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Kent Sharkey wrote: Make people awesome.
That's where my eyes crossed and I had to bail for my own sanity.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Modern Agile has no roles, responsibilities or anointed practices.
So in other words, it's a vaporware process.
OMG. I can't believe they wrote that. It's like the definition of space. Well, it's nothing - it's a a void!
Marc
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While I absolutely concur on the opinions stated in the article, I noted your response which had negative view points on TDD.
You state that TDD involves writing tests for code you haven't written yet. Well duh. That's the point. Otherwise you can end up testing that your code is implemented as it was just implemented.
With TDD, you write tests to force you to look at the expected behaviour of a unit of code. If you cannot express it in a test, you're probably not done thinking about it. It treats that unit of code as a black box - given an expected set of input conditions, does it produce the expected output. If not it doesn't work. If so, it works.
Next, and too often forgotten, is the third stage of TDD (red, green, refactor). Once your code works, refactor it. This may be to improve the structure, to optimise for performance, or numerous other desirable qualities of code. Because you have a suite of tests already written, you hear about any impact such refactoring has had on the rest of your code.
That way, TDD can help you maintain a project and keep the quality consistent. Miss the third stage, and its a pile of horse dung.
"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 found it hard to take anything in the article seriously due to the tweetable phrases littered throughout. Rather than being a serious technical article, it came across as fluffy, woolly, buzz word bingo. Just the sort of thing a CEO would lap up.
"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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The processing power of standard computers is likely to reach its maximum in the next 10 to 25 years. Even at this maximum power, traditional computers won't be able to handle a particular class of problem that involves combining variables to come up with many possible answers, and looking for the best solution. "Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?"
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Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. Couldn't be. I have it under good authority Linux has no bugs
Alternate blurb:
It's The Year of Linux Bugs
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IBM continues to challenge the popular myth is that Macs are more expensive than PCs. I'm obviously looking at the wrong price tags
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I think that subject is a little misleading. As the article writes they got roughly 90000 macs yet only 3 admins supporting them. It's not that the macs themself are cheaper only that they require less support which saves them money. Still dont go and recommend macs to normal at home users if they need the performance.
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Member 11683251 wrote: 's not that the macs themself are cheaper only that they require less support which saves them money
But that's the point.
Taking the cost of something on just the sticker price is like saying "Printer X is $100 cheaper than Printer Y". And yet Printer X's cartridges are 5X the cost of Printer Y's.
The purchase price is what you pay to start playing the game. It's at the end of the life of the product that you add it all up to find the score. For a business that means support costs, deploy costs, staff retention costs - the lot.
It's incredibly important to factor in all costs when pricing an item.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It is likely that the mac users tend to be more experienced and thus need less support. Switch everyone to a mac and I suspect the savings will quickly vanish and may even end up costing more.
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Bezos says that space is the next frontier, a new internet if you will, that is desperately lacking in infrastructure to support new entrepreneurs. There are cat videos in space?
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I would think fixing all the problems human beings have created on the planet would be the next frontier. But that's just me.
Marc
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Humans cannot create, we can only assemble and/or destroy what is already there, both contributing to the larger problem of earthly gross mismanagement.
Though, yes, we human beings need to correct that problem.
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A glass half full ......... of vodka kind of person I see. 
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jeron1 wrote: A glass half full empty
FTFY
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Vodka and fresh-squeezed Orange Juice, mind you! Toss in some V-8, while yer at it.
I call it a "Spiked Sunset"...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: cat videos in space
Cats in Space - YouTube[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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OK, I'm with Bezos! Let's go.
TTFN - Kent
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You mean it'll be a place full of trolls, cat videos and spam?
Awesome. Where do I sign up? Maybe someone can ship me one of those trial CDs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Objects that recycle ambient radio signals can get online without a power source. "Invisible airwaves crackle with life"
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I can just imagine it now. Signs that say "Warning, you are entering a radio signal dead area, your pacemaker may lose power."
Or "charging stations", like suntan rooms. Or fast food restaurants with "high power RF for to charge your day!"
Marc
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Geddy up wireless cowboy!
"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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As long as these contact lenses implement IDisposable so they can clean up after themselves...
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Quote: He says the startup is already talking with a large pharmaceutical company about adding connectivity to a commonly used disposable medical product.
Am I the only one thinking what I'm thinking? 
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Free and frequent gynecological exams, that could really improve the lives of our female friends 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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