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by visviva 6y ago
This is a well-written FAQ. In particular, the "Objections and Concerns" section seemed to predict my questions as I read through each answer (I do not do this type of personal accounting).
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by visviva 6y ago
There is https://text.npr.org/
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by visviva 6y ago
This article is the first time I've seen it used as a noun. It stopped me in my tracks (so I could duckduckgo it), then it made me consider that maybe the article wasn't written by a native English speaker, then (finally) I read t
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by visviva 6y ago
I don't quite get the advice to come up with a "big hairy audacious goal (BHAG)" for one's self. It's one thing if one already has a personal BHAG, but going through a process to develop one as a personal goal see
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by visviva 6y ago
This is adorable - I love the name.
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by visviva 6y ago
I absolutely adore this program. It works exactly like I expect, every time. Sometimes I'll just think about what a nice tool it is, even when I'm not using it.
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by visviva 6y ago
I just (last night) read The Intensive Care Unit [1] - it was great, and I've been thinking about it all day. Very fitting for the current pandemic situation. [1] https://ninapower.net/2020/05/05/348&#x
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An Introduction to Pluto(lwn.net)
179 points by visviva 6y ago|27 comments
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by visviva 6y ago
I'm glad I was so confounded by the title that I had to click - that was a fun read.
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A Butt Load of Work(datagenetics.com)
1 points by visviva 6y ago|0 comments
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The Plutonium Box(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
4 points by visviva 6y ago|0 comments
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Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test(spacecom.mil)
3 points by visviva 6y ago|0 comments
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by visviva 6y ago
This is one of my favorite Julia packages! A fast plotting utility that outputs right to the terminal is one of those things that I didn't realize I needed until I found it.
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by visviva 6y ago
> Hopefully they're not phased by this. I doubt they are - my comment is about the PR impact.
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by visviva 6y ago
Would it have really killed their schedule so much to push this until after tomorrow's crewed flight? They're obviously unrelated, but it sucks to have this is the headlines the day before they launch astronauts.
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Building an Orbiting Internet Just for Satellites(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by visviva 7y ago|0 comments
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by visviva 7y ago
Normally, this is where I'd chide the OP for using "Engineer" in the title when they really mean "Software Engineer", but (refreshingly) most of the items on this list seem broadly applicable to different types of e
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by visviva 7y ago
The title makes no sense as a joke (unlike the original).
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by visviva 7y ago
Are you aware that your site is unreadable on mobile after scrolling past the first paragraph? Is that the point? Am I supposed to pay? What even is this?
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by visviva 8y ago
Four years old and the typo in the title still hasn't been fixed?
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by visviva 8y ago
Why though?
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by visviva 8y ago
On Being a Principal *Software Engineer
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Satellite pose estimation challenge(kelvins.esa.int)
3 points by visviva 8y ago|0 comments
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by visviva 8y ago
As the article notes, Swarm is the same company that illegally launched their first prototypes without FCC approval. HN thread on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555106
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Swarm Wants to Send Hundreds of Tiny CubeSats into Orbit(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by visviva 8y ago|1 comments
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by visviva 8y ago
What's a senior *software engineer's job?
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by visviva 8y ago
"[tech thing is happening] Black Mirror Style" -- evergreen title.
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by visviva 8y ago
*Software systems
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Video Shows U.S. Navy Run-In with UFO(popularmechanics.com)
5 points by visviva 9y ago|1 comments
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Blame the Computer: The fake science that keeps threatening to kill us(thebaffler.com)
2 points by visviva 9y ago|0 comments

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