3 month ago
Rod Begbie : Beep Beep (Part Two) - The Fishbowl - A great quote tucked away in the footnote: 'Whenever you feel your opinion on software productivity, DRM, Mac vs PC vs Linux… or pretty much anything regularly discussed on the Internet has any chance of being meaningfully debated in the wider world, it #
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Understanding Engineers: Feasibility. Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.
Rod Begbie : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Every person who has any contact with software engineers Must Read This. Accurate definitions of the oft-used words "impossible", "trivial", "unfeasible", "non-trivial", "hard" and "very hard". [via] #
deusx : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - "here's a quick lexicon of what computer programmers generally mean when they're talking about how hard some problem is, starting with the most extreme"
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