Adrian, thanks for starting this. Fun morning distraction I was surprised to find conversation in the list with all other words that are missing. Here is...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 20, 2013 1:22 pm
... Nice. ... D'oh! ;-) Adrian...
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Laurent Bossavit
lbos75
Jan 20, 2013 1:14 pm
... Fun stuff. Here's my attempt: http://bit.ly/WPz6Wq It turns out that "computer"; is in the list, that makes things easier. Cheers, Laurent...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 20, 2013 10:38 am
Some weekend silliness... Some of you may have come across http://xkcd.com/1133/ that describes the Saturn 5 launcher with only the 10,000 most popular words...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jan 11, 2013 5:11 pm
... Then call what I did a "potentially good thing to do to databases". I should not have used the term "normalization". ... If, for example, the values and...
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Francis Fish
francis.fish
Jan 11, 2013 12:59 pm
You guys are confusing me. Normalisation, as I understand it, is reducing things to third normal form. i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_normal_form You...
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John Carter
refactored
Jan 11, 2013 5:04 am
I _love_ sqlite and even better, firefox and sqlitemanager addon.... Your original.... DROP TABLE IF EXISTS "user"; CREATE TABLE "user" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Jan 10, 2013 10:45 pm
... might imagine. Even centralized VCSs used to let you do that - although with much more work - by use of what some call "promotion." ... Yes, I definitely...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 10, 2013 10:22 pm
... Easier to do, but less clear how your proposal applies. ... There are many new Android and IPhone apps put out every day. There might be more greenfield...
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John Carter
refactored
Jan 10, 2013 9:29 pm
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Charlie Poole <charliepoole@...> ... It's one of the many blessings of distributed version control systems... you...
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John Carter
refactored
Jan 10, 2013 9:02 pm
... break, no dependencies, no "legacy" code... Fortunately or unfortunately, this late in the history of the industry, there is almost no green field coding...
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FedericoB
f.bellani
Jan 10, 2013 6:21 pm
Hello to all the members of this great group, my name is Federico Bellani and I am currently a second year graduate student at the Bocconi University, located...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jan 10, 2013 4:59 pm
Charlie, ... Clearly, it depends. It depends on the people involved, and how they perceive value. It also depends on the amount of overhead you have in a ...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Jan 10, 2013 4:49 pm
As you go smaller and smaller, don't you reach the point where it's no longer a story? That is, no longer viewed as having value by the customer? I think we...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jan 10, 2013 4:41 pm
Steven, ... I've done this, myself. It still takes awhile for the stories to add up to something releasable, but I've been able to start from nothing and work...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 10, 2013 3:55 pm
Hi John, I believe your idea would work well once there is some accepted, working software. However, I do not see how to get started from scratch. Would you...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jan 10, 2013 11:43 am
Hi John ... Interesting experiment. My guess is, you almost always can, and you'll come to believe that when you cannot, it's about you, not about the problem....
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John Carter
refactored
Jan 10, 2013 3:27 am
First, a thought experiment. Traditionally a "feature" was the unit of work to be planned, created, integrated and tested. As we became more agile we broke...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jan 6, 2013 4:17 pm
I'm looking for a write-up for this refactor. If there ain't none, then this is the write-up. Here's the input table: create table user id <<pk>> username...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jan 4, 2013 8:33 pm
I just got word that Bill Pyritz, a strong XP supporter at AT&T, has passed away. RIP Bill, and see if you can get those choirs of angels to do some...
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Hubert Baumeister
hubertlmu
Jan 3, 2013 1:40 pm
Extended deadline: 25.1.2013 The 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development is a leading conference on agile methods in software and...
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Tom Rossen
rossentj
Dec 31, 2012 4:02 am
Rob, Thanks for your kind offer. I am currently gainfully employed - until Feb. 2, when my current contract runs out. Northern Trust renewed it as many times...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Dec 30, 2012 9:26 pm
... Yes; some studies seem to ignore the fact that companies typically spend 90% to 99% or more of their software development budgets on maintenance. So the...
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pooya shahbazian
pooya.shahba...
Dec 30, 2012 6:24 pm
hi thanks, it's so useful Pooya Shahbazian http://www.pooyablog.blogfa.com/ ________________________________ From: George Dinwiddie <lists@...>...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 30, 2012 5:18 pm
Ron, ... Yes, I can write code really fast if it doesn't have to work. - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com ...
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M. Manca
micronpn
Dec 30, 2012 11:25 am
Il 30/12/2012 02:31, JeffGrigg ha scritto: Hi Jeff, I have similar results about quality but about cost I have a reduction between 25% to 45% compared with...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 30, 2012 11:11 am
Hi Jeff, Good stuff. ... What is unfortunate in these studies, and in all the studies I've seen, is that they seem to be estimating the time to produce...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 30, 2012 10:33 am
Pooya, ... If you're interested in such papers, you might find http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/biblio/StudiesOfTestDrivenDevelopment of use. There are a few other...
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Adam Sroka
adam.sroka@...
Dec 30, 2012 6:24 am
Nice! And closely matches my own observations in the field. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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pooya shahbazian
pooya.shahba...
Dec 30, 2012 4:49 am
hi jeff thanks for introducing the paper. Â Pooya Shahbazian http://www.pooyablog.blogfa.com ________________________________ From: JeffGrigg...
