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The author completely missed the most fundamental principle in writing, especially technical writing: Consider your audience. If you fail to recognize and write to the needs of those reading your work, the quality of the work is immaterial.
Programmers will expect technical details, code snippets, block diagrams, and so on. Technical managers need advantages, disadvantages, case studies, technical debt effects and such so that they can make decisions about how your topic relates to their requirements. Business managers need the minimum amount of technical information so that they don't make fools of themselves. They need information on costs, scheduling, and other business concerns.
All of these lead to very different documents or presentations.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Consider your audience Exactly, that seems to be rarely given a thought.
"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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A new report published today by business monitoring firm Anodot reveals 49 percent of businesses find it difficult to get cloud costs under control, and 54 percent believe their primary source of cloud waste is a lack of visibility into cloud usage. Mission Accomplished (Well, almost half accomplished)
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Surprise, surprise!
And I wonder how many of them are paying more than needed and even more than hosting their own server.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I can confirm the budgetary side of things.
A very heavily compute-bound project at work used to run as a distributed background task (only when the hosts were (a) displaying their screen savers and (b) connected to power) on most of the computers in the company, using resources that were essentially "free". When the IT department was reorganized, the new IT manager claimed that this was a possible security breach. We were forced to migrate to the "cloud", where we ran through the entire budget in very short order.
I don't know what happened to the project after that.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Cloud storage is one thing, but ops and dev is completely different. ALL of our dev servers and VMs are shut down every day at around 5pm, and are turned on again at around 5am the next day - to save money.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In this post, I’ll present a robust and disruptive Agile framework. It’s called “talk to your customers” — or, in short, TTYC. Why has no one thought of this before?!
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Google says it's doing more to downrank low-quality content that's designed primarily to generate traffic through search engine optimization. How will I know which 10 foods I shouldn't eat before bedtime?
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I suppose that it will really depend on quality and not in monthly quote... sure...
M.D.V.
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in regards to Quora getting so many high rank results, the answers with I want to assume out of chance and not on purose tend to show enough or start the answer, but cut off where you need to click in to find if helpful enough, thus increasing that as a usful answer, it so annoying. So partly glad, and massively creeped out, that google will track how long spend on said links to figure out if link was useful.
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There were a couple of threads this week on why Test Driven Development, or TDD, isn’t more widely used by programmers. Don't we all?
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The problem is with the T. Very few people know how to cross their t's and dot their i's when it comes to testing. Or less obtusely (referring to David's "Clarity is not to be obfuscated" above), the majority of programmers don't have a clue regarding the when, why, and how to write a test.
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Google's largest AI language model is helping robots be more flexible in understanding and interpreting human commands, according to the web giant's latest research. "IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
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Kind of mandatory: Siri[^]
I'll show myself the exit, too warm to get the coat
M.D.V.
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A developer says he was able to run his own software on his car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples. Imagine what he could have done if he used Bing!
Copy/Paste for the lose once again
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As long as it was in SO and not here...
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I've wondered if the Bing team was mishearing the scene in Meaning of Life, it's the very expensive machine that goes Ping!
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Given the reports on automotive software I've seen over the years from multiple sources, including cyber-security researchers, this doesn't surprise me one bit. Automotive software for the most part is an absolute disaster waiting to happen.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples.
Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot.
Oscar. Mike. Golf.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It turns out that JavaScript, the programming language that web developers and users alike love to complain about, had a hand in delivering the stunning images that the James Webb Space Telescope has been beaming back to Earth. The infection has spread off of the planet
I *knew* we should have nuked it from space when we had a chance. It's the only way to be sure.
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This is why the aliens will invade.
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oh this article has helpful years and references (2008 macbook air), actually interested in this detail of, well if started in 1989, but like when manufacturing, software started. Can't image working on a project being 5+ years, and getting 3 years in and asking, can we update the version we using?
image if was java, and had log4j, at vulnerability comes out, but you already got the thing package up, it fine, it not like a hacker gonna setup a massive radar telescope, pinpoint the satellite all just to hack it.
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currentStarCluster is 'undefined'
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I knew we should have nuked it from space when we had a chance.
The telescope or the planet?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The planet.
The telescope is innocent, I tell you!
TTFN - Kent
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