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Diary of an Addict

After four days offline (at least off my blog, see the previous post for more details), I have to face the truth: I am a computer addict. Here...

0 replies - 2314 views - 04/11/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Google on Open Source

Chris Dibona, open source manager at Google, talks about licences and patents, open source at Google, and more:

0 replies - 635 views - 04/10/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Technical Debt: Do Managers (Unintentionally) Force Bad Code?

I still have estimation on the mind. I saw The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates and I was wondering about the effect of management on bad code....

0 replies - 1867 views - 04/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Acquaintance With Groovy

For any new language that I wish to learn, first I will try out to code sample application that just output the 'Hello World'Let's see how it can be done in...

0 replies - 425 views - 04/10/13 by Sammaiah Kyatham in Articles

Machine Learning: Naïve Bayes Rule for Malware Detection and Classification

ABSTRACT: This paper presents statistics and machine learning principles as an exercise while analyzing malware. Conditional probability or Bayes’...

0 replies - 3987 views - 04/10/13 by Ryan Fahey in Articles

Openness

The purpose of a Silo is to protect the contents from being disturbed or damaged from  external foreign bodies. Creating a Silo is reasonable if you...

0 replies - 972 views - 04/09/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Slabs of Time

From Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson:Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is...

0 replies - 400 views - 04/09/13 by John Cook in Articles

Thoughts on Becoming a Better Developer

I ask myself this question quite often. What it takes to become a better developer? Not a ninja, guru, master or whatever, but just a better developer. I’m...

6 replies - 7907 views - 04/09/13 by Catalin Red in Articles

Google's Introduction to Developing for Glass

In this presentation from SXSW, Google's Timothy Jordan introduces the basics of developing for Glass, discussing Mirror API and more.

0 replies - 4070 views - 04/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Monte Carlo Methods

First: Why? Monte Carlo methods are excellent for problems that are complex enough that an exact solution is nigh impossible and 100% perfect accuracy is...

0 replies - 5724 views - 04/09/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Baroque Computers

From an interview with Neal Stephenson, giving some background for his Baroque Cycle:Leibniz [1646-1716] actually thought about symbolic logic...

0 replies - 369 views - 04/09/13 by John Cook in Articles

Big Data Piled Up So High It Reaches the Cloud

“Big data is any data that when you pile it up reaches into the Cloud.” This was the opening statement for Jack Norris, CMO of MapR at the Cloud Connect...

0 replies - 1395 views - 04/08/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Covariance and Contravariance In Java

I have found that in order to understand covariance and contravariance a few examples with Java arrays are always a good start. Arrays Are Covariant Arrays...

0 replies - 2316 views - 04/08/13 by Edwin Dalorzo in Articles

5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 2

This is the second issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. From the first issue of 5 Questions ”The ideas was to ask five specific...

0 replies - 2186 views - 04/07/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Mapping the Value Storm

—A hasty post, based on a couple of tweets, and a short conversation at #SFAgile2012. 1. Streams are uni-directional, they don’t have feedback....

0 replies - 1093 views - 04/07/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles