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He forgot the silent duck, which so befits management that commits to unrealistic schedules.
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It's always a good day when I learn something new or help someone else do the same. 
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I remember two different "ducks" in my adult life
When I was in boot camp, our DI told us we were eating Duck. Cool I thought, the mess hall was making something nice. This was not so; as what was meant was, "We duck in, we eat, we duck out".
In software development, I suppose patches could be Programming Duck; in that we open a project, slap in or a fix a line of code, and recompile successfully in a few minutes.
The second reference was in the customer service industry. I do not recall the context but it went with the saying, "Why be a duck when you can soar like an eagle".
In software development, I guess this would analogous to doing the Programming Duck as a bandage to fix a symptom, and "soaring like an eagle" would be to go in and fix the underlying issue.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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What makes a good design principle? One aspect that everyone seems to agree on is that a design principle shouldn’t be an obvious truism. "I don't believe in princerple, But, oh, I du in interest."
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April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits', the paper that subsequently became known as the origin for his eponymous law. And I didn't get twice the gift density for it this year
Sorry, too tired to come up with a better one. I think it's time for my early-afternoon pre-late-afternoon nap.
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We try to follow experts' cybersecurity and privacy recommendations but quite often many of us do so halfway or we give up. Lazy wins
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Lazy wins
Money wins.
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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Ah, struth. I've been without so long, all I have left is lazy. 
(OK, maybe I have my cause and effect wrong)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I've been without so long, all I have left is lazy.
You should handle with Chris that he pays you per upvote of the news... You wouldn't say that again, I suppose
M.D.V. 
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"DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public." The truth is on there
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Means three objects not identified; not three visitors.
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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But if not one, it *must* be the other! 
Everything is a dichotomy, after all. (I can't believe I spelled that kerrectly, on the first try!)
TTFN - Kent
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Thats a bold statement for something "unidentified".
I agree that your Chilli almost adheres the definition
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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Agile often puts processes over people, and it’s pushing women engineers into non-technical roles. Time to move on? Get in line
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Quote: Agile often puts processes over people
Agile is hardly alone in this. In some organizations, process is a religion, and it needn't be Agile.
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How would the sprint for that work?
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Great article. I certainly agree that when it comes to engineering software the most important thing is what is between your legs.
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UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says. I'd add an attemptedly-amusing blurb, but I think the Beeb already did
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Kent Sharkey wrote: UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence
FTFY  
M.D.V.
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buzz words generating hype seems people with brains are hard to find these days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space. Plan your next trip now!
There's Imbrian Dark Mantle in them thar moon.
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Fast, if you order right now, you will be there to see the next impact in first person
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history
I think they meant to say, "the 4.5 billion year history", not the 4.5 billion-year-old history. Just sayin...
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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RACK911 says the bugs can be exploited by an attacker to delete files used by the antivirus or by the operating system, resulting in crashes or rendering the computer unusable. It's not a bug, it's a pointer to a bug?
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