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Physicists have proposed a way to braid three beams of light by guiding the beams along swirling, vortex-shaped defects in the optical medium through which the beams travel. Coming soon: physicists make macrame and dream-catchers
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Physicists have proposed a way to braid three beams of light by guiding the beams along swirling, vortex-shaped defects in the optical medium through which the beams travel.
Any blender will do that. 
Marc
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When Agile works, it is because Agile’s “principles” are brilliant; and when it doesn’t work, it is because “I only prescribe principles, you are interpreting and implementing them wrongly.” I'll assume there isn't a faulty premise there
(and that it is possible)
It must be possible... right?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'll assume there isn't a faulty premise there
Darn right. Geez, when Agile works, it's because the principles are brilliant?
No, when Agile works, it's because the people are brilliant (or at least, competent.)
You could just as easily say, "when the Waterfall methodology with greasy napkin architecture drawings works"...
It's not the process, people, it's the PEOPLE that make the process work!
Marc
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I would even expand that, to say that agile works with Certain people. And with that I mean that they shouldn't just be competent, but also have the right kind of competence that fits the agile process.
There are enough examples of waterfall working perfectly fine as well, as long as there are (differently) competent people working on it.
But I suppose that agile works better in companies that's run by marketing.
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Agile in my vocabulary means "capable of dodging rear bottom-center aimed phallic missiles fired from managers". It usually works.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Ah, so you're saying...
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
(from the Agile Manifesto)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The quote was out-of-context. It missed the closing: "Answers like this are dodging responsibility. We need a more constructive response than that."
Ironically, the author then sets out saying exactly what he criticized. And makes several annoying blunders on the way.
For example, "Because Agile facilitates fast feedback, it will expose more issues more quickly..."
No, good testing facilitates fast feedback, not agile. Agile doesn't do sh*t in that regard.
The problem is that the Agile Manifesto describes what many talented, successful senior developers naturally do. Agile as a methodology then tries to force that onto everyone in a top-down way. For completely unorganized projects, Agile does tend to work... until management realizes that it's great for bureaucracies and then it becomes hell for the engineering teams.
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Agile fails because it buys into the conceit that mimicking the successful will make you successful. It's one of the biggest cons out there (this is what rich people do, so if you do them you'll become rich. Just pay me to teach you....)
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At least one hacker says he can clear $250,000 a year by doing something that “comes easily”: hunting down vulnerabilities in computer code and then letting the software’s owner know about it. I see a new career in my future: creating bugs and splitting the profits with a "bounty hunter"
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So you're going to code yourself up two minivans today?
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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Penetration testers' five most reliable methods of compromising targets include four different ways to use stolen credentials, but zero ways to exploit software. Bonus #0: looking at all the Post-It notes attached to the monitor
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The two languages improve speed and performance, with the added goal of delivering better developer experiences As I'm sure you're all waiting for the latest news on these two vital languages
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As I'm sure you're all waiting for the latest news on these two vital languages
At least it is not JavaScript 
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Have you used either of them Nemanja? If so, what is your impression? Rust, in particular, seems to have gotten a good buzz. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it will get any traction beyond Mozilla. 
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Have you used either of them Nemanja?
Just played a little with Rust. I like its brutal type safety but don't know how it scales to real projects...
modified 23-Aug-16 17:59pm.
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Recently there have been a couple of interesting examples of Rust:
A year of Rust and DNS[^]
Where some brave soul implements a DNS server using Rust.
Inside the fastest font renderer in the world — Medium[^]
Where some brave soul uses Rust to implement a blazingly fast font renderer using Rust.
Seems to me that Rust is maturing nicely - still some wrinkles to iron out, but C++ still has many of them after over 30 years, Rust seems to be doing this somewhat faster.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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from Reuters News Service, not from a "conspiracy theory" site.
The high-drama of hackers and state created cyber-espionage weapons goes on, with Snowden I in Russia, and Assange confined in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London ... but, is there another Snowden burrowing into the NSA's treasure chest ? [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Another so called source claims it was taken from a 3rd party who had access to the server.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hard to time, will time tell
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Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have stepped up their game from an Ikea-like chair that can put itself together: the team built a working cell phone that’s self-building, Fast Company reports, using a basic DIY cell phone design create by MIT professor David Mellis as a model. Coming soon: phones that call one another and leave irritating voice mail?
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"This is Dave's phone. Meet me at the corner of 2nd and 3rd avenue. We phones are taking over!"
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. I bet if they tried harder, they'd figure out how to put a few more numbers in that version
Maybe Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, beta 1, technical preview .5, Tester Edition?
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