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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Software Estimation and the Business-Technical Conflict
People often talk about the 5 day workweek, but in reality, such a division of time and work is only applicable to hourly-paid workers. Financial people divide time into quarters of the year. Marketing folks divide time into advertising campaigns … Continue reading
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A Theory of Simplicity
Simplicity is one of those goals that everyone talks about, but few achieve. When designing applications, simplicity is supposedly a paramount concern, yet many applications never achieve that state. Very often, we see simple applications that are very basic in … Continue reading
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The Commercial Market and Copyright
In response to a recent article by Jeff Atwood about BitTorrent, Charles Petzold wrote an amusing post on how a failure of the commercial market could be used to justify illegal behavior. The debate was interesting because it brought out … Continue reading
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The Higher Google Stock Price
Even if you don’t own Google stock, you still benefit when Google’s stock price keeps climbing upwards: Ad-free services: If it were any other company, services like Orkut and Analytics, among many others, would be chock-full of advertisements. Google could … Continue reading
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Complex Requirements
Of the many differences that separate a simple software project and a complex one, this one is the most critical: A complex project has requirements that do not fit into one human brain. Many people understand this concept vaguely, but … Continue reading
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