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as far as I know Knuth does not even have an email account, how about that for austerity.

~$5k for 7 KLOC of bug free C code is a steal, that's impossible to do in less than a couple of months

the main cause here is that randomness is hard to test so that code was just assumed to be correct. With randomness you can never be sure, http://www.random.org/analysis/

sorry but most MBAs I know are either unemployed or sub-employed, so I don't find them a high-salaried prone population as you do. You are living in a bubble where you can get a 100k job out of school, and being broke means not being able to change cars every year. I'm not saying that the values he talks about are wrong, but that they are unrealistic given the constraints of economics for 99% of the population of the world.

"you can always get a job that pays tons of money", "pick where you want to live", "just follow your passion, don't worry about your CV", err.. sorry but this is unrealistic for people that are not already upper-middle class and American. I'd love to set that as my priorities but I don't live in that bubble. #firstworldproblems

for me they are very close now that firefox 4 is more or less as fast, but inertia + the non-dropping down address bar in chrome tilts the scale towards firefox definitively http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=64bb...

I got such a disappointment when I opened the link and it wasn't about baseball, I'm actually thinking of coding a baseball simulator and this looked like the perfect reading.

you are missing the point, is not about money is about repect and professional esteem, if you are a husband and your wife tells you she loves you you will be very happy, but then you find all the other guys she is screwing around with (and loves more than you) and nothing has changed between you two but now you are pretty angry aren't you?

According to the page, from green to red does not subtract any point but running twice the tests with errors subtract 5 points? Kind of arbitrary rules that have nothing to do with TDD if you ask me.

that doesn't justify the sudden silence in matter of months that the article shows in the graphic, I wonder if analyzing the worm's code shows if there is a time condition or bug that disables it after X date.

I'll add this one: too formal for casual usage, too informal for any serious formal analysis. me? I prefer boxes and arrows on a piece of napkin if possible.

are we still doing this? go watch other movies, the matrix was mostly about bullet time fights and sophomoric philosophy

Thanks, quite frustrating not having any keyword that allows you to google something

more info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page

"Learn what the number inside something like ls(1) or perror(3) means." you got me there, I don't know what it means and now I'm curious and can't find it on google

"the chances of building a $10k/month webapp business is pretty high" is this true? oh god, what am I doing with my life?.

another option is to stop reading superfluous lists on how to become a web developer on the net and actually try to code something.

Summary for those in a hurry: "fuck this, fuck that shit, dojo has better i18n and a11y plugins, fuck jquery, The End" The tarantino writing style weakens his argument, IMHO. More scientific arguments and less passion please.

You are right, I should've said Plato

This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes

It can be done in 9 tries with 3 light bulbs

I agree with 14 as the optimal answer, now I'm pondering what could be done if you had THREE lightbulbs

I'll be reading this for the rest of the day as it got burned on my retinas. Never use brilliant type on a black background.

No discussion about metrics can be complete without mentioning the GQM approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQM