carlcoryell

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by carlcoryell 1y ago
The difference in this article rhymes strongly with the difference between project and product mindsets in software development.
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by carlcoryell 1y ago
The combination of daily weigh-ins and the exponentially weighted moving average I learned from the Hacker Diet has been absolutely magic for me. It gives me helpful daily feedback signal in the noise of ~5lb daily weight variation. Beemind
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by carlcoryell 2y ago
~10 FTEs, US, 75% percentile salaries, fully loaded, 1.5-3M. Figure that team salaries is probably about 50% of the total software cost (hosting, support, tooling, on call, management overhead, recruiting, training etc)$3-$5M. Rounded to t
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by carlcoryell 2y ago
For the record, I have no connection to the original poster, and I’m not in the business of doing this anymore. I wanted to respond because I didn’t see any other threads pushing the OP to think about the basic economics and do some basic f
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by carlcoryell 2y ago
I used to run the Singapore and Seattle offices for Pivotal Labs and helped a couple of companies build in-house teams to do exactly this. My first question is to check the basic economics: $2-300M in annual revenue, ~15% margins, you’re pr
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by carlcoryell 14y ago
Sony still hasn't apologized for multiple installations of rootkits on customer computers. I lost all interest in the company after they made those choices and I'm glad to see that a culture that tolerates such enmity towards their customer
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by carlcoryell 14y ago
Windows only: The cover photo shows a MacBook Air, but the tech specs say the software requires Windows operating systems.
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by carlcoryell 15y ago
There are many places in our society where kids can do stupid and immature things but I don't think the adults in our engineering profession need to support or sponsor them. I respect Heroku etc for pulling their sponsorship dollars. I'm a
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by carlcoryell 15y ago
Maciej Cegłowski's essay "A Rocket to Nowhere" is a much better description of how and why the Shuttle was doomed by political and military considerations. http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
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by carlcoryell 15y ago
If you listen to the audio tape of "The Goal", Mr. Goldratt tells the heartbreaking story of why he wrote the book and what happened afterwards. As a grad student, he developed software to manage the production of certain key components nee
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by carlcoryell 16y ago
pair programming in open space
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by carlcoryell 16y ago
Hi, I'm actually a Pivotal engineer (in our Singapore office) and while I can't comment on either of the examples above I do want to clarify that clients don't have to hire Pivotal engineers in pairs. We do pair on all production code and
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by carlcoryell 16y ago
In Singapore, most elevator door close buttons work. It's very civilized and one of the small delights of living here.
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by carlcoryell 16y ago
TransFS is selling merchant accounts and lies with their graphics. $30 transactions and $50K/month they calculate their fees at $1220 and the square fees at $1625 and yet the bar graph is shows square as twice as much.
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by carlcoryell 16y ago
data is four years old and copied from an undisclosed source.
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by carlcoryell 17y ago
tl;dr I'm going to buy a tablet so I can distract myself while watching the baby.
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by carlcoryell 17y ago
Carl here (one of the engineers who worked on birdseye), The web interface to eBird isn't very usable, especially if you want to know what birds are near by and where to go see particular birds. It is however the best repository of bird ob