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Archive for March, 2004

Re: Kim on Harold and Maude

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

As usual, the more inane a post here, the more comments it gets. And why not? It’s fun!
The below comment, in response to Kim’s comment on Harold and Maud is, as I put it, “awesome.” It’s what you might call a “perfect specimen” of it’s type…whatever that type is:

everyone has a right to have an […]

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“I was afraid you’d pick mad cow!”

Monday, March 29th, 2004

bushwald: Hey, do you have the URL for those Will Ferrell videos?
bushwald: I was telling Kim the Harry Carry thing, and I thought I’d show it to her.
bushwald: So she’d know why it’s funny when I start saying, “If the moon was made of spare-ribs, would you eat it?”

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SOAP author says enough specs already

Monday, March 29th, 2004

“Specs are like bodily orifices: Everybody has them and they all have certain unique characteristics. But just writing a spec means nothing. If you write a spec that no one implements, did it ever really specify anything?”

Don Box

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More from Lean Software Development

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

[T]he principle deliver as fast as possible complements decide as late as possible. The faster you can deliver, the longer you csn dely decisions. For example, if you can make a software change in a wekk, then you do not have to decide exactly what you are going to do until a week before the […]

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IM at Work, Anecdote about IM Adoption

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

The mktg@msft guy, John Porcaro, has an interesting post on guidelines for using IM at work. One of this more interesting suggestions is to actually use the “status” (or “presence”) feature.
Our teams at work are (recently) spread out over many locales, and all of us have been struggling with getting the communication just right between […]

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