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These magic love-letters lock you up and are getting you there. (ARTIST: 6,6 SONG TITLE: 6,6,9)
FIRST HINT:
MAGIC is a WONDER So Artist is 6, WONDER
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modified 13-Dec-19 5:58am.
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How many letters ? although I doubt it will help
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I think we are looking at 33: a song and artist / band
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Is this supposed to be a cryptic clue ? or is it one of those infernal themed clues ?
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Cryptic, I think - it's not a themed week.
I suspect the clue is the song title, and that should give us the band / artist, but I'm nowhere.
I was trying to work with "Folsom Prison Blues" but that doesn't fit at all.
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Well,
Doesn't appear to follow CCC rules. I spent a few minutes looking at it and got nowhere.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I don't think it is following any crossword convention
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Yep, this song is the base of many other songs
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The artist has 6,6 letters so it is not Michael Jackson, that is 7,7.
Now do the magic!
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digimanus wrote: Now do the magic!
I am ready to take the challenge. But first could you confirm that your clue follows the Cryptic crossword rules?
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magic is a clue or are you too BLIND to SEE it?
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digimanus wrote: magic is a clue or are you too BLIND to SEE it?
I asked a question that requires a Yes or No answer.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Sorry but this isn't a cryptic clue - you can always solve a cryptic clue - this clue requires you to know the artist / song which doesn't follow CCC ( or any other ) crossword convention
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I am sorry to say that its not 6,6,9 but actually 6,6,9,2,5
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Hang on,
Are you telling me that Stevie Wonder is involved in this? How could we be so blind? 
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Problem is I think he mixed up the Song tittle and album name. Either way number counts don't match
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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super wrote: Either way number counts don't match
Yeah, I was just weighing my future akh against the feather of Maʽat[^] and I was all good until I reached the 40th rule. I just can't resist the cake.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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True!
My bad!
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It was horror @ friday 13th for the CCC-fans 
These magic love-letters lock you up and are getting you there. (ARTIST: 6,6 SONG TITLE: 6,6,9)
If something MAGIC is happening it can be called a WONDER
With that hint you had the latter part of the artist STEVIE WONDER
love-letters are SIGNED
lock you up get's you SEALED
get's you there is DELIVERED
Super you are up on MONDAY
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I'm way too lazy to do Test Driven Dev. I like immediate satisfaction.
But I'm a fan of dogfooding. For those outside microsoft land that means using the stuff you make for your own real world things before release.
It's a royal pain though, precisely because it is good at driving bugs out of hiding.
Unfortunately, because of the complexity of Slang, any real world project with it is the total house that jack built - there's a half dozen steps to go through before reproducing anything, and sometimes bugs only crop up when i use a slang powered tool as a pre-build step which means no debugger.
I can't tell you how many times now I've had to copy the file contents of my Slang Tokenizer from github because my tool keeps breaking it. meh
Still, better now than later.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Yes, dogfooding is both hard and valuable.
But don't overestimate it. It easily ends up as an echo chamber. "It works well for myself, then it must be perfect for the world!" I worked in one company where we hired students on short-term contracts to do both robustness and usability tests: After six months or so, they had learned to think along the same paths as the developers. They did "the right things", and reported fewer problems. We had to bring in new ones twice a year to test and evaluate the products the way users would do it, not the way developers do it.
I consider dogfooding to be the major reason for the failure of many open software projects attempting to compete against commercial end user applications: They tend to do dogfooding only. The products work fine if you are a competent software developer, but you simply can't tell an everyday secretary or dog breeder or truck driver to specify a regex for the search. Not even to use a command shell limited to 7-bit ASCII and you have to escape a lot of characters (escape characters in particular). And so on. The dogfood that pleases the developer dosen't necessarily please the customer.
One story, from the early 1980s: This office automation software, NOTIS[^], was based on an OS where users had a flat set of files - not uncommon in those days. Unix ideas were spreading, and developers were eager to offer a hierarchical file system. So they created an archive system were documents were put in folders, in drawers, in cabinets. From one of the major customers, the University of Oslo Publishing house, we heard that one of editors had found a solution to a problem: She "lost" so many documents, she spent significant resources on searching through all the folders in all the drawers in all the cabinets to find that letter she wrote yesterday. But now she had created a single cabinet, named "Cabinet", with a single drawer, named "Drawer", and a single folder, named "Folder", and moved all her documents into that folder. She no longer spent time on endless searches! All her co-workers rejoiced: That's a great idea! So within a few weeks they all had adopted the same solution, to overcome the problem of "lost" documents.
Today, it may be hard to understand that people couldn't use hierarchical systems properly, but that's how it was. While you could tell a developer to just do a "man find", the "find" syntax is completely incomprehensible to anynone without software background. Dogfooding proves that files can easily be found in a hierarchy. The developer don't see it as a problem. The customer does.
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I agree with this, but a lot of what you said, like testers thinking like developers and so missing things is applicable to testing at large.
I don't think dogfooding is a replacement for TDD. I'm just too lazy to do TDD. 
I mean, I would if i was being paid.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm also too lazy to do TDD.
And I wouldn't do it even if I was being paid!
Dogfooding is definitely the way to go. 
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You're more honest than I am. The truth is, I probably wouldn't either.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You just have to find which "tree" now: the one in the cloud, your PC, your "mobile", external drive, long-term storage, "junk folder", etc.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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