The evidence for applications having a half-life continues to spread across domains. The first published data covered IBM mainframe applications up to 1992 (half-life of at least 5-years), and was mostly ignored. Then, the data collected by Killed by Google up to 2018, showed a half-life of at least 3-years for Google apps. More recently, […]| The Shape of Code
Estimates of the time needed to implement a software task are often given in whole hours (i.e., no minutes), with round numbers being preferred. Surprisingly, reported actual implementation times also share this ‘preference’ for whole hours and round numbers (around a third of short task estimates are accurate, so it is to be expected that around a third of actual implementation times will be some number of whole hours, at least for the small percentage of projects that record task imple...| The Shape of Code
Abstract New Public Management (NPM) can be classified within the naturalist philosophy of science. I introduce naturalist philosophers that laid out the framework for NPM including Bacon, Galileo…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective