fullwedgewhale

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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
Not being BSD license I would expect it never to get beyond the ports tree.
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I think that argument is only correct if you have fairly well understood pieces of work. I'm going to build an another on-line social recipe app. People type in recipes, they share those recipes, make comments on those recipes, maybe
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I view it as dangerous because it spits out a definitive answer without clear explanation of the model used to generate the estimate. If you look at other cost estimation tools (even closed source tools) will explain the model and assumpti
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
So having done cost estimation before, this is horrible. About all it would be good for is the initial swag at brochure ware. Generally speaking cost estimates should never be a fixed point and should be done in a range, with assumptions
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
But what if it's 200% bigger? I remember reading an article that looked at the time it takes to load MS office under Windows. Even though computers over the last 15-20 years or so are much, much faster, the wall-clock time to get Wor
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
That may be true in Node, but as a counter example, in Ruby, I saw dependencies creep into projects where there would be some minor point like "I need to do X" and that's done by library Y. In addition, Gem Y does A, B, C an
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
One thing that strikes me is the explosion in dependencies in most software. I'm guilty of this, too. I've seen plenty of examples where an entire library or framework is added to a project just for a couple of features. Add a
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
But not all over the world. In some countries, even in Europe, you can be a physician and do 'okay,' but being a computer programmer would be better.
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I think top talent competes globally so it's able to either move to where it makes more money or demand higher rates. It's the anonymous guy in the cube whose skills may range from incompetence to excellent, but you don't kn
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I think one difference that I've seen is that the US has a very different attitude toward computer programming. In the US it's more glamorous? That's not the right word, but it seems like when I talk to a number of foreign
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
Excellent suggestion. I highly second that. Yes, even though more and more vendors are making that harder. For example, claiming that reinstalling the OS voids your warranty.
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
Google puts out free or cheap services and devices because they're trying to draw users to their platform, which gathers metrics about usage. These feed into the services, but they also feed in to Google's need to be a better adv
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I have to think one major issue for a German startup (for example) would be that their ideas might not work in France because of French laws which might prohibit some feature of that German service. So, the Market for a French firm is (at
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Start_Program It's an early childhood learning program. Nothing's perfect but it has a pretty good track record.
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
The problem I have with the talk is that he's focusing on one narrow part of the economy and then using that as a proxy for the whole economy. It's also obvious he doesn't look at some of the negatives related to income ineq
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
Under the DMCA it's illegal to root your devices: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/?mbid...
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
Got it, thanks!
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
It raises some good points. It makes me think of other projects I've been a part of where the working, existing system was starved for resources in favor a new system which didn't exactly dominate in performance or capability. I&
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by fullwedgewhale 11y ago
I'm sorry, but the switch over cost to setting Bing as your home page instead of Google, or using Firefox which defaults to Yahoo, just isn't that much. It's one thing to have a lock on the desktop market where switching ove
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
Just in time for the X-Files coming back this summer!
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
I've got the book in my queue to read, but parallel programming is hard. I think it pretty much still stands that there is no way to show that parallel code works, other than to do a formal proof of each section of the code.
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
I think it would be in everyone's interests to require all publicly traded companies to put out 4 press releases during the year (one per quarter) with an obviously ludicrous claim. Either the algorithms would get better or they would
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
Let's step back for a second and realize there's nothing magical about college. We can make the same arguments about the validity of a high school education. In fact, I can take your argument and say that providing everyone a hi
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
Let's say you have a business process, like if a shipping manifest goes through any one of the following 3 cities, then you need to file form XYZ, unless the shipper is one of the following official government agencies and they've
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
The point of the article is that the meritocratic system in this country is broken. In part this is because we have systematically transferred wealth out of the bottom to the top. For example, focusing on tax cuts that benefit high income
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
I'll throw another one down your way. An organization I worked with had a about 5 million lines of COBOL in one system (they had several more and this one systems was only about 15% of their total transactional workload). It used a p
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by fullwedgewhale 12y ago
Come Monday, here's what you'll get: "GitHub attack shows the dangers of relying on cloud." Or "Government software to protect children from Phil Robertson held hostage to attacks on a popular cloud service. This