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Yesterday, I learned of Illinois v. Caballes¹. It increased police power (and decreased the rights of others), using a justification ridiculous to anyone who’s ever met a dog.

To avoid cluttering up your feed, I’ve written it up here: gist.github.com/marick/3aa98c6

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois

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@noelrap @hengymrohebwlad In such situations, I once or twice used the “Annie Hall” / Marshall McLuhan trick. I doubt that would work today, now that the Founders have become irrelevant.

youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgW

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Based on various recent discussions, I have a (crude) hypothesis:

We in early Agile felt pleased and virtuous because we were intent on an alliance between marketing (“the customer”, “the product owner”) and development teams. We knew we could make marketing happier with frequent delivery of new features. (1/2)

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@tenderlove@mastodon.social @ted @tenderlove@threads.net I just want to note that I watch from afar your work on Ruby, and:

Damn. I salute you.

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@noelrap Bug classification studies used to be popular (funded by the military, mostly) and they generally found the most *costly* bugs in production were of your “faulty logic or bad assumptions” sort. (Because of the terminology of the day, these were frequently called “requirements errors” or “specification errors”.) I did a survey of such papers when I was doing my MS in early ‘80s.)

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