rogersm

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by rogersm 10y ago
But the issue is not that this happens because this is software development. The reason is software is a job in which cost increase is linearly related to manpower. There are no silver bullets that can magically reduce the number of people
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by rogersm 11y ago
Commercial software (with a long tradition) is based on that idea. And Free software is based on the same idea, only that you renounce to that ownership right.
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by rogersm 11y ago
Good engineering requires good processes, good planning and good decisions, something almost no-one is discussing here. Let's get real... there's a lot to improve in the american engineering.
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by rogersm 11y ago
Surprised how many people are talking about currency/government protection and so few people about engineering.
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by rogersm 16y ago
I was the one saying that productivity is going up in the last months. I missed the productivity data in the report (I found only production output) and FT just took out the report from the web. The question is not that the Spanish governme
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by rogersm 16y ago
Spaniard here (full disclaimer). @carlos reasoning seems to be supported by the fact Spain's productivity is going up after all the low skilled workers in construction were sacked. Some of the comments of the FT are highly interesting.
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by rogersm 17y ago
It's a clever way of suing your provider. Accenture was sued using the same strategy: http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/03/sap-sued-for-t... But Does Sky need to demonstrate EDS sales team was acting in bad faith? These kind of s
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by rogersm 17y ago
This is not the kind of chaos of terror the terrorist has on his mind. Otherwise they will be shutting down traffic light control systems. Getting caught is a failure. A bomb exploding is a victory.
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by rogersm 17y ago
First of all I must say I don't believe in these kind of unpredictable systems: rarely doing this 'select randomly the process from a set of processes' works better than using the best process in the set. But I don't think this applies:
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by rogersm 17y ago
After all, the latest bomber was carrying 80 grams, less than three ounces.
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by rogersm 17y ago
System.system can be done in all languages.
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by rogersm 18y ago
The BBC article is much more interesting: Each bike travels 10,000 km a year, so they have to be sturdy (and expensive).
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by rogersm 18y ago
I completely agree with you, the financial guys make a lot of money. And because of that, the core business of GM should be financial and no automotive. So, let's make them sell the automotive part and buy Japanese, German and Korean cars.
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by rogersm 18y ago
Basically CS curriculums are woefully under-preparing students.