Software processes promise to increase efficiency, so the software can be developed cheaper, quicker, or with a better quality. For a classical example of how it can be achieved, let’s examine the waterfall process. One of its ideas — to gather as complete and detailed requirements as possible upfront and to freeze them after the …
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When I was member of the young pioneer organization, which was the communist boy-scouts pendant, I’ve learned its rule “criticizing, suggest”. Basically it means, it is uncool to criticize without proposing an alternative solution. So I felt myself obligated to supplement the process critique with some constructive solutions, which in my opinion should be at least …
Some time ago, I’ve added “When China Rules the World” by Martin Jacques into my Amazon wishlist. I was attracted by the provocative title and believed it should be a small book containing sarcastic passages about prejudices about both world and the chinese culture, witty anecdotes and such. Something like “User’s Guide to <put your country …
I favorited a YouTube video — Pink – I don't believe you http://youtu.be/1qX97WlXef8?a # I thought the configuration of WCF is very bad, but they made it even worse in WCF4: http://bit.ly/8dsDdv #EPIC #FAIL # Silverlight MediaElement has issues playing Icecast streams with AutoPlay=true. Workaround: call Play() manually. # Trinke zum letzten Mal Teekanne's "Wind …
The more I learn about different cultures, the more I find cases when same thing has different meaning in different cultures. The most well-known example is, probably, the white color, in european tradition meaning purity and innosence, but in Japan related to death. My favorite is what you should do with birthday presents. One line …
So, if Nexus One is even more shiit than iPhone, what phone should I buy? Need mobile Inet and mobile apps like foursquare # Absolutely amazing site http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com. And you know, it worked on me. # Existance of such typical responsibility transfer letters indicates an utterly incompetent management http://j.mp/1nppF2. # I particularly like the housewife …
Today’s rant is motivated by the announcement that Google is going to stop censoring in China. This is exactly the kind of things happening in the so-called developing countries, and it is a part of the reason of me leaving Russia. The life in a developing country is… pretty much possible. A development country is not …
#radiot ??????? ???????? ????? # Dieses Twit enthält Content von Sony Music Entertainment. Es ist in deinem Land nicht mehr verfügbar. # Gibt es eine Alternative zu Youtube, die mir erlaubt, für das Premium-Content zu zahlen statt es arrogant auszublenden? # ?? and ?? differ only in tone. In Russian, we can use the same …
In 2009, life gave me mostly lemons. But: So I have made plenty of lemonade out of them. Hope you’ve enjoyed it, but for me, it was actually too much soda. I’d like to switch to the healthy Jasmine tee this year.
I’ve got an electronic image frame on this Xmas. What photos should I put on it? It looks like this typical frame people usually have on their tables in the office. But I have neither children nor wife, and I see my parents almost every day in person anyway. For some reason, I don’t have a …