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by dasmoth 9y ago
it's certainly a factor.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The matrix feels really rather cargo-culty to me. If deployment is pushing one file then use scp. If it's coordinating a world wide fleet of servers, use something more sophisticated. Agreed. And critically, if you can stay in a wor
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If the figures at http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/t4-config-5.htm are correct, the Titan IVB "SRM upgrade" boosters were bigger too (over 300 tonnes of propellant)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
It's mostly GPS and inertial navigation. Probably integrated together with some kind of Kalman filter. The very last few seconds add in data from a radar altimeter. Per the post-launch press conference, this time they added some spec
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I think you could argue in favour of Peopleware as the "practical" complement for MMM. Although I'd be curious to hear of any recent books that hit the level of these two.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Is the issue here really about problem solving, or about having to account for your time in excessively fine-grained increments? Given a coarser-grained model of dividing up tasks, wouldn't it be easier to solve the segfault and move
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Interesting. And there was I thinking "problem solving" was what made this gig interesting! I guess this puts the emphasis on talking about problems over hiding in a corner and working through them into some perspective. But per
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Great to see people trying things like this! But... Ctrl-F "commute"? Nope, don't see anything. Are you either remote or living very close to the office? Having more than a few minutes of commute does potentially change th
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Right now, that's probably the best way to go if you're keen to build non-trivial wasm stuff, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that it'll stay that way. There's a Rust implementation now, for insta
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Very good list. I would add that most open source projects have many people working on them. I'm almost positive this isn't true. If you restrict to the top few percent of projects, it'll be much more true, but even so I t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Interesting idea... Original source could be the tweet embedded in https://supso.org/blog/funding-open-source-by-rethinking-the...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I think employers have a degree of responsibility here. Ultimately, they're the ones who've taken projects that ought to be within the capabilities of single individual hackers and said "this needs a team of six and a projec
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Good question. Kanban isn't something I've particularly experienced, but I'd be willing to believe that a simple Kanban board might be a useful level of coordination for some people. Although my inclination is to say that i
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by dasmoth 9y ago
but their processes drove me potty. Out of curiosity, in what direction? (Also in the process-driving-me-round-the-bend camp, but concerned that a lot of alternatives might be a case of "out if the frying pan, into the scrum"...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Most of these tools seem to exist more for the benefit of managers than hackers. For small groups, I think I honest-to-goodness prefer TODO.txt in the top level of the relevant repository to any tool. Otherwise, GitHub issues is a pretty
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by dasmoth 9y ago
And people wonder why there's ever resistance to "everything has to have automated tests" style directives...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
once they see something that somewhat resembles the final product they get really impatient. (Especially for internal tool) Is it possible that what they've seen is, actually, good enough? Or at least, good enough to solve 90% of the
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I remember when I entered the work force back in 1978 right out of college and went to work for Bell Labs. We were required to wear a suit, ties and white shirt. You were not allowed to hang your jacket over your chair; it had to be hung i
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'd agree with most of that, but for me the point where it starts to go off the rails is The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. No, not manda
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by dasmoth 9y ago
While they're clearly better than open plan, I don't really get two-person offices. They're not that much more space-efficient than single offices, and seem like a none-too-subtle "we don't really trust these cod
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I don't take my desk-hours too seriously because I know that while I'm out running errands, exercising, taking a shower, sleeping, etc. I continue to chew on problems, and sometimes taking the slow path to a solution produces a m
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by dasmoth 9y ago
In the academia, where good communication and idea sharing are essential, there are no open offices. Becoming less true by the day, I'm afraid.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'm not at all confident that the Microsoft antitrust moves really did much to erode their dominance on the desktop -- rather, the desktop becoming less relevant has done that. If anyone won from those actions, it was Google...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
As a manager you are the primary firewall between the world of distraction and the world of getting shit done. Most places these days have institutionalized some amount of distraction -- the various recurring "ceremonies" -- but
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by dasmoth 9y ago
How do we regulate in a way that limits the power of the big five without also hurting small businesses? Otherwise, the end result will almost certainly be to bolster Google and Facebook.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I am paying you to solve problems not write code. Really glad to hear this, it's something that people seem to easily lose sight off If the problem gets solved I don't care if it is 10000 lines of code or 10. Solving problems t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
My experience has been, if anything, more-or-less the opposite. The good academic programmers I've known have been very focussed on solving the problem at hand, perhaps without a particularly "engineered" feel to the code
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Quite. Which is why I'd like a full-remote job. A while back, while working in a relatively large but sparsely filled open-plan setup, I had a tendency to hide in the far corner of the building when I had code to write. My manager at
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by dasmoth 9y ago
whereas if I am developing I prefer a more customized setup with multiple screens and stuff so I have that better at work than at home. That may be true at Google, but there are a bunch of supposedly high-tech companies which are happy to
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Slightly surprised -- and a little diappointed -- to see "academic programmer" as the least desirable archetype. Also, not sure these archetypes do a great job of capturing the process-oriented/results-oriented divide that sh

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