Actually, bugs/design flaws caught during the design phase cost far less
than those discovered during the build.
Doug
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However, the best bugs are introduced during programming, but much
earlier. Catching bugs at the earliest possible time is expensive, but
the ROI is immense and outweighs the cost by several orders of
magnitude. Of course, any manager who was reading this dropped out at
the word expensive,
Bryon Daly wrote:
Further, as a Mormon, Romney doesn't quite pass the WASP test so he
basically had to tack hard right to build up his conservative cred to get
the party nomination.
Ugh. Mormons have taken control of the Internet (by Facebook). I'm
glad they didn't take control of the USA
I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming for applications they used would have to
be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that
automatically eliminated bugs.
AFAIK, the Ada compiler can detect many programmer mistakes
This plays into some recent conversations about efficiency vs resilience.
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100
From: k...@stock-consulting.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Obama II
I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming
will work okay in the new rocket?
- Klaus
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100
From: k...@stock-consulting.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Obama II
I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming for applications they used would have
On a related note, I've been reading about problems with the Romney
campaign's software to organize election day get-out-the-vote efforts.
My first reaction was Sabotage?, but now I'm betting that incompetence
is the more likely explanation. See:
Sounded like a classic scalability problem.
I'm looking forward to our company telling our election software story. Had
been super secret.
Nick
On Sunday, November 11, 2012, David Hobby wrote:
On a related note, I've been reading about problems with the Romney
campaign's software to organize
Nick wrote
Sounded like a classic scalability problem.
I would guess otherwise. This would be an interesting geekish debate to
have. My guess is that its akin to the problem with Star Wars software,
which was assumed to work first time untested. From what I read, their
software did not lend
Star Wars had a critical difference. It didn't need to work because it was
all a giant bluff. Romney had little or nothing to gain by bluffing.
Back to the facts. The Romney team said the software was running 20-30
minutes behind. And pointed out that, as you suggest, there was no real way
to
On Star Wars, it worked as a bluff, but I don't think Reagan was bluffing.
I think he believed. I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming for applications they used would have to
be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler
On 11/11/2012 6:00 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
...
Well, I also read that parts of it simply failedreporting 0 votes from a
long list on election day. The part that targeted voting lists to cull
those who haven't voted for attention can be made modular.
I don't think it was just a software
I didn't realize how unclear it is whether Reagan and other top officials
regarded it as a bluff or not, until I poked around a bit just now. Easy
to see how they might have started off serious, then decided to re-write
history and say it was all a bluff. I have some up-close and personal
I recall Carl Sagan despairing that Reagan believed it. The amount of money and
resources that went into live tests would suggest there was faith at the top,
regardless of what those 'lower' in the chain of command might have thought.
At the time SW was being promoted, it gave all the
I didn't realize how unclear it is whether Reagan and other top officials
regarded it as a bluff or
not, until I poked around a bit just now. Easy to see how they might have
started off serious, then
decided to re-write history and say it was all a bluff. I have some
up-close and personal
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans chose the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in the Republican primaries to make him win.
A big part of Romney's appeal was that as a tremendously successful
businessman, he was afforded
So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans chose the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in the Republican primaries to make him win.
Did anyone over there ever think that Mitt Romney had
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So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:17:25 -0200, ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
albm...@centroin.com.br wrote:
So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans chose the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in
In terms of the popular vote, as of now Obama has 61,174,297 votes, while
Romney has 58,172,063 votes A difference of 3,002,234, so a fair margin and
decisively winning the popular vote for Obama.
The difference is going to be slighly above 2.5% and slightly above the Bush
margin over Kerry, but
So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans
chose the worst possible candidate, put there to lose.
Or maybe the Democrats voted in the Republican primaries
to make him win. Did anyone over there ever think that Mitt
Romney had _any_
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