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Or, in my case, that awkward silence that allows you to realise that you may in fact have gone too far down the rabbit hole...
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ah that wonderful sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. 
"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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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: that awkward silence that allows you to realise that you may in fact have gone too far down the rabbit hole...
Rabbit holes are my specialty. 
Marc
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I'm prepping a talk on distributed event stream processing so I did a trial run with my wife and a dog we were looking after - I have a feeling that their reaction will be fairly typical of what the target audience will have...
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From The Annals of Improbable Research[^], because SCIENCE!
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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In Germany, they compare apples with pears. Probably even closer than oranges.
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In certain parts of London, "Apples and Pears"[^] are nothing at all like oranges. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It seems pretty obvious that the original author was joking. He was probably an academic in a jestful mood.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Genetically, they're probably only a few tiny percentage points apart.
I was hoping to see that in the article, but there obviously wasn't room in the couple of hundred words they dedicated to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the following sentence, applying your (hopefully) expert knowledge of the English language what is your understanding...
A master budget is part of an overall organization plan for the next year made up of three components: (1)
the organization goals, (2) the strategic long-range profit plan, and (3) the tactical short-range profit plan.
Now, without applying your knowledge of the subject domain, is it your understanding that the master budget or the organization plan has three components? (pick one)
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UPDATE:
The statement above was extracted from a textbook. (I'll not name the publisher, but it's a large one)
I got the following question in a paper:
True or False?
A master budget consists of (a) organizational goals, (b) strategic long-range profit plan, and (c) tactical short-range profit plan.
My (incorrect) answer was True.
Reason quoted[^]: "The master budget is the tactical short-range profit plan. These three are part of an overall organization plan."
modified 25-Aug-16 4:07am.
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The master budget (which is one part of the overall plan) has the three components.
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Yes, that's how I'd read it, too.
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OP updated with the "answer", or rather, my reason for asking the question in the first place.
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It seems these days that any idiot can write a textbook. When I was growing up it was a given that the content would all be correct.
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Not a native English speaker, but the form is "A blabla is made up of". Hence, I'd vote for the blabla. I mean, the budget.
To reference the organization, I'd expect something like "A blabla is part of OOP*, and OOP is made up out of these three components".
*) Overal organization plan
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Is this the latest BS-Bingo winner sentence of your company finance and controlling department ?
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To rephrase slightly:
A master budget, part of an overall organization plan for the next year, made up of three components: (1)
the organization goals, (2) the strategic long-range profit plan, and (3) the tactical short-range profit plan.
By making the organization the sub-clause, you help clarify the overall sentence structure (well, if the word clarify can be used in this context).
This space for rent
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That's the subject of a sentence but where's the predicate? A master budget did what? Stick the word "is" between "year," and "made" and then you have a sentence.
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MatthysDT wrote: is it your understanding that the master budget or the organization plan has three components?
Neither. Its the year that has three components. They seem to have odd years where you work
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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If its ambiguous then its poor English .
I read it as Master budget has 3 parts . If the organisation plan had 3 parts and none of those three parts are the master budget . Then presumably the master budget is a component of 1,2 or 3 . In which case why mention it at all? So I definitly read it as the master budget is a part of the overall organisation plan . The master budget has 3 parts......
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The overall organisation plan for the next four quarters* includes a Master Budget, which comprises three main elements:
1. Organization goals
2. A strategic long-range profit plan
3. A tactical short-range profit plan
Context first (the organisation plan), then the topic, then the explanation of the topic. Putting the context in the middle just makes it harder to absorb the hierarchy.
If you have a numbered list of items: never, ever write them as clauses of the same sentence; put each one on its own line (and, in this case, I would expect each item to be a click-able link to an explanation of the item).
* Or "the four quarters starting [month/year]"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Master Budget, of course...
MatthysDT wrote: part of an overall organization plan for the next year
is an ancillary phrase describing "Master Budget", the sentence then goes on to further detail of what a Master Budget is comprised.
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modified 24-Aug-16 13:25pm.
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