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...and trustworthy!
"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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Agile software development, in which apps are changed incrementally over short timespans, can benefit users and developers. Learn how it works, its advantages and its challenges. Ask 10 agile developers, get 12 answers
OK, an exaggeration, it's probably more like 22 answers.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, an exaggeration, it's probably more like 22 answers.
And every time you ask, you'll get different answers because, after all, changes in peoples viewpoints occur incrementally and over short timespans. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: And every time you ask, you'll get different answers because, after all,
... the definition of agile is agile itself, of course!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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A way to say "we know Jack and sunshine about managing a software project, and Jack is out of town, so we just bunched some programmers in a pen and we check periodically if they are still alive".
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ruby developer and internet japester Aaron Patterson has published a REPL for 64-bit x86 assembly language, enabling interactive coding in the lowest-level language of all. Ah, might as well JMP
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the lowest-level language of all.
Well, not quite ...
In my student days, we did an exercise with an AMD 2901 bit-slice processor development kit (if you associate anything with 'bit slice processor', I guess your grandchildren are ready to make a family by now  ). It had 4 bits, and we had a single one available, with a microcode store of 64 sixteen-bit micro-instruction words. Programming was done by flipping 16 switches, press "Deposit", flip switches, "Deposit", ... If you made a mistake, you had to clear the entire microcode store and start from the beginning, flipping switches again.
I dare say that this was programing at a lower level than assembly coding Intel processors, whether 32 or 64 bits.
The technical documentation for one 16-bit mini of those days listed the entire microcode, in binary format, for the four 2901s that was hooked together as its CPU. (It might have been 2903s, it is so long ago that I am no longer sure.) There was a "Microprogramming manual" available. When I asked how many customers actually wrote their own microcode, I was told "So far, we have managed to talk everyone of them out of it" (The manual was used internally, though.)
It was claimed that those microcoding the VAX-780 had an average productivity of one microinstruction a day. That was years before URLs, so I do not have any link to document the claim.
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Researchers say this new material could be used in place of other types of plastic. I just felt it was important you knew about this
Maybe skip the egg nog this holiday season.
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Shirley, we should milt this for all its worth.
"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 will not be testing this mug...
".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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If you eat caviar (sturgeon eggs), you can try this mug!
Hey, if you eat chicken eggs, you can test this mug!
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Do you have similar reluctance to roe? Or do you enjoy cod roe? I do! I mean, I am not a sexist.
It is a long time since I tasted fried cod "melke", which is what we call the male equivalent of the roe when taken from the Arctic cod when it comes in to the coast to spawn, but we regularly had it when I was a boy. I don't even know if you can buy it in the fish shops nowadays.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
".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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Eggs (roe is eggs, not yet fertilized) and sperm - they are just female and male sex cells. Do you eat only the female part, not the male part? Or neither? Or do you eat eggs from hens, but not from fish (i.e. roe)?
You may not know: If you catch a cod (or for that sake, any fish) when it is ready to spawn, and cut it open: In a female fish, you will find the eggs in a long sack of thin skin, packed with a hundred thousand small egg cells, not yet fermented - the roe. In a male fish, you will find a similar long sack, usually significantly smaller than the roe sack of the female, filled with sperm cells - for a large cod, it is roughly the size of a sardine or small hering. They are equivalent halves for the breeding process of the fish, but of course: Since the female sex cell is packed with a 'lunch bag' for the fish embryo to feed on until it has grown enough to start catching its own food, each individual female sex cell is larger than that of the male. But, like with humans, the number of male sex cells is far greater than the number of female ones.
I am used to eating roe either boiled or fried, but "melke" (I never found the English translation for it) I have only eaten fried. I am not that surprised that this food is unknown in many parts of the world. For smaller fish, even if you could identify the "melke", it is usually too small to deserve preparation as food. It is limited to large (several kilograms) codfish and other fish of comparable size.
A friend of mine, when he serves either cod roe or eggs, does it with the remark: "Would you care to devour the unborn life?" He's got a somewhat special kind of humor.
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Dude, we're talking about sperm cups.
".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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So? You are not drinking crude oil, yet you are not (I presume) reluctant to drink from a cup made from crude oil? Most plastics (although not all) are made from crude oil.
Anyway: My response was aimed at your "I have no idea what you're talking about". I tried to explain what I was talking about. I wanted to point out that even though you, as I understand it, are reluctant to drink from a "sperm cup", in other cuisines, eating fried fish sperm is perfectly OK. So why wouldn't we drink from a cup made from "melke" as a raw material? Anyone who has seen "melke" from fish will know that to make a cup, it must has been subject to heavy processing, similar to the processing of crude oil into a plastic cup.
(And, I'd be happy if anyone can tell me the English term for "melke" - if there is one. It refers not the individual sperm, but to the entire sack of not yet spawn sperm as a whole.)
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In this context, I think melke is milt in English.
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Thanks a lot.
But be cautious of "false friends": "Milt" is a Norwegian word as well, referring to the organ called spleen in English. Translating "milt" to "milt" could cause some problems.
Google Translate has the bad property of presenting the source word when it can't find a translation, with no indication that it is untranslated, so it suggests that "milt" (English) translates to "milt" in Norwegian! If you pull down the list of alternatives, GT presents "melke" as a second alternative, but you won't see it unless you get suspicious and look for alternatives. (GT won't do the translation the other way around.)
Now that you know the term, may I ask: Do you also know milt as something edible?
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I've also noticed that problem with Google Translate. And no, I never thought of milt as something edible.
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Over the last few months, Microsoft appears to have become pretty desperate in trying to make people use its Edge browser more regularly. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"
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Nearly 3bn people, or 37% of global population, have never been online despite rise in use during pandemic When told about Twitter, Facebook, and Elon Musk, a remote tribesman heard to say, "Glad I'm missing that"
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Lucky them. 
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Mozilla has addressed a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) set of cryptography libraries. Beware of hackers with big signatures
That John Hancock fellow is a prime candidate.
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When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. kLoC/fortnight?
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