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Can we all spell "backup"?
/s
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 appears that not only great minds think alike.
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So "keep a back-up"?
Ok.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A common debate in software development projects is between spending time on improving the quality of the software versus concentrating on releasing more valuable features. "Come, give us a taste of your quality."
Longer than the normal kind of article I post, but I trust you can make it to the end.
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Every place I worked at (Cricket, IDD, Adobe, WildTangent): new features (new apps) were the drug of choice for execs and program managers, and the cubicle-rats danced to the tune.
Academia is "far from the madding crowd" of such profit-driven enterprises in highly competitive arenas, where shiny new features get the media attention, and, do drive sales.
I'm not complaining: I had $ome great times !
Oh, did I forget this question was about the cost of the software to end-users 
«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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Is low quality software worth the eventual cost?
GCS d--(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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Ask any pro whether it is a good idea to lower quality.
If you truly believe in the value of low-quality, go find a surgeon that doesn't have a degree yet and tell them to agile your appendix.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"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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He missed the obvious point:
If companies were compelled to show users how much of their code is cr@p, the problem would soon resolve itself.
Other products have to give specs, so why not software?
• Intuitive user interface
• 99,684 lines of cr@ppy code that we've never bothered to refactor
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Idiots. The only path to successfully release new features is by ensuring the quality of software. Otherwise you're on the path to a slow and painful failure, as the poor quality of software begins to impede the ability to add new features.
Quality of software and releasing valuable features are not in opposition, they are two sides of the same coin.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Creativity will become more important over time as AI becomes more advanced and replaces basic coding jobs, Cuban said. Says the guy that was in the right place at the right time
At least once anyway. (OK, probably exactly once)
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They said the same thing about outsourcing to India.
Me: Alexa, scan CCTV footage in a five mile radius and ID all black SUVs
Alexa [posting on internet forum]: *How to scan CCTV footage for black SUV? Please send codes, it's urgent*
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He's just trying to create a missive crisis.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 1-Jun-19 5:12am.
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As an expert he should know that 'basic coding' already done without any intelligence, so no need to degree of any kind for it (go and check QA here and SO)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Can I just put my browser on the elliptical?
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Why does no-one ever mention the extremely major point that lags and delays aren't just caused by downloading ads, but also by multiple file ops for up to five-hundred advertising cookies when you open a web page (or click through to the next one on the same site).
Even with SSDs, file ops are the biggest performance hit in most instances of everything -- and even if you reject advertising cookies, they write a cookie to say you've rejected it, which has to be read when the page opens, and re-dated (so only two file ops, making it an improvement, but still far from perfect).
The advertising and analysis cr@p is out of control.
Limits to what and how much sites are permitted to write to visitors' machines need to be set in stone.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Limits to what and how much sites are permitted to write to visitors' machines need to be set in stone.
and followed... punishing who doesn't
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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A New Hampshire man got a big surprise as he went to close up his iPad: A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its cover and bit his finger. They should put a warning label on those things
OK, about as non-technical as I'd care to post, but I really liked his quip.
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An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-down to a surveillance proposal made last year by the UK’s intelligence agency, warning it would undermine trust and security and threaten fundamental rights. "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
I probably use that quote far too often, but it seems especially appropriate for this news item.
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Okay, try "Assholes read each other's mail."
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If it requires to be private, use one-time-pads. With the amount of movies available, you don't even need to exchange pads anymore, any large blob will do.
Regardless of the power of their machines, you cannot crack that simple encryption. Privacy is not something that you should rely on with Apple or Google, it is something you do at your own end 
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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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"Do what I say, not what I do"
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Digital Shadows research finds that the number of exposed files -- including sensitive information -- has risen by 50 percent compared with last year. But there are some signs the problem can be fixed... Security through obscurity! Hurrah!
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So Digital Shadows has accessed 2.3 billion private/sensitive files?
LOCK 'EM UP! LOCK 'EM UP!
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So what’s going on, is UWP dead or not? The answer, a bit like Schrödinger’s cat, is both. Let’s start, since it’s getting all the attention, with the idea that UWP is dead. Schrödinger's UI
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