will they be putting tiny engines inside silicon*e* ? Just imagine, breasts that swing *themselves* even when the woman is standing still. It truly would be Utopia. Or Stepford. I always get those two confused.
After the Pirate Party's stunning defeat at the polls, they have renamed themselves to the Hacker Party. They have promised much better results in the next election, one way...or the other.
"Extreme" has lost its meaning in the same way that "Alternative" has. And pair-programming has always been eighth-grade gay, no matter what anyone says.
Test-first? Yeah, sounds great on paper. In reality, it gets steamrollered by feature requests. And besides, no one really cares if the software works or not, because if it doesn't, it just gives the user an excuse to not work for the whole day, or to take an early 3-day weekend. (at least for most software. the statement probably doesn't hold for users of medical or avionics software.)
The current state of programming is more like finger-painting than engineering. It's messy, hands-on, and only a mother could love the results. And it is performed by children dressed up in the bodies of adults.
The solution? Simple. We only need to be just clever enough to figure out how to implement AI. Then we can let the machines take over. Let *them* figure out all the hard stuff, so we can get back to playing WoW. And I for one will welcome our new programming overlords.
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.
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Oh well, guess I'll have to dismantle my bio-diesel car that runs on cigarette butts.
But at least all the smokers will stop following my car around town.
So they intercepted all this encrypted data, and *still* got their asses kicked? Talk about the suck.
will they be putting tiny engines inside silicon*e* ? Just imagine, breasts that swing *themselves* even when the woman is standing still. It truly would be Utopia. Or Stepford. I always get those two confused.
After the Pirate Party's stunning defeat at the polls, they have renamed themselves to the Hacker Party. They have promised much better results in the next election, one way...or the other.
"Extreme" has lost its meaning in the same way that "Alternative" has. And pair-programming has always been eighth-grade gay, no matter what anyone says.
Test-first? Yeah, sounds great on paper. In reality, it gets steamrollered by feature requests. And besides, no one really cares if the software works or not, because if it doesn't, it just gives the user an excuse to not work for the whole day, or to take an early 3-day weekend. (at least for most software. the statement probably doesn't hold for users of medical or avionics software.)
The current state of programming is more like finger-painting than engineering. It's messy, hands-on, and only a mother could love the results. And it is performed by children dressed up in the bodies of adults.
The solution? Simple. We only need to be just clever enough to figure out how to implement AI. Then we can let the machines take over. Let *them* figure out all the hard stuff, so we can get back to playing WoW. And I for one will welcome our new programming overlords.
Oh darn, I thought it was pie-rate day. I was all set with my list too:
Apple - 0
Blueberry - 5
Olallieberry - 10
Guess I'll have to hang onto this list for later. (sad yarrrr.)
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.