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One of the downsides of getting older is that years like 2006 don't feel like "the old days". 
Damn those bluddy yahoos for reminding me!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I do not understand. Why open it? Did they lost the list?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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That is definitely the distant past. I think I still had hair then.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. Denial, anger, and depression?
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three types are : this, that and the other
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Read the first sentence after each headline 
Boring code (good code), aka "mine".
Salt mine code (complex code), aka, everything that's too complicated for me.
Nuclear reactor code (bad code), meaning everything ever in VB6.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Beware the brainfarterwock my son.
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My three types of code:
The good - my code
The bad - what the ex-coworker wrote
And the ugly - what my current coworkers write
I will humbly admit also to the following:
The good - what I'm writing today
The bad - What I wrote today that is awful in hindsight a year from now
And the ugly - what I wrote today that I thought was good but a year from now...
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In February 2001, 17 middle-aged white guys came together at a Utah resort and hammered out the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. And lo, Agile was born. still/again
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I would agree with a lot more of what he said if it were not clear that he doesn't have a clue about what the agile methodology is.
Maybe he's worked at places that have implemented it badly (which is most people's problem with it), but it's just a way of doing your daily work, for Christ's sake! I've been at places where things are done infinitely worse.
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If his/her problems with Agile include that it was created by "17 middle-aged white guys," then I'm not going to bother to read further.
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Agile is bad because it was invented by white people? Is this a satire website?
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Is this a satire website?
No, it's a woke site. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Agile is dead? I guess I'm not going into work today then. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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We need to scrum on this, have daily stand up meetings, and figure out the sprints for the proper burial of Agile. And while we're at it, could someone please test the coffin and the grave before they are build and dug? We also need someone to volunteer unit testing the crematorium. Please automate emailing the test results as we can't rely on you reporting the result verbally.
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Marc Clifton wrote: grave
Marc Clifton wrote: crematorium
OK, where's the project manager? What's that fruggin' idiot done this time? 
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It always was, and is not (dead). It's the difference between someone who can formulate a spec (in their heads) and those that can't and need to be guided. Because … Agile means "no specs".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Humans should never trust what a neural net says just because it’s based on math. I have nothing to add to "the neural net doesn’t specify what to do with all that meat, and perhaps it’s better this way. Nor, again mercifully, does it explain what it means by BACON HOLE."
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The idiot who wrote the article said: Creating a functional recipe requires an intimate understanding of ingredients and their interactions with one another, of heat and spice and time. Today’s neural networks have none of that.
*sigh!*
A finer demonstration of not having a f***ing clue about how AI works would be hard to find.
An AI has to be trained. The syllabus for that training may not be the easiest thing in the world to figure out, because one has to anticipate how badly things can go wrong if the focus of the "training material" does not result in the required results -- you don't need to be able to predict every possible screwed-up and useful outcome of the training, but you had pretty damned well be able to anticipate the big ones (which is why I get paid the big bucks).
So the writer's blaming Maths because he has idiotically trained his baking AI to produce poop is very much a case of the bad workman blaming his tools, when it's the analytic and creative failings of his own intelligence that are at fault.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So the writer's blaming Maths because he has idiotically trained his baking AI to produce poop is very much a case of the bad workman blaming his tools, when it's the analytic and creative failings of his own intelligence that are at fault.
GIGO still rules, I see.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: GIGO still rules, I see.
Never more than now.
The problem with AIs is that their output can look great, but still be garbage -- hidden, lurking garbage, just waiting in dark, sombre silence until you're presenting your work to the queen.
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RFocus could provide a strong connection to the tiniest devices. Just keep playing with the bunny ears until you get a good signal
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Article starts with "could", describes something already invented and then ignores several fatal flaws.
"Free WALL with your Wi-Fi thing."
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The good news is that the 3000 antennae will make your android phone cost more than an apple one, so you can shove that in their faces!
But, seriously, have they really tested it fully? It's as much of a software amendment as a hardware one, and that amount of redundancy could result in new problems.
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I mean, it is an academic work, and they do more research/proof-of-concept work and leave the actual implementation to the engineers
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