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Strike the rocky hill, you old dinosaur! (6)
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RAPTOR
Strike = RAP, rocky hill = TOR
RAPTOR = dromaeosaur (something that roamed the earth when I was young).
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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And you are up on Monday!
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The interviewer asks him "You are walking towards your office and running late for a very important meeting and you glimpse a building on fire with people screaming for help. What will you do?"
The programmer thinks for a while and replies "People's lives are more important than an office meeting. I would immediately call for a fire brigade and help the trapped to the best of my abilities".
The interviewer seems to be impressed with the programmers answer and moves on to the last question. Just to check his sanity, she asks "And what if the building is not on fire?"
After a moment of thought, the programmer replies with confidence "I will set the building on fire. Now, I have reduced it to a problem that I have already solved before!"
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I actually liked this joke. 
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building.IsOnFire = false
Done.
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What a goofball, if I see a building not on fire with people screaming for help, I immediately yell across the street "Did you try turning it off and turning it back on again?".
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RTFM
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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They should probably close all the open windows first.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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I'd do nothing. A burning building is most definitely a hardware problem.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The programmer should think about working in a company with such weird interviewers. 
I would really consider walking away from such crowd. (This avoids often problems)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Martin Fowler writes about how terms in Software Development world often get changed into something that they really don't mean.
SemanticDiffusion[^]
Fowler writes: Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined [by] a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition.
It's why you cannot say certain terms (Agile, Software Architecture, etc) without every response being different.
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Semantic Diffusion means Same Difference. See what I did?
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: See what I did?
Of course, the community must now punish you for your insolence.
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Is that what it means? I thought it meant when different developers in a project use different languages.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I thought it meant...
Well, apparently we all think it means something different.
Also, I'm stuck in a time-space continuum loop where all I can do is mumble, "semantic diffusion...semantic diffusion..."
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No, no, no! That's syntactic diffusion.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What? I thought that was part of wooing.
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You mean the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Ah, no that's Semitic Diffusion.
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Hardly new.
Lewis Carroll wrote: “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.”
And don't get me started on pollie-speak, fake news, ....
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I thought this was going to be about layoffs at that antivirus company, but I guess that would be Symantec Diffusion. Really buzzwords are just the child game of telephone adultisized.
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That's old. Ask one (1) question and you get at least 20 answers, 40 opinions and 80 comments from 5 code monkeys. Or none at all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I see it happening loads in IT as well as outside of IT the most funny example I recently saw wasan antifa rally(anti-fascist) where people were carryign boards sayign thing like "down with fascism".
So a chap was going around videoing people asking them what the definition of fascism was or what they understood by the word'fascism', a number of people holding these boards just drew a blank and were unable to answer the question while some said it was not important what the word meant.
In some ways the political aspect of the march was unimportant - it was a bunch of people feeling very strongly about something they could not define.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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He might also have asked: "If it's such a bad thing, why are you down with it?"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You need to first define "it" otherwise the rest makes no sense.
Confucius was onto this a long way back -Rectification of names - Wikipedia[^].
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 26-Jan-18 7:35am.
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