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Alright, I'll bite. I'm a development manager. My interviews aren't quite as cliché as the meme, but I would love to hear what people have to say.
What kinds of questions **would** you like me to be asking? There's two things I care about determining when I'm interviewing:
1. You're not a deplorable, miserable, asshole that is capable of navigating interpersonal conversations without me having to babysit you.
2. You're capable of doing the job I'm hiring for.
3. I'll have a chance to retain you for some meaningful amount of time before you decide to jump ship without ever talking to me first.
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Okay that was 3, but I'm not sure the third is ever actually achievable.
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3 is probably mostly out of your control as the hiring manager, yeah. There's only so much you can do about the budget you're given for hiring, you can't control benefits, you can't control whether the company is a shit place or not. That said, you *can* control how enjoyable it is to work under you, but I feel like that part should go without saying (if you need to be *told* to be a pleasant boss, you shouldn't be anyone's boss).
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Someone benchmark this PR. It'd be hilarious if it actually was more performant. If it isn't then I am just as weirded out as the maintainer.
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I'd be more weirded out if it was more performant. If it isn't, it's just a joke post entirely. If it is..........
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Well, then uhhh
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Why are you leaving your current job?
Because I’m looking for the one that will give me 20% more.
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What do you consider your weaknesses?
I care too much, damn it.
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I'd be more weirded out if it was more performant. If it isn't, it's just a joke post entirely. If it is..........
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Well, then uhhh
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If it is, they really commited to that joke.
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Can confirm. Nobody in our company has ever written good React hooks without their anime body pillow nearby.
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Have they written any good ones *with* their anime body pillow nearby though?
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It's probably due to some traumatic event during their formative years that later leads to difficulties making human connections or using type safe languages. A low anime diet combined with chock C therapy might help, but often the brain damage is too severe and they're doomed to a life of node.js or front end development.
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I remember when I was younger I was quite snobbish about js and front end but now I work with js and angular etc I just feel pity. I mean we even got typescript yet nobodies typed any of the code... help. :(
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laughable how she/he just lost his awful writing style for the instructions about how to reproduce the bug
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It looks to me s/he cares more about the bugs being triaged than keeping the jocular pretense. So s/he knows when to stop, which is great.
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It looks to me s/he cares more about the bugs being triaged than keeping the jocular pretense. So s/he knows when to stop, which is great.
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Yeah that honestly just makes me think this is just a really cool/funny person. I like working with weirdos like this that have enough social grace to know when to stop
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Alright, I'm gonna have to request y'all pull us out of this pun thread.
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I'm sure we'll git around to it eventually.
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Where's the option where I'm lying on my bed with head jammed against the headboard at a 90 degree angle as my overworked laptop singes my nip hairs trying to open Visual Studio?
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*fan noise intensifies*
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It's a stereotype that programmers have terrible posture.
It's also a stereotype that gay men cannot sit properly in chairs, turning into a gangly mess of limbs upon contact with furniture.
As a gay programmer, my sitting style while working can best be replicated by disassembling a Mr Potato Head, throwing it in a tumble dryer, and pouring the remains down a hill with an office chair at the bottom.
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yup, I'm a lesbian programmer and am currently sitting with the same posture as the cat in the picture
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Because now there isn't a 0% chance for the company to get sued when it crushes some persons fingers off.
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Or freezes a child alive.
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Makes me wonder about the engineering cost involved.
Is fridge open? Check door sensor, door sensor says open, send notification. (seems relatively easy)
vs
Is fridge open? Check door sensor, door sensor says open, send close request to motor.
Yeah I guess the motor would be one cost issue. Not sure how big of an issue though. Haven't worked with robotics, so someone else can shed some light.
But don't we already have a mechanical solution for this? Door closers like the ones in offices?
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The solution has to be a lot more complicated than that if you don't want people getting hurt
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Most fridges I've had close on their own from the way the door is hinged. Id assume a door is left open because something is blocking it.
The other day I had a pizza box on the top shelf, went to shut the door but it was a hint to wide. A motor wouldn't be able to shut it so a notification would be more useful.
Honestly, there are very very few examples where a motor would be better over a notification. But that notification should be an audio signal and not a wireless connectivity thing.
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My parents' very much not a smart fridge dings after any door is left open.
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My parents' very much not a smart fridge dings after any door is left open.
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I hate it when the fridge won’t shut up just because the microwave door is open.
