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Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007
The Astronomy Picture of the Day site continues to make the world a better place.
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Cargo Cult Programming
James Bach proposes a fancy word in the same thought-space as what I call “Cargo Cult Programming”. How often have you heard somebody say “My program didn’t work, but {the local guru|the Javadoc|MSDN|a Google search} told me that if I sprinkled some extra lines of random code, the problem would go away.” Then, on the next system, it turns into “I had to sprinkle these random extra lines on my last project to get it working, so I’ll pre-emptively sprinkle the same lines on this one, even though I still have no idea what they actually do.” Then the next project gets “{My co-worker|A consultant} put this magic code in a previous project, so I’ll put it in this one.”
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Ignominiously
My spouse teaches computer science at a Rather Large University. Several years ago one of her students wrote roughly the following in the documentation for one of their assignments:
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Oh, I get it…
Dratz says You either get it or you don’t.
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Sad news…
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Who Certifies the Certifiers?
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Now you're playing with power
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The Astronomy Picture of the Day makes the world a better place
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html;
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Fred Clark on holiness
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Words to Live By
One thing about the New Employer is that a lot more people have little sayings posted on their cubicle walls. Today’s gem:
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