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It was a little tongue in cheek, but yes. I had large grievances with the software culture there, but after I got sign off on the project to modernise our build process, I couldn't…

My worst codebase story: In my first real job, I worked for a company that maintained a large legacy product programmed in a combination of COBOL and Java. In order to work on the …

The closest I have seen are the Oxide computer company RFD documents, many of which are public. Example: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0177 Main index: https://rfd.shared.o…

The crux of Atkinson's argument seems to be that the upfront emissions from the manufacturing process, and shorter lifespan of electric vehicles, does not make up for the reduction…

If you'd like to read more about the roots of Effective Altruism, ranging from old mailing lists, LessWrong, bitcoin, cults, AI and the surprising connections to many well known fi…

I'm generally bearish on AI, but I do feel that there are going to be a surprising number of applications where 'good enough' results are actually perfectly fine. In particular, a …

Slightly tangential but I've worked for several companies now that use `make` as a simple command runner, and I have to say it's been a boon. Being able to drop into any repo at wo…

A paper I read recently (Harper 2016 - 10.1089/space.2015.0029) has numbers based on the supplies needed to the ISS. The gist was, "Without some sort of recycling and/or use of in …

Netflix also seems to take into account the language your profile is set to as well, so you may get more/different subtitle choices if you change your profile language. See https:/…

For myself, I would think that the best way to compel kids (and adults) to be more interested in learning and personal development is to relate it to their sense of identity. Peopl…

Earlier this year I spent roughly three months job hunting exclusively through cold-emails based on Who's Hiring posts (I'm in the London area). I applied for 10 positions (and got…

Although a lot of people are pointing out (correctly) that it's trivially easy to ignore a checked exception, it does at least do two things: 1. Signal to the calling programmer th…

You can already produce fuel on Mars itself using the Sabatier Reaction with technology available today, you have to bring along a little hydrogen but that's not too big of a deal.…

This can be a major pain for larger software projects. At work we have to contend with: * A database so large that even a minimally empty one cannot be created from scratch in less…

The "12 Factor App" manifesto http://12factor.net/ is in the same vein as this, perhaps a bit more in-depth. I like the idea of these guides generally. I think it'd be more valuabl…

The actual on-board software of an aircraft is definitely given a lot of attention as far as testing is concerned, but unfortunately more indirect systems, such as maintenance trac…

That's probably true, but the potential for a severe, un-recoverable issue is about as high. An aircraft is composed of hundreds of individually tracked components with associated …

This is nothing. I work for an aircraft maintenance software company. Last week I fixed a bug where the system would silently delete a maintenance task if you clicked the X button …