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June 04, 2006 Slighty OT: Dead Horse Wisdom | ||||
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--------------------------------- The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses. 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance. 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less, has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do other horses. 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And of course.... 13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. --------------------------------- Any similarity with computer technologies or certain programming languages is purely coincidental ^^ -- Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D |
June 04, 2006 Re: Slighty OT: Dead Horse Wisdom | ||||
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Posted in reply to Bruno Medeiros | ROFL!!
I cracked up, specially on #8
C++ is a dead horse. D is a powerful young horse!
People riding C++ should get off of it and start riding D.
#11 is so true to C++
Bruno Medeiros wrote:
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> The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to
> generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
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> However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
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> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
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> 2. Changing riders.
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> 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
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> 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
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> 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
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> 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
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> 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
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> 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
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> 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
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> 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
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> 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less, has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do other horses.
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> 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
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> And of course....
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> 13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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> Any similarity with computer technologies or certain programming languages is purely coincidental ^^
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June 04, 2006 Re: Slighty OT: Dead Horse Wisdom | ||||
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Posted in reply to Hasan Aljudy | In article <e5ug9s$v0l$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Hasan Aljudy says... > >ROFL!! >I cracked up, specially on #8 > >C++ is a dead horse. D is a powerful young horse! >People riding C++ should get off of it and start riding D. > More like a young colt, born of the best stallion and mare, but still in training by a world class horseman. |
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