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dmooney1

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About dmooney1

Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy

Lockheed Martin Sikorsky

david.a1.mooney@lmco.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemooney/

We're hiring!

We are working on a project called ALIAS for DARPA developing software to make helicopters fly semi- or fully autonomously. We have several openings right now (2026). We're working on C/C++ on Linux. The team is in Stratford, CT.

It's exciting stuff with a great team and a truly exceptional leader. We're working under the Sikorsky Innovations program modeled after Skunk Works. We get to move quickly and try lots of new things. Our team has our own custom helicopter called SARA (Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft), which was flown by non-pilot reporters from Wired [0] and The Verge [1].

You can get in touch with me directly. Include HN in the subject line.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/sikorsky-sara-helicopter-autonomous-flying-car-air-taxi-tech/ [1] https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2019/3/5/18250996/sikorsky-autonomous-helicopter-flying-taxi-lockheed

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    Comment #22701669

    There are plenty of technical people overseeing HIPAA.

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    Comment #20329056

    Lockheed Martin Sikorsky | Autonomy Software Engineers | Stratford, CT | ONSITE | FULL TIME We are working on a project called ALIAS for DARPA developing software to make helicopte…

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    Comment #12516904

    Sounds like a telephone company central office where all the local copper wires land.

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    Comment #8586640

    I'd love it if you could make this work with Atlassian Stash behind a firewall.

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    Comment #4973486

    Just to provide a counter-point on the vacation policy, I worked at a start-up where this kind of policy worked just fine. Most people took a two-week vacation at some point in the…

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    Comment #3485922

    He does not appear to intend to enter either the Republican or Democratic primary. While his independence is commendable, this makes his path to victory much more difficult for rea…

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    Comment #3476685

    Do you know any US citizens? You can certainly encourage any US citizens you know to contact their Reps and Senators.

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    Comment #3453157

    If not google.com, then maybe youtube.com, which would have very likely been shut down in its early days had SOPA existed then.

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    Comment #3375385

    I agree - type overloading says templates to me rather than inheritance. C++'s tuple class lets you do some of the cool listy type things you can do in Haskell. Using typedef tuple…

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    Comment #3356398

    You can see Browser-share as opposed to Browser-version share if you go to the statcounter page linked above. Webkit is around 6% and Chrome is 27% making WebKit ~33% and rising. A…

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    Comment #3356342

    I agree the manufacturer would not necessarily take on the bulk of the risk. However, there is supposed to be less risk once this technology is perfected. If the technology is inde…

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    Comment #3347956

    I always thought it was because basic PHP was so intuitive for anyone familiar with a C-like language.

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    Comment #3315753

    I sometimes fall into the trap of not asking questions in order to avoid looking stupid. However, when bullshit rises to a certain level and I've heard practically no substance, I …

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    Comment #3130424

    A bit simplified: when an ant moves to a food square, a new ant is produced from a hill.

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    Comment #2843806

    The reporter said it was just to prevent algae growth.

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    Comment #2809110

    Good question. The Treasury controls numerous trust and pension funds that are heavily invested in US Bonds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holders_of_the_National_De...

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    Comment #2794842

    So maybe get these companies to spend nine figures founding a non-profit to systematically challenge the patent trolls' portfolio.

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    Comment #2764929

    You are right. I hadn't even noticed those checkboxen.

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    Comment #2764832

    C++ is an 'Other' language? I am feeling really, really unhip.

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    Comment #2763637

    Perhaps a third dimension? Certainly there are simple and innovative hacks. Certainly there are complex, traditional hacks.

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    Comment #2758148

    How was this data collected?

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    Comment #2558034

    ASP.NET works with Apache and Nginx. See http://mono-project.com/ASP.NET

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    Comment #2506914

    The differentiator to me is the SuperStar will figure out how to avoid writing a lot of the code Competent guy will write cleanly. A mix of both works really well when SuperStar ca…

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    Comment #2412273

    Definitely the X-47B could be called a robot (or an autonomous, mobile robot if robot takes on the broader definition used by a few of the other commenters). I wonder how it reacts…