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Next, the "Meh" button! 
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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The fourth of the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto states that "Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project." But what if they don't? "At the beginning of the project"
Selective quoting for the win! 
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at the beginning.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Rule 1 - above all things - you must be in the same building...there is no such thing as "distributed agile".
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It has been more than a year since Microsoft cut off support for Windows XP, but it seems that a lot of companies and individuals are still not ready to kiss it goodbye, find greener pastures, and upgrade. "Soon nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
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That must be why Europe is known as the "Old World". 
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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Quote: He foresees Windows XP's usage to further dwindle globally and in the Europe in the future, as he believes that the security implications of staying with XP can no longer be ignored.
Well he's one for two. At this point any largescale XP deployment has to be willful blindness to security concerns; and while most large enterprises that haven't done so already are glacially shifting over; the majority of XP still around is home users/small businesses just not giving an elephant (especially in places where the XP share is much higher than the global average). They'll gradually migrate, not due to security concerns, but because their old XP hardware is steadily dieing off.
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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As an agile coach, one of the questions I am often asked is: “we implemented agile, but why didn’t it work?” "Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough."
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Blackadder: "I was under the impression that it was common maritime practice for a ship to have a crew?"
Captain Rum: "Opinion is divided on the subject."
Blackadder: "Oh, really?"
Captain Rum: "Yahs. All the other captains say it is; I say it isn't."
...and that's exactly what's wrong with Agile - every company is free to implement it's own interpretation of it, and every company believes it's interpretation is the right one and anyone who disagrees is wrong.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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I agree with the first part, but not necessarily
Brent Jenkins wrote: and every company believes it's interpretation is the right one and anyone who disagrees is wrong.
- where I worked we had enough maturity to say 'our implementation (of Agile) works for us' - that was a product of our development maturity AND (sometime) financial reality, where projects may need to be hibernated for a cycle or two - different strokes !
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I'd say that when companies take what parts of Agile work for them and leave the rest behind, it seems to have the most positive results.
There are a lot of companies that treat it as a religion (and each of those companies have their own "version"), it's those I was thinking of. Working as a contractor you get almost used to hearing the disapproving noises made when each new Agile client hears how your previous Agile clients did things. 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Is Windows 10 unstable? That's the question that’s circulating through the blogosphere of late. With even veteran Windows watchers like Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurrott now documenting their frustrations with the new OS, the perception that Microsoft released Windows 10 before it was ready is beginning to grow. Progress!
Your mileage will vary - I've been finding it very stable playing Candy Crush Saga.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I've been finding it very stable playing Candy Crush Saga.
What else can computers be used for?, as long as you have FB and games you're good to go!
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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And Visual Studio 2015 should've been Visual Studio 2016.
But of course we'd rather have it sooner than better...
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I really wonder what these people are doing with their PC. I have been using mine for several weeks now with Win10, zero problem.
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/shrug, it's been pretty rock solid for me as well
Probably apps written in the XP timeframe
TTFN - Kent
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My computer crashed while running Android Studio, Visual Studio Community 2015, an AVD, and Firefox Developer Edition, but I think the root cause was Windows 10   
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Same is the case with me. All applications I need are working without any trouble (that I know of).
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I had a few minor teething problems with W10 (some documented in older CP threads), but nothing bad enough to consider going back to W7.
This week, I had to help a local charity who got stuck trying to access each other's PCs after upgrading to W10 from W7 as they had not set up homegroups. It turns out they every PC had defaulted a homegroup and you can only merged to one homegroup if there is only one other homegroup on the network. So, all other PCs had to be suspended (sleep mode) and brought up one at a time and added to the 'primary' homegroup before the next one could be woken up.
I'm connected in to my wife's W8.1 homegroup; but she is still waiting for her upgrade and is reluctant to force it as W8.1 updates fail every time on her laptop.
Despite the above, once it was up and running, W10 seems to me to be a significant improvement and I would not go back to W7 unless something dreadful happened.
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Is this fun or what? 
And I have a court side seat here at the old PC Shop!
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I upgraded my 32bit Win7 to Win10 with no issues. After using it for a while, I held my breath, added 8 GB of Ram and did a clean install to 64bit Win10. No issues since then (other than the severe annoyance that my midi keyboard isn't Win10 compatible and the manufacturer says they have no plans to make Win10 drivers available - grrr). I just went ahead and ordered a new keyboard, and will never buy another Roland product.
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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I had less issues with WindowsME than I've had with Windows 10. Windows 10 cost me tens of thousands of dollars in lost data due to a bug. I remember the issues I had with ME. But at-least it didn't destroy my data. You think I could get the issue resolved with MS support? Nope. They hire chimps from the Zoo.
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According to a new audit, the government employees responsible for managing $600 million in contracts to build Healthcare.gov suffered from major lapses in training and leadership. Government agency wastes money: news at 11
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PORK 
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