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Over the years, managing larger teams and eventually my own software companies, I have had many opportunities to observe geek-on-geek violence. "Two men enter; one man leaves!"
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 +5 for the Mad Max quote
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The new features came out the same day as a study that found many open-source projects lack a clear way to report security problems if (onGitHub) { return true; }
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Our future robot overlords might be a pretty artistic bunch if recent research is any indication. Machine learning news: hype extending beyond time. Why do I post these?
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A.I. finally
impresses with things that are
bad as real haiku
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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As the adoption of cryptographic protocols for secure website communication increased, cybercrooks also moved to HTTPS to keep their operation floating. Isn't it nice they care about security?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Isn't it nice they care about security?
Kind of logical... they don't want hackers to spoil their scam to you
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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How is this news?
Insurance companies started using https ages ago.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A Pentagon task force is reviewing over a hundred tools and services to speed up software acquisition. So, they'll only require 50 forms (in triplicate, natch) to update a field name?
Did you ever watch something, just knowing there was going to be a horrible accident soon?
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Definitely. The phrase, "this is not going to end well" keeps repeating itself.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Imagine working on software for a nuclear reactor or a nuclear missile silo.
Would you agile that? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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“Just three more sprints, and we can install the MVP on the nuclear submarine. I hope they don’t need all the features right away.” 
TTFN - Kent
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Fail fast? Roger.
Not fail twice? Roger. It's failed five times, at least.
Sarge, we're done, here!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A mix of Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, and SCRUM is the best dev effort IMHO. No one thing is the best sole approach.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: A mix of Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, and SCRUM
The stuff of which nightmares are made.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Their new idea is "test driven development", which can't really happen outside of the SDLC paradigm. You need solid specs to write unit tests BEFORE the code is written. "Agile" development doesn't really play into TDD.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hi John, As I dimly understand from the sidelines of late midlife: TDD has been around a long time, predates Agile/Scrum, etc., and is different from the test phase of SDLC which is the next to the last step in that workflow, followed by build.
Wikipedia on TDD:Quote: American software engineer Kent Beck, who is credited with having developed or "rediscovered"[1] the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence.[2]
Test-driven development is related to the test-first programming concepts of extreme programming, begun in 1999,[3] but more recently has created more general interest in its own right.[4]
My take on Agile and Scrum is that they focus on the group dynamics in the programming team, and attempt to modulate/influence them: and, both are a rejection of traditional, formal, SD models/paradigms.
I eagerly await enlightenment, even though it has been said that the desire for that is the wall between you ... and that 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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This made me remember a (really) old Saturday Night Live skit. One person said, "you can't put too much water into the reactor." Another person then wonders if that means don't do it or it is not possible to do it?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Loved that sketch, and still bug people today by saying that whenever I get ambiguous instructions.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did you ever watch something, just knowing there was going to be a horrible accident soon?
Every time I look in the mirror 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The Pixel Slate won't get a younger sibling, and Google's future self-made computers will revolve exclusively around the laptop form. Take two laptops and this news will be better in the morning
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Cancelled before they even designed it or gave it a name?
That's a record, even for them.
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Older smartphone users tend to rely more on their phones' auto lock feature compared to younger users, a new UBC study has found. They also prefer using PINs over fingerprints to unlock their phones. I guess not having one also shows my age?
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So the conclusions are that teenagers:
0. Keep their phones unlocked as long as possible
1. Are absorbed by their phones constantly
2. Never lock them (because it's too much hassle to unlock them)
3. Use the fastest and least effort-consuming method of unlocking their phones, because facebook is waiting!
Given that, I would suggest that a better headline for the article would be: "Teenagers are Idiots".
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