October 2009
10 posts
2 tags
“The Credit Derivative Swap market allowed large bets to be placed on certain...”
– http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5917#more
Evidence based software engineering.... →
This is my personal pet interests. Most software engineering today is based on ‘hear-say’, ‘guess work’, ‘poor mathematics’ and ‘statements from so called gurus’. But, how much of it is actually…
Google Wave ... used it and ..... →
Just played around with Google Wave. Currently, I don’t quite know what to do with it. It is a communication tool and at this point in time I do not know if anyone else will use it if I do.
Wave is…
Lambda Calculus (at Safalra's Website) →
A fairly comprehensive introduction to Lamda Calculus.
If you are new to this whole topic .. here is a short summary:
* Calculus: This word sounds scary but simply means “a system of calculation and reasoning”. Due to historical reasons, in mathematics we end up using greek symbols that have certain meaning. — Hence the ‘lambda’.
* Lambda Calclus provides a system...
Obama has won the Noble Peace prize. I have a nice ‘conspiracy theory’ explanation for this decision. They think that this way they can stop the US president from getting into anymore wars. I wonder if Bush would have attacked “iRack” if he was awarded the peace prize 9 months into his presidency.
Will the US dollar collapse?
US dollar is the world’s default reserve currency — most of the world trade uses US dollars. On the financial blogosphere there is an increasing discussion (conflict) that the US dollar is about to go off the cliff and collapse in value.
The reason that the dollar is expected to collapse is based on the following arguments:
US Federal reserve is printing US dollars at an exponential...
Flash Applications on iPhone
Adobe has announced that Flash developers can now target the iPhone.
This in effect just adds a lot more applications into the iPhone eco-system on top of what they already have. Expect a torrent of new applications to flood the iTunes store — we will start seeing a lot more free games soon.
Flash within a browser on the iPhone still does not seem to be a go. Personally, I think given...
Feeling guilty about testing ..... →
Software testing is one of those fuzzy things where the theory in the books completely differs from how testing is done in practice. Unfortunately, the poor practitioners all too often end up feeling…
Is Google the next Microsoft? →
How does an organisation evolve over time? From start-up to corporate giant. Is Google the next Microsoft? I want to start off with a broad illustration of the steps first on how a start-up slowly…
September 2009
14 posts
1 tag
Examples of Why Time Estimates are Always Wrong... →
A list of fairly accurate examples of why estimates are always wrong. I agree with almost all of the points except for ‘Technical Debt’ and Refactoring.
Refactoring in real projects is rare (I just completed studying 1000 different unique systems) in my research and have very minimal evidence that this is a consistent practice. Yet, systems seem to evolve fine. In fact, redundant...