ironman1478

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by ironman1478 6y ago
I think this is the right answer. For me, I work in embedded and have to talk to lots of people with different backgrounds. Slack communication and even phone calls just don't work when you're trying to learn or explain something
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by ironman1478 6y ago
I might be in a minority here, but I really don't feel like full time WFH is more productive. It could be indicative of my work place's culture only, but I feel like there are many more meetings now & communication is much har
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by ironman1478 6y ago
I mean, has he really improved people's lives outside of the really rich or the bigoted (which makes you technically right)? I'd like to see evidence because I'm not aware of him actually improving things for anybody else. th
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by ironman1478 6y ago
It depends on the domain. If it's something complicated it might take a while to figure out the business logic of the system, especially if it's something large like an enterprise system. Also, I think a better way of putting it i
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by ironman1478 6y ago
I don't know if teaching needs 'innovation', but we need to incentivize people to go into teaching more, specifically by paying them a whole bunch of money and giving them a secure environment to teach in. I'd drop out o
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by ironman1478 7y ago
You actually can mass produce tons of stuff with trade secrets! A lot of systems aren't easy to access and wouldn't necessarily be debuggable with normal tools, depending on th age of the car. For new cars, they are work on basica
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by ironman1478 7y ago
This stuff would be useful. Self driving is getting to the point where it's a game of inches and there are only extremely hard problems to solve. Each major player definitely has non-overlapping sets of the solution. Understanding how
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by ironman1478 7y ago
There are a ton of trade secrets in the interesting parts of a car (ECUs) that will basically never be released. But for infotainment, there are competing efforts to standardize on that front but it's slow from what I've observed.
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by ironman1478 7y ago
The rockets are isolated from groups of people, cars are all around us. Its not an equivalent comparison. I work for a car company, and all I can say is safety is the #1 concern at all times and it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of ti
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by ironman1478 7y ago
I had a professor make us read Death March by Yourdon and Peopleware. Both were great, especially Death March. It helped me notice bad patterns at an employer and gave me the motivation to quit. Its also very well written and funny, but a b
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by ironman1478 7y ago
I'm really happy they are doing this. As an anecdote, I got into USC's grad program with a 45k per year salary, which was great! But, the person who was running the lab actually emailed me saying that I really should think about e
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by ironman1478 7y ago
I love this.
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by ironman1478 7y ago
Unless skin in the game counts as accountability, then that's definitely missing from the list. My previous employer had zero accountability for the people above the software engineers who implemented things and unfortunately these peo
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by ironman1478 7y ago
Enterprise software doesn't have to suck. I worked on databases for oil & gas and similar systems and even though the UI wasn't the best, it was an off the shelf solution that many customers could use their complex problems an
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by ironman1478 7y ago
The thing that I always wonder is what isn't work providing you that you feel like you want to program outside of it? I find my job really challenging/rewarding and I basically can't program after work (though I work like 50+
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by ironman1478 7y ago
Is building a self driving car not a new invention? Basically nobody has done it and the process has forced automakers outside of AV to rethink how they build cars (see Volkswagen https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/
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by ironman1478 7y ago
Video games. I think Dota 2, Street fighter 4, and Halo 2 comprise about 3000 hours of my life. It was fun in the moment and I have great memories, but I think it sort of stunted me socially, especially since I took those games so seriously
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by ironman1478 7y ago
At USC, they had multiple mandatory writing classes and I felt that the people who did well in those classes did well in engineering too. I think there is a high correlation between being able to clearly write something down and explain it
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by ironman1478 8y ago
The PI data archive (it's the database part of the pi system) actually has a lot of these features, including the future data stuff (probably the biggest feature in the past few years). It's made by OSIsoft which is a big player i
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by ironman1478 10y ago
The main product I work on is written in C++, so I spend most of my day looking at\writing C++ and also learning as much C++ as I can. I do use other languages for some minor tasks (python and c# for some automated test stuff and devopsish
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by ironman1478 10y ago
Just adding on to this with an anecdote. My mother had something called norplant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levonorgestrel-releasing_impla... , it has been rebranded recently and there were class action lawsuits fil
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by ironman1478 10y ago
This is a very unfair interpretation of the article at least for point 1. It never described the nephew as lazy, it could've been that they were depressed or had something going on. It also says that he might have been better doing som
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by ironman1478 10y ago
To some extent there is http://www.osisoft.com (I work for this company so I'm a bit biased) The thing is, yes we have a time series database, but a lot of value comes from giving people the tools to analyze, distribute, an
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by ironman1478 11y ago
Chromium started on windows (it wasn't a .NET project, but you only said windows).