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Fred Brooke's Mythical Man Month says that too many hands makes work harder.
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(Is that book still being read? 48 years after it was written. It was a classic in my study days, and that is long ago.)
It depends on how you measure productivity. Without that huge crowd of open source developers, we wouldn't have a choice of 32 different distros and 23 file systems to choose from.
I have been working with proprietary systems providing a single file system for their machine! On the one system, the OS existed in just two main variants. That says something about how a proprietary environment kills creativity and productivity.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: (Is that book still being read? 48 years after it was written. It was a classic in my study days, and that is long ago.)
I would still recommend it to anyone studying Systems Engineering, and to many managers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Studying science can lead you in many directions and open many doors. Something, something, something, quantum!
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Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The act of writing Code and writing Prose is the same. They both use the same mental processes, have language constructs and audiences, and require significant focus to be effective. Once upon a time, there was a variable named 'i'...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Once upon a time, there was a variable named 'i'...
...it sat upon a heap named 'stack'
along came a thread, and made it quite dead
and up popped an ugly blue screen
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:bow: :bow: :bow:
Well done.
TTFN - Kent
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I had good inspiration... That first line is a banger! 🤌
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AI, digital twin technologies, platform engineering, and chaos engineering are transforming software development and bringing greater automation, productivity, and resilience to devops. File, New > Year
Just remember to put the right year on any cheques
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Checks? I remember those.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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While chemical batteries are governed by classical laws of physics, microscopic particles are quantum in nature, so we have a chance to explore ways of using them that bend or even break our intuitive notions of what takes place at small scales When in doubt, slap a "quantum" on it. That solves everything.
Wake me up when they're at Radio Shack.
(I know, I'll be waiting a while - they have to recreate Radio Shack first. Maybe QUANTUM Radio Shack?)
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Total fail. It's AI-Quantum-Fusion that's the ticket.
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The International Trade Commission’s ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 officially goes into effect on December 26th. Time to start smuggling Apples across the border?
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We’ve enhanced our code coverage tools, Microsoft.CodeCoverage and dotnet-coverage, with some fantastic features "Shut the door and cover me"
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Researchers are doing detailed simulation of the nuclear deflection scenario envisioned in 1998 space disaster film “Armageddon.” * Bruce Willis not included
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The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices — disable fingerprint and face unlock to steal device PINs. Good olde 'password' deemed secure
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The new assistant provides help using artificial intelligence. It just returns, "that's cancelled" for every query
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The tech giant plans to use the Creuziger family’s land to build a multi-building data center, all part of a $1 billion investment in the village of Mount Pleasant. "The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him!"
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By understanding and leveraging these four metrics, Engineering Managers can make more informed decisions and lead their teams to higher performance levels. Missing KLoC/fortnight
Monitors per dev?
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For documents: buzzwords/page?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level Time to bring back realism? Surrealism?
I know some code I've seen is surreal
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Oh sh*t! They are forgetting to feed the hamsters! That's gonna smell.
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Quote: Everything in the tech industry is driven with a very hardcore eye for profit and very little interest in anything else. This is axiomatic for pretty much any business that focuses on its shareholders, but the rest of the article is a good read. Its main point is
Quote: So what is going to happen when the level of understanding in the tech industry reaches such a low point in which the majority of people don't even know how to fix the tools they are using? Well, it'll be an opportunity for those who are curious about how things work under the hood (and the article admits that they exist). Just apply the Pareto principle: 80% of everything is excrement, and 20% is good, meaning that only 4% is excellent. The author likely has job security.
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Well, DevOps is too much for one person, but we have to drop the abstractions... I am wondering if the author fixes Spectre in microcode, anyway.
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