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(Context Related).
"There ain't no comin' back!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't be so sure.[^] 
Yes, Sander, it's true. They got one of your ScriptWraiths.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not quite. You may build an immunity over time or kill yourself. Russian roulette is more straightforward. Mithridatism - Wikipedia[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Can't see the article: they won't let ad-blocked browsers through.
Next . . .
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Use NoScript[^] on Firefox / ScriptBlock[^] on Chrome.
With scripts disabled, their ad-block-blocker doesn't work.
"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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I love the idea of a script blocker, or really, a blocker-blocker-blocker.
Alas - I need to keep my browser the same as everyone else, here, so when I produce something that "works on my machine" it will work on theirs (probably). The page is not particularly important, and, of course, I could always use IE, which amazingly I don't have to support!
From the recent two posts, I'm beginning to think that another thing outsourced to India is candidates for the Darwin Awards.
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Most news sites are like that. Look at uBlock origin or NoScript or something else similar.
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dbrenth wrote: I want one.
Sure. Send me your address and credit card information and I'll have one delivered in no time. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Logically, for the M&M's sorter, you only need two receptacles.
- One for the Green ones
- One for the trash
(I don't do skittles)
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The whole thing should be thrown into trash, actually.
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That makes me wonder what was invented 20 years ago that's even better than this sorting machine? 
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Cloned sheep[^]?
It's either that or Google - the domain name was registered in September 1997.
"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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My first thought was 'Why would anyone mix Skittles and M&M's?'
I guess I'm too tired for today.
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... And then you see all the stupid "research" that millions are wasted on!
Give the guy a grant!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Which is the stupid research; which is the smart stuff? Who shall be "THE DECIDERS!" ?
Best solution to avoid waste, then, it would seem, is to just stop all research.
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The research I think is stupid is the stupid research, and the research I think is smart is the smart stuff.
I don't understand how you can even think a question with such a patently obvious answer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I needed to give you an opportunity for self-validation!
You can thank me later
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Put engineers and managers in a room, engineers always end up bloody noses.
Ok, I asked about formal software engineering and thanks for your comments. Most said that because circumstance forces upon requiring to practice FSE, e.g. in a life threatening situation. I interpreted that must means that business software is secondary importance. Probably not what a business owner's intention.
Due to budget constraints that customers or bosses demanded more for less. However, the principle of a requirement dictates that when a project is crunch against time and budget, the more we must follow formal engineering, within sprint cycle or project cycle.
My next question is: Who is letting this behavior happen?
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You answered your own question when you asked it.
They're "managers" and so get to make the decisions. Informed or otherwise.
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I was once told that the difference between an experienced developer and a naive one is that an experienced knows how to say "No" to a to-be failed project.
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More correctly, and experienced developer is harder to replace and can throw his/her weight around a little better - and likely knows how to rub their faces in the failed project and is perfectly willing to do it.
Build your reputation for doing doing it right and doing it well - and going against your opinion starts to carry risks. Management, unless actually competent, doesn't want to take risks for which they cannot push the blame off on others.
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Leng Vang wrote: an experienced knows how to say "No" to a to-be failed project
A very experienced developer tried that on a project I was involved with, some years ago. He was escorted from the building.
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Show them this.[^]. Tell them to picktheir favorite tradeoff between time, budget and scope and tell them what quality they can expect if they want to go down that path. Don't let them off the hook. No phrases and no hand waving. Then, whatever they want, get it in written form and simply do it that way. When the time comes, just hold up that paper and say "I told you so.".
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The amount of technical debt that a project is willing to take on is up to the managers. There's no winning that fight if they've decided that rapid implementation trumps solid design.
As a plus, they're the ones that will need to justify the post-development budget. So there's that.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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