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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
That statement is widely requoted , but actually pretty meaningless. And often incorrectly attributed to Einstein - not entirely sure why, he was a great physicist but not really greatly qualified as a psychologist/psychiatrist.
There are many, many forms of insanity, almost all of which do not match this quote.
I suspect it was originally authored by a politician seeking to invest less in mental health care, as so few people would qualify as insane.
Also, when rolling dice, it would pretty insane to keep expecting the same result.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As programmers, we need a way to judge the quality of the programs we build if we have any hope of becoming better programmers. One that increases my bank balance?
Who's a good program? You're a good program. Yes, you are... yes you are. Good program!
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If an inherited program wants to be a good program to me, it needs to do the following:
* Have clean and easy to read code; as if the developer cared about how it looked and how it was going to have a long life.
* Documentation, especially if it has deployment instructions and scripts!
* Not cause me to have to fix something every other day.
* I don't have to be a SME to understand what the code is supposed to do.
* And most importantly, leave me alone when I get home from work.
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"F-Troop" was a good program, as was "Get Smart". They don't make 'em like that anymore. 
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Mash, now there was a good program.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Microsoft Learning is providing early warning to exam takers that the cost of taking MCP exams, including exams for obtaining the developer-based titles, will go up worldwide at mid-year. But the value remains the same
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Fewer people getting them, have to raise price to still make the same money off the saps. 
modified 26-Apr-16 20:21pm.
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In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up a fake distributed denial-of-service gang that has yet to launch a single attack. When the script-kiddies are too lazy to carry out their threats, you know they have it bad
Probably not too lazy to cash those cheques, though.
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The JavaScript runtime Node.js hit version 6 today with performance advancements as well as reliability and security enhancements. Because I know you all are secret JavaScript developers
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Great another release which I cannot use. Thanks Ionic.
i cri evry tiem
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A new Dropbox interface allows users to see all of the files they've stored in the cloud in their computer's file explorer without requiring them to keep local copies And - you know - beyond
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OneDrive in Windows Explorer had this for ages - it was called "placeholder files" and worked pretty well. But, you know, like with every other nice feature in Windows, they eventually dropped it starting with Windows 10.
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Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft’s co-founder and chairman has invested more than $240 million to date in a developing field known as "personalized learning." "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
That's a good sign, as it seems to be grammatically incorrect.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IS it free is another one of my question too 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
The answer are obvious.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to date in a developing field known as "personalized learning."
So what teachers used to do (sort of) and which was totally squashed by federal mandated testing and ridiculous funding programs, is now to be replaced with an AI? Insane.
Marc
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It could be a cosmic coincidence—but some astronomers suspect there are larger forces at play. It's a lighthouse!
{Insert the old joke about the naval fleet and lighthouse here.}
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It's our blessing and our curse, to see patterns in random behavior. Helps to make sense of the world, hinders sense-making.
Marc
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Stephen Hawking, in a recent lecture held at the Harvard University, claimed that black holes could be portals to a parallel universe. After you...
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Exactly the same as this universe only much smaller and more compact
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Stephen Hawking, in a recent lecture held at the Harvard University, claimed that black holes could be portals to where single socks go after being put in the laundry. Just as likely I say. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Buy a washing machine, get a free black hole? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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