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One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy. - Eric Evans
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I have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way.
He's the guy who said, "One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy." 
On a serious note, he's way off. It should be 1 to 1, not 1 to 5. If one 1 irresponsible programmer is keeping 5 other programmers busy then they are no way top-notch.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's only true if you intercept the damage before it reaches production. Disaster recovery can be far harder than preventing a disaster in the first place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You obviously haven't met some of the top-notch irresponsible people I've had the displeasure of working with.
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Just hit the "revert this commit" button on your source control system? 
The more often you forget to revert the more people you'll need to clean the mess 
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Sander Rossel wrote: have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way
FYI[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess as programmers we're often tempted by the life of crime... 
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That can't be him, our Eric is black and in jail 
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First, apologies for lateness.
Learned greek (m) makes for heavy water. (9)
Good luck!
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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DEUTERIUM?
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Answered. Got the solution for completeness?
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nope - hence the question mark.
I got Deuterium from the heavy water, but it's from the Greek for second "deuteros", and I can't think of any famous Greeks that fit at all!
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OriginalGriff wrote: DEUTERIUM?
Was thinking the same, myself, but absolutely no idea on the wordplay.
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Likewise! 
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ERUDITE.. Learned
.......MU Greek (m)
Minor shuffling to finish.
Heavy water was a huge clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Heavy water was, indeed, a huge clue - on a really pedantic note, though, heavy water is deuterium oxide, simple deuterium is known as heavy hydrogen - but it's probably too big a clue all the same.
The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though, as there's nothing to suggest to the solver that any "minor shuffling" (the complete anagramisation of one derived word and the reversal of another) is going on, so there's no way to know that the extra layer of indirection is there.
I'd have gone with something more like "Isotope produced by erudite confusion on return of Greek letter": The literal part of the clue leaves a great many possible answers and is therefore much harder but the word-play can now lead us to the specific answer. "Confusion" indicates that we're looking to kick off with an anagram of erudite, and "return of Greek letter" gives us a handful of possible endings to work with. I don't particularly like the surface reading of my version so I'd probably tweak it, but hopefully it shows a better balance of difficulty between the two parts of the clue.
Sorry, I really hate to be critical and I did very much enjoy trying to solve it but it was answerable rather than solvable.
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PeejayAdams wrote: The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though
One of my favourite crossword composers uses "makes" or "makes for" as an anagram hint. His clues tend not to follow a set pattern, so there is considerable effort in just figuring how to parse the clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Who is your favourite composer? I'd have to go with Monk and the late, great Mass, myself.
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Thought "Deuterium" within about five seconds of reading it but couldn't make the first part of the clue tally at all.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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We've just come back from a holiday in Spain.
My wife didn't really enjoy it, because everyone could speak English and all the food was like the stuff we eat back at home.
She said, "Next time, I want to go somewhere where they eat weird sh*t and you can't understand a word they f***ing say."
So I've just booked us a fortnight in Scotland!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: So I've just booked us a fortnight in ScotlandHungary!
Even worse!
veni bibi saltavi
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Hungarians sell deep fried curly-wurly?
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You'd be surprised what they eat. There's a tripe dish [with paprika] and some sort of pork [with paprika] jelly that are both beyond description; so I wont. They apparently like eating breaded meat inna bun and I swear there are just way too many recipes that include pumpkin seeds. There is no part of the pig, and I mean not one single part, that they don't eat; I'm sure I got a dish with the Oink in once.
Oh and the drink. Palinka will blow your socks off then blame next door before offering you another one to calm your nerves. The beer seems to work at exactly four glasses; with one having a wonderful paralysis effect on your hangover.
Love the country, love the people and almost understand the cuisine.
veni bibi saltavi
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C'mon - Goulash is not weird sh*t, that's a yummy dish! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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