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by bridgetroll 18y ago
In my experience, it is normal practice to factor time into the estimate (call it risk factor if you want) to push your skills. You factor a profit margin into your estimate right? As long as the customer is satisfied with the overall quali
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
These appliances are connected devices, which means that all they need to be are small wireless dumb terminals. Increases in bandwidth and improvements in distributed computing (cloud computing to be buzzword compliant) will make this even
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I work on DoD projects with varying project reporting requirements. There are many methodologies and processes one can follow. I've experiences success with Capability Maturity Model Integration and Agile (others here have mentioned agile t
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
godaddy (blindsided with fees) did the same thing to me. I've started using namecheap, as it was a few cents cheaper and the interface is an order of magnitude cleaner.
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
If what you used was for bug tracking it would be clearquest, rational clearquest. A program only the darkest souls of the empire would embrace. I was held at gunpoint (exaggeration) and had to administer it. Note, this was a 7 year old ver
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I made sloppy link insert as a comment in haste, no real purpose or reason. I must have come into the discussion through user comment history from another article and thought the topic was on that other article. In essence I was replying ju
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
Isn't it more that the Yahoo! board would not meet Microsoft's terms of stock price? From what I've gotten out of the noise, any "reasonable" board would have accepted the price, it was attractive. They instead effectively said "we'll only
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
Why, why, WHY does it seem that everyone wants to boil life's little gems into soulless powerpoint slides??? [ http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint ] The boiled down life's lessons in a minute essentially suck the nectar, the subtle
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I stumbled upon this link while digging around for some history on Interleaf: http://oldvw.stores.yahoo.net/com.html
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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The Blacksmith and the Bookkeeper, Part 1(today.java.net)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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Can you play buzzword bingo with your company's mission statement?(isd.usc.edu)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
Just strap your laptop to the steering wheel and put the seat back.
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
You use JIRA too? What do you think of it?
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The Chief Cause of Problems? Solutions(stsc.hill.af.mil)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
The title sounds like a metaphor.
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
When I was a wee lad, my grandmother said "Learn something new every day."
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
On the topic of SBCL: A few days ago I downloaded SBCL 1.0.13 on my WinXP laptop and have been playing around with it to get back into Lisp. So far its worked to go through some exercises. I'm using Paul's "ANSI Common Lisp" book which I ne
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I'm new here. I don't know anyone. I found HN purely by accident on a google search. I get a lot out of this site and am trying to contribute constructively. I apologize if I'm pointing out the obvious but a major risk of making HN a gated
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
Anyone for Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga? http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/australian_table_wines...
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University of Maryland Gets Only U.S. Lab for WiMAX Next Gen Wireless Apps(newsdesk.umd.edu)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
In the article, the author poses the question of what is "worst" and never does properly answer this. Then goes on to list the "worst" bugs without proper criteria. The title should be "What Simson Garfinkel thinks are the 10 worst bugs, i
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
Is there anything in the Twitter terms which preclude selling an account?
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
When I first read the headline, I thought the poster meant "taking a writing test" like taking an exam. Thanks for sharing. We do test first on one of the projects I've recently joined. The project uses JUnit for unit tests and integration
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Feds Tackle Mobile Spam(redherring.com)
1 points by bridgetroll 18y ago|0 comments
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Assistive Technology Research Institute Partners with Microsoft to Develop SeniorPC Program(newswise.com)
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I half expect to find Waldo if I search the poster well enough.
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
I have it posted at my desk in a nameplate frame. I try to adhere to it. I often fail.
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by bridgetroll 18y ago
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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