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It be Talk Like a Pirate Day today, lubbers, so break out yer grog, screw on yer hook, and run up the skull'n'crossbones - we got merchantmen to board and dubloons to bury!
And where be Bob's Pirate Hat?
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XMarks th' spot, matey!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Aye! R'ya Captain Jack Sparrow?
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Griff. Ye May be made to walk the plank here ya scurvy dog. This place is supposed to be KSS and here ya be makin it ‘ Aaarrrr’! rated!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I've heard that in Whales they've done some Eweman experiments !
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That pun was totally lamb!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Outside of SGML, and maybe including SGML, MIDI 2's complexity and scope is one of the largest I've seen for what is essentially a wire protocol.
It's so over engineered it's probably unrealistic to implement all of it, and while I'm sure nobody is expected to, I can't imagine writing software that allows you to control even most aspects of it.
Maybe I'm just picky, but I believe things like this should be as simple as they can be and no simpler.
For the 1980s MIDI 1 fit the bill nicely, and is still in use today which speaks to the overall quality of the design. It's easy to implement in hardware and software.
It could stand some improvement, certainly, as it is basically a 7 bit protocol @ 9600 baud (IIRC) max which leaves something to be desired but MIDI 2 is no longer even remotely simple.
I'm really disappointed about that. If I were to write software from what I can tell I'd maybe have to make it work with only a particular instrument or class of instruments instead of being able to interface with just about any MIDI device.
I don't like overengineering. It's one of my peeves, whether it's cars (I'm looking at you, Germans!  ) or software or protocols.
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I'm not a fan of over-engineering, but after having successfully replaced the left set of switches on the steering column of my "German" car, I'm conflicted.
(This involved pulling the air bag, steering wheel, etc.)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: This involved pulling the air bag, steering wheel, etc.
And you were fine with that? Or are you conflicted because having done it you feel some pride in the accomplishment?
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Apparently the Germans lost WWII because they over-engineered their Tiger tanks. it seems they haven't learned...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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They overengineer their mercedes cars, that's for sure. It was a nightmare working on the S-class I used to own.
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I thought given the price Mercedes sells its cars for, it was to ensure you'd never have to work on them yourself.
And if saving money was a goal, how is Mercedes even a contender?
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I didn't work on it myself, but I had to find a mechanic that could fix it in a little town - hard enough as it was, and every part had to be ordered online which made the whole process take longer.
I wasn't trying to save money. I originally bought it to convert it to run on waste vegetable oil (it was a diesel) but I ran into too many problems with the car and got rid of it. It was just too much of a pain to get it worked on.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I originally bought it to convert it to run on waste vegetable oil
So many questions...but I'll just go with this one:
How much vegetable oil do you go through in a week to make it worth trying to convert a car to run on it?
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LOL people who do this collect it from places like fast food joints
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 you got in a minute before I did
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(A) you don't .. you go to all the fish & chip shops (aka 'chippies') in the district and remove all their old oil for them (and either filter it or use a bio-chem process and convert it to diesel)
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makes your exhaust smell like chips!
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I didn't have to bang anything, pry anything, break anything or swear at anything. Even the trim fasteners were reusable.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Wow. That's like the opposite experience I had with my mercedes.
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(It was the reusable trim fasteners that blew me away).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The trim fasteners on my mercs have all been reusable as well - I fitted reversing cameras and dashcams and I hate visible trailing wires.
Some of them benefit from a special tool to "pull the centre" but my trim kit includes a plastic one which just about does it without damaging things.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I know that I am not PC on this. Nevertheless: I see a significant agile problem here.
Before agile, we made thorough analyses of needed functionality. We structured it out in well designed functional modules, maybe implemented in the core, maybe specified as something to come as a future extension.
Today, we code and compile "int main(int argc, char** argv) {return 0;}" before even asking what the problem is. Only after that: "Let's take it from here! What was your problem, again?"
Lots of the Internet protocols are mislabeled: They are called Simple this-and-that. They should be labeled Too simple this-and-that! SMTP is a nightmare example of that. The number of functional warts grown on SMTP can give anyone shivers.
But with "agile" as the modern gospel, "solutions" like SMTP has come out as an ideal - as an architectural and functional mess, but created according to agile ideals: Whenever some need arises, let's grow another wart to fix it!
Contrary to common belief, 'agile' is in fundamental conflict with KISS, in the long term. Because KISS requires you to consider from an eagle perspective what you need. Growing agile warts, whether you do it at the implementation level or at the standard definition level, is for all practical purposes impossible to realize within an agile framework.
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I get what you mean, but you should see this thing. It's more than future proofed, it's gold plated.
It looks like a bad case of design by committee plus massive scope creep.
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