Hi, Doesn't anyone else have anything to share about their migration from a Open Source(-like) community to a professional setting as a programmer? (I know...
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Bill Wake
wwake2
Jul 1, 2002 9:25 am
And if it's raisin bread, some pieces are more valuable than others:) --Bill Wake ... From: "Bryan Dollery" <Bryan.Dollery@...>...
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dossy
Jul 1, 2002 10:01 am
... At the end of the project (or iteration, even) does your team reflect upon the recent past? Being subversive, I'd say in the reflection meeting, "Gee, you...
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dossy
Jul 1, 2002 10:04 am
... No, no ... It's: I'm just a little Amish farmer, from Nantucket ... Pennsylvania ... ah-ha! -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail:...
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Benjamin Schroeder
benschroeder2
Jul 1, 2002 12:15 pm
... Thanks for your post. That's sort of what I was thinking -- but I wanted to make sure. ;) Laughing my smex off, Ben Schroeder schroeder@......
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Benjamin Schroeder
benschroeder2
Jul 1, 2002 12:19 pm
... Nice idea. We don't have a reflection meeting as such, but I could see talking about this kind of thing just before planning. In any case, I think the...
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Mike Clark
clarkware
Jul 1, 2002 12:51 pm
... Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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dossy
Jul 1, 2002 1:08 pm
... When I saw him give his presentation at our bi-weekly planning game session of his stories (via the tracing-paper) I said "Oh, look, poor man's...
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dossy
Jul 1, 2002 1:14 pm
... Right. Anything that's not opaque that can be layered. Overhead projector sheets are far more costly than tracing paper and markers cannot be easily...
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Steve Ropa
steveropa
Jul 1, 2002 1:45 pm
I'm not...
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Tim Moore
timothy_marc...
Jul 1, 2002 1:50 pm
Why, you must be the only non-unique person in the world, then! ;-) -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor /...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jul 1, 2002 1:51 pm
... Have I mentioned this: http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/flowersofevil.htm ? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Computers are useless. They can only give...
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Steve Ropa
steveropa
Jul 1, 2002 1:53 pm
... Really? My son(also 2) won't let me anywhere near the keyboard when we pair!...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Jul 1, 2002 1:57 pm
... Too postmodern. Vagueness Objection. I like metaphor as much as the next guy (or girl). But at the risk of committing the Sin of Critique, and at the risk...
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Peter Hansen
peter@...
Jul 1, 2002 2:02 pm
... Tim, have you seen Monty Python's Life of Brian? Remember the crowd scene near the end? Steve had the only _correct_ reply. :-) -Peter...
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Tom Copeland
tom@...
Jul 1, 2002 2:20 pm
I mean, if you have something like: =================== public void testList() { List l = new List(); l.add(new Object()); assertTrue(l.size() == 1); ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jul 1, 2002 2:38 pm
... Live with it. Or not. And how does one say "bite me" in French? ... Ah. Good point. I used it advisedly. I hope you feel better now. ;-> ... Yes, it's...
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C. Keith Ray
attkeithray
Jul 1, 2002 2:42 pm
... "Open Source" wasn't heard of when I started programming. In fact, I have a button (purchased at a Science Fiction convention over 10 years ago) that says...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Jul 1, 2002 2:57 pm
... Ah, now we're talking. Story coming up shortly, in between milk bottles and the dreary, dreary job of indexing yet another book. (Indexing, like testing,...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Jul 1, 2002 2:57 pm
... Who can say. English is such a wonderfully fuzzy language. I'll assume, reasonably, that you're talking about love nibbles, and so won't translate - around...
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Samuel ]slund
samuel@...
Jul 1, 2002 3:02 pm
Hi I have been lurking on this list some months now, comment below. ... For some of my school projects I picked up clear plastic maps that could be writen on...
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Phlip
phlip_cpp
Jul 1, 2002 3:06 pm
... All of us yell at the same time: "Yes! We are all individuals!!" -- Phlip http://www.greencheese.org/YaAw -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me install Oracle. --...
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dossy
Jul 1, 2002 3:07 pm
... From http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp_3.html "I'm always embarrassed when I see an index an author has made of his own work. It's a shameless...
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Simon Brown
simes@...
Jul 1, 2002 3:08 pm
... The literal translation appears to be "Mordez-moi", but I gather from your response that this would mean very little. :) Simes. -- Simon Brown...
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ejfried@...
ejfh2000
Jul 1, 2002 3:15 pm
... This sounds useful, although I'm pretty sure at the point you stopped is where it becomes an impossible mind-reading problem, at least in the general case....
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Dinwiddie, George
georgedinwiddie
Jul 1, 2002 3:29 pm
... It seems understandable to me. I've not got this: #Temporary ban of countries sending or relaying lots of spam ... * ^Received.*\ (\.co\.kr|\ ...
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Tom Copeland
tom@...
Jul 1, 2002 3:32 pm
I discussed this with David Dixon-Peugh (http://quilt.sf.net/) and he suggested some sort of genetic algorithm thingy. Since I don't know anything about...
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Bryan Dollery
bryan_dollery
Jul 1, 2002 3:50 pm
Hi Tom, I suggested the same thing to Eugene Balyaev, the manager of IntelliJ a while ago. He said that they'd investigate the idea for v3 of IDEA. Cheers, ...
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schroeder@...
benschroeder2
Jul 1, 2002 3:52 pm
... I had not seen that. Very nice. Thanks, Ben Schroeder schroeder@......
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tranzpupy
Jul 1, 2002 3:55 pm
Hi, Dossy, ... well, too. ... Yes. You are right. Kay...
