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by zb 16y ago
I think that it is important to make software engineering a codified, professional field. I personally couldn't disagree more, but luckily in this case there is no need to speculate since we have an almost perfect natural experiment avail
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The quality of allusion is not Google(roughtype.com)
2 points by zb 16y ago|0 comments
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by zb 16y ago
It's even better to be consistently good and occasionally great.
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by zb 16y ago
It's 5 bundles deep and 2 wide, but also 10 high (about 5 inches). So I guess your eyes are deceiving you.
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by zb 16y ago
Apocryphal. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
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by zb 16y ago
Projects going over schedule are, uh, not exactly an uncommon occurrence. In fact if you've been honest with your manager about your level of skill (as you said in another comment) and assuming you've been keeping him up to date with progre
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by zb 16y ago
Around the time humans invented agriculture.
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by zb 16y ago
The author is to some extent making an argument from experience; it's not entirely unreasonable to ask what that experience is. For example, if the author is still a student (I have no idea if that is the case) that would go some way to exp
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by zb 16y ago
I'm sorry to be the one who has to point this out, but you have no idea what you are talking about. http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/security/universities/
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by zb 16y ago
It's not to evoke en emotion, not to convey some abstract message about the corporate structure of the refrigerator... And yet it does those things, even if that is not the purpose . The reason that Charles Schwab pays attention is that
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by zb 16y ago
It's probably worth distinguishing between a big company where you're working on the core business (i.e. an engineering company) and a big company where you're working in a pure cost centre, like IT. I suspect that may explain the diverging
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by zb 16y ago
The fact that they still haven't replaced the double-hyphen in the n00b banner with a proper en-dash is a painful irony on a site devoted to TeX. This has the potential to be a very useful resource though. I hope it takes off.
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by zb 16y ago
In the book he discusses both how engineers use science and how scientists use engineering. It's not that he doesn't know what he's talking about, just that this is a very short article.
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Interactive storytelling: an oxymoron(roughtype.com)
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by zb 16y ago
From memory there are around 100 million people living in the Ganges delta in Bangladesh. It's hard to imagine that India would welcome the kind of instability that climate change could cause right on their doorstep.
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by zb 16y ago
This is actually a problem with the way all engineering is now taught: an overemphasis on engineering science at the expense of engineering design. Software engineering may be worse off than most, because the term "Computer Science" implies
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by zb 16y ago
For anyone else who was wondering why the one really important piece of information was completely missing from the website, here it is: libgit2 is under GPL2 with linking exemption, which basically means you can link to the library with a
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by zb 16y ago
There were already four kinds of Freedom, and none of them were invented by Mark Pilgrim. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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by zb 16y ago
Not really, all that says is that it risks the name colliding with a built-in macro defined by the compiler. At worst that seems like implementation-defined behaviour.
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by zb 16y ago
Technically he didn't say that it was the pay that was being added and subtracted. Perhaps it could have been something like, say, hours?
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by zb 16y ago
Because the customer has no freaking idea what the requirements are at the start of the project. That's always been the failure of Waterfall. You've never been writing code and suddenly thought of something that needed to be added to (or
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by zb 16y ago
No, no, no. What you're describing is Barry Boehm's Spiral Model from the early 1980s. If you look at a single Agile sprint you should not see a miniature waterfall. In Agile, activities like requirements, design, coding and testing happe
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Beyond Staggered Sprints: How TheLadders.com Integrated UX into Agile (johnnyholland.org)
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by zb 16y ago
Does anybody else's brain still parse "!important" as "not important"? Perhaps I have been programming in C for too long.
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by zb 16y ago
Former Prime Minister.
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by zb 16y ago
There are no guarantees of success . It's usually possible to guarantee failure, e.g. by not returning the call.
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by zb 16y ago
The optimal (Kelly) strategy for Roulette is not to play. It even says so on that wiki page.
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by zb 16y ago
Yes. As a mathematician colleague of mine used to say, "It is not the job of a mathematician to perform basic arithmetic. It is the job of an accountant." Usually in response to screwing up some basic arithmetic, as I recall ;)
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by zb 16y ago
Mark Pilgrim's http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ is a good starting point, though it's out of date (2002) with respect to the AJAX-y stuff that the post is talking about here.
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by zb 16y ago
For all those here complaining that they could have done better: "Designers foresaw the issue, and thought they had solved it by installing a high-tech film on the south-facing glass panes, according to Gordon Absher, the MGM spokesman. The

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