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How else would you find out what behavioral and physiological changes might have taken place when fish first made the move from sea to land over 400 million years ago? You can get a fish to walk, but you can't make it use the fire hydrant
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Overwhelming evidence documents a tendency toward cost and effort overruns in software projects. On average, this overrun seems to be around 30 percent. We do know a lot of people are really bad at estimating (or is it just me?)
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I heartily recommend the "Uncle Bob" video on software estimation...a concentrated blast of rightness.
For example - "there is only one stage when your estimates should be anything like accurate and that is when the project is done."
Some things project managers should know:
1) Developers estimates will always be optimistic. We are engineers therefore we are always optimistic. If you must have a timeline at all, you pad the estimates to take account of this.
2) Project managers have the same impact on the success or otherwise of a project as football fans have on the outcome of a game. You paid for it and you may have shouted at it, but you did not score the goals.
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My experience of software estimation tends to run like:
Me: "That'll take 6 months".
Them: "You've got 3".
Then they complain when the software is delivered late.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Them: "You've got 3".
50% reduction? That is still in green area. I wish they were so kind with me.
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft has stopped updating Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped developers from updating it. Be careful: it might void your warranty
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Roll them bones, strain the tea leaves, and consult your crystal balls. With Apple’s September 9 event now a matter of public record, the only sensible way to while away the hours over the next week and a half is to speculate about what precisely the company might have hidden up its sleeves strange temporary building. OMG OMG OMG Whatever could it be?
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We thought it might be useful to explain how networks operate, and the relative costs of Internet connectivity in different parts of the world. In Australia, a box jellyfish can kill you, a taipan can kill you, and bandwidth costs can kill you.
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I’ve been using D for a number of years and I am constantly surprised by the hidden treasure I find in the standard library. Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
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7 cheap computing boards for scratching your maker itch Because polygamy is OK in the computing board world.
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One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet. Now it has the money to try to make it happen.
The start-up, called IFTTT (pronounced like “gift” without the “g”), announced on Thursday it had raised $30 million in funding, its largest round yet, from the venture capital firms Norwest Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. Get those recipes cooking.
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PHP 6 was supposed to add quite a few nice features to PHP 5, specially the integration of Unicode support but this later part failed and it was decided to port back some of the other "PHP 6" features to PHP 5. And 9 years later we’re still there. Well, 5.6.0 now, but still.
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It is hard to keep up-to-date a technology that do not fit modern (in-fashion?) web development techniques...PHP already outlived classic ASP...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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THE annual "hype cycle" chart from Gartner, a market research firm, tries to depict the degree to which certain technologies are exaggerated. Smart robots? Don't hold your breath. Big data? Not yet. In the firm's view, innovation advances in stages: from exuberance to pessimism to adoption. Not every technology progresses at the same speed, so Gartner assigns each an estimated time until the end of its ride. If it ain't hyped, it ain't right.
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On Friday, we lowered the mean page load times across our Flask app from 350ms to 96ms. Most of the difference came from one almost imperceptible code change. The Fast and the Furious: Page Load
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I managed to get a look at their code.
The old code was:
var intentionalDelay = 350;
Thread.Sleep(intentionalDelay);
Here's the code with the sexy new speed enhancing line:
var intentionalDelay = 350;
intentionalDelay = 96;
Thread.Sleep(intentionalDelay);
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Don't know what kind of math they are using, but I calculate a drop from 350 to 96 to be a cut of 72.5%. (350 - 96) / 350 == .725
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Funny, while the title of the article says 60%, the body says 70%.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Quick-release cadence and free upgrades may stretch out refresh cycles even further "Such milestones -- Windows 95, Windows XP and most recently, Windows 7 -- were a crucial part of the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) strategy."
Lets see... six years between 95 and XP. Eight years between XP and 7. And now two(ish) years between 8 and 9. Could it be that people just don't need new hardware yet...?
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Kevin Priddle wrote: Could it be that people just don't need new hardware yet...?
I would say that 8 was not so successfull as they would have wished to. So they need something new to come out...
M.D.V.
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Silicon Valley has been wracked with controversies about sexism lately. Only 17 percent of Google's technical employees are women. Tech conference organizers routinely post speaker lists that skew male. The female cofounder of Tinder was allegedly harassed and erased from corporate history last year. Yet some people still minimize the problem.
Their argument: Since the tech industry is populated by meritocratic rationalists, it would be impossible for a talented female engineer not to rise to the top. Therefore, if few women are in the industry, the problem is not sexism but the absence of some innate capacity or interest on the part of (most) women. In other words, the dearth of women in tech is only natural.
Having grown up in India and worked as a coder in the US, I find this line of reasoning specious. What say CodeProject on the matter?
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Having been in the industry for some 30+ years now, I have had the occasion to work with a number of men and women. Yes, the vast majority were men (as inferred by the article).
Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment. A number of them had degrees in other fields (chemical engineering, math), but found themselves in the industry by accident, not by design.
Does that mean that there is a sexism issue? Not that I've seen.
Where I work, people are part of a team; their gender is irrelavent. What is relavent is: can you do the job at hand?
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Tim Carmichael wrote: gender is irrelavent. What is relavent is: can you do the job at hand?
/ravi
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment.
Maybe that's because the male-dominated environment is actually off-putting to women. To my mind that's the biggest indication of a problem. Exemplified by the Ruby conference which actually used porn to make jokes in their slides.
I simply do not believe that women are less capable than men at computing. It's like politics, where everyone decries all-woman shortlists as unfair to women, because people will feel they only got there to fill a quota. Thing is, if you're only attracting or recruiting male candidates, you already have a selection bias going on. Taking steps to address it is just truly being commited to equal opportunities.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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