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I was working on a project where the clients actually did something similar. Always managed to sneak in a requirement/feature or two directly to the developer. We were working too close to the client in this scenario and did a lot of work which we didn't charge for. Ran a big loss at the end of the day. We're talking millions. We learnt a very important lesson from this.
P.S. CEO and VP's are also clients at the end of the day. Just internal ones. They should be treated the same as external ones. They should follow the correct routes if they want to add/change requirements.
One thing I like about scrum (and I don't like everything about it) is that it is very clear on setting boundaries in this area. It protects the developer from these pitfalls very nicely.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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Kevin Marois wrote: "What made you wanna do THAT!??"
I am still wainting for the follow up post explaining what he did, and why.
You DID ask?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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He probably got a call 2 minutes after posting that, "Umm, I got a guy who did THAT, which fubarred the install, can you come take a look?" 
"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'm expecting something exotic, don't spoil it already
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Back in 1979 I was taking basic training at IBM.
They showed us new recruits this training video: Who Sold You This Then[^] 
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Nice!!
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185 cartographers walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "Sorry, I can't serve you.."
[It's been a while, so in case you forgot, you reply with a punchline, a pun, whatever.]
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Sorry, I can't serve you because of your lousy latitude.
"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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What a relief.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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... because you're off the charts.
Life is too shor
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...because you don't map our customer's profile.
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Legend has it that you've no shame and your pun-call shore's that up.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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... you just don't make the gradient
veni bibi saltavi
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you're drawing a blank.
Hogan
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... my last waitress quit because you kept drawing peninsulas on the napkins!
... kept showing her your peninsulas.
modified 1-Mar-16 23:39pm.
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He was just hoping he'd scale to the topograph of JOTD.
However, the survey is still out on that, cuz the joke is not as planetable as he'd of hoped from his zenith'd theodolite stadia.
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... you've borderline personality problems.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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because you are incontinent
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I forgot to post this yesterday:
Dad Science, Parts V-VI: the answer isn't simply wrong . . . it's far more convoluted than that.[^]
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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hilarious! Thanks for the introduction. (I'd never met that comic before)
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Kennedy died Sunday at age 91. He was one of my favorite actors.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Leslie Nielsen[^] died in 2010 at age 84. He was one of my favorite actors.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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