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Good summary of the episode (A Taste of Armegeddon). Of course the "moral" of the story was that these people had made war so sanitized and logical that they had removed the element of fear from the equation. In a supreme example of violating the non-interference principle Kirk destroys the computer and re-introduces fear by the imminent threat of real missles being used, thus finally resolving the centuries-old war.
Fear... so under-valued.
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Looks pretty cool and it probably won't be long before they have a working prototype.
I hope they don't outsource the communications;
soldier: sh*t is hitting the fan I need help quick
help desk: this is nnnn I am here to assist you, could you give me your ID to confirm your identity?
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I wonder where they are going to shove the micro pile required to power the bloody thing! Bateries ain't that good yet.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You're just the guy to tell them where to shove it, too!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hack the bloody suit with an i-Phone app.
"Dance, soldier, dance!" 
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It's open source. They are hoping someone fixes all of its issues for free.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The only way it could be "fixed" is to have it redone by professionals. It's amazing how silly the governments and politics can be, no matter what the country is. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Quote: It's amazing how silly the governments and politics can be, no matter what the country is. Smile |
Quite true.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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it was written by professionals.
believe it or not, even professional programmers f*** up sometimes.
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Just because someone does something for a living, does not mean they are good at it.
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and i've never seen a program that worked flawlessly on its initial release.
have you?
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I was talking in a general sense. not developer wise.
To answer your question, no, I don't think I have. But on a project like this is not good enough for it to be working in 1 year. It needs to work now, or atthe very least in a few weeks.
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Chris Losinger wrote: have you?
Yes, but it took a couple years to establish the procedures for the plan/develop/test/relese cycle - where the hardest part was to get everybody to understand that there is a world of difference between proper QA and unit-testing.
Unit testing is a good tool that has its place, but QA is much more than just unit testing - and I guess you already know that  .
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Seen this[^]? Something to learn from there...
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Why not? RoR is a pretty popular platform.
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It's popularity is due to fast coding; not high server throughput. For a given load you need a lot more RoR servers than if you were using C#, Java, or PHP. This is why high load sites like Twitter left their initial RoR implementation for PHPScala when they got big.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 10-Oct-13 15:02pm.
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Dan Neely wrote: It's popularity is due to fast coding; not high server throughput
That is true for most web technologies, including PHP.
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The gotcha with PHP is less server performance than PHPs high internal level of WTFitude.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Twitter left their initial RoR implementation for PHP
For PHP?! Whatever portions of RoR was replaced, I thought they replaced it with Scala.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Ooops; memory fail. But as a JVM language Scala still gets into the much better throughput bucket.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It doesn't really matter what it was written in. The facts remain that :
0) The primary contractor is responsible for its sub-contractors, and for putting everyone's ducks in a row.
1) The customer (fed gov) probably didn't want to commit sufficient resources to the finished product (fail-over, and scaling). That's the way the government is.
2) Fed development contracts are very specific in their statement of work. Contractors can't stray outside the requirements, and change requests are not likely to be made/approved because that would restart the bidding process.
3) Contractors bid for work based on who they have on staff, regardless of a given employee's availability for the project. After they win the contract, they hire pretty much anyone that can spell "HTML". The bar is indeed low.
4) Despite the crying need to spend extra hours (overtime) on a given task, none is generally authorized. At quitting time, the contract manager effectively MAKES everybody leave.
5) Developing software while connected to a fed gov network is a royal pain in the ass for a developer.
I've worked for several defense contractors on software projects, and I hope never to have to do it again.
".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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Zero based bullet points. +10.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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I always do that - it tends to f*ck with the VB guys. 
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The facts
Indeed they are, and very well put.
It seems that some things are constant in all governments, not just the US.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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