roedog

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by roedog 6y ago
I made my largest gains in programming competence almost 10 years ago when working on a system with no connection to the internet and no cell phone at hand. I was working a development assignment on an air-gapped network. Not being able
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by roedog 7y ago
A reset could be after the big one hits and we have to rebuild cities.
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by roedog 7y ago
It indicates that writing and editing thousands of pages of documentation will be contractually required. Word proficiency can save a lot of pain for everyone on that team.
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by roedog 8y ago
Ah, I wasn't thinking about their commercial business. I can imagine how that would be more price sensitive.
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by roedog 8y ago
hmm. So they could be losing money on each launch? But, why would they would they choose to sell at a loss when they could beat the competition at twice the price?
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by roedog 8y ago
Yep, attrition was over twice that last year at some firms in the area. Partly demographics, lots of folks who can retire do. The rest due to competition for staff.
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by roedog 8y ago
Well, Space X costs less than half than a ULA launch. I suspect that ULA spends that additional money on large sub-contracts to Boeing and Lockheed for the Delta and Atlas vehicles. This makes me think that when we add up the employees on
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by roedog 8y ago
The SoCal aerospace job market is hot right now. The driver is multiple large program starts at multiple contractors who are competing for people. This should make it possible for everyone to land on their feet. (I've reached out to
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by roedog 9y ago
Or transition to a system test role that has embedded software with lots of real world hands on work. Your software experience is relevant. Troubleshooting is the hard and rewarding part in common with software development. For example tra
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by roedog 9y ago
Yes, many. See the company's career page.
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by roedog 9y ago
The job listings and applications for cleared and uncleared jobs can be found on http://northropgrumman.com/careers/Pages/default.aspx
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by roedog 10y ago
It can also be a fun/technically challenging niche job that avoids the paperwork endemic to many jobs in large contractors.
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by roedog 11y ago
I reboot my Nexus 5 daily and have not seen these kinds of performance issues.
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by roedog 11y ago
It's not tech. It's a rental property.
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by roedog 12y ago
Testing flight software is very intense. 50 KSLOC of C will take a few dozen man years to develop. As a side note on terminology, QA means a very different thing in the aerospace industry. The function of QA in this world is to witness the
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by roedog 12y ago
I think Mearls said somewhere that the staggered release was because their copy editing pipeline couldn't handle three releases at once.
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by roedog 12y ago
In a large company, such a change only has a chance if it is mandated from the top and then the mgmt team is very committed to push the change through for as long as it takes. Without both pieces it will get killed by apathy at the middle
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L.A. Unified's iPad rollout marred by chaos(touch.latimes.com)
1 points by roedog 13y ago|0 comments
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L.A. Unified takes back iPads as $1-billion plan hits hurdles(latimes.com)
1 points by roedog 13y ago|0 comments
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by roedog 13y ago
Well, if Sandberg takes that position in her book then she shouldn't deserve finger pointing I suppose. But since she talks about leveling the playing field in the workforce and fixing the salary gender gap is part of that I'd sa
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by roedog 13y ago
But those other big companies with unpaid internships didn't publish a book about how they believe in empowering individuals (albeit women individuals in this case). Some finger pointing seems warranted in that her company's act
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by roedog 14y ago
The last paragraph of the story talks about how "the German city of Freiburg voted to end the city's experiments with a free and open source office suite. In that city, the IT department had been struggling for years to support both an deca
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by roedog 14y ago
Did you mean to to type 'oh for Peet's sake?'
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by roedog 14y ago
Keep in mind that the email account was a private, personal account. His CIA email account wasn't compromised. I'm guessing that they know pretty well how to keep their email safe.
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by roedog 14y ago
Yes. For his security clearance he was required to self-report any adverse information, which includes an affair. The FBI uncovered the affair, so he probably did not self-report. That the FBI discovered it probably made the situation ev
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by roedog 14y ago
Consider the contemporary development programs RAINBOW and GUSTO and these specs don't seem so far out. Rainbow was to add radar stealth the to U2 (cloaking). Lockheed started development of what became the A-12 in the late 50's. It fle
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by roedog 14y ago
A blended wing body and flying wing configuration have been flown. There are similarities to the saucer in that they use lifting body effects. They benefit from high lift-to-drag ratio. However, the other handling qualities of these desig
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by roedog 14y ago
I had this problem. Then we cleaned out ducts from the dryer to the exhaust vent on the outside of the house. The duct was jammed full of lint. So, no air was flowing out. The dryer had a safety interlock that disabled the heater. This i
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by roedog 14y ago
This process results in low bug counts. But, even then, NASA still programs the software to accept patches as they fly. I don't know how applicable the NASA way is to commercial firms. They have different goals. National Mission Success v
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by roedog 14y ago
I keep both an electronic diary and an engineering notebook in a physical lab notebook. I find both helpful to getting organized and developing my thoughts. I would never publish any of these. They are for my use only. I format my diary v

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