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Whose fault is it?

Radical Muslims	2 votes - 25 %
Any religous extremists	2 votes - 25 %
Any religious people	2 votes - 25 %
Sodomites	0 votes - 0 %
Illegal immigrants	0 votes - 0 %
Kent Beck	0 votes - 0 %
Ivar Jacobson	0 votes - 0 %
Consultancy companies that come in, agree with your management, then slink off into the night clutching their huge fees and sniggering	3 votes - 37 %
Thames Water	2 votes - 25 %
Herring	1 vote - 12 %
rmg	3 votes - 37 %
Hulver	0 votes - 0 %
Hulver for increasing the number of poll options to a bewildering level	1 vote - 12 %
Other	0 votes - 0 %

8 Total Votes

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teaching by martingale (4.00 / 1) #1 Sun May 21, 2006 at 08:29:07 AM EST

Teaching is an "investment" occupation (at least at tertiary level, I imagine the same at earlier levels). The first few years are a lot of work (for the dedicated teacher types at any rate), then afterwards the smart ones reuse all their materials over and over again. The silly buggers keep creating new stuff, but it's not like they'll get paid for the extra work.... Maybe I'm a bit cynical?
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This is true by Herring (4.00 / 1) #2 Sun May 21, 2006 at 08:38:52 AM EST

I have other teachers in the family and they have mentioned this. It certainly explains some of the computer science graduates I've interviewed.

Of course, that investment in teaching materials only works of the government doesn't keep buggering about with the curriculum.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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: heh by martingale (4.00 / 1) #3 Sun May 21, 2006 at 08:46:45 AM EST

Don't knock the system! How would CS grads pass their exams if the teachers didn't leave behind 15 years of exhaustive permutations of the same 10 past questions in the library exam paper archives? Unless you're actually complaining about the ... oh.
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Sorry, no time to read this by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #4 Sun May 21, 2006 at 01:40:19 PM EST

MissTrish is talking about installing OSen. Must dash!

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Thanks for upping the comment count by Herring (4.00 / 2) #8 Sun May 21, 2006 at 03:28:43 PM EST

That's how I judge my worth as a human being.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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: You're a human being? by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon May 22, 2006 at 02:57:02 AM EST

How did your username bypass the intraweb's Veracity Filter? Terrorist.

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DAMMIT by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #5 Sun May 21, 2006 at 01:42:56 PM EST

SHE WAS THE TRICKSY! IT WAS SOME EMO WANK, SANS WANKING.

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Here's another comment for you by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #6 Sun May 21, 2006 at 01:48:32 PM EST

Look on the bright side; at least you don't spend months designing, implementing and testing, and then have some customwanker tell you that when he asked for a web browser, he really wanted something that's useful for storing recipes.

Some readers may think I'm joking about that. But you know better, don't you, Bob? Er, Herring.

The Have Your Say is self selecting; liberals, commies and hippes are too apathetic and socially retarded to make their views known. Note how easily the "Labour" party was been hijacked from within by Tory Blair, just by dint of him refusing to shut up.

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: That's the theory by Herring (4.00 / 1) #7 Sun May 21, 2006 at 02:57:29 PM EST

Unfortunately, capturing requirements via finely grained use-cases (based on screens) never seems to capture the requirement "must not be a slow, bug-ridden piece of shit".

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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Grr by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #10 Mon May 22, 2006 at 05:14:02 AM EST

She shouldn't be doing a risk assessment, a health and safety rep should have done a general one that covers all trips to the park. All she should have to do is read it.

Incompetence rather than piss-taking, I fear.

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