The answer is \~1.4X. Martin Paulo says it perfectly: "software developers are seen as interchangeable units, with actual hourly cost being the prime driver. The quality of the resultant code, it's correctness and the time taken to deliver it are all intangibles that are left out of the equation …
more ...Before talking about value and reference types and delegates/closures, let me point out that Monitor-based locking has a fundamental flaw when working with delegates (the same flaw that it has with virtual method calls on objects): you can never safely call a delegate inside a lock-block that is holding …
more ...Blogging reminds me constantly of the value of editors. Er... "constantly reminds"...
more ...::: {style="font-size: 10pt; background: white; color: black; font-family: courier new"} What do you expect to be outputted from this program (note that line 19 captures the outer variable "i")?
[ 1]{style="color: #2b91af"} [using]{style="color: blue"} System;
[ 2]{style="color: #2b91af"} [using]{style="color: blue"} System.Collections.Generic;
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more ...James Robertson, advocating that people give 1-3 elite Smalltalkers a chance to take on a project that would take "commodity" programmers 6 months, says "Which will cost you more: Those two "cowboys", or the 10 "commodity" developers? Heck, let's say you find yourself 2 really good people, and pay them …
more ...\\(170,000,000 / 730,000 = \\)232.88.
Choice "incompetent software project management" quotes:
"[T]he FBI made a fateful choice: It wanted SAIC to build the new software system from scratch rather than modifying commercially available, off-the-shelf software. Later, the company would say the FBI made that decision independently; FBI …
more ...Gilad Bracha has a substantive proposal to add closures to Java (for those familiar with .NET but not Java, this is generally equivalent to adding delegates and C# 2.0's anonymous delegates). The proposal has slightly cleaner syntax than what is in C# but I believe would reprise an issue …
more ...Eric Sink, who among other things wrote "The Business of Software," says I seem to "really understand both technology and business at a deep level." Me? Understand business? Lord, no! The industry, I pay attention to, but I'm an insanely bad businessman. I've flirted with personal bankruptcy, been a VP …
more ...It isn't just Windows LiveWriter that got broken when I added a VPN connection, it's FTP! Un-be-freakin'-lievable.
more ...I hooked up to a client site via VPN yesterday and broke Windows LiveWriter. At first, it asked if I wanted to dial a connection to the VPN target. No, of course not (never mind the whole "dial" aspect"). Then, when I deleted the VPN, LiveWriter started producing a "file …
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