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I made my largest gains in programming competence almost 10 years ago when working on a system with no connection to the internet and no cell phone at hand. I was working a develop…

A reset could be after the big one hits and we have to rebuild cities.

It indicates that writing and editing thousands of pages of documentation will be contractually required. Word proficiency can save a lot of pain for everyone on that team.

Ah, I wasn't thinking about their commercial business. I can imagine how that would be more price sensitive.

hmm. So they could be losing money on each launch? But, why would they would they choose to sell at a loss when they could beat the competition at twice the price?

Yep, attrition was over twice that last year at some firms in the area. Partly demographics, lots of folks who can retire do. The rest due to competition for staff.

Well, Space X costs less than half than a ULA launch. I suspect that ULA spends that additional money on large sub-contracts to Boeing and Lockheed for the Delta and Atlas vehicles…

The SoCal aerospace job market is hot right now. The driver is multiple large program starts at multiple contractors who are competing for people. This should make it possible for …

Or transition to a system test role that has embedded software with lots of real world hands on work. Your software experience is relevant. Troubleshooting is the hard and rewardin…

Yes, many. See the company's career page.

The job listings and applications for cleared and uncleared jobs can be found on http://northropgrumman.com/careers/Pages/default.aspx

It can also be a fun/technically challenging niche job that avoids the paperwork endemic to many jobs in large contractors.

I reboot my Nexus 5 daily and have not seen these kinds of performance issues.

It's not tech. It's a rental property.

Testing flight software is very intense. 50 KSLOC of C will take a few dozen man years to develop. As a side note on terminology, QA means a very different thing in the aerospace i…

I think Mearls said somewhere that the staggered release was because their copy editing pipeline couldn't handle three releases at once.

In a large company, such a change only has a chance if it is mandated from the top and then the mgmt team is very committed to push the change through for as long as it takes. With…

Well, if Sandberg takes that position in her book then she shouldn't deserve finger pointing I suppose. But since she talks about leveling the playing field in the workforce and fi…

But those other big companies with unpaid internships didn't publish a book about how they believe in empowering individuals (albeit women individuals in this case). Some finger po…