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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Microsoft receives $29B IRS tax notices for decade-old transactions

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billion, plus penalties and interest for the period between 2004 and 2013. “As The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9

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Barbara Liskov Biography

The Crazy Programmer

The Liskov Substitution Principle, developed by her, states the basic nature of data abstraction and is used in type theory and object-oriented programming. Liskov won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for fundamental contributions to programming languages in 2004. She has done great work in the field of programming languages.

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Niklaus Wirth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In the year 1984, he was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages like EULER, MODULA, ALGOL-W, and Pascal. He was made a fellow of the Computer history museum in the year 2004. He is a Swiss computer scientist. MSc, and Ph.D.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. Here’s how it played out.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

TechCrunch

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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