jarl-ragnar

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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
Great article, the intro captures the core reasons why I recently quit as an engineering manager at a multi-national aerospace company. It also rather succinctly underlines how Boeing end up with the 737 Max situation.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
In my experience, internally funded research and development. A proportion of revenue is reinvested to fund IR&D projects focused on areas identified through longer term engineering roadmapping activities.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
An end to companies laying claim to IP generated in your own time.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
Uses a subscription pricing model though. I wonder why he choose that model. Personally I love the Sublime model, buy a license, use it anywhere.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
There’s been a few. For example, the Barons’ revolt that resulted in Magna Carta in 1215 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Or the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
This reminds me of my first job developing radar data processing algorithms. Our processing pipeline was similarly a set of c programs linked using unix pipes, each element easy to test and, more importantly, understand. Thanks for sharing
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What’s the M1 mac mini like for Machine Learning?
1 points by jarl-ragnar 5y ago|3 comments
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
This recent Strangeloop talk on 8-bit game development covers some of the tricks used to squeeze performance out of a limited platform https://youtu.be/TPbroUDHG0s
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
Ableton was one of my Lockdown amusements last year. A few weeks playing around with it resulted in this https://youtu.be/I3XrZOw8ZJA
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
I found The Art of PostgreSQL a good resource https://postgresql.thinkific.com/
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
I know. I was referring to the comment about not feeling represented.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
There’s an irony in there somewhere given the original motivation for the “Boston Tea Party”. No taxation without representation.
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
This is how I see agile too. With it’s links to lean, it’s about minimising waste by minimising work in progress. Since the biggest waste is building something no-one wants, getting a small increment into the hands of a user/customer a
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by jarl-ragnar 5y ago
As an engineering manager I’ve found that the most innovative and impactful work is usually done when the pressure of being on the critical path for delivery is absent. One way to achieve this is to do the work under the radar and only expo
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by jarl-ragnar 6y ago
That's fairly standard. The laptop once purchased becomes an asset on the company accounts and then get's depreciated each year in line with local tax regulations. 3 years is the typical depreciation timeline.
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by jarl-ragnar 6y ago
Looks like it’s Ardour DAW https://ardour.org/
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by jarl-ragnar 6y ago
I'd suggest ClojureScript, Reagent and re-frame. A solid stack built on functional programming and immutable data structures. You need never get seduced by a new javascript framework ever again.
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by jarl-ragnar 6y ago
Resistance training. And it doesn't need to be endless hours in the gym. Try following @Mangan150 lots of useful stuff.
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by jarl-ragnar 7y ago
I'd suggest you explore the world of Stoicism. You could start with https://twitter.com/dailystoic No point getting angry about things you cannot and never will be able to control. Focus on what you can control and tak
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by jarl-ragnar 7y ago
The Mission Command concept actually stems from the German concept of auftragstaktik which was a contributing factor in their early successes during the Blitzkrieg campaigns early in WW2. See for example https://smallwarsjournal.
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by jarl-ragnar 7y ago
I use uptime robot http://uptimerobot.com for monitoring, they have a free plan or paid if you want faster checks. If it's truly critical to have no down time then you probably need to build that resilience in to your archi
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by jarl-ragnar 7y ago
Try this "Mechanisms of lightning formation in deep maritime clouds and hurricanes" [1] It suggests "that the formation of lightning in maritime clouds requires two conditions to be satisfied: a) significant vertical velociti
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by jarl-ragnar 7y ago
Anyone with a knowledge of atmospheric physics would say this is obvious. You can even detect shipping lanes because of the impact of the aerosols generated by the shipping traffic on the cloud cover compared to the surrounding area.
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
To me it seemed obviously overhyped. Having worked in the machine learning/AI field back in the 90s all the claimed capabilities of Watson didn't seem credible.
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
It really happened, bank in the early 90's. Though I imagine it was a common occurrence.
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
Reminds me of my first job processing radar data on a Masscomp mini-computer. The full processing was a bunch of simple c programs all unix piped together into a processing chain. Simple and elegant. We appeared to have a persistent bug tho
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
I was astounded to watch in one organisation while the Software Eng. Manager talked in terms of sprint failure and turned it into a performance issue. That resulted in all sort of unintended consequences.
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
I've used a Lumie Bodyclock Starter 30 as my alarm clock for over 10 years. It's completely transformed my morning. Stick it on a bedside table and its alarm function simulates a sunrise over 30 minutes.
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
I have a much simpler way of dealing with meetings. If I'm sent a meeting request and there's no agenda or clear reason for my attendance I decline it. A couple of months doing that in a new job, explaining the rational where nece
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by jarl-ragnar 8y ago
All of this reminds me of Channels and Pools in MASCOT http://async.org.uk/Hugo.Simpson/MASCOT-3.1-Manual-June-1987... Having been involved in the delivery of a complex distributed software system designed using MASCOT

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