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According to Swanson's maintenance activities, what category does paying down Technical Debt in a Software fall into?
I am trying to understand the categories of maintenance activities described by E.B. Swanson, i.e., Perfective, Adaptive, and Corrective; which category does paying down Technical Debt (TD) fall into? ...
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Where did the quote or study of developers write 10 lines of code per day come from?
When I search the internet people said there was a 'study' that says developers write 10 lines of code per day come. Other results claim the mythical man month says it. I searched a digital copy of ...
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How can I know when a paper is too hard for me to be able to implement their code and/or understand their math - within a given deadline?
I've been assigned to explore implementing (along with modifications, so understanding it is a must) this algorithm for the 'Redistricting Problem': https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3274895.3274979 ....
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When to update neural network model in production?
I have a trained neural network about to go into production, and am wondering about when to update it with new data.
Say, if the "Similar questions" banner when asking a question is ...
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Convincing "agile" product managers of the value of planning
Became tech lead of a startup a few months ago. Software development is under Product in the org chart.
Even by startup standards the codebase I've inherited is poor. Example: the dev team took three ...
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How to reconcile 'notebook'-style programming with other best practices?
I try to write most of my code using standard practices. Those include amongst other and related to this specific question having short-ish functions, well encapsulated objects when OO is used, not ...
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Are there any actionable conclusions from the paper "On the correlation between size and metric validity"?
In the paper On the correlation between size and metric validity Gil and Lalouche conclude that all popular software metrics are only valid insofar as they are correlated with code size.
They use ...
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If there are two ways of approaching a task, how should one choose between them?
I have a specific use case, and have found 3 ways of doing it across the internet, which are defined for vague usage cases. I am staring at these three wondering which to apply.
I tend to sit there ...
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Are there any build systems that incorporate relative expected task times into the schedule?
Here's a small illustration of my question:
Assume a build job that consists of 4 independent tasks named A-D. D takes longer than A-C do in sum.
A build system that cannot incorporate the relative ...
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How to handle large number of configuration parameters across a program conceptually?
Imagine a software system where you have like 100 parameters, each of which is sensible to change (in my case this is a reasearch system for machine learning). The obvious solution is to store all ...
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How to research API usage?
I'd like to find out how often and if a certain pattern in a certain programming language is used.
In my case - I'd like to find out how many/if people do eval("/"+regexString+"/") in JavaScript and/...
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What are the implications of implementing a research idea published by a university? [closed]
Suppose a researcher publishes a paper about something that could potentially be of high revenue potential.
A software developer reads it then decides to pursue a business with it.
What are the ...
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Which license retains copyright while allowing work to be shared and derived from?
I am working on an academic research project whose results and some code we intend to publish. Research journals and conferences explicitly require that the authors have copyright over the work done ...
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Is 25% to me as sole author a good deal? [closed]
This is my first contract negotiation. So I've written a program which supports some hardware that the company makes. (The support is important, and most customers will buy it, but the software ...
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What is a good rule-of-thumb for naming link-tables?
In the same way that a publication table might relate to a person table via subscriptions, or a company table might relate to a person table via employee, I'm wondering if there is a descriptive way ...
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