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I'd definitely give the Torygraph top marks for cricket coverage but I've always found the crossword a bit lame. For me, the daily crosswords rank as follows:
1) Indie/i
2) Grauniad
<- Big gap ->
3) Times
<- Another big gap ->
4) Torygraph
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Agreed the crossword is not one of the most difficult but it mostly complies with the unwritten rules, and life is to short to do the FT or Grauniad everyday
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The trouble with The Grauniad is that you can get something quite straightforward one day and a thematic beast the next. What I like about The Indie is the way that it gets progressively more difficult through the week. Monday is about Times level, Saturday is a proper head-scratcher.
The Torygraph and The Times seem to aim for a similar difficulty level every day.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Do you do the Independent or the I ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The Indie itself is only available on line these days - you can get the crossword for free.
The i uses crosswords from the same pool but they don't run in sync, so the one in today's i may well have appeared a few months back as the Indie crossword.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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the users are fools!
WTF!
Patanjali's Kimbho app removed from Play Stores: Was it a trial or a security disaster?[^]
This guy releases a messaging App in play store.
Removes it from there, the next day.
Reason :
He wanted to see users response. it's several hundred thousands download the first day. Now they know the response and removed the App.
W.T.F
Users have gone so cheap?
Btw, I just discard his 1-day trial nonsense theory. The moment active users count reached 100s all their filthy code would have chocked & server froze up. They removed the App inevitably.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Huh? So technically I can put in a blank Android app and to "get feel" and then approach investors with data.
I don't know why they are even trying? There are numerous apps already to communicate. They work. Also this whole idea of nationalism on freaking app is absurd.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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More importantly, what will Leslie[^] do?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's not the Lounge. And that forum gets no where near the same amount of traffic the Lounge does. This is not a Leslie.
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Interesting, quite interesting!
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There goes the neighborhood.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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The nerd-rage that's been going on Slashdot since the rumors first surfaced over the weekend is hilarious. That bunch is still comparing the MS of today with the MS of 20+ years ago.
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It's probably the same people - in their teens/20s then, in their 30s/40s/50s today.
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I know the 4 pillars of OOD - but my love is for abstraction and encapsulation. Polymorphism is useful, but I've found it confuses many developers. Inheritance results in hemorrhoids and other digestive issues, so unless I have a very, very generic object, I tend to avoid it.
That said, it baffles me to the point of wanting to cut myself why encapsulation is ignored. I'm living in a static global world where we hack away every day... I have a file that contains data. Why would you not write a class to handle it? Every damn tool we have is a C++ compiler. 
I'm thinking that to advance software development to the next level, control c / control v must be banned.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Nothing has happened to OOD; it is still a very powerful design tool. The problem is the severe shortage (and consequent high salaries) of good software engineers. In lieu of decent software engineers, companies hire programmers who are a lot cheaper, are much easier to find, but could not use proper design to save their lives.
Make no mistake; within their limitations, some of them are very good coders. If they were to be exposed to proper design principles (and some decent mentoring), some of them could become decent software engineers. The problem with the more capable ones is that they have no idea that OOD and other design tools even exist!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You must be a software guy  of course nothing has happened to OOD.
But your comments are dead on.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The problem is the severe shortage (and consequent high salaries) of good software engineers. In lieu of decent software engineers, companies hire programmers who are a lot cheaper, are much easier to find, but could not use proper design to save their lives.
And then said companies tell the remaining few senior devs to dumb down their code so the juniors can understand it, because the code reflects a well thought out design that befuddles those that don't have good design skills!
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It is important to apply OOD to any project from the beginning. If you are starting out with a new project, the software architect role is applied and the software design is done in OOD.
Software development is advanced already. Its just maybe that the next generation of coders are learning python , JavaScript etc which may not embody the whole OOD concepts.
Also if you look at the Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2018[^] , you just need to know a couple of frameworks.Also these days you either code for android or iOS and the cloud (google/aws/........) and are restricted
to the structure they offer in some ways.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
modified 3-Jun-18 16:15pm.
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Well, I don't do web. I suppose if it was the only thing available I could. I've seen too many people with a passing/functional knowledge of JavaScript call themselves software engineers. The sad thing, I see this all the time from very senior people, but I live in an embedded world, so C and C++ are interchangeable.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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 yeah, I hear you.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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