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Christopher Shields wrote: "Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
That is a great quote!
Marc
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Sadly not accredited. Note to Christopher - when you include great quotes, please accredit them..
Thanks to Google, I now know this is due to Edwin Louis Cole.
(Sadly most of his other quotes are religious hogwash).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I now know this is due to Edwin Louis Cole.
Good to know.
Your Alan Kay quote is great too!
Marc
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BTW, the clickey refers to CP, not F# for fun and profit. 
Marc
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What with big business, marketing, biased news agencies, government propaganda (from every government), criminal activity and endless drivel on social media, I can imagine a day when the internet is defunct.
It's a way off, but I think it'll just become so useless and full of crap (even worse than right now) that'll it just won't be worth using 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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"Lieutenant, the Chinese are engaging in a mass post-spamming campaign on our government pages. The interior ministry page is nearly overrun. Launch a Level 5 Poking offensive at once!"
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People talking about Test Driven Development often split into two camps: fundamentalists, preaching no line of code should be written without a test, and deniers, refusing to use TDD at all. Amen
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Yup - pretty much my experience with TDD. I've tried hard to stay in the middle but it's tough.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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As it is Free/Libre Open Source Software (I refuse to use the acronym due to the easy dental puns), and as are bytecode environments as Java and C#, as are scripting languages like Phyton, or pattern programming in C++, Agile methodologies...
Any technology or methodology should be use cum grano salis and not with blind religion. The latter is in fact the reason of the poor quality of many current softwares and secondarily of the large amount of legacy code still present: it is not fancy, not bug-free but it works.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Similar story to agile.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I don't recall anyone ever saying that TDD was a religion, that's pure hyperbole. That aside, like any tool, methodology, pattern etc, you have to fully understand it before you can criticise it. Far too many people criticise things when in fact the truth of the matter is that they don't really understand 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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Dominic Buford wrote: Far too many people criticise things when in fact the truth of the matter is that they don't really understand them.
Very true. I just reminds me similar reply that I made a few month ago.[^]
Wonde Tadesse
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Burn the unbeliever !!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Tim Berners-Lee issues a timely reminder of the web's founding principles Yeah, but what does he know about the web?
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Microsoft is encouraging users to migrate away from Windows Server 2003. Support for the 12 year old operating system comes to an end in the middle of July, and companies are encouraged to seriously consider moving to Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Azure, or Office 365. What's the magic word?
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Hmmm.....
Na.
My little 03 server sbs works just great.
Nice little P: drive at work, Nice VisualSVN Server all the time, And our personal mail server backed up every night.
It's cool, we're good.
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Don't change what ain't broken?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What? Is Office 365 a replacement for Windows Server ? 
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It's a potential replacement for SharePoint 2003(?) on Server 2003. (Provided you're only using SP as a document repository.)
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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A new report from security firm Avast out this morning reveals the discovery of a new form of malware on the Google Play store, which begins to display advertisements disguised as warning messages to end users when they unlock their Android smartphones. "It's a jungle out there"
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Upgrades are coming to ECMAScript, but process changes and 64-bit shortcomings remain points of contention with key developers. "Please don't keep-a me waiting"
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A nascent rivalry between two closely related JavaScript programming frameworks—Node.js and IO.js, the latter of which recently split off, or "forked," from the former—may be heating up. Node's corporate steward, Joyent, is ready to offer some serious incentives to keep developers from flocking to its rival. "I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love"
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This is why we can't have nice things 
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Do not afraid - you will not get any money...All they offer is some services to for free to write node.js...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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