ZaoLahma

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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Why is it troublesome? As someone with very limited knowledge in aircraft development, I'm genuinely curious about what more modern designs would bring to the table compared to the modern 737s, which I assume are heavily updated versio
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I remember watching the youtube stream when it took its first flight 2 years ago. I still get goosebumps when the engineers analyze the flight logs and confirm that it was successful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCq
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I guess the value in reporting it is that for most people, for us on HN as well, computing is considered accurate. You can trust the output if you trust the input and the program that processes the input. That is what we expect and value in
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Perhaps in the hyper inflated SV economy, but in the rest of the world you don't get to retire until you've reached the normal retirement age (minus a few years perhaps), and that makes it quite natural to see newly employed softw
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> Yet they managed to crank out code much faster, and with far fewer bugs, than today's programmers can seem to manage The reality is that today's programmers, especially in the big corporations, spend a lot of time not doing p
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> Be an adult. Funny. That was the EXACT advice / instruction we got from management when I was in such a team. It had already been going on for years when I went there, to the point where half of the team (the ones not involved in
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> ... and after a long discussion, decided that he could not work with Borman. This I wish was (still?) acceptable. It's like somewhere along the way we decided that everyone must be able to cooperate effectively and efficiently wit
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> But isn't that something of the past? I most certainly hope so. But I've been involved in extending a system as I described as recently as a few years back. Everything was supposed to be configurable (by no-code customers) an
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
... and this is when the development company (architect, technical director, ...) decides to extend the "data" models to the point where you've invented a programming language in XML. A programming language too advanced to us
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
And oftentimes hostile reviewing methods spread and become "best practice" in affected teams. Being polite and collaborative when reviewing always renders better results than all alternative approaches.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I've changed jobs 3 times in the last 6 years (oof) and in two of the interview processes they dug deep enough into my github (linked from the CV) to be able to ask tricky questions and have discussions. Heck, as part of
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
It was never about competence. Most of us were of different backgrounds. It was about the need to track down, secure licenses for and install the dev environment that you'd use for those 4-8 hours per year that it took to add support f
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Does not work and makes life worse. I once in an earlier life worked in a very Java centered company, and we had a C# component that our "normal" Java blob was communicating with that an old team member left behind right before he
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
The "define young"-range seems to be a sliding window centered around your current age. Perhaps at some point there will be very few older than you and perhaps then the sliding window will be offset accordingly, but at least for m
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by ZaoLahma 4y ago
Perhaps the old fashioned programming skills will be applied to writing test cases for the AI generated code. There are still areas in software development where (not systemized) failure is not an option and where AI generated code absolute
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by ZaoLahma 4y ago
I bought a Big Brand Flagship Phone (tm), the Samsung Galaxy S9, in 2018. They stopped upgrading the OS with new functionality in 2020 only two years after its release, and this year they stopped providing security updates! Considering how
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by ZaoLahma 4y ago
> Introverts are more likely to wait for others to prompt them or invite them into the conversation I won't pretend to speak for all introverts, but for me it's not at all a matter of waiting for an invitation (why should I eve
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by ZaoLahma 4y ago
... or treat and think of your employees as human beings who sometimes are more productive than usual and sometimes less productive than usual, but on average perform "well enough". If companies aim for maximum, minimum and averag
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by ZaoLahma 5y ago
This has been the reality for many of us for many years already. I used to commute 1 hour every single day to an office building downtown, and my nearest colleague was in another office some 200km away in an entirely different city. Half of
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by ZaoLahma 5y ago
I wish customers would pay for the developer hours needed to be spent on it.
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by ZaoLahma 6y ago
Thank you! In some sane industries where functional safety is required, this is strictly enforced. It leaves no ambiguity - what you write is what you get - and when the excrement hits the quickly revolving pressure modification device, you
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by ZaoLahma 6y ago
Sometimes sticking the debugger into the wheel makes stuff come flying over the handle bars in spectacular ways that have nothing to do with what you wish to observe. You might not even know which wheel to jam the debugger stick into, if th
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by ZaoLahma 6y ago
Ok, the internet is finished. No more need to put more work into it. This is the best thing ever.