Statistics for Software
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Statistics for Software
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#2Slightly off-topic, but it's surprising to me that they have this blog that is up-to-date with their latest brand, yet they've still let large portions of Paypal.com go without an update to line up with their latest brand.
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#3I don't really like the idea of throwing data away because it ultimately gives an incomplete view of the system. But, easy solution to solve a hard problem!
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#4I started by dumping spreadsheets and forcing myself to use R. Also signed up to datacamp.com
I never liked spreadsheets or people that like spreadsheets.
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#5A student of mine just finished building a benchmarking tool for applications [0]. For example, it warns if your sample size is too small. Here is an example, where he compares GHC performance over the last years [1].
[0] https://github.com/parttimenerd/temci [1] https://uqudy.serpens.uberspace.de/blog/2016/02/08/ghc-perfo...
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#6Slightly off-topic, but it's surprising to me that they have this blog that is up-to-date with their latest brand, yet they've still let large portions of Paypal.com go without an update to line up with their latest brand.
Well, this post blog will be seen by a relatively small number of people and also it's just that, a blog. Their main site is used by an exponentially large number of people, including our grandma's and possibly people with different accessibility requirements, making it trickier to update. This is probably not an excuse (I consider having a half updated site worse that a slightly bad full update) but it's to say that it's not that surprising
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#7"When the software industry gets to a point where it leverages this analysis as much as the hardware industry, the technology world will undoubtedly have become a cleaner place."
Hear hear! Quality control is usually one of the _primary_ drivers in new hardware development. With software, I find it's often tacked on at the end.
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#8"When the software industry gets to a point where it leverages this analysis as much as the hardware industry, the technology world will undoubtedly have become a cleaner place." Hear hear! Quality control is usually one of the _primary_ drivers in new hardware development. With software, I find it's often tacked on at the end.
I am not sure that is coming anytime soon. Generally, You have the ability to update software products more cheaply than hardware products. Also, people get quite a bit of utility out of buggy products, people will jump on a beta if they think it is useful.
Given that, half finished buggy software products have incentives to be released with less quality control. This of course will vary by use, no one is getting in a plane with software with low quality control.
I would guess that we can look at the attention paid to quality control as a function of updatability and risk.
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#9Oh God. I need to read this. Great post.
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#10OP writes really well. Found myself reading the README of his Python web framework (which I'll never use) just because of the clarity, style and pedagogical approach.
Hope there's more on the way.