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by vbtemp 14y ago
And only perfect, normal, modern German. "This is not good" in yiddish is more like (depending on dialect) Dos iz ni[sh]t gut.
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With the paywall up [1], I only have access to a couple NYTimes articles per month. I was horrified to discover this was just a link to some stupid op-ed by David Brooks. What a waste. I'm completely sick of all the hot-air professional bul
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As long as it says "bidet" and mentions the toilet and sells in the US, it'll have the connections for the toilet's water supply. Basically, these kind of bidets "man-in-the-middle" the water output from the wall to the toilet reservoir. In
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See my post below - to reuse code cross platform. There's a diverse set of compiler toolchains, operating systems, architectures. Only ANSI C is supported by all of them. The compilers are specific to the target OS and hardware, and flags a
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But a compiler in the sense of translating a higher level language down into C? Or from something isomorphic to C, essentially plugging in values into a boilerplate template? The latter is far more likely
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Hm.. What do you mean by isolating task faults? I think a lot of that depends on the underlying hardware, right (e.g., if the board has an MMU)? I know you can insert a taskSwitchHook (I think it's called) that could be able to detect and k
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The motivation for writing the software in C is this: Code Reuse. NASA and it's associated labs have produced some rock solid software in C. In space missions commonly the RAD750 is used (with it's non-hardened version, the MCP), along wi
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Not just assembling the dish - you also have to know the ephemeris schedule, bit coding scheme (it changes based on circumstances), packet formats, software infrastructure... In the great scheme of things, my friend, Cuba or Zimbabwe secret
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Generally they use the CCSDS specifications, CCSDS is an international body with the space agencies of each major country contributing. Google for CCSDS, they have a bunch of open standards. Space networks really aren't quite at the level o
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1. You can hack into the DSN, and try to do it that way. 2. Set up an 80-meter dish in your back yard, with a team of NASA RF experts. With step (2), the authorities will zero in on you in a second, so the emphasis is definitely on the cybe
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Ok, then enlighten me. Are you claiming that an average dev in your business will make high 30's before tax?
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No, no one was really considering it. It was commissioned by NASA to a small contractor team just as a thought experiment and as a theoretical demonstration of Saturn V capabilities, with no intention of going through with it.
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Good point, but remember that between hot-shot startups (e.g., livingsocial as the poster-child) and budget PHP gov't website shops are the contractors that design a lot of aerospace guidance and control software for NASA, the Navy, etc...
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Then I'm sorry to say it but you got absolutely shafted, and may want to consider looking somewhere else...
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Right, 180K for any developer is high (hence the double-to-triple estimate). Not inconceivable for an architect or manager though in certain companies, which is a possible career path for any developer.
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No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
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Since I'm in the DC area too, without clearance, the numbers you're throwing around are not realistic. Junior developers will start in the 50's-60's (with BS), usually 70-80 with MS, and seniors will generally be 110+... In the contractor
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Huh? Where on earth do you get that number?
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In my experience, I have never come across Ada in the spaceflight domain. Among the big players in spacecraft flight software, there seems to be a divergent east-coast/west-coast preference for C and C++, respectively. In my estimation, thi
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Because the whole point is to be maximally explicit and not implicit.
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Just out of curiosity, why does the author think that "kill switches" are a bad idea? Comcast will cut my internet connection if I don't pay the bill, so will other utilities...
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> " tolerance for repetition that characterize her condition are also pretty much a recipe for success in ... computer science" Obviously, the author knows nothing about computer science, since a tolerance for repetition is pretty much
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> 0. Programming is a craft not science or engineering Unless, of course, you are software engineer-ing. Flight guidance-and-control systems, among many other things, are are precisely engineered software systems. In a world of web-apps
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Well. I guess it seems to be a thing now.. What is everyone's opinion on this?
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Secret robotic air force space plane lands after mystery mission(today.msnbc.msn.com)
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So it's hilarious when companies like Geico or whatever post ads on Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 saying they only accept "rock stars"... Because we all know that's where all the hot shots flock to...
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Although the article never used the word "super star", it's something I see around HN and the startup world quite a bit.... I sort of snicker when I see startups post jobs looking for "rock star" coders [1]. What self respecting person woul
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Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back did some horrible things to a lot of people's conceptions about asteroid belts. The asteroid belt is so unbelievably sparse, you would never even know you are flying through it. Absolutely no concern was gi
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The closest thing is new horizons. However, due to some complications with the department of energy, there no longer exist RTGs (the nuclear-decay power source) of the kind that are used to power Voyager. New Horizons has an RTG, but it's m
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> I think a lot of people here would benefit from 6 months in a 'normal' company I've worked several years at a normal company. My group of dozens of software engineers codes overwhelmingly in C, with Python, Perl, Lua, and the occasion

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