The Death of the Author is a postmodernist essay published in 1967 by the French literary critic Roland Barthes.
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When Pokémon Go was launched in July 2016 it took the mobile games world by storm. Smashing previous download records, the app leveraged the features of your standard smartphone to provide an excruciatingly simple augmented reality style gaming experience, allowing anybody to become their own Ash Ketchum, running around like a lunatic catching critters.
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Kevin McAllister loves pizza. What adventures he went on, and all because of a delicious cheese pizza!
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Ok, so I have a confession: I'm sick and tired of agile. I've had enough.
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Who likes following orders? Better yet, who likes following orders blindly?
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Everyone understands the importance of being able to predict the future. And as software teams, we’re asked to do this a lot. Like it or not, there’s any number of stakeholders working with, or affected by, your project, and one of the things they’re going to be particularly concerned about is the delivery date. It’s an inevitable part of the software development process. Sometimes, they’re the people paying for it. Sometimes, they’re the people marketing it. Sometimes, whether you get paid or not depends on it.
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Tony Soprano is a badass. He’s the epitome of power, charm, 'New Joy-sey' mafioso cool. Under his leadership, the New Jersey family grew in power to the point that it reckoned with the New York mob, which (irrespective of divided opinion on what really happened at the end of season 6) is a pretty impressive accomplishment in anyone’s book.
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