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Apr 29 |
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How did the term “hypervisor” come into use? Not all IBM's technical reports are published in journals. I couldn't find it here -- domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/index.html -- but there's an email address. |
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Apr 29 |
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How did the term “hypervisor” come into use? Here's a full citation: R. Adair, R. Bayles, L. Comeau, and R. Creasy. A virtual machine system for the 360/40. Technical Report 320-2007, IBM Corporation, Cambridge Scientific Center, May 1966. |
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Jan 21 |
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Where does the the term “feature creep” come from? From Google Books, here's a possible 1988 and 1989 feature creep, but they're snippets so the dates could be wrong. |
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Jan 6 |
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Is “frontend” generic term or it is used only in web design? See also: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/177143/… |
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Nov 30 |
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How to deal with well-meaning open-source contributors? @Solo: Certainly. It's also OK to expect/ask the contributor to maintain and fix bugs in their feature, at least until the rest of the team learns that code, and especially for larger commits. |
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Nov 26 |
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Where does the term “Front End” come from? I've submitted both antedatings to the OED. |
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Jan 8 |
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Is documentation a User Story? If documentation is needed, eventually it can become part of the definition of done. |
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Dec 23 |
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Who decided on the terminology downcasting and upcasting? Downcasting references from 1992: Allen I. Holub - C + C++: programming with objects in C and C++, Raimund K. Ege, Madhu Singh, Bertrand Meyer - Technology of object-oriented languages and systems: TOOLS 8 : proceedings of the eighth International Conference, TOOLS Santa Barbara 1992, Richard Wiener - Journal of object-oriented programming, Volume 5. |
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Dec 23 |
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Who decided on the terminology downcasting and upcasting? It's not so easy to search for their origins because upcasting and downcasting have older meanings. But perhaps those meanings influenced the OOP words. But the Ngram shows big increases around 1980 and 1995. The earliest certain references to downcast[ing] I found are from 1992 in C++ literature... |
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Nov 7 |
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Are there standard practices when writing a spec for a software development project? @MaR Yes, that's also a good idea. However, I think line numbers are also useful for pinpointing exact descriptions of text, especially for multi-line requirements or multi-sentence descriptions. |
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Nov 6 |
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How to deal with users who think their computer could think? @Andrew: "I swear that shopping trolley hates me, it never goes in the right direction..." |
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Nov 6 |
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Why is an array of characters called a String in Object Oriented languages? Possible duplicate of programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/43329/… and also dealt with in detail at stackoverflow.com/questions/880195/… |
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Oct 31 |
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Is “truthiness” a legitimate programming term? Edison wrote in 1878: It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that 'Bugs' — as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached. Sounds very similar to modern software bugs to me. |
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Oct 31 |
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Is “truthiness” a legitimate programming term? @DeanHarding There are ways of searching for words before a given date, for example using Google Books and in Usenet. |
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Oct 31 |
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Is “truthiness” a legitimate programming term? I couldn't find any from ACM or IEEE before 2006. |
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Oct 20 |
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List of reserved words a username can't be? This is a bit like how Flickr have done it: flickr.com/photos/username but at some point they made it so flickr.com/username will redirect. However, some people have usernames that cannot redirect, such as photos and about. |
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Oct 19 |
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Is it Ok to change estimates in the middle of an iteration? Ask yourselves: what's the benefit of spending time re-estimating mid-sprint? What's the benefit of spending more time 'arguing' over fine grained 3 vs. 4 vs. 5 compared to a rough 3 vs. 5? |
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Oct 16 |
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Is there such a thing as a “when” statement? -1 for a link with no summary; linkrot can happen. |
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Oct 8 |
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Are there standard guidelines for auditing software for possible buyout? I don't think a company would audit itself: "We're great, everything's perfect, our software is amazing, in fact we recommend a 50% increase". |
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Oct 4 |
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What electronic user-story-mapping tools can you recommend? Isn't the whole point of story mapping to lay out the whole system before you to be able to visualise the whole thing? Electronic tools will tend to obscure this. |
