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Ego certe sacra. Ego eram iustus esse ridiculam et disputate! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Humans of a certain age will remember the brief period when accessing the internet meant shelling out a monthly fee to AOL. For most of us, this gave way to better business models well over a decade ago. But as Recode points out today, 2.3 million souls never got the memo. Not only that; their rates have somehow gone up. As the kids say these days: 0.o
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I would say, if it's not broken don't fix it... but... seriously?
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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How is that (much) different than shelling out to Verizon, Comcast, Cox, and all the other money-hungry thieves out there?
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$20/month for DIAL UP or not much more for the cheapest cable/DSL from the other money-hungry thieves.
TTFN - Kent
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Sadly, I haven't found anyone else in my area that wasn't mucho dinero.
Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
Yeah, that was the part that boggled my mind. I know it wasn't that long ago that I loved my new 56K modem, but I think I'd rather rely on library/coffee shop wifi these days than go back.
TTFN - Kent
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
In almost all of the US it's impossible to sell broadband without owning your own set of to the customer networking. Back in the late 90s DSL was regulated the same way as voice landlines and the phone companies were forced to allow 3rd party resellers but cable was allowed to extend its TV monopoly to its internet service; at the time AOL was a relatively large 3rd party DSL provider too. The phone companies sued that this put them at an unfair disadvantage and eventually convinced either the courts or the FCC to agree; unfortunately they "fixed" it by allowing the phone companies to become monopoly ISPs too. 
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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After a journey of more than 10 years and a total of many billions of kilometers, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally arrived at the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. "By being seldom seen, I could not stir, but like a comet I was wonder'd at."
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I bet it's funky and cold.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Where's the alien space ship following behind?
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Duh, behind it 
TTFN - Kent
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Pictures or it doesn't exist! 
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If you think you're good at parallel parking, try landing on a comet...
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It’s hard to list just a few languages that you should learn, especially since so many of those languages have their ups and downs. Programmers need to monitor technology, and carefully weed out the fads that might get big buzz one day, only to be gone the next. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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In the Web era of development, Waterfalls are finally out. Agile is in. Kicking and screaming?
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The number of actual users involved is unknown, but the scale of data amassed breaks new ground I guess everyone needs a hobby: I collect spoons
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I collect spoons
Don't let her go. 
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The good news ? The credentials collected were everyone's abandoned MySpace accounts.
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I feel better now. That Tom[^] is going to get nailed though.
TTFN - Kent
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By decomposing work into small tasks, accurately assigning points to those tasks, tracking completion time, doing postmortems on misses, and avoiding behavior that corrodes trust among team members, it's possible to build a culture of accurate project estimation. Come up with a reasonable number. Triple it. Then put down whatever your customer wants to hear.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: By decomposing work into small tasks, accurately assigning points to those tasks, tracking completion time, doing postmortems on misses, and avoiding behavior that corrodes trust among team members, it's possible to build a culture of accurate project estimation
I apologise to all the dyed-in-the-wool Agile adherents out there but this statement, which I have read so many times, makes me want to scream.
Yes, if the project is specc'd prefectly. Yes, if you think of all the edge cases to begin with. Yes, if you understand the technology and the technology and systems you use have no gotcha's while developing. And Yes if your team work a perfectly even, consistent amount of work and never have unexpected illnesses, disasters or flaming inter-personal meltdowns.
I've just never seen this happen. Ever, anywhere, on a project of any appreciable size other than an projects so rigid, so planned out, so reviewed and choreographed that the overhead and restrictions imposed made it an exercise in hitting a deadline rather than getting a great product completed efficiently, flexibly and to the delight of the customer.
All I can assume is everyone's doing it wrong.
Or maybe they are actually doing it right.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Having been introduced to our new Agile coach this week I do wonder what planet they originate from. The expectations and world view seem to have little to do with the reality of getting a monolithic dinosaur to shift out of its comfort zone. No not me the bloody organisation tcha.
From the 2 hour rant/discussion/flaming argument we had I got the impression deadlines are vague conceptions that they expect to occur sometime AFTER the product has been delivered.
The concept that all players will work together is the most humorous one, we have departments that will not even talk to each other let alone sit together and work on a project.
Ah well I hate a stagnant environment, it should be interesting over the next few months.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Chris Maunder wrote: Yes, if the project is specc'd prefectly.
This is, of course, impossible.
Chris Maunder wrote: Yes, if you think of all the edge cases to begin with.
This is, of course, impossible...
Chris Maunder wrote: Yes, if you understand the technology and the technology and systems you use have no gotcha's while developing
This is, of course, impossible...
Chris Maunder wrote: And Yes if your team work a perfectly even, consistent amount of work and never have unexpected illnesses, disasters or flaming inter-personal meltdowns.
This is, of course... Impossible.
Which led to the saying, "If you've done four impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Millieways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?"
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