RogerL

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   by RogerL 12y ago

   & looks like a G clef, sort of.
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   My first language was Basic (in 1982). The second was assembly. I've gotten by in my career (to put it mildly). What "top tier" undergraduate program is graduating students that can't lay out data structures in memory, d
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   That was a throwaway sentence by the article's author, one that perplexes me, because it has nothing to do with the article or Dr. Simon. It is a complex combination of usually disparate skills, all at a very high level, that allows hi
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   And you have the ever fun "I'm not worried about whether it compiles", followed up with endless "you forgot a semi-colon", "you didn't declare that variable", and so on.
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   Writing a Creative Commons licenced book on Kalman and Bayes filters, along with supporting software. It's been slow going the last few weeks as I have taken time to teach a class on it at work. The working premise is that you can get
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   Also, he states that "Lines that fit our data better will result in lower error values". Strictly speaking, that is not true. The error function is a mathematical model for reality; the result is a 'best fit in a linear least
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   No, I wouldn't. Why? Because I already can do this, and I haven't. The internet is full of survival gear/food packages, and I haven't bought any of them. Therefore, the odds of me doing it with your company is about zero
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   This is what everyone is saying. The only question is whether to ever use auto in non-generic code. I think it is unarguable that if you can write foo(goo()) in a clean way you can equally use auto. And if you can't do the former, yo
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   by RogerL 12y ago

   To be honest, I just hover my mouse over 'bar' to get the type, and I name 'bar' something more meaningful than bar. "ball_covariance", "movie_recommendations", or whatever that matrix multiplication
10. 490.▲
    by RogerL 12y ago

    Not only that, but ads pay for the otherwise free content. We used to have to trudge to the library, in the snow, uphill both ways, to pour over out of date books to try to find information. Or pay very high prices to have a librarian type
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    Are you sad because of the auto, or the terrible variable names? auto gps_position = *saved_position; I can think of cases where I'd want to see the type of auto, but not often.
12. 492.▲
    by RogerL 12y ago

    You're right.
13. 493.▲
    by RogerL 12y ago

    Do you allow this to pass code review (ignoring the bad name 'foo')? foo (A*x); 'A * x' creates a temporary with no documented type, but the conceit here is that we don't care. They could be ints, floats, mat
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I'm working today (Sunday) so I can accomplish something for work. Most of my work occurs on the weekend, before I go to work, or after I get home. Yet I am at the office >40hrs/week. It's a madness that I cannot sustain.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    > I think if I could get over the moral aspect of making weapons the bureaucracy involved working with/for the military would still drive me insane. It's not so bad. Okay, it is bad, but I'm driven crazy by a lot of the st
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I'm not at all against drones. They are clearly working for us and others; for me to try to claim otherwise would be trivially wrong. There will always be a tension between cheap-and-fast vs expensive-and-precise. I've spent my ca
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I want to write to back you up on this. I've spent most of (not all of) my career in military avionics and aerospace. And this was at small companies. The big companies win the big contracts, but so much is contracted out, and there ar
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    You tell them to go away. You tell them to not call you. You tell them to not call others in your company. And yet still they call. And call. And call. And email. And call. It never stops.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    That's a good point. I wasn't in the business of writing the compilers, just using them. At my University we had Ada for free (I studied with Mike Feldman, listed below); I don't know what the licensing was for it to the scho
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I will have to ask. I don't work with this technology, and haven't touched the code. I work in computer vision for baseball, with a completely different set of challenges.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    Sorry, don't have a clue, I joined in 2012.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    A lot of this has changed since then, of course. No grass swatches anymore! We have a lot more computer horsepower to throw at the problem now, plus a lot of gained experience. We have a bay in our lab with a to-scale football field where w
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    Yes, oddly enough they don't reschedule the Super Bowl for us if a job is going to take a few extra days.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I work here, if you have any questions...
25. 505.▲
    by RogerL 12y ago

    I understand the point perfectly. It does not change the economics of the situation for the compiler writers. There is no way a company could have offered an Ada compiler for, say, $100, or even $500.
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    Ada has packages, generics, exceptions, concurrency, default values, operator overloading, user defined types, fixed point, subtypes (so you can, for example, limit an integer to the range 0..100, and then the compiler has to check to see t
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    It really wasn't ridiculous. I know, from the point of view of your budget, it really was, but... The compiler writers were serving a tiny sliver of a market. At the time it took a lot of resources to build such a compiler, and then yo
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I see this all the time. We have plenty of people that work with computers, but don't program them. Their inability to write a 5 line script, or even realize they could walk into a dev's office, explain what they want done, and
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    You were lucky. I forget the paper I saw it in, so I cannot link to it, but it was a story of a very similar situation. Except the person that stopped to help ended up getting mugged and beaten. The police quoted in the article advised ever
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    by RogerL 12y ago

    I'm not sure I understand the other comments. When I moved here in 2012 I had to rent for several months until I found a house to buy. I ended up in a B&B that I found on craigslist for the price you mentioned. I just went to CL ju