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Like WOW!
Add a few beers from me!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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is the bugs and better ways of doing things that you discover.
Marc
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/ravi
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YUP. The minute you start explaining something to other people, you start seeing better ways to do it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yep, and that's after you found all the bugs and better ways of doing things! 
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Or, in my case, that awkward silence that allows you to realise that you may in fact have gone too far down the rabbit hole...
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ah that wonderful sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. 
"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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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: that awkward silence that allows you to realise that you may in fact have gone too far down the rabbit hole...
Rabbit holes are my specialty. 
Marc
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I'm prepping a talk on distributed event stream processing so I did a trial run with my wife and a dog we were looking after - I have a feeling that their reaction will be fairly typical of what the target audience will have...
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From The Annals of Improbable Research[^], because SCIENCE!
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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In Germany, they compare apples with pears. Probably even closer than oranges.
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In certain parts of London, "Apples and Pears"[^] are nothing at all like oranges. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It seems pretty obvious that the original author was joking. He was probably an academic in a jestful mood.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Genetically, they're probably only a few tiny percentage points apart.
I was hoping to see that in the article, but there obviously wasn't room in the couple of hundred words they dedicated to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the following sentence, applying your (hopefully) expert knowledge of the English language what is your understanding...
A master budget is part of an overall organization plan for the next year made up of three components: (1)
the organization goals, (2) the strategic long-range profit plan, and (3) the tactical short-range profit plan.
Now, without applying your knowledge of the subject domain, is it your understanding that the master budget or the organization plan has three components? (pick one)
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UPDATE:
The statement above was extracted from a textbook. (I'll not name the publisher, but it's a large one)
I got the following question in a paper:
True or False?
A master budget consists of (a) organizational goals, (b) strategic long-range profit plan, and (c) tactical short-range profit plan.
My (incorrect) answer was True.
Reason quoted[^]: "The master budget is the tactical short-range profit plan. These three are part of an overall organization plan."
modified 25-Aug-16 4:07am.
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The master budget (which is one part of the overall plan) has the three components.
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Yes, that's how I'd read it, too.
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OP updated with the "answer", or rather, my reason for asking the question in the first place.
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It seems these days that any idiot can write a textbook. When I was growing up it was a given that the content would all be correct.
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Not a native English speaker, but the form is "A blabla is made up of". Hence, I'd vote for the blabla. I mean, the budget.
To reference the organization, I'd expect something like "A blabla is part of OOP*, and OOP is made up out of these three components".
*) Overal organization plan
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Is this the latest BS-Bingo winner sentence of your company finance and controlling department ?
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To rephrase slightly:
A master budget, part of an overall organization plan for the next year, made up of three components: (1)
the organization goals, (2) the strategic long-range profit plan, and (3) the tactical short-range profit plan.
By making the organization the sub-clause, you help clarify the overall sentence structure (well, if the word clarify can be used in this context).
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