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  Forgot to celebrate the 10th anniversary of my startup… :P

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  [2016] Confusion Over Waste https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2016/10/confusion-over-waste.html "In essence what is being perceived as waste is the time spent in the short term, when the real waste is time lost in the future due to rework caused by the missed opportunity to learn sooner."

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  Choose pair programming Choose energised work Choose test-driven development Choose short iterations and frequent releases Choose continuous integration Choose refactoring the code to keep the design simple and malleable Choose your future. Choose XP.

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  I can imagine there are a bunch of English newspaper editors hoping that Bosnia and Herzegovina get trounced by the Unites States tonight just so they can use the headline “USA smokes B&H”. :P

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  Props to the referee this evening for not letting Harry Kane get away with yet another soft penalty and instead making him step up and show what he’s really capable of. #EnglandVsCongo

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  Perl scripts are the Vogon poetry of the sysadmin world. :P

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  It’s often said that Ben Kenobi is a complex character. How complex? I’d say at least O(B(1)).

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  [article] Afterwood — Milestones https://accu.org/journals/overload/34/193/oldwood/ A retrospective of my ACCU Overload back-page column which celebrated its 10th anniversary in June, along with celebrating milestones in general.

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  As I have Spain in the family sweepstake it seemed appropriate to make a giant paella on the fire pit for dinner 😋.

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  Make England Great Again would be pronounced “meagre” and that feels very British :o).

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  I often see these things at the start of roadworks. Do they push them to close the road?

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  Happy Star Trek Day! :P

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  I got an unexpected delivery from this courier, but to send it back they said I had to use their sister company Carriage Return…

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  It is well known that functional and object-oriented programmers are separated by The Expression Problem — the functional crowd always look very smug whilst the object-oriented folks seem to frown a lot…

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  Clusterfuck: fucking up 99.999% of the time.

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  The Sneetches by Dr Seuss is a great analogy for the current state of AI where Anthropic & OpenAI take the role of Sylvester McMonkey McBean as they sell you one model to create code, but a different one to review its output, and yet another to assess for security flaws…

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  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116548345853160099 There’s always an XKCD for everything. This time I reckon it’s Citogenesis :o).

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  The publisher of this jigsaw clearly isn’t well versed in Cockney Rhyming Slang :o).

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  Currently writing a tool that can identify any file on the internet just from its secure hash. Working title is SHAzam...

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  Inserting a large number of sequential comments in a BASIC program to slow down the interpreter is known as REM sleep...

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  #HaikuDay Ignore instructions The hacker franticly typed Skynet rolled its eyes (I often confuse phonetics with syllables so may have an off-by-one error 😏.)

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  Seeing “CustomerBase” used in the GOOS book has thrown me a curveball because I know the suffix Base is not being used in the same way as the suffix abomination Impl, but I can’t unsee that these days :o). (I assume it’s “customer base” used in the same manner as the original “data base”? Or maybe not? @natpryce @sf105)

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  Wondering if I’ll be able to use this to help convince my teenagers to clean their rooms :o).

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  Developing a technique for buying & selling stocks based on the frequency of toots by ex-U.S. vice presidents. I'm calling it Al Gore Rhythmic Trading…

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  I just asked the grocer for 5+3i kg of sweet potatoes and he looked at me funny. I thought they were complex carbohydrates 🤷‍♂️.

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  Leeky abstraction…

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  Does the Hippocratic Oath for software developers of mobile apps include the phrase "do know ARM"?

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  Developers who disregard encapsulation and mark all their class members public are on to a hiding to nothing….

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  The travelling salesman problem is typically described as NP hard, whereas avoiding a supply chain attack on your package manager is apparently NPM hard…

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  The correlation between a rich entrepreneur and a crap vibe-coded software product is known as affluent and effluent coupling…