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I hate it when the fridge won’t shut up just because the microwave door is open.
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I’m leaving my bedroom door open right now...can you hear it??
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"Complex and graceful shutdown process"
You click on shutdown, check back on the computer a minute later to see whether it actually turned off:
"Task Manager - This program doesn't let the computer to shut down. Would you like to force close it?"
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Five minutes later:
"Working on updates...
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Interpreters in general are slow. That's why C itself compiles into an executable before running.
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We could make interpreters that optimize themselves at runtime, but Python was not design for that.
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Arguably, expecting your program to get shot down at any moment makes for much more robust programs. If you're expecting that everything will go perfectly and your program will always end gracefully and you'll always have time to save data later and Something Bad™ will happen when you don't… well, then sooner or later Something Bad™ *will* happen. When the OS sets the expectation that you may have to die at a moment's notice, your program is more robust as a result.
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There is a life lesson in there somewhere.
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_If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution._ – Robert Sewell
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Ah yes
delete(p) {
delete(p) ;
}
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People dislike the boilerplate code that Java tends to go overboard with
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Hey man you wanna start a public static void main (String[] argument?)
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Delight turns to tears when you realize you did not make a single change to your code.
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Ah yes, APIs not connecting to external sources. Excellent.
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...Only to find out hours that you added a new bug.
And the compiler just hasn't made it to the old bug yet.
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This brings tears a lot of the time. Have to sit back and put the project on hold for a little sometimes as I bang my head with a book yelling bad dobby.
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pro tip, close your curly bracket before writing the code that goes inside it, train your muscle memory to only type "{}" and not "{" or "}"
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I can't imagine not doing this or having your IDE do this.
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Even Notepad++ can highlight corresponding brackets. It should be paper.
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My professor makes us do all our work in a Linux terminal with micro. I didn't even know how to use any of that stuff before starting his class. I was used to Visual Studio
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In Germany it’s called „Tabellenkalkulationsprogamm“ and I thinks it’s beautiful
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Everyone still calls it Excel tho.
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You joke, but the last I.T team at the place I work was using Word as a ticketing system before I started.
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I have so many questions.
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also manager; "I'll do home office this week, but don't worry, you can still contact me"
someone: writes email to manager.
manager in 6 months "so, I've read your email now. and I think you should think about this yourself. you can do it. I believe in you"
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Are you living my life?! O.o
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Taps forehead: Can't have rising covid cases if the "database" only has 65535 rows
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"look everyone we flattened the curve!" - Boris probably
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My first project as a developer was to convert a set of cryptic asinine excel sheets into a web app. I wanted to die the whole time.
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My first project as a developer could have been this, but instead I was tasked with keeping the excel database up to date while the company paid a subcontractor to ~~delay the delivery as long as possible to leech the most money in working hours while pretending to~~ make a proper database.
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I spent 6 months migrating a charity away from an access back end, excel 'front' end to a mysql/php setup and the week after training they were copy pasting the web results into excel again because "that's how they always did it".
So I just gave up and remade the outputs to be paste friendly...
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Yep. I worked at a place that bought another company. At the bought company the rowcount for too large for Excel, so they copied the excel tabs into SQL server.
No normalizing, just literally what was a tab became a table. So their customer table had 50 columns, mailing address, public facing address, name place of work. It was crazy to see.
I doubt they took backups of the db either.
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At the same time
Business User: we hired an analyst to make sure this process goes smoothly in future
IT: Great! We'll make sure they've got access to the client and instructions for setting up their DBI connection from inside whatever tool they're using. Would they need Python, R or PowerBI?
Business User: We don't have budget for that shit, we started them on the Excel thing like three months ago
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*cries in data analyst
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Used to work in infosec at a bank. We spent around $250k on this dashboarding system that would consume data from our dozens of various systems to give our executive leadership a wholistic picture of the organization’s security posture. For nearly a year, it was my job to build the perfect dashboard. Once it was done, executives refused to use it, despite asking for it. Instead they wanted an excel spreadsheet. So, I wrote a python script that dumped the data from all the various tools into an excel spreadsheet. Fancy dashboarding software wasn’t used... but we still had to pay for it because execs are not immune to the sunk cost fallacy (or they’re too prideful to admit they were wrong)
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By “fancy dashboard software,” you mean Tableau Enterprise right?
