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Why?

Also, give the same programming task to 2 devs and you end up with 2 different solutions. Heck, have the same dev do the same thing twice and you will have 2 different ones.

Determinism seems like this big gotcha, but in it self, is it really?

I have 3 4k monitors. Windows drives them without a problem. Linux still can't. I tried for a whole day and eventually gave up.
Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:30AM (#36351265)
Many, many moons ago I asked my mentor how to estimate. He told me that you should figure out what it feels like, then double it and then take it to the next higher time unit.

"hmm, adding that button probably takes about an hour"... 2 days is about right.

Almost 30 years later I still find this to be true. Truer than I like.

In Germany its 50 cases per 100'000 in a borough. After that lock downs are supposed to happen again. (with discretion, if, for example, cases can be isolated)

What other country do you think of that doesn't have clarity?

Same for Chrome on Windows 10
Re:SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @08:33PM (#6131098)
Hmm, I needed them a few times so far, specially when it comes to lots and complex sets of data and complex queries.

I had jobs run for a few hours on Dev only to take weeks (if I would have let them) on production, which was in ever aspect a beefier machine.

Re:SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @07:27AM (#6126276)
Why is Postgres lack of query hints not scary for people?
Re:SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @07:26AM (#6126275)
That's the thing. It gets the job done and if you need a dev to develop a certain feature that MS SQL has you recouped your licence costs right there.

This does suck for small/mid sized businesses though. :/

Re:How to Spam your Facebook Friends for a Week on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:28AM (#5832610)
Yup, you piggy back your message/ad on someone else's payed ads
90 bullets a year in total, as much as they pumped into one guy in New York in the same year
You're not too far off. Companies have to, with growing size, do more and more stuff in french. At large companies that aren't exempt you must have a french keyboard for example and code comments have to be in french.
I really don't want any of those networking/social features and I am pretty sure we're doomed to use them. I think I am going to pass on this one.
I just went through my activity log on Facebook, because it knew I shared it a while ago. It was mid November, I got it from a German Radio station. (It wasn't played a lot back then though) Not trying to be all hipster and stuff but: "Called it!"