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by frossie 3y ago
Thanks for asking, sorry for the delay I was checking with the bureaucracy what the answer is (as we are technically government subcontractors we don't make the rules). My understanding is we do sponsor H1s. The vast majority of nation
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by frossie 3y ago
Oh thanks for asking, I should add nobody is _required_ to get out there and be a performing monkey or anything, but it's nice to get out there and talk about our work once in a while, especially since we're taxpayer funded and al
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by frossie 3y ago
Hah I ran into the comment size limit and took out - women work here - in technical and scientific roles You are welcome to tell your friend to reach out, I am always happy to talk to fellow women in the field so I can learn what they are l
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by frossie 3y ago
This is why I mention things like "surprisingly current toolchain for academia" :-) My personal philosophy is staying current costs far less in the end that falling behind and then needing a giant transition...
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by frossie 3y ago
Rubin Observatory | https://rubinobservatory.org | Senior DevOps Eng | Tucson AZ OR possible remote from US states And now for something completely different.. (drumroll)... astronomy! We're building a big telescope to ca
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by frossie 7y ago
LSST | Tucson, AZ And now for something completely different... if watching the Fortnite black hole has given you the feeling that maybe you would like to find an actual earth-killing asteroid before it blows up our map... At the Large Sy
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by frossie 9y ago
| Large Synoptic Survey Telescope | Senior Cloud Solutions Architect | ONSITE Tucson, AZ | VISA Cloud engineering where clouds are the enemy! I'm at a major astronomy project to build a telescope that can observe the whole sky twice a
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by frossie 11y ago
In terms of time taken, the men took 22.48 minutes with instructions, on average, [...] compared with the women taking 23.65 minutes with instructions, on average, I [female] would lose 5% in time over a median guy just by slower screwdri
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by frossie 11y ago
Unless you personally know either of the people involved, I don't think you are in a position to make a judgement as to whether it was "love, sacrifice and reward" or "prevailing cultural pressures at the time that were
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by frossie 11y ago
I am bothered by this - it's a completely unnecessary reinforcement of a stereotype. I don't understand why an androgynous name (eg Alex) or a neutral name (R2D2) is not an option, if the software is not up to recognising two diff
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by frossie 11y ago
Shouldn't we be thanking Innocenti, Kellner and Williams?
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by frossie 11y ago
It is important that code reviews are public enough that people see other people review each other's code - a system where the only code reviews you see are the ones you do and the ones you get leads to poor expectations of what they a
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by frossie 11y ago
These are the kind of calculations that make me weep - somebody getting happy with numbers without engaging their brain as to the answer. Obviously the Tesla factory is not going to require 20,000,000 Megawatthours to operate - that is as
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by frossie 12y ago
That is because that is the ACTUAL purpose of that (Selective Sync) dialogue he is showing, contrary to his implication that it is related to upload configuration. When you have 2 work computers and one personal laptop, perhaps you have a C
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by frossie 12y ago
When you sit down to do something, how many of these projects do you touch? If the answer is "one", then do a git repo for one. The answer you should ask yourself is "when I look at the git log, which history(ies) would it ma
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by frossie 12y ago
Wow, it was hard to look past all the offensive crap to get angry at all the logic holes. Let me see if I can keep this PG. >age 22-30: graduate school, possibly with a bit of work, living on a stipend of $1800 per month >age 30-35: w
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by frossie 12y ago
You need to have someone to assign the PR to . Either you need a second contributor on the repo, or you need to be in an organisation with more than one member.
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by frossie 12y ago
Factoid: At Kitt Peak National Observatory, a working astronomical site, you get more light pollution from the Homeland Security / Border Patrol checkpoints that you do from the nearby city of Tucson. 1,000W bulbs: Just Say No.
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by frossie 12y ago
This is great for before 7AM flights out of SFO / SJC, where public transit is not an option. So how does one get from Millbrae to SFO if the BART is not running? (asks the occasional visitor)
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by frossie 12y ago
If so, I'd love to know who gives homework like that so I can sign up for the course....
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by frossie 12y ago
Yes you can restart the tutorial. Settings->Site->Show Tour
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by frossie 12y ago
So I too have been bitten by this, but I think there some merit in forcing you to make a habit of being in daily touch with your lists. I think you're less likely to cheat if you can't go back to rewrite history.
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by frossie 12y ago
Yes there is an app, it is simple enough to allow you to tick off tasks, not much else. There is an API, and I did see integrations with other to-do systems start to pop up. http://habitrpg.wikia.co/wiki/App_and_Extensi
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by frossie 12y ago
What algorithms are we talking about? The ones that are printed on the tax form? "Subtract box 3 from box 2 and enter it in box 14"? They aren't secret. The problem people have with tax forms is not the calculations, it is un
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by frossie 12y ago
At that point, why not just ask them to provide the equivalent of Turbo-Tax on the web and put the code on github? I mean if they are going to compete with software providers, why mess around with PDFs? The advantage of tax software is not
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by frossie 12y ago
>But at that price point, there are similar solutions available with much more coverage and features. Exactly. I sit on a quarter-million dollar budget for hardware and services, but I still have a value-for-money filter, and this doesn&
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by frossie 13y ago
People upvote it because it because (a) product beta launches are rightly HN fodder and (b) it saves the story in your account so it serves as a "I'm busy now I'll try this tonight".
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by frossie 13y ago
Yes on the slow development rate. I pretty much signed on to their mailing list as soon as they announced themselves. After hearing nothing for over a year I gave up and switched from bricks and mortar to ING (now Capital 360) which solved
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by frossie 13y ago
The problem with these (and all the other alternatives I've seen in this post so far) is that they ignore the one thing that locks people into Evernote despite the bugs, poor interface etc: scanner-support and OCR. Sure, if you have yo
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by frossie 13y ago
The statement made upthread was that (a) github destroyed open source social structure and (b) has resulted in buggy releases when there are releases. I would have liked to see some examples in such a broad statement. I am struggling to th

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