I think every organization has the same struggle, everyone wants to use what they’re familiar with
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I mean, csv is nice to SQL and SQL is nice to csv.
But don't let excel touch that file first.
Don't let it touch it!
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I’m working on a project for a school club where the program needs to automatically be able to create and manage the csv files, but rather tech-illiterate people need to be able to view and possibly modify the data. For the second part, using excel as a viewer seems to work pretty well.
As long as they don’t re-save the file into a .xlsx...
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I was hired at my current company for the primary purpose of building out business intelligence.
It took them six months before we got Tableau licenses, but just creator licenses because they wanted to see what I would come up with. I create mock-ups within a month. It takes them another six months to review, at which point they actually realize the cost of rolling this out company wide. So instead they decide that they'd rather go with Power BI instead because it's quite a bit cheaper.
It takes them another two months just to switch over. I create more mock-ups within a month. It takes them a month to review and decide they need to get more review input from the entire team. They go untouched for three months. Then the VP heading up the project leaves. This was back in December and I'm currently in limbo.
So for two years they've been paying a BI analyst to... basically do nothing.
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"capitalism breeds efficiency"
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Of course. It's better to hand-write your code, scan it, and rely on OCR to convert to code. This allows you to better "feel" the code.
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What about a hammer and a chisel ?
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The C++ spec document is about 1400 pages the DOCX spec document is 1700. I honest to god wouldn't be surprised if there was an IDE hiding in there.
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I mean, office does come with a vb compiler, iirc.
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Isn't this the guy that took out YouTube ads promising to get you hired as a dev with a $200k+ salary?
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Yeah and he doxxed this other YouTuber for criticizing him. But he seems like an OK guy now when he's stopped collaborated with Techlead.
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Because most common languages use brackets and semicolons to structure code, python doesn't use them and instead relies entirely on line breaks and indentation. You can technically write an entire program in one line with a lot of languages, making it possible to do in a search bar (not that anyone should ever do it), but not with python.
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Just use `\n`, obviously
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I remember a kid I met on tf2 like 8 years ago would try and pretend he knew programming and when he was asked by a plugin developer what he codes in, he unironically said word. Became an inside joke for years on our server lol
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I'll never understand why people want to pretend to know programming.
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Have you ever even coded before? Everyone knows that cave painting is the best IDE!
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Bruh I just yell my code at the compiler.
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They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
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We are basically never going to be concerned that we *should* or *should not* something.
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I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
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Oh! Well this is not a mundane detail, Michael!
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From what I heard about it, it actually happened because the previous model of the rocket, they did a lot of work to mathematically prove that they would never get a value which would be high enough to cause this error. When they started work on the new version, they reused a lot of old code but missed that nuance and the rest was history as they say
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But it worked on my rocket.
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It was really interesting listening to the reactions to each event. You could tell who was nervous about what. There was a bit when they said something like "algorithm to find acceptable landing site returned ok" and at least one guy was like "yaaasssss."
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"Crash landing algorithm has fired successfully"
"Oh yeah!"
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Fun fact: apparently they where still writing the software for the rover while it was in flight for Mars
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Just like in game development:
Deliver too early and patch the promised functionality 6 months later with a DLC.
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Just like in game development:
Deliver too early and patch the promised functionality 6 months later with a DLC.
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Did the team have to pay micro transactions to unlock the Mars drone and so on? :)
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You need your drives to be radiation hardened. Without the comfort of earth’s atmosphere harsh radiation has a lot of changes to hit sensitive electronics. Radiation likes to randomly flip bits on flash memory which can cause massive disruptions (especially if they flip bits on the part of the drive storing your operating programs).
These radiation hardened components are very specialist and expensive. Generally you aren’t going to attempt to harden a newer processor / flash chips as well (you want to prove their reliability first)
For context this rover has a 200 megahertz PowerPC processor, 2GB of storage, and 256MB of RAM. It’s plenty for the system they are running
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This is a pretty awesome piece of information; I was wondering about this too.
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I know. Normalising inputs by doing to\_upper, removing white-space, etc. are like freshman CS type things. These greedy companies are just slapping together crap software in a moneygrab, with no interest in getting rid of bugs like these. Let alone making the s/w guide the prof into making the right question type (multiple choice vs freeform string text, etc.)
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They probably told a poor unpaid intern that had little to no knowledge to do this. I dont know why but some companies think a freshman in computer science can just code in any language.
