[NTLK] Developer news...

Matthias Melcher m.melcher at robowerk.de
Tue Mar 3 20:37:32 EST 2020


Yes, the urge to build a new Rex for Einstein triggered this project. I wanted to be able to build the entire Einstein Rex from source with native tools only. It started with a "Hey, such a tool can easily be written in three days or four..." and required the typical four days of Developer Time(tm). 

Developer Time is the time that a software developer/web designer/system administrator thinks a project will take. To convert this into Human Time, multiply the value by two and choose the next higher time unit. So 4 Minutes become 8 hours, 6 days become 12 weeks, and "Oh, this will take us a month, two tops" translates to four years in Human Time after hiring three more developers.

 - Matthias

> On Mar 2, 2020, at 16:41, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
> 
> Nice work, Matthias.
> 
> I confess, when I realized that I could build the Einstein REX from Linux, and it was running MacOS tools on my x86 Linux machine, my jaw dropped.
> 
> -V
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