I have found the double principle always works quite well and ends ups
accurate enough to keep all parties satisfied. Do all your research,
planning, etc and finally take that bottom line number and double it.
So, if you say a project will take 5 working days to complete, present
it as a 10 day
Several years ago I worked for a Consulting firm that gave weekly classes
on job estimation. What you are calling the client factor, they called
the confidence factor. It is real and very useful.
And then, you have the client factor, as in
* Work out a rough estimate
*
You think that's old. When I started out, all we had were sticks and
stone knives to cut notches in them.
You do realise that you are showing U2 to be a sport of the pre-historic?
My first experience with computers was paper tape.
Version control was performed with a pencil on the leader of
snip
You think that's old. When I started out, all we had were sticks and
stone knives to cut notches in them.
/snip
Ah, yes Gray (hair)'s Code.
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I would not say pre-historic. Those items mentioned are not that far
removed.
Remember how quickly vinyl left the shelves when CDs came into being.
You do realize that you are showing U2 to be a sport of the
pre-historic?
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Kevin
That's not a full lifecycle test - which is where the casing difference
really comes in.
If you want to set a test, have the two groups scan through reams of
unfamiliar code, make sense of it, identify the bits to change and only then
do the changes. That's where the benefit lies. Though I
Bill, I followed you until this:
* Upper case is an anachronism and should be treated as such rather than
defended. It
is unwieldy for far too many and, in fact, interferes with efficient typing
at every
turn. Forcing people to use [Caps Lock] in U2 while all other used
applications
require
I started to write this many times and each time it went against what my
Mama always said, If you can't say anything nice then don't say
anything at all. Yes, I know that was also said it Bambi but it was
around long before the movie. Mixed case programming is a relatively new
way of programming
I understand your point Brian. So what do we do with the situation where
upper case is actually more readable to me and yet less readable to you?
How do we rationalize such a dichotomy?
-K
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Kevin
We -
1. Accept that the list is populated by long-term professionals whose
opinions aren't going to be changed.
2. Accept that this is a learning and familiarity issue.
3. Do everything we can to promote best practice in legibility regardless of
case.
4. Ensure that all learning
I've not followed all this thread (in fact I only have the last few
entries), but I think both camps have a point. I get frustrated turning
CAPS on and off and if I were to sit and count the amount of times I
press the CAPS-LOCK key I'd be completely amazed.
I've been working with PICK on PC
To paraphrase the ABATE folks: Let those who code decide.
Unless I can get Donald Knuth to chime in on the subject (not likely
since he stopped using email in 1990) I doubt that any of us are going
to change each others minds. Especially the dinosaurs (used lovingly,
and I include myself).
as I don't believe anything is unequivocal i will leave that for you all to
argue over
For me .. i find mixed case much easier to read and review. I attempt to
follow humpBack or camelBack as my prefered method of typing but not a
mandate.
The system i work on mostly is an
Mike Farrant skrev:
snip---
PS I find unix irritating that it does not recognise LS when I mean ls
or CP when I mean cp - how hard can it be to have both cases valid for
such a small command set?
Not hard at all really: Put the following commands in Your environment
file file:
alias
If you ever want a scare then go through the programs in the Universe BP
file. Some are upper case program lines with mixed case comments and
prompts, the way I prefer it, some are all lower case, some are mixed
case, and some are a mixture of all types. In the latter it appears that
whomever was
I've been listening to this with a mix of amusement and sympathy. I've been
doing integration work between (originally DOS) and PICK since the early 80's,
and have found myself shifting between C/C++/C#/Java/Other and PICK on a
regular basis. I've come to accept that most of my customers want
I am not sure that is a good argument .. a simple 15-20 line program FIND
will convert all to upper case and do a search that way.
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos
SigsSolutions, Inc.
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Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case
From:
Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis, soccer)
in High School and am glad I did.
Eric
-Original Message-
From: Robert Houben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:24 AM
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Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code
Also most modern editors allow a case insensitive search - wintegrate editor
and unidebugger do at least !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I was not trying to offend anyone with that remark but back in the day
typing was something that girls took and boys took shop. It was a fact
not an accusation. Although I think it would have been a great asset for
me today at the time it was hard enough trying to get through all of the
social
Jerry, no offence taken here - I was in an all-girls college-prep high
school, and the nuns refused to offer typing to the honors-track girls on
the theory that we were not headed for secretarial jobs. My mother, bright
woman that she was, decided that I would need to be able to type my
Typing and speed reading. Really came in handy too.
BTW, to the comment about straight guys not taking typing:
Charles Shaffer
Senior Analyst
NTN-Bower Corporation
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No offence taken. I got your point. I was just pointing out that some boys
saw benefits courses like typing! :) I think we took it for reasons that
were a bit unusual, but it sure worked out in the long run!
BTW, my sister was the first girl to break into shop along with a friend of
hers at
Do they even teach typing in school these day? My 15 year old daughter
(who has had access to a computer since she was 2) is a fast 2 figure
typist. I keep trying to get her to learn touch typing like I was
taught in high school and college to no avail! She doesn't see the need
for it!
Brenda:
Did you ever see the Jay Leno skit with two green-eyeshade gentlemen sending
each
other a message via morse-code verses two of the best college text messagers?
Green-eyeshaders won hands down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhsSgcsTMd4
Sometimes old is good! :-)
Bill
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You should have seen what happened when my daughter decided to take Auto
Shop. The instructors blood pressure must have nearly doubled when he
found out he had a girl in his class. And that was just 8 years ago.
Jerry Banker
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From: Robert Houben [mailto:[EMAIL
Back in MY day, boys took shop in Jr. High (and girls took Home Ec). By the
time I was in high school, the only boys in shop classes were the Vocational
Ed students.
Typing was recommended for college prep students of both genders, in order
to become proficient at typing term papers.
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They teach the 21st century equivalent -- keyboarding.
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:15 PM
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Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case
Do they even
Kevin:
Sorry if I offended in any way; that was not my intention. I learned to type
in high
school. Typing got me a cushy job in the military. It got me extra money
through
college. When one learns to type two characteristics stand out; hands rest on
the
keyboard and eyes are generally
I'm testing a new RH ES 5.0 server running UV 10.2.7, and I'm getting an
odd error message on a write to a file:
--
Found buffer on freechain that is marked as in use.
Possible file corruption can be fixed with RESIZE.
Program PGMWB0001: Line 2977, WRITE failure.
--
There is nothing
In our school, seniors had a mandatory half year drivers ed followed by a
mandatory half year of typing. I've been thankful for that ever since :)
That's all history now; budget cuts eliminated driver's ed a long time ago,
and typing is now back to a secretarial thing.
Ron
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Any triggers on the file?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM, John Hester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm testing a new RH ES 5.0 server running UV 10.2.7, and I'm getting an
odd error message on a write to a file:
--
Found buffer on freechain that is marked as in use.
Possible file
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