StellarScience

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   by StellarScience 10mo ago

   I've been writing complex scientific UIs for more than two decades and still don't feel like I always get it right. We aim for "gradual reveal" and making the most common options easy to find and use, but it's hard
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   by StellarScience 10mo ago

   Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company : We're a small scientific softwar
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   by StellarScience 11mo ago

   Exactly. Unlike Java where every object inherits from Ojbect, in C++ multiply inheriting from objects with a common base class is rare. Some older C++ frameworks give all their objects a common base class. If that inheritance isn't vir
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   by StellarScience 11mo ago

   Thanks for your interest. Currently we require relocation. We're "hybrid" so some occasional work from home may be allowed, but not fully remote.
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   by StellarScience 11mo ago

   We paused hiring fresh grads, but still hire interns, and those who prove themselves get full-time offers. We've found internships to be a great pipeline to great hires over the years. We've had several candidates with completed b
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   by StellarScience 11mo ago

   Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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   by StellarScience 1y ago

   Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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   by StellarScience 1y ago

   Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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   by StellarScience 1y ago

   I find AI helpful when coding in unfamiliar languages or topics, as it generates initial code that roughly works, that I can then iterate on. Even so, I have to constantly hound the AI to write concise code, to reuse code, to consolidate du
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    Right, for example early LLMs were notoriously bad at math, as they had been trained on language. They'd get simple math right, likely due to "rote memorization", but couldn't do basic arithmetic with 3-digit numbers. Th
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    With the latest Microsoft Word, if you open a PDF that is a scanned image of a document and convert it to Word format, it does a pretty decent job of not only OCR (optical character recognition) but also picking matching fonts for various
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    You're absolutely right that "procedural", at least as I understand the word in 2025, is a poor label for 6.001. 6.001 taught 'define' and 'let' but didn't teach 'set!' until week 6 or so. S
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    We have a user interface design rule that keyboard shortcuts and context menus must only be "shortcuts" for commands that are discoverable via clear buttons or menus. That probably makes our apps old-fashioned. I recall learning t
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 1y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com (sorry, summer 2025 internships have been filled)
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com (sorry, summer 2025 internships have been filled)
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Ada was an impressive language for its day. But even with Ada, government never mandated its use generally - only for certain government projects, and waivers were available with justification. And as industry took the lead in language inno
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    > All in all, the open nature of Firefox causes it to be fundamentally built on trust, to a larger extent than seems possible in most proprietary software companies. Nice! We're still small so we somehow can keep that level of tru
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    We used to buy Microsoft MSDN subscriptions, which got us constant upgrades of Visual Studio and other development tools. Those licenses were perpetual - you'd get a disk with e.g. Visual Studio 2007 on it, and you were legally entitle
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Great points, I'd just add: > A lot of inconsistency is the result of unwillingness to fix other people's stuff Agree, so we find it best to practice "no code ownership" or better yet "shared code ownership.&quo
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, INTERNS/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Thanks, we are familiar with (and were initially a bit concerned by) that SpaceX example. However their situation is slightly different. They were able to hire Permanent Residents, but failed to mention in their ads that they could also h
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Unfortunately the latter, but welcome and please keep us in mind in about a year!
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, INTERNS/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, INTERNS/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software de
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Stellar Science | Hybrid USA Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, INTERNS/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com Company: We're a small scientific software deve
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    Agreed, waterfall fails right off the bat at "gather requirements." If you ask the Air Force how fast a new proposed plane has to fly, they'll say "as fast as possible." Or maybe they'll say "fast enough t
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    by StellarScience 2y ago

    2+ decades ago, US Air Force acquisition classes taught exactly this method. I don't recall whether they used the word "waterfall", but they showed the same diagrams and treated software development like massive hardware proj