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An example of a small mind producing a small result.

Sorry. I was attempting to argue with a religion. My bad. The basic premises cannot be questioned. The words of the sacred order must be followed to the letter. They must be swallo…

"Imagine 5+ bowlers all using the same lane. The more bowlers you have, the more you will have balls bumping into each other, getting in the way, crossing paths, and falling into t…

At least we now know the words and phrases that can annoy the most individuals most of the time. The net-net is that it can be valuable. However, the bottom line is that it is a ch…

I see. TDD works on poorly designed, poorly implemented, basically lousy code. Code that is highly coupled, withlow cohesion, and is inappropriately modularized. This necessitates …

How do you know your test code is testing what you need it to test without actually testing it? If not by TDD, then are you really using TDD or simply saying that you are? Like I s…

TDD means you write your test before you write your code. Test code is code. You must write test code for your test code before you can write your test code. Test code for test cod…

and the one ring to control them all.

At least the Unix wizard can pretend he is going to make it work. All he needs to do is pipe this into that and write just one more filter. Then he can .... By that time both he ar…

The VB version was a working prototype. They had built a war chest on its back but the prototype was blocking their future. It was making them vulnerable to the competition. They s…

The Three Laws of Software (with apologies to The Three Laws of Thermodynamics) 1. Software written by someone else is bad software aka. You can't get ahead. 2. Software written by…

Rule one: Rules don't always work. Rule two: Follow the rules. The challenge is to know which rules to follow and what "works" means.

The Cloud absorbs all. Once you live there, your life becomes one with the Cloud. You no longer belong to you. The only answer is never to have joined the Cloud. It is already too …

The result of an internal combustion engine is the transformation of heat energy into kinetic energy. Thermodynamics says this conversion cannot be 100%. Hence some of the heat is …

Again, I don't care what RMS says, what he does is what is important. Simply read his re-re-revised EULA. His focus is to prohibit useful and valuable combinations of proprietary a…

I disagree. What he says is totally and absolutly irrelevant compared to what he actually does accomplish. The purpose of a system is what it does. Reduction to the barter system i…

Who is the customer? You or the child or both? Perhaps you are paid for the value you deliver. If not, why did you do it? However, it is a payment that cannot be transformed by exc…

If the "distinguished professor" wished only to teach his version of political activism, he should sign up to teach a class in his version of political activism. That way, his cust…

Stallman objected to the fact that software could be sold so he made software that couldn't be sold. I am sure he understood its true value and priced it accordingly. Create and de…

Hardware is cheap. People are expensive. However these facts are lost on most upper management. I have developed software for four decades. I was expected to develop the next gener…

If its US, its BAD! If its European, its GOOD! If it has been decided by some unaccountable academic pin head committee to be forced down the throat of others, its GOOD! If its bee…

Hmmmm..... Maybe a not so horrible bad answer is as good as we can do. I like the notion that productivity should be considered as rate of delivery of value. Unfortunately, this ge…

Joe paints a three bedroom house in three days and gets paid $300. Jim paints a 5 ft by 3 ft watercolor landscape in three days and sells it for $1,000. They both get their job don…