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The difference in this article rhymes strongly with the difference between project and product mindsets in software development.

The combination of daily weigh-ins and the exponentially weighted moving average I learned from the Hacker Diet has been absolutely magic for me. It gives me helpful daily feedback…

~10 FTEs, US, 75% percentile salaries, fully loaded, 1.5-3M. Figure that team salaries is probably about 50% of the total software cost (hosting, support, tooling, on call, managem…

For the record, I have no connection to the original poster, and I’m not in the business of doing this anymore. I wanted to respond because I didn’t see any other threads pushing t…

I used to run the Singapore and Seattle offices for Pivotal Labs and helped a couple of companies build in-house teams to do exactly this. My first question is to check the basic e…

Sony still hasn't apologized for multiple installations of rootkits on customer computers. I lost all interest in the company after they made those choices and I'm glad to see that…

Windows only: The cover photo shows a MacBook Air, but the tech specs say the software requires Windows operating systems.

There are many places in our society where kids can do stupid and immature things but I don't think the adults in our engineering profession need to support or sponsor them. I resp…

Maciej Cegłowski's essay "A Rocket to Nowhere" is a much better description of how and why the Shuttle was doomed by political and military considerations. http://www.idlewords.com…

If you listen to the audio tape of "The Goal", Mr. Goldratt tells the heartbreaking story of why he wrote the book and what happened afterwards. As a grad student, he developed sof…

pair programming in open space

Hi, I'm actually a Pivotal engineer (in our Singapore office) and while I can't comment on either of the examples above I do want to clarify that clients don't have to hire Pivotal…

In Singapore, most elevator door close buttons work. It's very civilized and one of the small delights of living here.

TransFS is selling merchant accounts and lies with their graphics. $30 transactions and $50K/month they calculate their fees at $1220 and the square fees at $1625 and yet the bar g…

data is four years old and copied from an undisclosed source.

tl;dr I'm going to buy a tablet so I can distract myself while watching the baby.

Carl here (one of the engineers who worked on birdseye), The web interface to eBird isn't very usable, especially if you want to know what birds are near by and where to go see par…