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Funny! I felt this way the other day whilst my colleague presented a demo for a fairly new web application...customer asks, 'can it do x,y, and z?' Without hesitation, my colleague answered 'yes, yes, and yes...it can give you any statistics you need.' Meanwhile, I'm thinking 'no, no it can't! It was never designed for that. What you are talking about is a new project altogether!' Once again, I will have to backup that alligator mouth! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I think I know which video you mean, and, yes, it's very good.
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Dunno, still prefer the young Kirk's solution to the Kobayashi Maru exercise as the benchmark.
btw: If you haven't figured it out it's the programmer/engineer that is the real idiot,
perpendicular green lines in red & transparent ink is not that hard.
Example solution in black (too lazy to play colors):
1. green lines
2. green lines
3. green lines
4. green lines
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Always give the customer what they ask for, even if it's not what they expect, because then:
1. they have to pay for it (contract fulfilled - of course you wrote down what they said and they signed it and then
2. you get to charge them again to do it as what they wanted (best not to iterate, less chance of new work from them)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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And liberal use of The Wally Reflector[^]
"I hear your description, but a quick sketch from you might help me to better visualize your concept to your satisfaction."
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Oi I want to know what was amusing/wrong with Wally's response. I use that all the time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Indeed, the Wally Reflector is the only way to remain sane.
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Actually, I was told a long time ago (and far away) to never call myself an expert:
An 'ex' is a 'has-been', and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure. 
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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It is not important what you do, it is important how you sell it. An expert does not work 40 hours a week, he works 10 hours a week and convince the management that the work he had done could not be done in less than 40 hours a week. 
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Is a tooth suspended in a litre of water a molar solution?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That pun is al dente.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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let me chew on that for a bit
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I'm enameled by that thought.
"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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I think that's the root of the problem.
/ravi
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Note: Suspend != Solution
Thus, I don't know how to react to that, but it speaks volumes about the desperation of punsters.
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What precipitated such an incisive thought?
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Just something I got my teeth into.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Just something I got my teeth into.
The tumbler on your bedside table?
(Ducks)
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I'm still curious about this one,
(apart from the ghosts) is that really a telescope as they claim, or is Goddard building a transformer?
APOD: 2017 March 18[^]
vs this [^]
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I'm sure we (US citizens) are paying top $ for that uncrackable (or should that be 'on crack-able'?) feature!
"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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Didn't we get a question on hacking photographs of smartcards in QA?
If not, wait for it, it'll be along soon! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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