Cargo cult software engineering is easy to identify. Cargo cult software engineers justify their practices by saying, "We’ve always done it this way in the past," or "our company standards require us to do it this way"—even when those ways make no sense.
I've seen a race of electronically linked humanoids who share information in a vast decentralized net to which they all have access; who see data as a kind of neutral atmosphere, like air; who use technology to share thoughts and impressions at all times; who are never out of contact with one another; and who react to the briefest removal from their shared consciousness with an itchy, frantic eagerness (cf. "Hugh") to get back.
I'm trying to amass a list of programming books that are freely available on the Internet. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.
What are some freely available programming books on the Internet?
The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is an error that occurs when the conditional probability of some hypothesis H given some evidence E is assessed without taking into account the prior probability ("base rate") of H and the total probability of evidence E.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
A. Leitner, M. Oriol, A. Zeller, I. Ciupa, and B. Meyer. Proceedings of the Twenty-second IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, page 417--420. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
A. Lancichinetti, and S. Fortunato. (2009)cite arxiv:0908.1062Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures. The software to compute the values of our general normalized mutual information is available at http://santo.fortunato.googlepages.com/inthepress2.
A. Cal\`ı, G. Gottlob, and T. Lukasiewicz. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Theory, page 14--30. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
S. Ceri, E. Valle, D. Pedreschi, and R. Trasarti. Conceptual Modeling, volume 7532 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2012)
R. Angles, and C. Gutierrez. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, volume 3532 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2005)
A. Das Sarma, X. Dong, and A. Halevy. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, page 861--874. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)