| **Context**: Something that didn't work in Melange before, suddenly started to work without any known reason. |
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| "**Sometimes computer science is not really science, it's astrology!**" _Mario_ |
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| **Context**: Reviewal of tests which Praveen wrote. |
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| "**For testing, you want to test as much as possible. For coding, you may want to code as few as possible. :)"** _Leo_ |
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| **Context**: When there is a divergence between a local repo and central mercurial repo and if one tries to push to the central repo. |
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| "**hg warns you but it says if you still want to shoot yourself in the foot, go ahead, |
| here is the gun and it gives you hg push -f option. -f is the real gun to shoot yourself in the foot.:D "** _Madhushudan_ |
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| **Context**: Rebasing of changesets. |
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| **"There are two schools of thought. They are really really "SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT", so loudly :P. There is always a flame war between the two groups. One of the faction- the faction of "Purists" claim that no history should ever be rewritten or misrepresented. But there is another faction, I call them "Whatever-ists" :P. They don't mind if small changes are missed up."** _Madhushudan_ |
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| **Context**: Asking the developers the reason behind some design choices, they responded giving blame to other libraries we're using. |
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| **"I hear a lot of proper nouns and not enough apologizing"** _Nathaniel_ |
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| **Context**: Triaging issue 1921 (on Google Code) |
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| **"Yes, I think this is fixed, but it's fixed in the same way as closing a toilet seat instead of flushing it."** _Daniel_ |
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| ### From June 2013 Melange All Hands |
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| **Context**: After a new change from Mario has been pushed to a ninja release and it didn't work. |
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| **"It works locally!"** _Mario_ |
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| **Inspirational quotes from the board** |
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| _Nathaniel_ |
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| * "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious" (_Brooks, "Mythical Man-Month"_) |
| * "Make illegal states impossible" (_Minsky_) |
| * "Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they cannot get it wrong." (_unknown_) |
| * "Symbolic is better than literal" (_Nathaniel_) |
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| _Madhusudan_ |
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| * "Work expands to fill the amount of time available" (_Parkinson's law_) |
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| ### From January 2014 Melange All Hands |
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| **"Spite-driven Software Development. It works!"** _Nathaniel_ |
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| **I still remember your rant... sorry... "constructive reevaluation"** _DrewR_ to _Nathaniel_ |
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| **Context**: About encapsulation of related types in an object to be passed to functions. |
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| **"There is a thingness to it."** _Nathaniel_ |
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| **Context**: When choosing the "fun activity" for the week. |
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| **"You want a fun activity? Pick something from the issue tracker!"** _Daniel_ |
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| ### February 2014 |
| **"I would not do that myself. I just included that option because you like injecting stuff in constructors."** _Daniel to Nathaniel_ |
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