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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 understa…

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 wh…

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…

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…

Rubin Observatory | https://rubinobservatory.org | Senior DevOps Eng | Tucson AZ OR possible remote from US states And now for something completely different.. (drumroll)... astron…

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-kill…

| 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 bu…

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…

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 c…

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,…

Shouldn't we be thanking Innocenti, Kellner and Williams?

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…

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 t…

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 …

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 a…

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…

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.

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 ne…

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 occasio…

If so, I'd love to know who gives homework like that so I can sign up for the course....

Yes you can restart the tutorial. Settings->Site->Show Tour

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 c…

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:/…

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 wit…

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 …