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For me, being listed as a contributor to Ingenuity is one of the highlights of my career in software development. I mean, I just fixed a bug in some python libr
by patall 3y ago
For me, being listed as a contributor to Ingenuity is one of the highlights of my career in software development. I mean, I just fixed a bug in some python library, but that was enough to get the GitHub Ingenuity badge. And when ever I am asked for a fun fact about myself, I can answer: some of my code is flying on Mars :)
- mlsu 3y agoIngenuity is running Python?
- Rebelgecko 3y agoThe vehicle itself is mostly C++ but there's lots of python in the ground station and data processing
- varelse 3y ago[dead]
- jeffparsons 3y agoWow, I somehow never imagined that even NASA's technology choices would be influenced by "all the data stuff being for Python". But I guess if it's all sandboxed and any errors are reversible... then why not? It all makes rational sense. It just feels weird to think about Python running on Mars before there's even people there.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoGP stated, that there is a lot of Python based stuff on the ground though, as I read it. Not necessarily on Mars.
- jeffparsons 3y agoAh, I see. I read "ground station" as hardware on the ground on Mars, as opposed to on the helicopter itself.
- foobarbecue 3y agoWe did recently (2 months ago...?) add a couple of Python scripts to the heli for the first time.
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- latchkey 3y agoI contributed to `twbs/bootstrap` and got the badge too, lol.
- hackernewds 3y agoThis has "University: Stanford" and "Company: Apple, Role: Individual Investor" energy (I'm kidding, the badging system is funny)
- bitwize 3y agoSpeaking as someone some of whose code probably helped search for the fallen Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 a decade back, I gotta say, you have me beat by a country mile and deserve to be chuffed.
- spoonjim 3y agoI don’t think you should be apologetic about the small scale of your contribution: the animating principle of open source is that the aggregation of small contributions like yours can create outcomes that rival those of even the wealthiest organizations in the world.
- jacquesm 3y agoBut usually it is a handful of really large contributors and more smaller ones. And that's fine, but I'm not aware of a project where the contribution graph is more or less flat. And more often than not those large contributors are paid by large companies to contribute.
- wolverine876 3y agoI wonder which largish FOSS project has the flattest contribution graph?
- jacquesm 3y agoThat's a great question. Whichever project it turns out to be their governance and leadership will be well worth studying.
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