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Not being BSD license I would expect it never to get beyond the ports tree.

I think that argument is only correct if you have fairly well understood pieces of work. I'm going to build an another on-line social recipe app. People type in recipes, they share…

I view it as dangerous because it spits out a definitive answer without clear explanation of the model used to generate the estimate. If you look at other cost estimation tools (ev…

So having done cost estimation before, this is horrible. About all it would be good for is the initial swag at brochure ware. Generally speaking cost estimates should never be a fi…

But what if it's 200% bigger? I remember reading an article that looked at the time it takes to load MS office under Windows. Even though computers over the last 15-20 years or so …

That may be true in Node, but as a counter example, in Ruby, I saw dependencies creep into projects where there would be some minor point like "I need to do X" and that's done by l…

One thing that strikes me is the explosion in dependencies in most software. I'm guilty of this, too. I've seen plenty of examples where an entire library or framework is added to …

But not all over the world. In some countries, even in Europe, you can be a physician and do 'okay,' but being a computer programmer would be better.

I think top talent competes globally so it's able to either move to where it makes more money or demand higher rates. It's the anonymous guy in the cube whose skills may range from…

I think one difference that I've seen is that the US has a very different attitude toward computer programming. In the US it's more glamorous? That's not the right word, but it see…

Excellent suggestion. I highly second that. Yes, even though more and more vendors are making that harder. For example, claiming that reinstalling the OS voids your warranty.

Google puts out free or cheap services and devices because they're trying to draw users to their platform, which gathers metrics about usage. These feed into the services, but they…

I have to think one major issue for a German startup (for example) would be that their ideas might not work in France because of French laws which might prohibit some feature of th…

http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Start_Program It's an early childhood learning program. Nothing's perfect but it has a pretty good track record.…

The problem I have with the talk is that he's focusing on one narrow part of the economy and then using that as a proxy for the whole economy. It's also obvious he doesn't look at …

Under the DMCA it's illegal to root your devices: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/?mbid...

Got it, thanks!

It raises some good points. It makes me think of other projects I've been a part of where the working, existing system was starved for resources in favor a new system which didn't …

I'm sorry, but the switch over cost to setting Bing as your home page instead of Google, or using Firefox which defaults to Yahoo, just isn't that much. It's one thing to have a lo…

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

Just in time for the X-Files coming back this summer!

I've got the book in my queue to read, but parallel programming is hard. I think it pretty much still stands that there is no way to show that parallel code works, other than to do…

I think it would be in everyone's interests to require all publicly traded companies to put out 4 press releases during the year (one per quarter) with an obviously ludicrous claim…

Let's step back for a second and realize there's nothing magical about college. We can make the same arguments about the validity of a high school education. In fact, I can take yo…

Let's say you have a business process, like if a shipping manifest goes through any one of the following 3 cities, then you need to file form XYZ, unless the shipper is one of the …