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Agile is often another word for ad hoc 
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..is a form of, more. I certainly wouldn't build a house using that methodology 
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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I'd say that one good metric for a web-site is that, unlike forbes.com, it stores fewer than 250 snooping cookies on every visitor's machine, and does not demand that a script be installed to disable some of them.
They are So host-filed out!
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An entire article arguing for metrics in Agile projects, presented without any metrics to support his assertion.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I see that article as one more reason for the US to avoid going metric.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists using magnetic resonance imaging. Grey-white. Mushy.
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...best eaten chilled.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To be fair to other candidates this added advantage must be removed. Now cut those neurons ! 
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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Well, what they didn't notice is that the MRI scrambled all the pathways, so that whole general knowledge thing is no longer an issue.
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The red neuron or the blue neuron?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What they mean by "excellent general knowledge" is, of course, "an iron-trap memory".
People with "excellent intelligence", on the other hand, generally have terrible memories.
Would you rather be a database or a high-speed processor?
I know which I'm stuck with I'd prefer.
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We introduced the Preview Features page so that you can easily find these capabilities and be able to control their enablement. Because some people just can't get enough (punishment)
"Enablement" - today's bafflegab brought to you by the VS team!
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• Allow partial loading of projects during solution open
Now you can start working ten seconds earlier, at a snail's pace, and slow down the sln opening!• Single sign on with azure development tools
Now you can send data to all of our snooping databases, even if you've opted out of it!• Use compact menu and search bar
Now you can set the UI to show you almost no tools at all, so you'll have to waste even more time looking for them! And it's got new, smaller icons that you won't recognise!• Use standard window layout at startupNow you can more easily lose all your UI customisations, and be stuck with the UI that someone who doesn't even write code decided that he likes!Yummy!
I can't wait!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Use standard window layout at startup
I work on a multi-screen system connected to a KVM, and I move the solution explorer panel and output panel to the second monitor so I can see more code at the same time.
Every once in a while, when switching back to my dev box, the KVM looses its mind and starts flashing one/both displays, which makes everything completely unusable. The only fix is to unplug the KVM and plug it back in.Unfortunately, Windows sees the loss of video signal as a demand to move all windows from the 2nd monitor to the first monitor. I'd like a menu command or toolbar button that lets me move the windows back to where I want them.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I have the same thing with my travelling laptop. I connect it to a dinky little KVM hub at home, and to a monitor at the hotel (both monitors are the same res), and my windows and desktop are screwed up every time.
It was a conscious decision by ms, with weven, to not remember window positions and sizes. Up until XP, they at least stored the data and restored the windows.
And windows has never bothered remembering how your desktop icons are organised -- desktop-icon positioning is as important as toolbar-button positioning. Perhaps more so.
Worth their weight in gold:
• Shell Folder Fix[^]
• Iconoid[^]
But they only treat the symptoms, not the disease.
Just because their UX nancies don't do anything other than write memos, tweets, and letters to their grandmas with their computers, they think that no-one else needs to do more than that, or to be more organised.
winio is worse. I like my taskbar to be two rows high (with hide on), but every time I restart the PoC at work, it's decided that I only want one row, so I have to unlock it, drag it up, and lock it again (I lock it to reduce the size taken up by the Quick Start panel).
They've taken making things harder to do into the realm of fine art.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders. What kind of world do we live in, when you can't even trust your printer?
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zdnet panicked: VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders
[Crocodile Dundee]
They're not IoT!
(pulls out links to Griff's IoT postings)
That's IoT![/Crocodile Dundee]
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If you were going to lose your job, would you prefer to be replaced by a robot or another person? If you said robot, you’re in the majority. I think most people would rather not lose their job, but maybe that's just me
As someone who's already been replaced by a robot, of course.
So, managers: when replacing someone, just tell the victim they're being replaced by a robot. They'll feel much better.
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Even when a given open source project once was the right technical choice, sometimes you need to leave it behind. Here's how to tell when it's time to find another option. "So get out your seat and jump around!"
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Microsoft launched today the Azure Security Lab, a sandbox-like environment designed to enable security professionals to test Azure security without actually endangering the company's customers. Are the hacks scalable as long as you pay for more servers?
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So they've finally found it within themselves to provide something that's SOP?
God bless cloud services. Long may they... Be ignored by anyone who has a clue about security.
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Microsoft's new command-line tool, Terminal, gets its biggest update ever. "The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition."
Seems a little a-historical (around MS-DOS' history), but I didn't know the bit about Phoenix (long may they press F2. Or was it DEL?)
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Lots of kudos to these guys. Thanks for making me aware of them.
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You mean... I made a difference to your lifestyle?
TTFN - Kent
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Don't push it.
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