My election guide for November 8, 2011.
My endorsements in Bold.
Retention of Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (retain or not):
NO, do not retain! -- In 2006, The PA State Legislature voted itself a pay raise in direct violation of the plain wording of the state constitution which states …
If you have complete and accurate requirements for your project which won't change, and your development team is spot-on in estimating and highly consistent in their development pace. and there are no surprises, then you can produce highly accurate project timeline estimates up front. Such accurate estimates are (or, more …
Posted Wed 28 September 2011 by mcherm in Programming
Lots of science writers are getting very excited about the news that an experiment measured neutrinos going faster than light. But as we all know, they are overreacting.
Look, this really shouldn't
surprise anyone who has ever done any actual science. Karl
Popper had a really simple
and idealistic concept …
Armen Rigo has a blog posting (worthy of an article of its own) proposing using STM (Software Transactional Memory) in PyPy. In a discussion on reddit someone suggested that you could have weaker threading guarantees and just use locks manually. It wouldn't be so hard, they explained, because:
You really …
Posted Tue 23 August 2011 by mcherm in Programming
I find that this comes up fairly frequently. You find some useful library: perhaps it does logging, or enforces design-by-contract, or it provides an API for calling web services. But someone on the team suggests that instead of using the library directly, we should create a wrapper: "that way, if …
Posted Sun 03 July 2011 by mcherm in Programming