I'll belatedly second the recommendation of the "City Watch" series. I found "Night Watch" to be particularly enjoyable.
Sometimes, people are asked to become managers because their managers think that they have the right combination of skills and attributes to be good at the job. And sometimes, the people who were asked, due to a…
I actually thought this thread was going to be about CIRA’s amazing set of Canadian stock photos, which includes references to the strategic maple syrup reserve:…
I’m posting this in case it helps someone: I used to suffer fairly severe migraines with aura every month or two until I started taking a chelated magnesium supplement for an unrelated purpose. I found that my migraines…
My understanding is that it’s not a technical issue, but rather a business and marketing one. Comcast doesn’t want the home service to compete with their costlier Business service, so they artificially limit the upload…
I would prefer not to estimate at all because estimates are, in the Lean sense, waste: i.e., something that your customers don’t value. Unfortunately, that argument never worked with my managers at project budgeting…
As Goldratt says in “Beyond the Goal”: Any project management methodology that doesn’t account for Murphy’s Law is not a realistic methodology.
Stereotypes aside, some of us were/are both.
My pleasure. As iainctduncan mentioned, the authors are wonderful teachers, and the book serves as a good warmup before diving into SICP.
IIRC, “Simply Scheme” describes several different recursion patterns, and it provides a number of exercises that match each pattern.
I'll belatedly second the recommendation of the "City Watch" series. I found "Night Watch" to be particularly enjoyable.
Sometimes, people are asked to become managers because their managers think that they have the right combination of skills and attributes to be good at the job. And sometimes, the people who were asked, due to a…
I actually thought this thread was going to be about CIRA’s amazing set of Canadian stock photos, which includes references to the strategic maple syrup reserve:…
I’m posting this in case it helps someone: I used to suffer fairly severe migraines with aura every month or two until I started taking a chelated magnesium supplement for an unrelated purpose. I found that my migraines…
My understanding is that it’s not a technical issue, but rather a business and marketing one. Comcast doesn’t want the home service to compete with their costlier Business service, so they artificially limit the upload…
I would prefer not to estimate at all because estimates are, in the Lean sense, waste: i.e., something that your customers don’t value. Unfortunately, that argument never worked with my managers at project budgeting…
As Goldratt says in “Beyond the Goal”: Any project management methodology that doesn’t account for Murphy’s Law is not a realistic methodology.
Stereotypes aside, some of us were/are both.
My pleasure. As iainctduncan mentioned, the authors are wonderful teachers, and the book serves as a good warmup before diving into SICP.
IIRC, “Simply Scheme” describes several different recursion patterns, and it provides a number of exercises that match each pattern.