a "soft" study in arts, culture and media
Did you wear slippers to class? 
Sander Rossel wrote: it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer
Same here.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Agreed - some of the best programmers I know have music degrees.
TTFN - Kent
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The problem is, divergent thinking is terrifying to the traditional thinkers and managers, and so is almost always quashed. 
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Obsessing with “clean code” and removing duplication is a phase many of us go through. Dirty, dirty code
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What on Earth is he saying?
The very idea that the most creative work doesn't come from following a pattern and just changing a few variable values is utterly ridiculous!
Just ask hollywood -- it's what they've been doing for decades, and they're the most creative people on Earth!
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Quote: resizeTopLeft(position, size, preserveAspect, dx, dy) {
// 10 repetitive lines of math
},
resizeTopRight(position, size, preserveAspect, dx, dy) {
// 10 repetitive lines of math
},
Seriously. I can came up with similarly invented, just for sake of an article, artificial code to 'prove' theory that stand in the opposition to the one shown in the article. This is just a clickbait and a waste of time. 
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Quote: For example, we later needed many special cases and behaviors for different handles on different shapes.
Ivory tower comment: then he didn't write is abstractions correctly. 
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Depending on your application, you may see some minor code quality improvements and/or major build-time (compiler throughput) improvements. "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay!"
My oh my,
What a wonderful... way to make spurious changes by default so that you haven't got a clue what's happened to your code.
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Linux creator and principal developer Linus Torvalds has come out against the ZFS filesystem. "There is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with … nobody can ever improve the software"
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Well, I have to say, definitively and categorically, that I absolutely do not have a bloody clue what they're going on about.
 <-- This is me being happy that I never got involved in open-source politics.
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