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by thearn4 11y ago
Math PhD here. I was pretty scared by what I saw in a potential career in academia. I went into industry and then gov't doing mostly scientific computer in support of aerospace engineering research instead. It's been better paying
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by thearn4 11y ago
Also out of curiosity, have any of the original vanguard for FOSS (Stallman, ESR, Torvalds, etc.) made any recent comments about this trend from MS?
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by thearn4 11y ago
I would assume the parent comment's idea is based off of an assumption of some sort of ISRU (in-situ resource utilization). Which, to be fair, is tricky.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I own a DK1, and agree with you on a lot of these points. I would add that while first-person shooters universally made me sick to my stomach within about 5 minutes, flight sims generally never did. My guess is that being seated in a virtua
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by thearn4 11y ago
Is OpenGL really that far behind the curve now? I remember a long time ago it performed much better for me on some games (I'm talking Half Life 1 days here), but in the 15 or so years since then its pretty much fallen off of my radar.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I think we have a pretty good intermediate where I work: closed offices of 3-4 people, with open collaborative workspaces available to anyone without needing to book them. It's gov't though, which tends to be neither an intellectu
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by thearn4 11y ago
I had a large interest in discrete convolution operations a few years ago, particularly in application to digital image processing. Two papers that I published may be of interest to those here: [A paper that as a lemma demonstrates the infl
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by thearn4 11y ago
Oh man, I remember a few years ago I wrote a Python script that used CCC data to help flip seasonal items on Amazon's own marketplace. The idea being that I would buy low from a third party seller and sell high later using FBA. Kind of
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by thearn4 11y ago
Having left the Army just as the awful ACUs were being phased in, I have to wonder which politicians and/or general officers got their palms greased for that to have become the uniform pattern.
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I think it is generally seen as a process that ends up pricing out and displacing the people who used to rent within an area (or even own, if property taxes end up spiking), thus dissolving the original community.
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by thearn4 11y ago
On the other hand, new launch vehicles are good for jobs. Well, probably only in Huntsville and nowhere else, but Sen. Shelby will see to it that nothing happens to that work, even if its to the determinant of NASA as a whole.
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by thearn4 11y ago
> Like all things in life TDD should be taken in moderation. You're points are all good, but your opening one especially. The obsession that some developers have with methodological purity can be really puzzling sometimes. Where I&#
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Maybe there are a lot of Spritekit based games out there?
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FWIW, I'm a developer on a macbook largely because I would like a portable UNIX-y system that doesn't suck. With drivers that work consistently, and UI (hardware and software) that feels like it was actually tested by an end user.
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by thearn4 11y ago
> I vote for a much tougher algebra course I've played with the notion in my head of teaching something rigorous (but not arduous) like basic Group or Ring theory somewhere in HS. Perhaps in place of the rather large amount of time
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by thearn4 11y ago
In our team, we created a "random" channel for animated gifs, unrelated links, etc. to keep from cluttering the work-related ones. So far, it seems to have worked well.
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Actually, it looks like it's a streaming video from Youtube (right click on the player while it's playing).
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This is one thing about federal work that I can appreciate, if nothing else, it is at least flexible.
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I guess I sort of did. I never took mathematics seriously, have a GED instead of a HS diploma, and subsequently started college in remedial HS-level algebra. But now I have a PhD in applied mathematics and work in the overlapping gray area
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by thearn4 11y ago
OpenMDAO: An open-source Python framework developed here at NASA for multi-disciplinary engineering systems analysis and numerical optimization. http://openmdao.org/
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by thearn4 11y ago
This is what happens when you have an entire industry (defense/general gov't services) that treats software development as a cost center instead of a profit center.
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by thearn4 11y ago
> I much prefer "homework" projects I helped a group within my organization with their hiring process recently, and we had pretty good success with assigning a short "take-home" exercise, vs. trying to haze them with
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by thearn4 11y ago
I remember the feeling after my first undergraduate course in statistics essentially being that we stated these principles, then spent the remaining weeks essentially invalidating them without offering any real alternatives. My professor ma
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by thearn4 11y ago
> they also need a neutral wire. Generally this is true. That said, there are some Z-Wave switchable outlet adapters or LED bulbs that are on the market that can be used in an existing fixture without changes to the physical wiring, if n
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by thearn4 11y ago
I've had really good luck wiring about 10 of my home lights (indoors and outdoors) with Z-Wave switches. Integrating them with a broader Python REST API (I have a few other non-Zwave sensors and cameras) and custom mobile control apps
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by thearn4 11y ago
Oh, I agree that it's definitely an individual preference, no judgement on anyone meant on my part. I grew up in a large city, and before settling down here, I've lived in a few places (the most densely zoned probably being northe
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by thearn4 11y ago
Personally, I've always thought the midwestern US actually has a nice set of four pleasantly distinct seasons (Fall being my favorite). I actually like the snow too, though when it starts to get so cold that it doesn't snow anymor
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by thearn4 11y ago
> I've purchased a house and a rental property. The latter would have been unthinkable in the Bay Area. I purchased a house with my wife here in northern OH, and while we don't have a rental, we do have around 4 acres of land t
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by thearn4 11y ago
As someone who has played around with home automation and done some homebrew IoT, my biggest concern to be honest is that the extra functionality will make common appliances more difficult to maintain than they already are.
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by thearn4 11y ago
> iPads have the lowest productivity to cost ratio of any computing device - probably up there with video game systems or burning bundles of money in large piles. I've generally been feeling the same way about tablets in general. Ye

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