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Because the chicken behind it wasn't wearing a mask or socially distancing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The real question is did the egg beat the chicken across or not, thus answering the age old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
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That's easy to solve: just order one of each from Amazon ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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With my luck they'd arrive in the same box.
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That's easy. You've heard of beaten eggs, but not beaten chickens; so the chicken must have got there first.
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... or nightmare ... The 'no-code' dream… | CommitStrip[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Reminds me of the last time I left the house with "no key" and didn't know when the other half would be back. That's the problem when you have a house key and a car key, and they're different.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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If your house key and your car key are the same, you might be a redneck.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Or live in an RV.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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If you talk to yourself online you might be a redneck.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: and didn't know when the other half would be back.
You lost half a key?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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"Fallacy" is a better term for it.
The job I had before the one I have now used a home-grown "Rule-Based" system, which was interesting enough, but...
Rules had to return results as strings. 
If there was no existing rule to do what you needed, you had to implement one... in VB.net .
What I found most interesting about the system was that rules were versioned and stored as DLLs in a database.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: What I found most interesting about the system was that rules were versioned and stored as DLLs in a database.
Ingenious! No one else would've thought of doing that*. 
*For many good reasons.
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And all in VB! 
Some very clever VB-slingers there.
I got out after a year.
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We have a SQL Server-based rules engine where I'm working. I don't know much about it, but it's all SQL, and apparently hugely complex.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My company was already using Mendix before I started and it is powerful enough to run businesses. I see lots of developers make fun of low-code/no-code but it should be taken seriously. It is powerful.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Most definitely. As long as your problems fit within the realm of its capabilities it can usually do everything you need it to do. Those boundary cases can be dicey though. I worked with this type of system and it was a constant battle of extending its capabilities, through code of course. Eventually it was realized the system was pointless because it really didn't serve the end goal. I had seen this in the beginning but I was ignored.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: As long as your problems fit within the realm of its capabilities it can usually do everything you need it to do.
100% true, but still true with any framework you use including .Net.
I have added API calls and all kinds of complex stuff in the mendix app. So far, it can handle anything this business has needed.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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My last job was at a major Army hospital, and they adopted both Qlikview and Tableau. I remember the demos for them were flashy and impressive. However, under the weight of the amount of data we had, both products folded like cheap suits, and working with them was a freakin nightmare.
The products were purchased because of the promise of low/no code (ostensibly to reduce costs because they could eliminate programmers, which was a weird thought, because they had dev licenses for people that modified the code), but that backfired on them. Not only did they have to keep us programmers on staff,they had the additional cost of hardware infrastructure and the sys admins to maintain said hardware (it was a full-time job for at least two people).
The cost-saving idea was also hilariously over-estimated. The software licensing cost more than all of the developers salaries, combined.
I am not impressed with said systems.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I was always disgusted with the end user reporting tolls, Crystal, Oracle and and SQL Reporting all had them and they needed to be implemented by every client that used the reporting platform. And whenever a new report was required the developer was required to build it.
Not once have I seen the end user reporting toll ever used by and end user.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Just about every bloody framework I've ever worked with has ended like this.
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An "API" is not "code"; it's a "promise" (or maybe only a hint).
It's like saying: if Java had a "GetApple()" method, no one else can use it without paying a royalty; even though said API might:
- returned an orange instead of an apple
- picked an apple from a tree vs a bin
- also washed or peeled the apple (optional parameter with default)
- returned Adam's apple
- etc.
An API is not code; the implementation (and how it is implemented) is.
Let's see if the enlightened judiciary gets it.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Depending on the API, it could be a lot more than a hint. I'd want to hear arguments on both sides before making up my mind.
Maybe the sketch for a symphony would be a good analogy. Various composers have left sketches for unfinished symphonies, although the level of detail varies. One completion of Mahler's 10th symphony had its performance banned by his estate, which held the copyright.
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The symphony is an implementation that you can copyright; you can't copyright the "idea" / concept of a symphony (e.g. "romance").
An API is an abstraction. So is low-level code. The higher the abstraction, the more it qualifies as an "idea" and is then not subject to copyright.
What is "higher" than an API that can express the idea behind it? The consumer? Which depends.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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A symphonic sketch is less than a symphony (copyrightable) but less than an idea or genre (not copyrightable), which is why I thought it might be an interesting analogy.
An API might give you a very good idea of the underlying object model and its internal collaborations, which is far more than an idea.
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