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I had access to a repo (from a closed startup) with 800K lines of python & C code, written from the 90s to today. They had some very interesting approach to a specific chemistry pr…

I’m not a pilot. Zero experience except remote controlled airplanes. But IIRC, it happened by night, over the ocean. If the instruments fail you, this is really hard to “perceive” …

I had the same reaction. I’m half the person I used to used to be, after a painful burnout. And it’s not even close as painful as what the OP experienced. So many of my friends wen…

There are times when life gives us the opportunity to be that guy; just not exactly in the same way. Pay attention, it has and it will happen.

In my +- 25 years of experience, I've encountered exactly 1 compiler bug. That cost me a full week of debug. Unfortunately, it happened during my very first year as a developer, an…

There seem to be 2 points of view here. One technical (sensors and the algorithms), one organisational (people and teams working on the problem). My understanding is that by focusi…

When facing such large scale issues, communicating properly is very hard: Several teams might be investigating several possible root causes in parallel, and you might change your m…

Maybe the right question is: how do you become a great boss? Getting promoted to an EM position is one thing. Getting good at it is... very hard, and requires new skills. There's v…