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But the issue is not that this happens because this is software development. The reason is software is a job in which cost increase is linearly related to manpower. There are no si…

Commercial software (with a long tradition) is based on that idea. And Free software is based on the same idea, only that you renounce to that ownership right.

Good engineering requires good processes, good planning and good decisions, something almost no-one is discussing here. Let's get real... there's a lot to improve in the american e…

Surprised how many people are talking about currency/government protection and so few people about engineering.

I was the one saying that productivity is going up in the last months. I missed the productivity data in the report (I found only production output) and FT just took out the report…

Spaniard here (full disclaimer). @carlos reasoning seems to be supported by the fact Spain's productivity is going up after all the low skilled workers in construction were sacked.…

It's a clever way of suing your provider. Accenture was sued using the same strategy: http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/03/sap-sued-for-t... But Does Sky need to demonstra…

This is not the kind of chaos of terror the terrorist has on his mind. Otherwise they will be shutting down traffic light control systems. Getting caught is a failure. A bomb explo…

First of all I must say I don't believe in these kind of unpredictable systems: rarely doing this 'select randomly the process from a set of processes' works better than using the …

After all, the latest bomber was carrying 80 grams, less than three ounces.

System.system can be done in all languages.

The BBC article is much more interesting: Each bike travels 10,000 km a year, so they have to be sturdy (and expensive).

I completely agree with you, the financial guys make a lot of money. And because of that, the core business of GM should be financial and no automotive. So, let's make them sell th…

Basically CS curriculums are woefully under-preparing students.