Episode 317 of The Reality Check is really fantastic. Elan leads things off by looking into the claim that excellent programmers can be more than 10 times more productive than average ones. Next, Adam looks into some “parody” websites. Darren closes out the show by answering if it’s true that the iPhone 6 bends.
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SHOW NOTES
Programmer Productivity
Martin Fowler – Cannot Measure Productivity
Steve McConnel – Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of 10x
Laurent Bossavit – Fact and folklore in software engineering
Steve McConnel – Origins of 10X – How Valid is the Underlying Research?
Wikipedia – Construct Validity
Parody Web Sites
New York Artist Creates Art That is Invisible – This is That
The Sheer Stupidity of Useful Idiots on Full Display; Looks Like the ‘Intellectuals’ Aren’t So Smart
Blank canvas: London gallery unveils ‘invisible’ art exhibition – News – Art – The Independent
Sarah Palin: ‘Don’t Forget Your Umbrella’ During Solar Storm
Sarah Palin’s North Korea Slip: ‘We’ve Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies’
Sarah Palin’s family sought health care in Canada – Telegraph
Sarah Palin: ‘I’ll Go To Canada’ for Health Care – The Daily Currant
The Great Satirical-News Scam of 2014
New Driving law bans motorists from eating breakfast sandwiches in Nova Scotia
Sweden Insists On Fire Alarms On Hotel Made Of Ice – Techdirt
Saudi Arabia bans 50 ‘blasphemous’ baby names — like Benjamin – The Washington Times
Carolina Church Charging Admission Fee for Sunday Service – The News Nerd
Assault over saved seats at Mormon chapel leads to jail sentence – Deseret News
Brooke Burns: In Hollywood: ‘If you go to church you’re crazy’ – Fox News
Marijuana Cures, Vaccinates Hepatitis C, Research Shows – National Report
Cannabis oil cured my terminal cancer – Daily Express
Marijuana: The next diabetes drug? – CNN Health
Facebook Is Testing a ‘Satire’ Label for Stories from ‘The Onion’
Museum of Non-Visible Art- Praxis & James Franco collaborate
iPhone Bending
Cult of Mac: The Shocking History of Bent Smartphones
even/odd applies to integers only, so:
if(whatever & 1)
-> odd
else
-> even
divide by 2, check remainder? seriously?
on a gen 4 intel, an (unsigned) DIV is ~11 cycles worst-case for 32 bits and ~74 worst-case for 64 bits while AND+CMP is 1-2 cycles
that’s your 10x more competent programmer improvement right there
Ha! I don’t know how an explanation of bitwise operators would have played on the podcast.
Yes, probably not all that well. 😀
I have a question about the invisible art/parody website segment. I listened to the interview on CBC radio this is that show. The host interviewed Lana about the invisible art and how she came to doing that. My question is, are you saying the whole interview is fake?
Hi Danielle: Yes. It is a complete fabrication, something This Is That often do. Lana is not real.