marksutherland

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by marksutherland 17y ago
The majority of this article tackles the over-reliance on software metrics, an issue that many people have brought into question over the last decade or so, and he does a good job of summarising the problem with it. However, in the last two
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I would have seen this as good news, if I hadn't read this article the other week: http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/ning-exposed-tech-comp... . I noticed Marc stopped blogging just before the first questionable action that's reported
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I don't think I get this. They could have put together a blog or similar website which they pushed articles of this type out to once a month, with all the convenience of linking and being able to view the content (there's very little imager
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by marksutherland 17y ago
"In the end, however, it all boiled down to a lack of content." Last sentence in the article and a fitting conclusion.
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I remember when I was Time's person of the year back in 2006. Which is to say I'm not sure how much can be read from this. It's amusing they had the wit to run with it and I'm intrigued to see if this does anything to raise the profile of 4
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by marksutherland 17y ago
To a certain extent, it doesn't matter that much. This is a problem that affects most universities and most courses. Ultimately I became resigned to focusing on what I wanted from my course, which was to learn some knowledge and skills I
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by marksutherland 17y ago
This is very similar to the rants I've given and heard from plenty fellow students back when I was still studying a few years ago. I can see exactly where it's coming from, and yet I can't agree. Partly it's the blatant snobbery of it, whic
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by marksutherland 17y ago
Yet another generic, vacuous article about twitter, of the skeptical variety. I suspected there might actually be some insight in this one since it got posted here, but it's as inane as the rest of them (deliciously ironic given most articl
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I noticed balsamiq uses comic sans or something very much like it. Probably one of the few appropriate uses it has.
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I noticed balsamiq uses comic sans or something very much like it. Probably one of the few appropriate uses it has.
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by marksutherland 17y ago
I was really hoping I'd get asked to sign-in before I could read that article. More to the point though, twitter's issues tend not to be the kind of thing you're looking for in beta testing. You can't test scale with a limited number of use
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by marksutherland 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/best The highest rated posts in the last N days (not sure what N is). Not very well documented, but interesting to know about.
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by marksutherland 17y ago
Yup, that's a good way of putting it. So his claim that the CTT is false is misleading. Really he's showing that it doesn't hold for real machines. Perhaps that's not a particularly novel statement but i certainly found it enlightening :)
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by marksutherland 17y ago
He's restricting the input functions so that they're parameterised by the variable that marks the current state of the computer. In reality this occurs often (the variable represents time) but mathematically there's no need for this. It see
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by marksutherland 17y ago
Also, anyone know how this compares with qt/qtopia?
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by marksutherland 18y ago
I suspect the addition of twitter to the proposal was purely to ensure it recieved the attention it's now getting. Also, primary school is equivalent to elementary school is in the states, so this doesn't mean that pupils will never be tau
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by marksutherland 18y ago
doh, I missed the root comment (threading isn't very obvious in links).
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by marksutherland 18y ago
It can't be both? The percieved benefits of protectionism, combined with the squelching of unsavoury opinions and other content must be very appealing.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
That's an inconvenient truth that ;)
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by marksutherland 18y ago
39 points within an hour or so. I'm not really sure what to take from this tbh.
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Damn. The day after I claim he's been doing nothing for the past year, he goes and posts a fairly interesting review of django. Now, lets quote Zed: "Read it, and take it as a chance to discuss pseudo-macho speech online, and whether you re
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by marksutherland 18y ago
OK, I'm guilty of some hyperbole there. From what I can tell, Zed is perfectly capable of being civil when he wants to be, very driven and a good engineer. However he has an impulsive trollish side as well and it hasn't been laid to rest de
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Up until he pulled his trollier-than-thou speech i'd have agreed. The utu documentation is very well written and enlightening and so too are plenty of his trolly articles. What annoys me is that he claimed he was better than that, that it w
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by marksutherland 18y ago
You know, if he'd actually done that, that would be fine. But in the past month he's flamed the music industry after doing a piss poor job of researching his claims then retaliated with a giant rant and personal attacks when folk disagreed
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by marksutherland 18y ago
If nothing else, the fact they've taken the effort to overlay right/left arrows on the image during a mouseover event, yet still do a full reload to show the next image is instructive. Any particular reason this was linked to other than gen
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by marksutherland 18y ago
I've been told a good rule of thumb for producing reasonable estimates is to make an estimate for how long you think it should take, then double the answer and add 10%. I never want to follow the advice when making estimates, as it feels li
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Ah. Fair enough :)
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Hmm. A more cynical explanation is that they all want to have the loudest CDs in the jukebox. In noisy public environments (pubs, parties, etc.) the volume of whatevers playing music is likely to be set according to the loudest tracks that
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Over the Limit - How mastering took the punch out of Rush(prorec.com)
1 points by marksutherland 18y ago|0 comments
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by marksutherland 18y ago
Just so happens I was digging up another old article on this subject yesterday by a guy called Rip Rowan. In his article he looks exclusively at how Rush's albums have been mastered: http://www.prorec.com/Articles/tabid/109/EntryId/247/Ove

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