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by mch82 10y ago
OpenMDAO, mentioned in an earlier comment, looks like a promising option http://openmdao.org MDAO = Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization
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by mch82 10y ago
Unless you're working in the Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare Device, or Automotive industries this will continue to be a problem for some time. It's okay to use equivalent language when seeking out jobs. Try looking for "
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by mch82 10y ago
I'm curious what the context of the original post is. Is the OP just wanting to share the SE Handbook?
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by mch82 10y ago
Good job trying a more capable tool! A key reason Excel is the default is that people have access to it, while Matlab is prohibitively expensive. One way to break that trend is to choose GNU Octave, the open source alternative to Matlab. Th
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by mch82 10y ago
Tools to support Systems Engineering processes are very enterprise oriented. Often, they also vary by sub-discipline and product type. Requirements management tools are often similar to IBM Rational DOORS http://www-03.ibm.com&#x
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by mch82 10y ago
Microsoft Project isn't appropriate for Systems Engineering.
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by mch82 10y ago
Although, kind of similar to [DraftJS][] in terms of demonstrated functionality... [DraftJS]: https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/
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by mch82 10y ago
Cool. Somewhat tangential (though similar WYSIWYG to markup), you might be interested in the VisualEditor extension for MediaWiki. They need a lot of help improving the performance. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extens
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by mch82 10y ago
[Rework][] from DHH and Jason Fried. Rework explains the "life beyond work" and "make a dent in the universe" philosophy behind Basecamp and Rails and is a valuable counterpoint to the popular media narrative of the star
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by mch82 10y ago
Fantastic book! I got my copy from my grandmother and have given away multiple copies since. My favorite concepts from "The Book" are the Wiggles and the Net, exploring the idea that so many modern pressures and stresses are human
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by mch82 10y ago
> the general outline of a five-year plan A general outline is useful to have. A useful four-year plan is kind of like "graduate from college". Lots of room for improvisation along the way, but the ability to measure if life is
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by mch82 10y ago
Check out http://nerves-project.org , an Elixir framework for Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black.
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by mch82 10y ago
> ...nothing is really ever that urgent. When my co-author died (of old age at 90) and our book was unfinished I began to distinguish between artificial deadlines and true deadlines. I realized I'd missed a real deadline because I&#
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by mch82 10y ago
Can you enroll in a community college or graduate degree program and switch to a student visa, refresh your skills, and find a new sponsor?
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by mch82 10y ago
Is a phone supposed to be exciting? (I'm using "exciting" to mean the opposite of boring)
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by mch82 11y ago
The [Head First Labs]( http://www.headfirstlabs.com/ ) series of books is a terrific example of teaching programming with relatable, real-world problem sets. I've found these books are good for a general overview of a to
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by mch82 11y ago
The article doesn't scan well, but the main ideas I got from it were that (1) the general population has different needs than people who intend to make a career in software, and (2) adapting the delivery and content of general programm
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by mch82 11y ago
One of the big gaps in programming education is the relative lack of material on how to find, comprehend, and use code written by others. Most "Learn language X" references assume the programmer is starting from scratch. Yet as I
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by mch82 11y ago
I played Tennis for Two yesterday at the New York Historical Society museum, nyhistory.org, where it's part of the Silicon City exhibition, http://nyhistory.org/exhibition/silicon-city-computer-histor...
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by mch82 11y ago
The friction you feel likely is more than just perceived. Perseverance can often break past it and sometimes a disruptive spinoff proves to be required. I work at a company where the typical employee is 20-30 years older than I am. It is of
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by mch82 11y ago
I guess that for me the git man page does it's job as the quick summary for how that program works and git-scm.com/book is the training tool I rely on as a new user. There is so much to learn that a man page cannot concisely cover
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by mch82 11y ago
Generally agree that augmenting existing man pages is then way to go. However, using a new number to categorize "use cases" or "examples" is probably incorrect. man page categories (1, 2, 3, etc.) are organized by type o
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by mch82 11y ago
For hundreds of years we've been writing summative introductions called "abstracts" to long documents called "journal articles", "lede" paragraphs introduce "journalism", and "introductions&
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by mch82 11y ago
What if we put community energy into contributing improvements to existing man pages for open source projects? As many commenters have noted, it is possible to accomplish the goals of TLDR by improving existing man pages, without establishi
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by mch82 11y ago
Referring to Fortran programs as "codes" seems to be a common, possibly generational, way of talking about old software in the aerospace industry. I used to hear it around the office a lot. Some of "codes" date back to t
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by mch82 11y ago
I often keep revising until a text-to-speech program is able to read my writing in a way that sounds natural. Following that approach led to great results in university writing courses and, recently, got me through the process of writing an
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by mch82 11y ago
Actually, the constitution is written so that things are legal by default. All rights not explicitly granted to the national government go to the states or to the people. Edit: in the United States.
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by mch82 11y ago
The customer demo, where either working software or wireframe do design solutions are shown to the customer and team to get feedback, is the single most important aspect of agility. Demo every one to two weeks. Demo to confirm success, unco
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by mch82 11y ago
For a team your size, anchor your scrum process in software configuration management using either GitHub or GitLab. Use the issue tracker to manage "user stories". Use milestones as "sprints". Use issues assigned to mile
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by mch82 11y ago
It is interesting, and possibly enlightening, that mass surveillance is not listed as a contributing factor to the reduction in violent crime.

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