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by bdavis__ 5y ago
look at the big OEM's. they have groups that do this. (Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, ...) Flight Controls. Airworthiness.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
Aerospace. If you have a degree that is ABET accredited, don't smoke pot and can thus get a security clearance, and can answer simple programming questions and operating system / data structures question, you have a job. This indu
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
all of those options have been studied for years; how many motors, what they weigh, where they are mounted, blades on the prop, rpm on the prop, any gear reduction. there is a room of aircraft designers that will show you why the current de
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
in the US, employment is at will. when you hire a problem, at the 90 day point you should see that it is a problem. take action, give 2 weeks severance, move on. both sides. now, someone that turns into a problem after 5 years, that'
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
many organizations are overwhelmed with inexperienced new graduates; they end up doing what they want or how they did things in college projects. then they get promoted, and may never learn / experience why a task / defect tracker
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
excellent comments. instead of straight waterfall, i would suggest a time boxed requirements phase, followed by incremental development with a reasonable cadence (dictated by the product; web might be 2 weeks, more serious domains might be
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
very true, some hyperbole to make a point. "lack of newness" is a characteristic many will expend untold hours to extinguish. to my perspective, the "rewrite it in Rust crowd" is the peak; all non-Rust code is soiled, a
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
2021, State of the Practice. well except for using Rust, and a bunch of dependencies from the web, version determined when downloaded at compile time.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
There were a few studies on ada (avionics software) and productivity when the language first came out, and ada scored very well compared to the state of the art at that time. People learned that using static typing and sub-typing moved a lo
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
I grew up in Mesa county. Last time i visited the MJ dispensaries were just over the county line; that stuff is not allowed in Mesa County. Boebert is the Congressional Rep. For Colorado, low wages, very Republican, general lower education.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
absolute best managers i have worked with were ex-military. in general, academy grads are all very good. also well connected across society. a lot of difference between a 10 year Staff Sgt and a flag officer.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
been using nlohmann::json for several years. changing from something else (no reason to name it), has proven to be a good decision. away from SFO, "Modern C++" means C+11 and above. mr. lohmann, much thanks for an easy to use, rob
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
another part in the "fully loaded employee" is the cost of supervision and organizational overhead. most contract labor is costed as if it was "material", neglecting these costs. (you could argue this is just an account
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
curious if anyone tracks software engineering metrics like this anymore? defects identified, defect fixed vs. time
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
The general poor range of CB communications will be reduced using FM. Advantages will be less perceived interference, based upon the "capture" of FM when it is being de-modulated. Curious as to why this is "worth the trouble&
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
"Software Configuration Management" or "Version control"?
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
disagree. in times of peril, the states consider themselves part of the nation.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
this isn't blame. you broke it, you fix it. this is how people learn from mistakes. do you ridicule the person? absolutely not. does it belong to the team? absolutely. But, you broke it, you fix it. See also, "Pottery Barn Rul
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
How about some "puffery"; perhaps spotlighting your contributions a little too bright? "Fixed a couple of hundred defects before delivery" changes to "architected and main technical lead" for a project. If you
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
1983. USAF dorms had beer vending machines. Cans, 50 cents. Also in that time period, at "locally owned" establishments, a DD-2 (your ID card), was all it took to buy a drink. Even if you were 18.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
i want to hear about the standard resistor and standard cell. K6 is boring.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
irix 6.5 was exceptional. excellent real time performance. compilers relatively solid, and great graphics on the high end. had to have a license for the C compiler. peak proprietary unix.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
#1. Highest Cost #2. No need to hire experienced staff, as this gives them a framework to quickly build lifecycle experience by making mistakes #3. Never complete the project, because, agile, you know #4. Easy to manage because things a
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
Consider that you may be making messes that you are unaware of, and that layers above you may be cleaning up all the time. The "bottom of the pyramid" is not all knowing and a reservoir of wisdom.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
It is relatively recent (20 years) that an individual developer could control the machine they work on; and that 'production' machines have hundreds of dependencies installed to support "your app". Until those numbers ex
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
to add to the ada saga, RHEL has dropped providing FSF gnat since redhat 6. very big loss to not have ada on one of the big linux distributions. (build your own! yes, it can be done...) edit. fixed wrong word
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
How does the world deal with this if it turns out to be true? I think if the lab was doing legitimate research, that is one thing. But if it was weaponization research, there would be a desire for retribution.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
There was a period in time where it was disclosed that the vaccines might have an efficacy of 40% or 50%. In this case, the combination of masks and vaccines might have been required for a long time. (hacker news analogy: "just in case
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
Yes.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
As much as I hate "twitter blogs", this makes a lot of sense. Although it is more probable that Elon was just in a manic phase, and once he came down realized that car companies don't hold bitcoin. (let me preempt the argumen

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