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by dasmoth 10y ago
I get what this is saying, but there does seem to be a nearly-unspoken assumption here that the "perfect" working environment involves high-frequency communication, including regular synchronous communication -- i.e. replicating t
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by dasmoth 10y ago
There's some nice stuff here -- probably some of it that I'll use -- but most of this is targeted at organisations (and in particular, managers and administrators) rather than individual developers. Understandable -- it's cle
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> SpaceX may I think have caused reliability problems for themselves using super cooled Oxygen. I was worried about that while watching the first couple of "full thrust" launch campaigns, but they quickly fell into a rh
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Am I reading this correctly that the $20,000 YC fellowship is no longer available (and therefore the only want to get any form seed funding from YC is once again to move to the Bay Area)? That said, the MOOC sounds interesting!
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Also, it's the frontier and some people feel uncomfortable living anywhere else.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This is quite a beast -- definitely bigger than I'd anticipated, and looks like it's really targeting planetary missions. Timing seems suspiciously close to Elon Musk's Mars architecture announcement which is apparently plann
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Blue Origin just revealed its plan for an orbital rocket(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by dasmoth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This seems to be anathema in some circles, but perhaps the team (in the abstract) is the problem here. Rather than bending over backwards to make software development team-friendly, might it make more sense to have individual module owners
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This is a useful thing to know about yourself, and I hope you find an on-site job you're happy with. There are definitely people at the other end of this scale too, i.e. finding offices -- or at least big open plan affairs -- inimical
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Looking just at commits means ignoring time spent thinking about problems, planning ahead, etc. That ought to translate into commits in the end, but assuming a steady rate of progess means you're probably not measuring the right thing
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Interactivity is important in a training setting because you're learning along with others. That initial path you create in your brain is dotted with waypoints that everyone in class travels together. This is powerful when
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Just because I'm working on my PC doesn't mean my changes aren't pushed elsewhere frequently (admittedly the "trunk based development" crowd seem determined to make this less flexible than it ought to be...) I'
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Why? Not all software is designed to run on servers. In some cases, building locally will give a quicker response cycle. Editing locally is almost always a better user experience. Especially if your servers aren't in the same building
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by dasmoth 10y ago
With a real, live, META key?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
There's a balance here. I don't like the idea of talking without producing either, but using this as an argument to shut down all discussion about working environment isn't going to help matters. Headphones are a big topic o
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Very much depends on the project. Staying at 0.9 can just mean having very high standards for 1.0.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Thanks for the response -- interesting stuff. But any thoughts on what to do in the "allergic to non-autonomous people" situation?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
What if you're looking for autonomy without becoming a manager?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
From the quote, it rather sounds like the R&D post would have been more welcome in this case.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> If you want to openly think critically in corporate employment, step 1 is becoming irreplaceable so they can't replace you when you become inconvenient at step 2. Hence all the worry about "bus factors"
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Blue do have a plan for an orbital launch vehicle. And seem to be fairly far advanced with developing an engine for it (BE-4 -- also planned for use on ULA's new "Vulcan" launcher) They've got a launch site at CCAFS, an
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by dasmoth 10y ago
If only there was a way to make working within a city less important. There must be some way to move large numbers of bits over "great distances" so that knowledge/desk workers can choose where they want to live, and don&#x27
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> I wonder if this is more related to agile/scrum vs waterfall? I'd like to hope those aren't the only two options!
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Also, the four Buran liquid rocket boosters were designed to also function as the first stage of a smaller launch vehicle, Zenit. At one point, Zenit was set to replace many of the existing Soviet launchers -- that never quite happened, mo
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Where do you draw the line between "in person conversations" and meetings?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Smallish company. Between 3 and 8 hours per week. Even the low end of that ends up seeming pretty disruptive. At least I'm currently managing to avoid standups.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
They make enough money that they've been able to fund the construction of a new generation of satellites. The first batch is due to launch next month.
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Wikipedia, and other non-evil things(omicsomics.blogspot.com)
1 points by dasmoth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Thanks for these examples. Going for a relatively early sale/acquisition/acquihire returns capital to the seed investors, so not really quite the scenario that I was thinking of, but the Olark example is very interesting. I wonde
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Is it really true that you could take a $250k seed round, build something profitable-but-not-huge, then just quietly run the resulting business? I thought that carried a pretty strong expectatation that you'd be hiring employees and l

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