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by dasmoth 10y ago
Organic, always. No desire to encourage advertising. (Yes, I'd be willing to pay a modest subscription if Google got out of the advertising business. No, I doubt this pledge will ever be put to the test...)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This is a good point. I think, for me, the possibility of a little bit of cherry picking is quite important for keeping it clear that the list isn't boss, and that's what I found so rigid about the original comment.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I can see the merits, but it also seems a rather joyless environment -- just do what Pivotal tells you. Was there any feeling of autonomy?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It's a lot smaller than Tesla's subsequent projects. Remember, also, that the roadster was based substantially on the Lotus Elise, and Lotus built the bulk of the vehicle. Look at us as a drivetrain project rather than a car proj
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Are you certain of that? It's mentioned in a few places (including Wikipedia), but I've not seen any SpaceX sources saying this was a sub-scale test article. On the contrary, we've heard Elon say that because of the very hi
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Finally introducing Musk at about 18.59 UTC (i.e. +00:00)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
While this remains a paper rocket for now, its engine (which looks to be a pretty big deal in its own right) was test-fired for the first time yesterday: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780275236922994688
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Elon has been clear in the past that this is a fully reusable architecture. i.e. he needs his spaceship back! Bringing some passengers is (relatively!) trivial.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
How often did people do 38lb loads of laundry? The argument here is that we wear clothes fewer times between washing now, so laundry has dramatically increased.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Got you. Once upon a time, there was a serious continuations-on-the-JVM proposal, but it fizzled. Rather sad. Fixnums would also help Clojure.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This is addressing a question I'm interested in, but on first read I'm struggling to see the value that's being presented here. - "parameterize" is great, but seems exactly the same as Clojure's "binding&q
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Can you be more specific? In particular, about stuff you'd consider to be lacking in Clojure?
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First firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine(mobile.twitter.com)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
38 here, and while the way I think about work has changed somewhat, the "bureaucracy to slow things down" aspect remains, if anything, more soul-destroying. If I have to spend time at work, I really, really, don't want the
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by dasmoth 10y ago
For those who haven't encountered Akin's Laws [1]: >>> 30. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design) If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers alway
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Still very much a going concern [1] (and a fair few open positions listed on their website...). They're an interesting organization -- basically, set up to provide long-term oversight over the ballistic missile program. [1] - http:&#
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Please don't -- there's more than enough of that kind of nagging on todays web as it is.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Yes, I have, and it's very taxing if I'm trying to do something high concentration. At least laptops make it easier to sneak off into a corner when there's code to write. This is the number one factor for me preferring remot
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by dasmoth 10y ago
If you're talking about manual testing in the sense of "run down a long checklist", yeah that's different and automated tests are a better (although still not perfect) substitute for that kind of thing. But definitely s
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I somewhat blame this on the emphasis that now gets placed on automated testing (to the extent that nobody actually pronounces the "automated"). It's got some good points, but if it comes at the expense of manual testing I&#
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by dasmoth 10y ago
There was a story last year about Facebook having "2G Tuesdays" to give employees an idea of what life on a slow network is like. I wonder whether it caught on?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure why this is getting downvoted. I'm a moderately noisy FP fan myself, but this statement does seem, on the balance of evidence, to be true. I'm interested to know why .
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Would you give a pass for Purescript or Elm?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Some of us would rather take some responsibility for our code than be treated as "peons".
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Anyone technical despises being interrupted when working. >>> This is why Hipchat/Slack/irc is the best way to communicate, even when sitting right next to eachother. I probably fall into this category (actua
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Are you able to keep this going once $high_prio_project is over?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> We do a weekly google hangout across 5 time zones that amounts to being a standup. >>> For scoping engineering work, we tend to have longer projects people are working on, usually a minimum of a week. This leads to les
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This solves some peoples' problems at the expense of others. A big attraction of remote work to me is that I don't have the feeling of being overlooked while "in the zone" (which tends to mean that "the zone"
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Agreed. But there doesn't seem to even be much willingness to try the "autonomous people" model.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This is probably a personal thing. I'm definitely an e-mail editor, but plenty of people prefer real-time or near-real-time communication to the precision of a carefully considered e-mail. At least Slack allows editing of messages...

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