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Archive for March 13th, 2025

Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …” (research paper by Berend van der Kolk and Wesley Kaufmann)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”

This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.

Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control

Abstract

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For my link archive: Counting the leading zeroes and ones in a binary number with C#

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

From a while back, but still interesting:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Counting the leading zeroes in a binary number with C#
  2. [Wayback/Archive] c# – Getting the number of leading 1 bits – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly and [Wayback/Archive] SoapBox)

Especially the first link explains the algorithm very well and is similar to links referred to from the Stack Overflow question as it is based on counting ones (and leading ones are basically leading zeros but bit-inverted).

It also explains a cool thing for leading zeros: modern CPU have instructions which .NET Core.

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