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Rob Grainger wrote: Just because software is malleable, doesn't mean there is zero cost to maintenance.
Yep. The one app I maintain's 3 biggest pain points for me are all things that were done due to severe time pressure (partly our underestimating complexity, partly the customer pushing a lot more scope creep/churn before the PM finally drew a line in the sand) that are too complex to fix short of a major update whose budget continues receding into the future. The biggest user painpoint is something that looks like it would be a simple change in the code; but involves breaking a major invariant in the existing platform that no one involved (I wasn't) remembers if was done because the CM lover wanted to Lock Down All The Things, or because it was the quickest way to mitigate a problem found in early testing. That makes its potential unintended consequences broad enough that unlike the dozens of minor hotfixes and tweaks that've been done since release, an update of an full rerun of the manual test plan to mitigate risks. 
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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I had to read a lot of this article twice, to ensure that it was as full of bollocks as it seemed on the first read.
The writer obviously knows absolutely bugger-all about building, absolutely bugger-all about the meanings/origins/usage of English expressions, nothing about agile/waterfall, and probably bupkiss about program design, although it looks like he/she/it may have done a two-week course on it.
Back when I used to do editorial work, I'd have shredded this; I wouldn't have even sent it back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I prefer to cut half way. Then look again to see if the measurement is needed.
Hold my drink and watch this.
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Measure twice cut once is nothing whatsoever to do with estimation - indeed I cannot think of anyone worse at estimation than builders.
It is more about preparation and verification before you make an irreversible change. This is why surgeons, pilots and deep sea salvage operatives have checklists - and perhaps that's the bit that software people should seek to emulate.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as well as Airbus A350 and A380 aircraft, have Wi-Fi passenger networks that use the same network as the avionics systems of the planes. Flight Simulator: 787 Edition
Really. It's not even a bad idea. People should feel pain to come up with thoughts like that.
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What is WRONG with people!
Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway? >
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Ron Anders wrote: Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway?
Automatic updates 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ron Anders wrote: Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway? >
With the sort of headlines this soems to've been designed to generate; my first question would be:
"**ARE** any current control systems using wifi and/or otherwise connected to the inflight wifi network; or did they hide that they were looking at a hypothetical what if all the engineers at Boeing/Airbus/etc were morons case in a footnote that their css 'accidentally' hid underneath the footer of their press release."
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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Scary. Means that someone from outside could do Ctrl-C Ctrl-V of what happened recently over the Alps.
Disable passenger WiFi. Why do passengers need WiFi on-board? IMHO, flight is a good time to stay away from all electronic gadgets.
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"Smart dust," long heralded in research papers
and sci-fi, is now a reality. Just don’t sneeze. Where do I plug in the monitor?
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The slogan it's not using yet: One repo, one module. "Everything is cool when you're part of a team"
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Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process that seeks the consent of all participants. "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried"
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Yeah, good luck with that. 
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I totally disagree with you on that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We agree to disagree.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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90% of security incidents are still caused by PEBKAC and ID10T errors, according to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report. There you go: get rid of these two problems and we're set
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Oh! No! We've been discovered!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Only 90% ? 
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The company released patches from 98 security issues in its products, 14 in Java. "You can get what you want if you've got some do re me"
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Microsoft has devised a system to automatically keep devices germ-free. Obsessive-compulsives rejoice!
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Microsoft has tapped Zend's Z-Ray for advanced PHP analysis The bad news? You're still coding in PHP
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Is PHP the new VB?...cuz it mostly 'just works'...
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No, VB was a very good product for its time.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I agree and it always 'just worked'...now PHP gets heaps of scorn for not being 'pure' or whatever and it works great too.
...that was what I was getting at...
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And they use a ceramic alloy with the gold so they can claim a higher carat : [^].
"The watch casing will be made of 18 karat gold. The interesting twist is an Apple patent that surfaced just recently suggesting that a novel low density ceramic material is used as an alloy component. This will, in a way, allow Apple to use less gold compared to conventional alloys because the karat is weight-based and not volume based as a unit. At any rate, about half an ounce of gold will be used in each watch, in addition to the gold and other technology metals contained in its electronic parts, and the screen.
The Apple Watch, therefore, contains about $ 600 worth of gold. If you had any doubts: given its price tag and high production volume this makes the Apple Watch a rather poor investment."
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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