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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 p…

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/

> 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 posi…

> 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…

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, withou…

This is pretty unhelpful as this (your) submission wasn't discussed at all.

>> 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 invento…

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 s…

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 …

"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 s…

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 bus…

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', 'wel…

TIL Microsoft makes (a lot) more money on Android than Google does.

> (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, onl…

The difference between your declarative and mine is scope. Mine focused on one person's statement; yours was a sweeping historical generalization. "falsifiable observationally veri…

"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 wo…

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…

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 sta…

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 questio…

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 fo…

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 prett…

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, Jess…

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 h…

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 …

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…