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Why does Halstead's formula for estimated program length look like this?

According to the Halstead's software metrics: Estimated program length: Can you please explain me, why the formula uses logarithm to base 2? Why not something else? Why exactly logarithm? What’s ...
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Performance: Looping on data on the server or getting data looped on clients via socket connection

I have a web application the mobile app users are connected it by using websocket. The server has data A that can be changed in time. And the clients (mobile app) have data B that also can be changed ...
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Time complexity implications when designing shell scripts for large data/high number of files?

There are many questions about the performance of commands or scripts on the U+L SE asset. As time is of the essence, this is often evaluated using the bash time reserved word or the external time ...
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Should there be a formal role (internal or external) assigned to dev environments to control wasteful complexity?

A few years ago, I worked for a small company that went so far into developing in-house frameworks that they dedicated their most senior developer, and their architect to developing a custom MVC ...
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Using Completed User Stories to Estimate Future User Stories

In Scrum/Agile, the complexity of a user story can be estimated in story points. After completing some user stories, a programmer or team of programmers can use those experiences to better estimate ...
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