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Agile software development history doesn't begin with the Agile Manifesto—its roots go back much earlier. In the beginning, there was waterfall, and it was good. No wait, bad. Sorry, really bad. Honest.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In the beginning, there was waterfall
No there wasn't; that came along later, due, no doubt, to the perception of havok among early developers who were gettin' it done.
Do you think Kernighan and Ritchey used freakin' Waterfall? Grace Hooper et al? I think not.
These early developers coded by the seat of the pants, or skirt as the case may be. They were agile before it was cool.
Agile is developers taking back their freedom after decades in the harness of Waterfall.
Oh, now I'll go read the article...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Oh, now I'll go read the article...
Nah - add that to the backlog for the next sprint
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If you happen to be a fan of the game Snake, you can now play it directly in your browser in Bing as a part of their Easter Eggs. And they say Bing has no use
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"Classical"? 
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Last month, I wrote a blog post detailing our plans for Unity on Linux. Well, I’m back again to tell you the big day has come; today we’re releasing an experimental build of Unity for Linux! For all those Linux games
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It might actually be something if that game system that Steam created gets somewhere...the OS is Linux based, I believe.
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Microsoft officials say Windows 10 is now installed on more than 75 million devices, just less than a month after its rollout began. Now bigger than France
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And the rest are running away.
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Only 925 million devices to go!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm wondering how long tis going to take for them to reach their goal. 75 million sounds a lot, 7.5% doesn't.
I'm guessing there will be another peak of new users towards the end of this year of free upgrade but I think it will be hard for them to reach their goal. I can see a lot of normal users go towards the 10 but I know I'll keep recommending that we stick to older versions of windows here at my work.
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IIRC their 1bn goal was in a year or two. At the current rate they'll get there in 13 months. Put that way it looks good.
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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Business is usually years behind home use, so it's an ambitious target.
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On August 24, 1965 Ted Nelson used the word “hypertext” (which he coined) in a paper he presented at the Association for Computing Machinery. Did anything ever come out of it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did anything ever come out of it?
Yes
Nineteen Eighty Something
Dan Rollins
Flambeaux Software
Product: (DOS) Tech Help
Product: DOS Help
But of course, that was before windows, when computers weren't very useful like they are today 
modified 27-Aug-15 20:16pm.
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They were useful before windows.
We did all kinds of cool stuff with DOS.
Desqview and qemm come to mind - very cool stuff.
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It was 50 years ago today,
Sergeant Nelson taught the devs to play,
They've been going in and out of style,
But they're guaranteed to raise browser compatibility issues,
Sergeant Nelson's Not-So-Lonely Hypertext Baaaand 
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Linux is 24 years old today. In 1996, he told me how it all started. When a Daddy developer really likes his Mommy keyboard...
Yeah, I could have just changed the other post, but they were different enough that I wanted to keep both. Only this one will be in the email though.
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Oracle's CSO has some wrongheaded notions about her area of expertise. What is the company doing about that? The more things change, the more Java gets hacked
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Stephen Hawking says he may have solved a problem that has plagued astrophysics for 40 years: the information loss paradox. "Even the white bits are black"
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That's easy for him to say.
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Sounds racist to me.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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The first computer 'mathematically guaranteed' not to lose any data has been unveiled by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. So, they're not letting anyone use it then?
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Abacus + crazy glue = guaranteed not to lose data.
Marc
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