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Key Takeaways
Complexity is the greatest impediment to a software company’s growth and profitability.
Development costs increase exponentially with respect to the complexity of your code base.
The choice between speed and simplicity is a false dichotomy. Investment in simplicity is investment in speed.
Few executives recognize the cost of complexity because they don’t understand the nature of the products they’re selling.
Software is a product like no other — a hybrid product-service with a very unique warranty.
Complexity is a characteristic of your company’s source code. It’s usually the consequence of several failings. "Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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I am alone in seeing a touch of irony in a big long "manifesto" that essentially says "K.I.S.S."?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Stupidity is the greatest impediment to a software company’s growth and profitability.
Development costs increase exponentially with respect to the the number of untrained people you hire.
The choice between speed and simplicity ignores the fact that both simplicity and speed sacrifice future maintainability.
Few executives recognize the cost of complexity because they don’t understand the nature of anything.
Software is a product like no other — you know you're buying something that's broken when you buy it
Complexity is a characteristic of your company’s source code. It’s usually the consequence of several failings: stupidity, speed, and simplicity
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I like it, but in most of those statements shouldn't you replace simplicity with complexity.
Although, simplicity for simplicity's sake can be a problem. Often complex problems require complex solutions.
Anyway, be as simple as possible, but no simpler, and be only as complex as necessary but no more complex.
Or even: go be a gardener.
//edit
oh wait, you're being sarcastic. LOL. Or maybe not so much. 
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Computers, like those that power self-driving cars, can be tricked into mistaking random scribbles for trains, fences and even school buses. People aren't supposed to be able to see how those images trip up computers but in a new study, researchers show most people actually can. "You are human. Only humans can explain their behavior. Please explain!"
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Misleading article title and silly study. In short, people are smart enough to outwit a computer with minimal instructions. Even shorter, AI is bullshit.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: AI is bullshit.
So the message is finally getting out!
But AI's OK, really. It's the idiots who drone on about how AI will be able to do absolutely everything that increases the bullsh1t factor geometrically.
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Compute Cards were Intel's vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other devices. Pull out one card, replace it with another, and you have a new CPU, plus RAM and storage. I'm sure that the person that bought one is sad
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Computer cards?
I think I've heard of them.
Are they the ones with pictures of stripped down hardware?
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Microsoft resurrected Clippy on Tuesday, transforming the paperclip into an animated pack of stickers for the company’s Teams chat software "Sometimes, dead is better."
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he software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft, and now The Verge has secured an exclusive first look at the early work thanks to a source who wishes to remain anonymous. Looks like a browser.
...and it's leaked[^]
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As it were not enough, when Microsoft push non finished and buggy updates... now the people are sharing a not even ready for update product... are they masochists?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I'm stuck with edge at work, and it is a huge PITA.
I can only hope that the new version has at least got a status bar!
What moron makes a browser without a status bar?!?
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Thousands of new API or cryptographic keys leak via GitHub projects every day. That's OK. No one ever looks at the source.
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Github has some great projects. However, the vast majority are unmaintained nonsense (quite a few being a homework assignment.)
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We can remember it for you wholesale. But we probably prefer to use today's storage technology, at least for now. "I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head."
If it's all zeroes, then I could do the same 
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we already know...
0 = 0
00 = 1
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kent Sharkey wrote: in my head
Too bad it's mostly pr0n. 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No mention of cardboard boxes in the attic.
All the best stuff is stored in cardboard boxes in the attic.
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While it is of the Action/Adventure genre; XXX State of the Union had the beautiful demonstration of old school when the data they needed was on a wiped hard drive, in the form of microfilm.
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The C++ language opens extensive opportunities to go without macros. So let’s try to use macros as seldom as possible! I actually thought Marco was a nice guy
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Think small: forget macro?
A pretty cr@ppy rallying call.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I actually thought Marco was a nice guy
He was OK, but he just couldn't spell his name correctly.
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The only thing that's really bad about macros is that you can't step into them with the debugger (at least you couldn't as late as 2007 when I last used C++). Other than that, this guy's a retard.
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I fundamentally disagree. Macros in C/C++ are fraught with problems, and great care is needed to ensure they work correctly. Other languages have better macro facilities (hygienic macros), but the problems caused by C++ macros are both well-documented and subtle.
There are real issues that have led to real bugs in real codebases, and should not be trivialised.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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