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  • P pdohara

    Take to twitter and let's see what people come up with. Or answer here, but keep it short, really short.

    Pat O

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    "The gap between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice" ~Don't remember who

    it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.

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    • M Marc Clifton

      Yes, snarky. :) Actually, I totally forgot to click on the "joke" icon.

      pdohara wrote:

      I feel like I should pay attention cause you have creds.

      Dang, you are TOO nice. OK, here goes: Software Development is the process, partly art, partly science, in which a repeatable (albeit possibly highly complex) process (notice the fractalization?) is analyzed sufficiently such that the process can be reproduced in code, including accounting for random events such as user input. A bit more than the 140 character limit, but it's hard to get the entire concept whittled down to its bare essentials. [edit] I should get brownie points for what I think is actually the first serious answer you've gotten. [/edit] Marc

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      Thanks, Precisely the kind of thing I was looking for.

      Pat O

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      • M Marc Clifton

        Yes, snarky. :) Actually, I totally forgot to click on the "joke" icon.

        pdohara wrote:

        I feel like I should pay attention cause you have creds.

        Dang, you are TOO nice. OK, here goes: Software Development is the process, partly art, partly science, in which a repeatable (albeit possibly highly complex) process (notice the fractalization?) is analyzed sufficiently such that the process can be reproduced in code, including accounting for random events such as user input. A bit more than the 140 character limit, but it's hard to get the entire concept whittled down to its bare essentials. [edit] I should get brownie points for what I think is actually the first serious answer you've gotten. [/edit] Marc

        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

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        First "serious" answer here. I appreciate that this is the Lounge and Jokes are pretty normal. I really did not get it as a Joke, and still don't. I appreciate that people here think twitter is a Joke, just as people on stack overflow think that Code Project is a joke. At least those that have heard of Code Project. I tend not to pay attention to what is common knowledge. In any situation there are any number of things that are obvious, intuitive and wrong. :)

        Pat O

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        • P pdohara

          Just out of interest what's my take away? What was the point? Was it a joke? You are a "Protector" so I am guessing you are on Code Project a great deal. I am wondering what the goal was. This is not me being snarky, I thought about trying to be snarky but I am not good at it. I tend to sound mean when I try to be snarky. Perhaps you were trying to be snarky? Not that you sounded mean. I really have no idea what to make of your post. I feel like I should pay attention cause you have creds. Maybe not.

          Pat O

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          It seems you didn't got the idea of the Lounge...Nothing serious here (except the RIP posts)...

          Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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          • P pdohara

            Take to twitter and let's see what people come up with. Or answer here, but keep it short, really short.

            Pat O

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            140 chars, on twitter?

            #softwaredevelopmentis #wow #selfie #atwork #fashion #me #good #banana #ugh #ugh #freekazzbekistan #thuglife #queer

            GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre /xml>

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              Except the ones who bolted.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              You mean it's possible to get out of here alive? :confused:

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              • P pdohara

                A one or two sentence description of what Software Development is.

                Pat O

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                Again what Maximilien asked: Why? :confused:

                Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                Anonymous
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                The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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                I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                Me, all the time

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                • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                  It seems you didn't got the idea of the Lounge...Nothing serious here (except the RIP posts)...

                  Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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                  Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

                  except the RIP posts

                  And not even those all the time... By the way, did you hear the Leslie Nielsen died? Oh, and I know this is a repost, but I still like this one a lot: Version 1[^] Version 2[^] Version 3[^]

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                  Winston Churchill, 1944
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                  I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                  Me, all the time

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                  • J Johnny J

                    Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

                    except the RIP posts

                    And not even those all the time... By the way, did you hear the Leslie Nielsen died? Oh, and I know this is a repost, but I still like this one a lot: Version 1[^] Version 2[^] Version 3[^]

                    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                    Anonymous
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                    The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                    Winston Churchill, 1944
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                    I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                    Me, all the time

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                    My post wasn't a RIP post, so it wasn't serious...including the 'RIP posts' part...Especially the 'RIP posts' part... :laugh:

                    Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

                    "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                    • P pdohara

                      First "serious" answer here. I appreciate that this is the Lounge and Jokes are pretty normal. I really did not get it as a Joke, and still don't. I appreciate that people here think twitter is a Joke, just as people on stack overflow think that Code Project is a joke. At least those that have heard of Code Project. I tend not to pay attention to what is common knowledge. In any situation there are any number of things that are obvious, intuitive and wrong. :)

                      Pat O

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                      The lounge is one of those places where one has to tread carefully as there can definitely be a high degree of hazing (perhaps too strong a word) that goes on. I'm curious, why were you interested in this "Software Development Is" survey? Marc

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                      • J Johnny J

                        Again what Maximilien asked: Why? :confused:

                        Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                        Anonymous
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                        The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                        Winston Churchill, 1944
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                        I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                        Me, all the time

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                        Because I am interested in your opinion or how you would describe what you do.

                        Pat O

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          The lounge is one of those places where one has to tread carefully as there can definitely be a high degree of hazing (perhaps too strong a word) that goes on. I'm curious, why were you interested in this "Software Development Is" survey? Marc

                          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

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                          pdohara
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                          Despite my 30+ years in the industry I am not naive to the fact that there are corners I have not spent time in. I am wondering about other peoples experience. The idea of using twitter came from: 1) The twitter discussion between Ron Jefferies [^], Robert Martin [^] and Gregory Brown Gregory Brown (@practicingdev) | Twitter[^] about Uncle Bob's Programmers OathClean Coder Blog[^]. Obviously missed it when it originally came out. 2) I did not think most people would put in the time to write a "complete" answer just for my curiosity. 3) I wanted to hear from people that I do not know. Obviously I can ask my friends and co-workers. 4) I believe there is power in forcing oneself to be concise. 5) I do not have sufficient interest to read even 15 pages from each of my friends on the subject, much less from a larger audience.

                          Pat O

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                          • D den2k88

                            140 chars, on twitter?

                            #softwaredevelopmentis #wow #selfie #atwork #fashion #me #good #banana #ugh #ugh #freekazzbekistan #thuglife #queer

                            GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre /xml>

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                            pdohara
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                            If you like, or something of similar size here. Honestly this was a lark, and I have already spent more time explaining it then I had planned. I thought it was interesting and wanted to know what others here (many with a great deal of experience and some with little experience) thought about what software development is. :)

                            Pat O

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