lambdaelite

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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Inexpensive ones. Kidding aside, as a startup, our needs and capabilities are quite different from a more established company. We can't afford to pay for consultants to fly business class, nor expensive per diems. We can't affor
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
A medical device startup, based on a technology platform I invented in grad school. The startup part is what started me hanging out on HN, but I've found that there is very little overlap between what I'm trying to do and what sta
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Well said—completely agree.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
I agree that option 4 would explain the attraction of these devices. I guess I remain unconvinced that, while these gadgets may claim to "unlock option 4", they will actually deliver (yet again, excepting the immersion circulator
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
If you trust Cooks Illustrated, Breville's top end toaster oven ($250 on Amazon Prime) is at the top for toaster oven performance and works well. Have you tried that one? Personally, I'm more interested in auditioning Cuisinart&#
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
With the exception of the immersion circulator, I don't understand these devices. Can you help me understand? I'm an experienced cook, so (again, with the exception of the immersion circulator) I'm not in the target market f
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> Also, having such a small volume means that most of the heat will escape when the door opens... Supposedly, there's an air curtain to help with that problem. > It seems like a perfectly acceptable (albeit pricy) alternative to
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
I picked up an Anova a few months ago for $150. That might be the best bang for the buck kitchen purchase I've made. Certainly ranks up there with a stand mixer and microplane.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
At first glance it looks really neat, but I was disappointed to see that this doesn't have combi oven functionality. For the price I would guess this would retail at, I wouldn't be willing to buy this over a combi oven. edit: I m
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Perhaps it has to do with the runtime being GPL'd? Regardless, the Adacore FAQ specifically councels that the GPL version is suitable for free software only.[0] Admittedly, I find the licensing situation confusing and could be complet
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Nothing per se. I was confused in that both Adacore and FSF offer a compiler with the same name but different licensing. As to my specific situation, I cannot release source code and so the Adacore GPL licensed product is a no-go.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
The licensing for the Ada ecosystem is confusing to me. It seems that the major vendors are Adacore, Green Hills, and Atego. Am I correct that for commercial products, there are no free toolchains available?
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
The IEEE-CS/ACM jointly publish one: http://www.computer.org/web/education/code-of-ethics It doesn't seem that different from other professional codes.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> You see this sentiment come up about every few months here. We're not rigorous enough. Or we can't estimate our build time well. Or we don't have any liability. Or we don't have a codified set of morals that govern
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> To me, engineering is a way of thinking, it's all about problem solving. Interesting. I would say it's all about the problem solving process .
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> The big difference with software engineering is that the costs of failure are so relatively low that we prefer to go full steam ahead instead of trying to find ways to reduce uncertainty. I think this is an excellent point. Software is
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
It sounds like it's not viable at this moment, but later down the line you could use a PEO (professional employment organization) for your startup. This would give you health insurance in addition to a bunch of other benefits and servi
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
As a heads up, CoPilot (camel case) has been used for a long time for a GPS navigation product by ALK.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
I find that statement misleading: one doesn't need to serialize or "register" (whatever that's supposed to mean) an AR lower made for personal use that, later, one decides to sell. Again, YMMV, depending on the state.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
As always, it depends on the state, but it's not true that you can never sell a gun that you've made. You can't make them with the intent of selling them without the proper paperwork, but you could make one for yourself, then
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Respectfully, that doesn't apply to regulated industries.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Among other things, what I found interesting was that Barr was giving expert testimony on engineering and "engineering certainty", when as far as I can tell he doesn't have a PE license (if he does, he's the first engine
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Yeah, I mistyped (should read "...later DO-178..."). You're quite correct that DO-178B was around then, but the C revision was not. According to testimony, Toyota's coding standard was in place in 1997, before the first
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> DO-178B was created in 1989, Ada was created in the 70's, standards for mission and safety critical systems have been around since the 70's, I was reading about Ada and safety critical programming as a kid in the 80's (I
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
> Un bon mot ne prouve rien. (A witty saying proves nothing.) —Voltaire
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
The HN community at large isn't experienced with software engineering . It seems like there are a handful of commenters who are, but they are a very small minority. Personally, I'm surprised that the majority of the HN community
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Toyota couldn't ignore these (voluntary) standards given that MISRA-C nor the earlier DO-178 didn't exist at the time the code was developed.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
And as I recall, TLA+ doesn't tie into code generation which doesn't help with the verification process.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
Testing is certainly very important, but I think it should be emphasized that testing is but one part of the software development life cycle that produces an acceptably safe product.
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by lambdaelite 11y ago
The person in charge of a mass spectrometer (Thermo Element 2) at a local college likes to toy with his students by running tests on their commercial bottled water during a lab demonstration. This particular instrument can pick up minute tr

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