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ppolymorphe wrote: Do I win a chocolate medal ? 
You win a chocolate-coated manhole cover 
(Extra points for identifying the reference)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I guess that being french will not help me.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The reference is from a short story by Larry Niven, What Can You Say About Chocolate-Covered Manhole Covers?. It can be found in his book All The Myriad Ways, and also on Google Books.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Thanks for explanation
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I used same approach as one for Cheryl's birthday[^] problem and solved really quickly. Where is my award?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: only 2% of the world can solve
That's maybe because the rest found it boring to concentrate on the options for 10-20 minutes to solve a riddle that not entertaining at all...
(I got it in 12:35 with a sheet of paper and pencil)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Meh. I got bored with that sort of puzzle about 20 years ago.
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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Hints 10-15 map to A-F.
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Mads Torgersen, C# language program manager at Microsoft, has recently outlined a proposal for the introduction of option types for references in C# 7. And then we can add optional options using the ?? syntax
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A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. "Come play my game Ill test ya"
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With more than 400 million desktop installations in its pocket, it was only a matter of time until Adblock Plus became available on mobile devices. Because you've got more important things to look at (cat videos!)
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cat videos > /dev/null?
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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A next-generation query language for document databases extends SQL to work with semi-structured data SELECT clue FROM concepts WHERE me_get_it=false
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The article said: (1) Data no longer follows a uniform structure. With the digitization of communication and commerce, we now have social data, scientific data, IoT data, blogs, tweets, and other data that (2) do not fit the relational structure. Additionally, today’s businesses demand agility and (3) rapid changes to applications, which means (4) frequent changes to the schema of the data.
Numbers are mine for referencing below...
1) What? Data has changed so much it __no longer fits a uniform structure__? I don't think the author understands what he saying.
2) Doesn't fit the relational structure? No, that's not exactly why document databases came about I don't think. I think they came about as an easier way to code solutions -- a shortcut for people who do not want to learn SQL.
3) rapid changes to applications been happening for a long time.
4) This is the worst. Rapid changes do not necessarily mean you need to change the schema. It sounds more like you didn't know what data you were going to capture and so you didn't analyze and then you didn't create a valid schema and now you want to just throw it all away and start over without it hurting at all.
Is this dynamic design and development? Or is it stupid, non-analysis, coding on the fly solutions?
Depends on the spin I put on it. 
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newton.saber wrote: Depends on the spin I put on it.
Excellent post. Wish I could vote more than once (well, I could, with a couple other accounts I have, but, shhhhh....)
Marc
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Thanks. I really appreciate that coming from anyone at CP and even more so from you.
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To figure out when you should and shouldn't use agile, you need to understand how products evolve in the market, determine where your product fits on that continuum, and reexamine agile in that light. When you want to get work done?
I'll run and hide now 
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Thoughts on the same subject...
Agile is the wrong choice for you if:-
1) Your company is small
2) Your developers are in a different country / timezone to the rest of the team
3) You are mainly doing support
4) Your employee turnover is high
5) Your industry has a significant regulatory process
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Sounds like most shops. Really, "agile" to most managers is buzz word for think less and work harder.
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You forgot:
6) You develop software.
Marc
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A distillery that sent unmatured malt whisky into space to study the effect of near-zero gravity on flavour has described its findings as "groundbreaking". A wee dram ... in SPAAAAAAACE!
"hints of antiseptic smoke, rubber and smoked fish, along with a curious, perfumed note"
Mmm-mm-mm-mmmmmmm!
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That happens to be my favourite whisky. I love the peaty tones of the Islay whiskys and Ardbeg is the king of them all 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Microsoft is already shaking up the Windows ecosystem with its new delivery model for Windows 10. Is it time for Microsoft to take another step and do the once unthinkable -- make Windows open source? We look at the perks, pitfalls and complications that would be involved if Windows were to go open source. A better question: would you want to *see* the source code of Windows?
if (CPU==AMD && ver==5.2.0.1234 && patch_level == SP123098 && PHASE_OF_MOON > 0.5) { break; }
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