http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html titled ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore" Before your blood boils, read the responses to the...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Jul 1, 2005 7:03 pm
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(sorry if this is a duplicate, I seem to be having problems sending to the list) On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:05:51 +0300 ... I do not think that would be fair, as...
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:05:51 +0300 ... I do not think that would be fair, as IMHO they both have different purposes. ... I don't believe this is the case, what...
The Manager FAQ: http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/manager.html -- Jara Cimerman! He is one of the unsung geniuses--scientist, engineer, inventor and...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Jul 2, 2005 7:29 am
4415
The Perl.com editor published my article about HTML::Widgets::NavMenu: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/07/07/navwidgets.html It explains how to use this CPAN...
Hi! Today (after a long time of almost entire neglect) I updated my story "The Pope Died on Sunday": http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Pope/ A new version of...
Oh, and I forgot: Can anyone think of a good Hebrew translation to the English expression "He knew better than to do X."? In Hebrew it can be "Yada yoter tov ...
... Hmmm... that's interesting. Of course, translated into English it would be "He was smart/wise enough not to do X." The problem is that smart/wise is a ...
... You need to change the entire sentence structure, because there is no Hebrew construct that works that way and doesn't look like a poor translation. For...
Hi all! Lior Kaplan and I plan that tomorrow's (= 29/July/2005) morning we will upgrade eskimo (the server hosting iglu.org.il and other domains) to Debian ...
Hi all! Today, Lior Kaplan and I went to Actcom to perform the iglu.org.il upgrade. The bottom line is that: 1. It now runs an up-to-date version of Debian...
Hi, I am forwarding this job description. I appologize in advance if you somehow got this mail more than once. Subject: Hiring: Senior programmer (web) ... Hi,...
"It takes patience to find the best solitaire" http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/07/28/1639234.shtml?tid=149&tid=130&tid=22 Alas, the game variant...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 14, 2005 9:47 pm
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... One thing that should be noted is that "solitaire" or "patience" is a generic name for single-player solitaire card games. The "Solitaire" in Windows is ...
The other day I saw an item concerning "Agile Development" and it mentioned, among other things, that very high percentage of software development projects...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 22, 2005 6:04 pm
4428
... to what definition of 'fail'? ... again - to what definition of 'fail'? -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the...
Good question. To have focused discussion, let's limit the scope of non-successful projects to those, which were one or more of the following: 1. Cancelled...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 22, 2005 7:39 pm
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... what about a startup that was shut down? does this fall under this category? ... i think you just described some of microsoft's more successfully-marketed ...
If to judge from the resulting insights, Guy Keren again asked good questions. The question which I would like to investigate is whether there are fundamental...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 22, 2005 10:34 pm
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Every serious project should have set goals. "Failed" should be "not reached set goals". Reasoning - if it's just a project of "let's start writing something ...
... Just because they changed development process doesn't mean that the old process falls under definition of "mismanagement". I don't remember the timelines...
... [... snipped ...] ... If a project was 5% over schedule and 5% over budget but achieved its set goals, then its overall management was not bad enough to...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 23, 2005 7:02 am
4435
... You can quantify these 5% in the goals too: "Over 5% - failed. Within 5% - goal reached". And so on and so forth for other resources. (As an anacdot, I've...
... Lacking access to such publications, and knowing that the publications do not capture informal anecdotes, I threw the question to the Hackers-IL mailing...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 23, 2005 10:08 am
4437
Resistance to using 'make'? why because it was hard to use or because they did not realize the potential and the need for such a tool? -- Ori Idan...
... They were used to typing in the commands to build and link the modules and were set in their ways. The software in question was simple, though (about 3-4...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 23, 2005 2:16 pm
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... At least the ones I took part in delivered their goals and as far as I can tell they have done so within the allocated resources (time, manpower, badget)....
A problem is NP-complete because it can be represented as a recipe for generating several positions and scoring each of them, such that the recipe for scoring...
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