confused of calcutta

In my last post I mentioned how much I enjoyed reading what he had to say. I now find he has a blog as well, to be found here. A taster, taken from this post entitled Surprising Findings On Software Reuse:
Kevin DeSouza and his colleagues in a recent article in the Communications of the ACM [...]

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A prefatory note: I am not ashamed of being called Utopian.
When I started full-time “work” nearly thirty years ago, straight out of university, I had no idea what to expect. So I imagined that work was a natural extension of university. And for me, university was a natural extension of school: I attended a Jesuit [...]

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The kernel for this particular snowball was a conversation over dinner, where someone asked me how I dealt with all the flames against my blog.
My answer to him was pretty much off-the-cuff, I didn’t spend time trying to figure it out. I told him that the number of flames was negligible. He then followed up [...]

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