I work on the Dart programming language team. I hack on libraries and applications that come with the platform. In particular, I worked on the documentation generator, unit test package, and an arg parser. These days, I mostly work on the package manager and asset build system. That stuff is all written in Dart. :)
Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just like American Psycho. That was a prescient book.
I don't recall any dog food consumption in American Psycho . But it's a long time since I read it.
I think he was talking about this [1].
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#153I work for Virtru (https://www.virtru.com/get-secure-email), which allows you to send encrypted email from your existing email address (e.g. gmail). I use it daily for testing, but I use it at least weekly for actual use cases. For example, emailing my roommate a shared password, emailing sensitive business information, or simply sending messages to a friend which I don't want sitting on a 3rd party server in plain text.
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#154I build code sharing app called Climbi (http://climbi.com) for my side projects, and I almost use it every day for give someone help by providing code example on forum and social media sites. And I love it :)
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
We would, had we not needed 10-ish other machines to complete the process. Our machine only does the 'difficult' part (lithography), not all the nasty chemistry parts. Admittedly, this means that my description of what the machine does was cutting some corners. Ridiculously many, actually, but ok :)
You build a Z axis with angstrom steps? ...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.
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#156Yes: https://www.zerotier.com/ As I've been developing it I started using it to sync stuff, access machines remotely, etc.
Getting an ssl error for your site.
Can you let me know what browser you're using? I've tried it on Windows IE, Chrome on Windows and Mac, Safari, Chrome on Linux, and even old iOS browsers and it works fine.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. When I was working for GE Aviation I wasn't flying fighter jets. Thinking about the larger issue, I think It's actually somewhat rare for professionals to consume their own "product". Lawyers, for example, are often discouraged from doing so.
On the other hand I think that it's rare for someone to build an app that he wouldn't use.
I think you'd be wrong.
We're building a survey app for dentists to give to their patients.
We also have a dental practice management app.
And an practice management education tool.
I've also worked on monitoring apps used by electricity companies.
I can continue, but this should do. Anecdotal, fair enough, but I'm using them to paint a concept.
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#158Dog fooding is certainly one way to develop software, and I respect enormously the companies that do it, but "software for software developers" is a rather small subset of e.g. B2B software.
I don't use Appointment Reminder like my customers do. I can't, because I don't own an HVAC company with 200 appointments this week. I suppose I could force myself to use it for e.g. reminding myself of my own appointments, but that's so drastically different from what my customers care about that it would corrupt the whole product if I started adapting it to my own requirements.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
We would, had we not needed 10-ish other machines to complete the process. Our machine only does the 'difficult' part (lithography), not all the nasty chemistry parts. Admittedly, this means that my description of what the machine does was cutting some corners. Ridiculously many, actually, but ok :)
You build a Z axis with angstrom steps? ...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.
Not even close. We're building an "easy" machine, which can do about 1 micrometer precision. 1 km from where I work, there's ASML, the world's de-facto monopolist in high-end lithography. Most chips in your phone come from their machines. They're going towards the angstrom pretty fast, but they also need 500x the amount of engineers (and a frighteningly enormous pile of legacy code) to do that.
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#160This poll is so social local saas web. I'm building a wafer stepper. That's a machine that's used to make chips and LEDs. We're building the very first one of its kind now. I'm not sure what it'll sell for, but it's not something you typically get together on Kickstarter. I guess I'd be using it if I owned a semicon foundry or something.
oh another ASML employee :p
Actually, no. Not even close (except geographically).