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In my experience, it is normal practice to factor time into the estimate (call it risk factor if you want) to push your skills. You factor a profit margin into your estimate right?…

These appliances are connected devices, which means that all they need to be are small wireless dumb terminals. Increases in bandwidth and improvements in distributed computing (cl…

I work on DoD projects with varying project reporting requirements. There are many methodologies and processes one can follow. I've experiences success with Capability Maturity Mod…

godaddy (blindsided with fees) did the same thing to me. I've started using namecheap, as it was a few cents cheaper and the interface is an order of magnitude cleaner.

If what you used was for bug tracking it would be clearquest, rational clearquest. A program only the darkest souls of the empire would embrace. I was held at gunpoint (exaggeratio…

I made sloppy link insert as a comment in haste, no real purpose or reason. I must have come into the discussion through user comment history from another article and thought the t…

Isn't it more that the Yahoo! board would not meet Microsoft's terms of stock price? From what I've gotten out of the noise, any "reasonable" board would have accepted the price, i…

Why, why, WHY does it seem that everyone wants to boil life's little gems into soulless powerpoint slides??? [ http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint ] The boiled down life's …

I stumbled upon this link while digging around for some history on Interleaf: http://oldvw.stores.yahoo.net/com.html

http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Just strap your laptop to the steering wheel and put the seat back.

You use JIRA too? What do you think of it?

The title sounds like a metaphor.

When I was a wee lad, my grandmother said "Learn something new every day."

On the topic of SBCL: A few days ago I downloaded SBCL 1.0.13 on my WinXP laptop and have been playing around with it to get back into Lisp. So far its worked to go through some ex…

I'm new here. I don't know anyone. I found HN purely by accident on a google search. I get a lot out of this site and am trying to contribute constructively. I apologize if I'm poi…

Anyone for Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga? http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/australian_table_wines...