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Errata Blog
A blog about the current moment…
Link to more entries: Errata, Life, Humour, etc.
Word du jour…. Collaboration.
Nice.
Sad that we're still seeing this having to be argued in 2019. Step up, country!
« He said research showed that the economic benefits of using the internet, such as applying for jobs and buying cheaper goods online, exceeded the costs.
“You are better off with the internet even though you pay a connection fee,” he said.
Src: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230884
Teachers are amazing in that they act as project managers of the unemployable…
Imagine you own a restaurant.
Imagine you and your business partners walking into a store, full of products from around the world, little jars, big jars, flavours, features, etc.
In the center of the room is a selection of fresh olives from around the world, green, brown, purple, spiced, brined, natural, inexpensive. Free to try. Not everything is perfect (too salty, missing a bit of olive flavour, but hey, that's what free trials are for, to choose what mix you can live with).
And beside it, is an old venerable barrel. At the bottom of the barrel there's a half-handful of olives. All of them a bit dinged. Some frankly, beyond old. You're told that there were more olives a month ago, about a half-dozen more, but they've been pulled out.
You're told that, to supply your restaurant, you have to ignore all the ones in the shop (nobody is sure whether they are big enough to supply restaurants, then again, nobody even asked them), and bend over the barrel with a select few others and peer into the shadows of the barrel and squint at the olives down there.
You're not allowed to touch.
Do you take the odd shaped one, the split one, the darker one (a couple clearly are a bit moldy).
The only thing you have to go on is the statement that other restaurants around town have sold these olives (when? still doing so?).
So you and your co-partners bend over at the hip, and stick your head into the barrel, and down there, discuss with your co-purchasers what you imagine the flavour would be, if you could taste, or even touch, them. You hang there, in the barrel for a couple of long hours (it's a long term contract after all) discussing with gravitas whether the smell of the barrel is coming from a (bit faded) thyme, or is it really just old wood you're smelling and wanting to imagine it's thyme. Or you're starting to imagine that they're good, because you are comparing them to the mouldy ones that you can see.
And for that single olive, you'll have to pay the price for the whole barrel btw.
And you have to select one of them. Cause.
“He’s a constant doer, therefore he makes mistakes. But people who don’t make mistakes don’t do anything,”
Dry .NET Blog
A blog about the latest code fragment that titillate me…
Link to more entries: NET Entries
”If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob out children of tomorrow”.