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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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- <qumbler> Found: http://interconnected.org/home/2007/12/28/wrapping_up_2007
  <vito> scroll down to #4 in that
  <vito> that's the refactoring one
  <bai> "A codebase should be its own source repository: seeing what the code was like a year ago shouldn't be a check-out from source control, but archeology."
  <bai> that's preposterous
  <luser> wha
  <luser> stupid
  <bai> haha the rest of the explanation says "my brain can't understand elegant solutions so it's better to mash together a series of hacks"
  <vito> I think it's a fascinating idea. That's how you get serendipity and side-effects and emergent behavior.
  <bai> this guy is not an architect-type coder, he's a grunt-work, fill-in-the-blanks coder
  <bai> hahah emergent behavior is not a good thing in software development
  <bai> it's generally called "bugs"
  <vito> I think the problem is that *you* are a grunt work coder, and he's gone all astronaut architect and you just can't comprehend his vision.
  <bai> no, there's a reason he referred to it as archaeology, and that's because he's digging himself a big hole
  <bai> "Refactoring code means we say there are certain behaviours that are important, which are those to be kept, and other there aren't. I say, who are we to say what's important."
  <bai> we are the programmers who define what the system we're working on should and shouldn't do, it's exactly our jobs to say what is and isn't important
  <luser> yeah
  <luser> it's not like this is just some magical stuff that we've discovered
  <luser> it's fucking code
  <luser> it was written by other programmers
  <luser> it's either right or wrong
  <bai> hey, don't fix that bug, it might turn out to do something awesome 3 years from now!
  <bai> bug fixing = abortion
  <luser> well too bad you didn't use a vcs and save the old version
  <luser> that's just archaeology
  <bai> nothing beats digging around in some code and coming up with a piece of code that makes you go "what the FUCK does THIS do?"
  <vito> I think the idea is that it'd be better to treat existing code as a black box, working solely on inputs and outputs
  <luser> it's absurd
  <luser> it doesn't work that way
  <drlanning> There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul.
  <drlanning> Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone?
  <drlanning> How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth?
  <drlanning> When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?
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    - architecture
    - black_box
    - development
    - i_robot
    - matt_webb
    - programming
    - refactoring
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter past nine at night.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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- mengwong - Software Engineering: The Jeopardy Rule
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  - http://mengwong.livejournal.com/29117.html
  - - design
    - engineering
    - funny
    - non-newtonian_staircase
    - software
  - Posted by ryan
  - at half past two in the afternoon.
- “We're hearing a suggestion that we replace the staircase with a non-Newtonian fluid, that transparently supports the normal adult mode of stair-climbing operations, but in use cases involving a falling child, the staircase becomes a sort of cushioning gel.”
- — Meng Wong
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Post 29994
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- VioLet Composer Open Source Modular Music Composer
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  - http://buzz-like.sourceforge.net/
  - - music
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter past two in the afternoon.
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Post 29975
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- “To check whether people are actually reading long technical requirements or design documents, liberally sprinkle the text with ridiculous quotes, like 'My HoverCraft is Full of Eels.'”
- — Elizabeth Hendrickson
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  - http://edgibbs.com/2005/07/27/a-tip-on-agile-documentation/
  - - business
    - development
    - documentation
    - eels
    - hovercraft
    - monty_python
    - quotation
    - software
    - testing
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past one in the afternoon.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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- PawSense helps you catproof your computer.
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  - http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/
  - - cat
    - funny
    - software
  - Posted by luser
  - at quarter past six in the evening.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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- NewsForge | Open source search technology goes beyond keywords
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  - http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/09/19/1531258.shtml?tid=130
  - - gpl
    - indexing
    - information_retrieval
    - search
    - semantic
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter of six in the morning.
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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- eighty-eight miles per hour » What’s wrong with software
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  - http://perkypants.org/blog/2006/09/22/whats-wrong-with-software/
  - - adjectives
    - apt
    - christ_on_a_stick
    - funny
    - linux
    - perl
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at about six in the evening.
Monday, August 21st, 2006
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- My Dream App » News
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  - http://mydreamapp.com/
  - - development
    - ideas
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter past three in the afternoon.
Monday, July 24th, 2006
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- Tourist Remover
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  - http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/
  - - photography
    - software
    - useful
  - Posted by luser
  - at half past six in the morning.
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
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- Get Vanilla!
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  - http://getvanilla.com/
  - - forum
    - mysql
    - php
    - software
  - Posted by vito
  - at about seven in the evening.