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by davesims 7y ago
I've had a good number of conversations actually with some NASA FSW coders, and in general they're open to these ideas. NASA has a project with architectural and structural goals pretty well-aligned with what we set out to do at
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by davesims 7y ago
We came to the same conclusion at Kubos, and moved from C to Rust for most of our flight segment/application code (embedded Linux on the satellite OBC). https://www.kubos.com/
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by davesims 11y ago
> Have you made any decisions about Bryana's responsibilities that were motivated by her gender, rather than her personal strengths? Nope. Fortunately for me, while I was in a position to make those decisions about Bryana (I've
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by davesims 11y ago
> only your decision to offer her opportunities and incentives based on her gender which her post implies were not also available to equally qualified male members of her team. Her post only implied her own personal, subjective and utter
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by davesims 11y ago
As someone who was directly involved with hiring & managing Bryana let me set one aspect of this conversation to rest: Bryana's performance _across the board_ was top-notch, without qualification. She commanded, and continues to co
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by davesims 13y ago
This is pretty unhelpful as this (your) submission wasn't discussed at all.
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by davesims 13y ago
>> Note that the word "claims" shows up not even once. That word actually shows up exactly once in each episode. >> In the first episode, they insinuate that IV doesn't pay inventors like they claim. In the seco
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by davesims 13y ago
I think it's a bit of a category mistake to call filesystem or database data 'global state' in this context. Virtually every application has external persistence of some kind and some way of referencing that persistence. Tech
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by davesims 13y ago
Yeah I'm trying to get my head into how this would come about. It would be along the lines of how agile thought leaders shifted the notion of 'man hours' to 'story points', or how we stopped measuring LOC as a featu
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by davesims 13y ago
"Code quality matters when you have a team of people developing and maintaining software over a long period." And for me, 'a long period' is anything longer than a month, or more specifically, the time period it takes fo
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by davesims 13y ago
Thanks! The more I think in this direction the more I think we need to really push this language or something like it. As much as I love the idea of 'craftsmanship', etc., when business stakeholders hear that language and similar
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by davesims 13y ago
Been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think one of the problems is the language and metaphors we use to describe the quality of the code. Words like 'clean', 'elegant', 'well-structured', even SOLID are
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by davesims 13y ago
TIL Microsoft makes (a lot) more money on Android than Google does.
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by davesims 13y ago
> (Machiavelli's teachings) are not fit to be quoted in a discussion of how to conduct a democracy. Sorry, I should have qualified that, because I wasn't endorsing Machiavelli, only acknowledging his influence on our current co
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by davesims 13y ago
The difference between your declarative and mine is scope. Mine focused on one person's statement; yours was a sweeping historical generalization. "falsifiable observationally verifiable prediction..." Go back and read The O
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by davesims 13y ago
"History and politics and sociology classes are not..." "its already just a piece of paper..." "You won't be permitted to change anything..." "if voting could change anything it would be outlawed...&q
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by davesims 13y ago
It's a reasonable question, but is it practical? 9/11 only killed a fraction of the number who probably died in the last few days in the recent typhoon, but the effect was to bring the entire country and economy to a halt. The US
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by davesims 13y ago
This is exactly the question. If the channels of democracy still exist in any form (and the alternative is unthinkable), then we have to take control of them and put forth real statesmen to answer this challenge. The consequence of failin
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by davesims 13y ago
Heh, now you're throwing Socrates' critique of Democracy at me? :) Sure -- democracy is no guarantee. Referendums go wrong. Aaaand we're back to the Enlightenment political question of how best to balance the will of the mass
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by davesims 13y ago
I wish this were true, and I share your compulsion, not necessarily a rational one, to prefer compassion and understanding and detente to bellicosity and intrigue. Unfortunately for both of us, the truths of Machiavelli are not easily defea
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by davesims 13y ago
Well, it ain't exactly Tocqueville, but it does provide an interesting perspective on how the US is viewed abroad. The thesis is simplistic though, and can be distilled along pretty obvious classic political theory: every society has t
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by davesims 13y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite bits of rock criticism from the early oughts, Farm Report Wabi Sabi: http://nypress.com/farm-report-wabi-sabi/ 'Then my favorite fellow Bubba, Jesse Gutierrez, came by to swallow s
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by davesims 13y ago
Actually this is incorrect -- the windows you're referring to were part of the earlier MDI version of Opera. In 2000 Opera 4 came out with tabs very similar to what FireFox would have in its first release four years later (and its pred
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by davesims 13y ago
I'm getting along in (coder) years, and I'll just throw this bit of advice and then yell at you to get off my lawn. I've cycled through "this isn't my passion" about 5 times in 15 years. And what I'm learn
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by davesims 13y ago
The challenge here, in my experience on both sides of this, is that a developer's deep domain knowledge of a large or large-ish app is essential to a 'work-sample' environment. And that's virtually impossible to duplicat
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by davesims 13y ago
Another perspective, not so flattering of the author: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2003_04...
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by davesims 13y ago
Nicely handled. Good for you, take your time Ryan. You've given so much quality free content over the years, the least the Rails community can do is hang back and let you figure this out on your own good time.
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by davesims 13y ago
The Einstein example is a non sequitur . This isn't a technical, algorithmic or scientific problem that needs special genius. Where's the 3D rendering of Relativity that makes E=MC2 perfectly comprehensible for the masses? Or is
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by davesims 13y ago
How is this different than, say, Rational Rose or any of the other UML/WYSIWYG tools that have come down the pike over the years? Or, for instance, Rules Engines that in general no one uses because inevitably stakeholders stop trying t
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by davesims 13y ago
I was about to post the exact same comment, with the above quote from OP in my clipboard. In my experience, this claim is made by (many times really good, experienced, intelligent) coders who have a lot of previous experience in static ty

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