Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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United Launch Alliance is going through all the appropriate FTC assessments with regard to anti-trust issues and we are confident that at the end of that process it will be approved.
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What I'm interested in is who he's taking with him, rather than where he's going.
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To get a player of his caliber, they said they thought they were very blessed. They said he has the potential to be an impact player very soon.
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What you're seeing is that the kids aren't going to give up and they can explode at any time. We have a lot of confidence in them and I just think that right now they're just not quite there.
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What we're seeing is outside contractors are coming into town with illegal immigrants, and they're cutting costs. That's forcing the local contractors to go the illegal route.
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Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.