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Oh gosh, I wish I'd said that!
Currently stuck in a situation where "we should be doing TDD - so we're going to write tests from now on" has me tossing up between shaking my head ruefully and crying.
Is it only the software industry where techniques, patterns etc. are continually belittled by people either not using them at all, or at least not using them properly?
If I hear one more person say "Oh, we tried <scrum|agile|tdd|di|mvvm|wpf|...> at my last company, and it was just a waste of time because (reason.summary == "We did it wrong") I swear I will put a GOTO in the next piece of code I write.
When builders first built walls with bricks and mortar, did they sit around slagging off bricks because they just slowed you down and the walls were wonky?
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While discussions about tech bubbles have been heated, few commentators seem to be targeting their invective at the real underlying bubble: the World Wide Web itself is crumbling. "Who is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
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Yeah. That interweb thingy obviously never caught on!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the World Wide Web, has reached a landmark with 400 billion webpages indexed. This makes it possible to surf the web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago. CodeProject in 2000? Orange
"Poll - Should Microsoft make Windows Open Source?"
Some things never change.
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If you ever need to demonstrate that two things can appear connected purely by chance or some entirely separate factor, this is your site. "Correlation does not imply causation" (but it can be funny)
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They missed the correlation between the stork population and the birth rates in Western Europe...
But the really bad thing is: who does understand that "Correlation does not imply causation"? Your insurance company which thinks that your risks are more expensive? Your bank when analyzing your credit application? The police when investigating some case? ...?
No, none of them. In case of doubt: the correlation alone is enough to decide against you.
See also: "heart rate is related to aggressive forms of antisocial behavior" (https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=250606[^]) and articles based thereon. When you do endurance sports, you'll get a low resting heart rate, and consequently you are a criminal...
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This raises the question: why? What is it about C++ and Fortran that make them fast, and why do they outperform other popular languages, such as Java or Python? It's the flames painted on the sides
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Google was dealt a blow Friday in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging its Android operating system infringes on intellectual property owned by Oracle. "Free for me, but not for thee"
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Does it mean that Oracle wants to discourage programmers using it? Begining of the end of Java?
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Or at least, "if you use it and make money, we want a slice." Either way, not entirely conducive to an open environment.
When two coding giants battle, we'll all just lose.
TTFN - Kent
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Move may end up encouraging some customers to stick with XP even longer. We will never ever patch XP again. Unless it's a really ugly attack. Or we feel like it. Or because.
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because "Lawyers" is why...
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In an era where companies are spending big money on mobile advertising, understanding the demographics of cell phone users can make a big difference to the bottom line. And Windows Phone users like squares?
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 !! I really wonder what people they have surveyed for this! Sounds like total non-sense to me!!
And by the way, it's nice to see you back in action after a while! 
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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Agent__007 wrote: And by the way, it's nice to see you back in action after a while!
Thank you very much! It's good to be back. Hopefully most people agree. 
TTFN - Kent
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Extremely low quality: no information on the study proper is given (study design, how many people prticipated, etc. - absolutely nothing).
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A neuro-psychologist insists humans are so ignorant about the cosmos that any encounter with aliens would be a disaster. "You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
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Better read "Fiasco" by Stanislw Lem, or his other novels. They have far higher quality.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A neuro-psychologist insists humans are so ignorant about the cosmos that any encounter with aliens would be a disaster.
Rather:
Humans are so ignorant about themselves that any encounter with another human is a disaster.
Marc
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A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Variety is the spice of life, and programming is muy picante.
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Weaker net neutrality rules will pose a 'grave threat' to the Internet, they say. "We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world,"
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Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in. "FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular."
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In the "Futurama" pilot, Bender drinks a bottle of "Olde FORTRAN Malt Liquor." No other language can compare to that.
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hmmph... Julia seems like a nice language and fits all the "parameters". I do like the conciseness of Haskell, too.Quote: it’s not surprising that Fortran has no real competition (except perhaps for C++, but few people actually enjoy speaking that language) for serious numerical work.
Harumph! I enjoy it... and why not, it's an elegant language and meets the needs of many, including the scientific community if they'd only adapt...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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