great, pls share some link from where you took these earrings... would love to share it for my wearable technology group... thank you! http://friendfeed.com/wearabl...
- deborah hustic
One good (for the most part) thing about group/mass unfollowing:you know who actually reads your tweets. Thx for revealing yourselves bots and marketers [aka those who "game" the system]
Absolutely, programming is Engineering. All that varies is the scale of the system you're building. Engineering is also both art and science. I worked on the space station at NASA as an engineer, on truck vehicle dynamics at Ford, and software dev for 30 years now, and you could write many volumes on the similarities.
- Ken Sheppardson
Also "Systems Architecting: Creating & Building Complex Systems" by Eberhardt Rectin -- http://www.amazon.com/Systems... which among other things goes into design "heuristics", aka patterns in Systems Architecting
- Ken Sheppardson
Those engineering processes with waterfall diagrams and Work Breakdown Structures, however, were developed to handle MASSIVE systems with hundreds or thousands of engineers. I don't know what the software development equivalent of the Apollo Program would be these days...
- Ken Sheppardson
Paul Graham from that talk: "Sometimes what the hackers do is called "software engineering," but this term is just as misleading. Good software designers are no more engineers than architects are. The border between architecture and engineering is not sharply defined, but it's there. It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do, and engineers figure out how to do it. What...
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- Leo Laporte
One of the big differences between big engineering projects and software development is that on engineering projects you often have participants with significantly different agendas and schedules. The guy who does plumbing might be available on these three days, the electrician has to be out on this day or he charges you 2x, the concrete guy wants to overcharge you, etc. You're not all on the same team. So you have to have a predetermined schedule and budget, clear specifications and deadlines, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hey I just discovered this TWIT show... what does FLOSS stand for?
- John Wright
Errrrrrr........................ That's what she said?
- Johnny Worthington
John: It comes from Richard Stallman's comment: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer." -- http://www.gnu.org/philoso...
- Ken Sheppardson
What? So something like this? "If you want to see a list of our guest, click there --> Link"
- Johnny Worthington
No, you turn text into hyperlinks, you don't say "Go here" or "Do this"
- Ken Sheppardson
Just like Justin Timberlake... but different.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's a vote getting thing. People don't understand technology so they want the government to do it for them. The mums and dads don't want to have to learn about filtering (nor do they probably want to monitor their kids) so WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN is a powerful message
- Johnny Worthington
We need a consumer-grade ZFS appliance... or some sort of distro...
- Ken Sheppardson
What was the book just mentioned again?
- John Wright
A programming show would be interesting. I really like how Leo is diving into and getting his hands dirty with many areas in tech, even programming. Keep up the good work Leo!
- John Wright
for me, it's msmtp + mutt + fetchmail + procmail = yay
- Jeremy Zawodny
please post your fetchmail config, I did not get it running, or better said, it downloaded the same 300 messages. Or maybe I was confused. thunderbird works. but I want fetchmail.
- James Michael Mike DuPont