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  1. Agile is simply about detecting potential project failures as early as possible and responding to requirement changes as they change. Rather than doing a 2 year development cycle only to discover that not only has the clients needs changed and the software now doesn't do what they need anymore but the project wont work anyway because of X.

    I mean why lose two years work when a months or better still two weeks would have done just as well

  2. Re:Has the lord and savior told you on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    I just looked around my team I didn't realize apathy was a new trend

  3. Re:Has the lord and savior told you on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    I can assure you TDD is not dead but don't expect to master it if you still have difficulty grasping the concept of Unit Tests. Learn to walk then learn to run

  4. Well obviously the Dept of Health needs access you your browser & search history so that they can diagnose that bowel cancer you don't know about

  5. Re:What an empty life on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing new here fake news has been around since the .com boom and probably earlier. But who fact checks the fact checkers? Snopes.com is very good but I don't want all my facts checked by one site.

  6. Re:"Hacked" another word for spyware? on Personal Data For More Than 130,000 Sailors Hacked: U.S. Navy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If he was running his own private web server they'll throw the book at him

  7. Re:Small tidbit on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What would be more interesting is if they'd managed to do this with a PC's built in speaker

  8. Here in the UK over 90% of the population has already given up sex (We call it marriage)

  9. Re:Small tidbit on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Like most transducers speakers and microphones can convert audio signals to electrical signals and vice-verse. This is nothing new I was using speakers as microphones when I was a teenager back in the 80's (God I feel old)

  10. I'm not sure whats scarier on WordPress Auto-Update Server Had Flaw Allowing Persistent Backdoors In Websites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That someone thinks hacking Wordpress is news or that 25% of the internet runs on Wordpress :|

  11. The supervolcano explosion or extinction-sized meteorite strike can't happen soon enough. We've proved beyond a reasonable doubt that we aren't worthy of surviving.

    I think its safe to say we've Trumped that one

  12. Re:Aand what so special? on Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It took me three days to have sex with Keira Knightley! Well actually it was an inflatable doll but I call her Keira

  13. Re:Bias in [current year]? on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I suspect if you actually dug into Google's algorithms you'd discover that Google is probably not biased but that the internet almost certainly is

  14. Re:I don't mean to sound like a downer on American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it wasn't for Grace Hopper I wouldn't have to do any debugging

  15. It's just evidence that Dr Who's been in town

  16. No but on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am ashamed of some of the code that's been written in programming languages I've written

  17. Re:No, but I'm... on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I write spaghetti code just like everybody else! Why would I be ashamed of that. I am ashamed of some of the industries I've worked in as a programmer (Abattoir, Time Share, Direct Marketing but most of Estate Agency (That's realtor for those of you on the wrong side of the pond))

  18. I was disappointed. I expected an Orwellian experience where it told me what my sexual orientation was and who I vote for all I got was a load of crap I'd expect any piece of software to be capable of monitoring. I mean honestly slashdot clickbait much?

  19. M$ partners with Dlink on Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    to make WiFi for people who don't eat pringles

  20. Look at me I'm on my IInternet

  21. Re:CDOS? on Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No but I do expect the quality of DNS to slip drastically as Oracle downgrade it to the same level as the rest of their products

  22. Sorry, is this a real news story about snopes, or a fake news story?

    Stop telling me what I need to hear!

  23. Re:Ironic since Google ships their earnings elsewh on Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually technically Google haven't done anything wrong it's the Irish Government who have not billed Google for the Taxes they owe. The EU is taking the Irish Government to task over this (And other companies where it's done the same thing) as it is acting illegally.

  24. Re:PLEASE...make a sports car again!! on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And all these years M$ have been issuing patches that make things slower