Posts by Madre O'Fender

Re: Simple Perfectly Rare and Raw Uncommon Sense

Normans had reverbs? That was not known by me.

Re: Ferengi

Like this?

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Re: I never fly Ryanair

Three good reasons to fly Ryanair:

1. There's no other airline flying the route you want (such as to/from small airports in Ireland).

2. er, can't think of 2

3. see 2

Re: He's right about black boxes and over-abstraction though

I understand the problem, but I'd put the blame not on OO, but on OPC - Other People's Code. That's the main cause of undebugability IMHO.

Re: Bad journalism

Thanks for the clues as to what the OW (Offensive Word) was.

Now tell me it wasn't a Unit Test for something like a "Sorted List" or whatever commonly (in the codebase) abbreviated to SL.

Because, I'd probably want to shorten "SortedListUnitTest" if I was coding it.

Delta's most obvious deficiency was being a MS-only shop, followed by being suckered into deploying CS everywhere.