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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • The difference between software development and software engineering

    The difference between software development and software engineering: Software development: The system performs function A. Software engineering: The system performs function A under operating conditions B with operational performance parameters C with tolerances within the probability distribution D and reliability within the probability distribution E and we are legally responsible if it doesn’t. Teaching software…

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  • Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel

    Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel: When heralding the age of mass customization and the rise of rapid prototyping it is easy to get enthusiastic. Even when talking about what could go wrong, people typically stop at “but a lot of amateurs will generate bad early attempts”. Talk about crapjects and strange shaper…

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  • Google Wants Your Next Password To Be A Physical One

    Google Wants Your Next Password To Be A Physical One: New research from Google suggests what we all likely know to be true – your pet’s name followed by a few numbers just isn’t cutting it as a password these days. Google Declares War on the Password: Want an easier way to log into your…

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  • Systems Engineering and Automation

    Systems Engineering: A great definition: This re-emergence of the systems engineering (or “full-stack” engineering) notion is excellent and exciting to me, and I’m hoping that everyone in our field, when they hear “DevOps” […] what they mean is taking a systems engineering view. A Mature Role for Automation: Part I: One of the ideas that…

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  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

    The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational: The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. Some more to think about… or just a good reference of the cognitive…

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  • Auditors Criticise Without Value Addition

    Auditors Criticise Without Value Addition: The reputation comes from doing post mortems, writing long reports on deficiencies and criticizing the work of business teams. No one likes a critic and especially not those who do not do any value addition. So where are we going wrong? Think about it!

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  • The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It

    The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It: People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. I can follow the observations, but I can’t imagine what David Gelernter’s future…

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  • Drink hackers take home carbonators to the limit

    Drink hackers take home carbonators to the limit: It seems inevitable that if a product specifically advises against certain activities that some people are going to push the limit. Oh those hackers…

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  • Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead

    Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead: Yammer’s biggest rule of thumb is “2 to 10 people, 2 to 10 weeks,” which means they generally don’t do projects that are larger or more complicated. There is a non-linear relationship between the complexity of a project and the wrap-up integration phase at the…

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  • Splunk rides machine data wave, expands enterprise footprint

    Splunk rides machine data wave, expands enterprise footprint: Splunk is turning departmental deals into enterprise wide license agreements and becoming a machine data staple for many companies. Splunk has managed to ride security and a bevy of other machine-data use cases to emerge as an enterprise-wide platform. There’s your high-level plan on how to get…

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