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Cereal box inserts must past a 'stuff test'... a board with a hole bored in it of a predefined size is used - if the insert can be 'stuffed' through the hole, the insert is rejected.
Essentially... could a person swallow this and have it lodge in their throat?
So... iPhone 5C is not available for an insert; iPhone 6P, however, is.
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Are you suggesting someone might choke while accidently swallowing a Lumia? I'd like to know the chain of events leading to that mishap
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You know that somewhere there is a sign warning against placing Lumias in cereal boxes.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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First there was fingerprint identification, then came brainprints, now researchers have developed a new form of biometrics using the buzz generated when sound passes through a skull. Won't the echo cause problems with some people?
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Unfortunately it will be just vulnerable as the existing passwords. One bad knock on the head on your passwords are gone!
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It was bad enough when criminals would cut off people's hands to bypass fingerprint identification.
For gods' sake no one suggest genital scanning.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Headaches would be a feature.
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Legacy code is sort of like your house’s storage crawlspace. It tends to be a repository for things that mattered to you in days past or on special occasions. "Evil grows in cracks and holes"
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Users must reduce what they store in the cloud or face locked accounts and file deletions. Or - you know - send them a cheque
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They're somehow going to get that Xamarin subscription from you! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I'm still baffled by this one.
In what Universe is this a smart marketing move, especially for a company betting the farm on Azure.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Computers have a funny, uneasy relationship to decimal numbers. Or just use approximation fractions for everything (22/7 is 'close enough', right?)
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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In the future, numbers won't be multiplied; just left as a series of equations. The answer would be displayed to you, but you'll save the equation as a string and then reparse it as an equation when you need to use it with something else.
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A researcher in Colorado has discovered a feature in Regsvr32 that allows an attacker to bypass application whitelisting protections, such as those afforded by Microsoft's AppLocker. Oh hurray, thank you researchers for a new flaw for people to exploit
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Wow. 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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When starting a new programming job, it can be risky to suggest certain things. Others at the company do not know you well enough, and saying the wrong thing will immediately create a bad first impression, branding you as too inexperienced for your role or not a team player. Make one of the following suggestions, and your new job may not even last you a week.
Next you're going to tell me that if there's a tool/platform/etc that I consider a deal breaker I should ask if they're using it at some point during the interview process instead of waiting until my first day to freak out over it....
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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Or just be a donuts guy and everyone will love you 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Fine art and programming are similar in that great technical skills don't make for a great artist or programmer. Good programmers copy, great programmers steal?
Or at the very least, they know where to put the fulcrum.
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can communicate effectively and cogently with nontechnical staff on technical and nontechnical issues, understands how to keep his or her ego in check, and can teach his or her skills to others.
You mean we're supposed to have social skills, no strange psychological disorders, and (here's the real clincher) - those that we teach meet that criteria as well?
That's a tall order. And yet I agree with the definition of what makes a great programmer. Probably the best succinct description I've come across.
Marc
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I comfortably fail the great programmer profile, I will NOT refactor live systems without breaking them!
Nor will I try and communicate with the great unwashed (that is the BA's job).
Artice wrote: A good programmer, on the other hand, is one who collaborates with others to create maintainable, elegant programs suitable for use by the customer, on time and with low defect rates, with little or no interpersonal drama.
Now that is more like it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I was a bit horrified by the "refactor live systems without breaking them".
Sounds like a bad practice to me. The sort of thing I expect a hacker to do, not an engineer.
"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 think we are reading Production where he is saying live. He may be differentiating between VB6 (non live) apps and apps that are in production.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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As with all these sorts of lists of "what makes a good programmer", they are entirely subjective. Ask any random selection of programmers, and you'll get a mixed response at best. Therefore I'm never really persuaded by such articles one way or the other. They're interesting, but that's as much as I can say about them.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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