Bob Salmon

Ignorant code monkey. He / him. I like people, code and data.

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[Bob Salmon @BobTechThoughts]

@norootcause There was a Pre-Conquest English king called Aethelred the Unready. In this context, unready means poorly advised, and is a pun on his name which means well advised. Old English != modern English. https://t.co/XxEp8RWr3d

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@ArfurSmith An action shot part-way through a high-stakes game of moosical chairs.

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@norootcause Would you need to couple that with something like:

number of lessons learned from reflection and then acted on / number of lessons learned from reflection

?

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@ministryoftest You try using it to store gene names https://t.co/OLmKRSE1Ke

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@fullstacktester @ministryoftest Knowing if it's a bug or a missing feature can help you decide whether you're going to make the change or not and, if you are, how high up the list of priorities it should be. (There are other factors, but this is one of them.)

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[Blog] Is this a bug, a missing feature, or neither? Trying to answer this, or at least find better questions, with the aid of cars and cheesecake.

https://t.co/PU3VNLjq3W

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@BuckWoodyMSFT Some of them combine living the dream and having a regular job: https://t.co/EjABzFzCxr

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@tastapod @channingwalton IoT-enabled cooker etc: I am inexplicably phoning home with 5Gb of data. Sorry, you can't bake anything because of important security updates that I need to install. Rebooting (hope that isn't too serious for a system in control of 200+ C temperatures).

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@BuckWoodyMSFT This reminds me of the Terry Pratchett quote:

“All Fungi are edible.

Some fungi are only edible once.”

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[Blog] Changing things (tariffs in smart meters, which side of the road people drive on, software versions) can be disruptive and risky. Blue/green is an approach to reduce the disruption and risk.
https://t.co/yFrnMGOO28

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@BuckWoodyMSFT So far the nursery rhyme range available from its major rival contains only one item: Lidl Miss Muffet.

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@tastapod See also barn https://t.co/DODX02FuI8 and smoot https://t.co/ItNN7kEqHx

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@ArfurSmith Ah, your Auntie Wrinkle, so nice of you to name something after her. Do you have anything related to your Uncle Dimple?

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@tastapod Reminds me of Going for an English. "What's the blandest thing on the menu?" https://t.co/ndA00YcEAf

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@BuckWoodyMSFT I got up this morning and found the table had a model of trenches on the Western Front and diagrams of the Tet Offensive.

I suffer from Somme-'Nam-bulism.

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@tastapod See also:

Big Endian Girls

Opportunies (Let's make lots of monads)

Left to my own device drivers

What have I done to denormalise this?

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@davefarley77 Off by one error

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@undertheraedar You can see a prized specimen from the Botanic Gardens: the Two Metre Yew.

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@undertheraedar @thomasforth Only one of the two Withams can qualify: the Essex one is Wit-ham, and the Lincolnshire one is With-am.

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@davefarley77 Trying to not give spoilers, but I much prefer 'cross-functional' to 'non-functional'. Where is security implemented? Performance? Usability? Pretty much everywhere, i.e. they are cross-functional.