Software Estimations

by adam on January 31, 2012

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Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?Edit

Ideas wanted

by adam on December 27, 2011

As of this morning I am the proud new owner of the following domains TalkSend.com, ZipHire.com and ZonkBox.com.

I have some ideas of what could be made out of them, but seeing as I have no time to develop any of them properly, I am opening them up to anyone who has a good idea to develop one of them. Have an idea and the skills for developing one of them? Get in touch.

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War & Peace

by adam on August 18, 2011

War and Peace term usage in historical texts visualized using Google’s NGram Viewer

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Impact of New Technology

by adam on August 9, 2011

People seem to routinely overestimate the impact of new technologies in the short-run and under estimate the long-run impact. As a rule of thumb, a new technologies impact will be overestimated for 3-7 years looking forward, and underestimated 7-10 years out

There are a number of reasons for this including the Technology Adoption Life-Cycle and Moore’s Law.

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