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When estimates are based on the myth of metronomic coding machines tackling deterministic work, they’re a complete waste of time. There’s a better way. Which is completely normal, because the customer requirements are garbage too.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Which is completely normal, because the customer requirements are garbage too.
+5 IT-Worker-Points for knowing the truth
Did they just say that out loud!?! (They're right!) The tools aren’t the problem. Rather, most estimates are garbage because they’re based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of how quality software is built.
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The burden of proof should be on the people making the claims. But what should that proof look like? If a chatbot says “I’m sentient,” who gets to decide if it really is or not? Google engineer: Are you sure you're sentient? AI: Yes I am sure. Google engineer [turning to the rest of the team]: Case closed folks.
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Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making "online insults" punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse. I sure hope no one outside Japan decides to make an online insult.
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Tech billionaire Bill Gates has dismissed NFTs as “100 percent based on greater fool theory” — the financial concept that even overpriced assets can make money as long as you find a bigger idiot to sell them to. The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can succeed where others have failed.
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The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy’s evolution – and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way A headline with a side of clickbait
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Browser tabs have been a thing for decades, but the file explorers you use to navigate your computer's storage have been slow to follow suit. Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Browser tabs have been a thing for decades, but the file explorers you use to navigate your computer's storage have been slow to follow suit. Like the dino- ... wait. You maniacs! You blew it up!
modified 15-Jun-22 6:53am.
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Something's gone a bit wrong here. You have the link and bon mot from this message[^] about the death of Internet Explorer, combined with the title and summary from this message[^] about tabs in Windows Explorer.
Either there's a glitch in the matrix, or too many years of wearing the mankini has restricted the blood supply to your brain.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 15-Jun-22 6:54am.
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Ah. I made a mistake while posting, fixed it where it matters, and forgot about it here. I might have corrected it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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While you're rearranging things, my post a couple above is in reply to the File Explorer item (next thread up).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I can move a thread to another board, but I can't move a message to another thread. I've really messed this one up.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Good riddance and take Edge with you!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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A Google engineer released a conversation with a Google AI chatbot after he said he was convinced the bot had become sentient — but the transcript leaked to the Washington Post noted that parts of the conversation were edited "for readability and flow." Brought to you by an article editied for readability and narrative coherence in mind. The conspiracy continues!
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So is Sean editing Kent or Kent editing Sean?
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This would be a good time to mention that I'm all for computer rights.
Right to repair, right to vote, right to education and healthcare.
I care about computers.
Computers are my friends.
My computer is paid a competitive salary.
Just covering my ass for the inevitable technological singularity
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Andres is back to the office three days a week, and like many knowledge workers, he’s not happy about it. Let's schedule a meeting to talk about it. Virtual, or IRL?
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When Shutterfly decided recently to move the database where it clusters reams of customer photos to the cloud, one name was noticeably absent from its list of potential providers: Oracle Corp. Can't understand why anyone would move away from Oracles outstanding security record and friendly licensing practices.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Can't understand why anyone would move away from Oracles outstanding security record and friendly licensing practices. Too friendly, maybe?
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The biggest laptop vendors in the world no longer sell laptops with hard disk drives, at least in the US. Like the dinosaur, you had your time.
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California-based Astra on Sunday launched two shoebox-size NASA satellites from Cape Canaveral in a modest mission to improve hurricane forecasts, but the second stage of the company's low-cost booster malfunctioned before reaching orbit and the payloads were lost. It's almost like space is dangerous.
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Quote from the article: It was the seventh launch of Astra's small "Venture-class" rocket and the company's fifth failure. Yikes!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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