JacobK

Re:The Duct Tape Programmer on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:04PM (#841444)

As the lead maintainer of the Wasabi compiler project, it actually feels pretty good to have someone call it duct tape :)

Scrum Friendly Features in FogBugz 7

Posted by JacobK on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @12:06PM
from the fogcreek.com dept.

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/blog/post/Scrum-Friendly-Features.aspx

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Re:A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don't use MessageDigest.isEquals) on Thursday August 13, 2009 @07:06PM (#761953)

Or just don't short circuit ever, and do the entire computation every time.

Evidence-Based Scheduling 2.0

Posted by JacobK on Thursday July 23, 2009 @03:11PM
from the fogcreek.com dept.

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/blog/post/EBS-20.aspx

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The One in Which I Say Open Source Software Sucks

Posted by JacobK on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @11:10AM
from the blog.bitquabit.com dept.

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/06/30/one-which-i-say-open-source-software-sucks/

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Re:StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:27PM (#679966)

Correct. But the total cost of hiring a programmer is easily estimated as 3*salary. $200k/year is a fairly cheap full-time programmer with overhead.

Don't forget to include all the office space, gym membership, soda, insurance, maternity leave, matching 401(k) contributions, hardware, software, internet access, telephone service, tech support, sysadmins, office managers, etc. necessary to support that one programmer.