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Based on the background, looks like chemistry. Also there's only *one* space in the actual answer, so I highly doubt it was needed
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I was thinking the space because 6 is the base, then the multiples of 6 (6x10, 6x20...)
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There was a quiet moment just before that, and the camera lingered on one guy staring at his screen, leg shaking nervously. I totally related to that guy, and then the outbursts of relief after each milestone reached. Joked to my wife ‘oh I hope they didn’t forget to pack the parachute’. I bet they all such crazy irrational thoughts going through their mind, but the sequence events during that 7 minutes of terror doesn’t really give you enough time to play back through the project and rationalise that it’s not possible for such a mistake to have occurred. What a ride.
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More like the whole 7 months the probe was in transit. Imagine thinking you left the oven on, only it's 400 million kilometres away.
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TBH aerospace shit is tested *super* heavily to the point where many space people are interested in Rust, but don't plan on using it because the *compilers*, of all things, haven't been rated for reliability the same way C++ ones have. Any code that goes on a rocket has been battle tested heavily (except for SpaceX who's yoloing Chrome and hoping it will work)
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Space X throws shit at the wall to see what sticks
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More like the whole 7 months the probe was in transit. Imagine thinking you left the oven on, only it's 400 million kilometres away.
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Imagine trusting your code to run for 7 months without catastrophic failure.
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For me the most bizarre thing about this landing was: When we heard it happen on the radio here on earth, the rover was already sitting on the ground for 11 minutes.
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Meh I've had worse ping
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Not knowing first hand, but SpaceX probably does a metric shitload of testing, too. They're not going to get approvals from the various government agencies involved (especially FAA) if they don't.
There are several reasons SpaceX is able to do what they do - a few that come to mind:
1. They throw a ton of people and hours at a problem. All of the required testing is possible in a short amount of time, if you have a ton of people working very productive 60 hour weeks. (yeah, it leads to burnout - and that in itself is an issue I'm sure).
2. Their company goal is to advance things, quickly. This sidesteps a lot of company politics. Everyone is on-board and behind getting starship done as fast as possible. From the engineers to the high level execs. Nobody else is trying to compete directly with them on something like that, so there's not as much political motivation to stop them. (There sure was with the Falcon 9, lol)
3. Thanks to both of the above, and aggressive investing, they're throwing a lot of money at solving these problems. Most companies would have strict funding/profitability goals. You can have the greatest R&D team in the world being held on a leash because there isn't enough money or not enough profit behind the fruits of the R&D. Stuff that isn't pursued when it could be.
I can't do 60 hour workweeks nonstop for below-average pay, but I can understand the people who do it. lol.
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And this is possible because it is a privately owned company with extremely rich people behind it so they can set their goals far into the future rather than having to think about how the next few quarters will play out.
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Imagine trusting your code to run for 7 months without catastrophic failure.
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Don't they have an option for remote update of at least part of the code? I know it wouldn't help during the landing, but there's still some time for reviews during these 7 months.
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agreed. people complain on C and Java because they're too literal, but for me it just don't fell right coding on Python or Kotlin. i really like to keep track of things
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Why Kotlin ? Kotlin is even more strict than Java in some cases (like null safety).
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Maybe some systems, but it would be scary if you bricked something because a bad update.
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I went to Airbus Space once as a student. They had a replica of a satellite computer kept at the same state as the original one. They test on that before pushing.
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To be fair, this is probably not really an AI issue, but a camera issue. If I was an overworked/bored gov employee looking at that pic, I'd also have given him a ticket for using a phone while driving.
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It's not even clear if he's holding anything from the picture. You'd give him a ticket solely on the assumption that he might be holding one?
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This happened to me! Except it was a real life police officer!! Due to really annoying circumstances, I couldn’t fight the ticket and had to pay it anyway. Still ticks me off thinking about it. It nearly cost me my license (I was a new driver).
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Your empty call log didn’t clear things up?
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The police office didn’t want to hear any excuses or see any evidence. Just gave me the ticket and told me if I wanted to fight it to lodge the argument formally with the courts. I moved countries shortly after so missed my court date. When I had to renew my license later, I had to pay the fine plus a fee for missing court.
It was a long weekend in a tourist town chock full of teens from out of town. Even though I actually lived there, I assume he had just had a bad day.
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A lot of tourist towns make a cottage industry out of fining people who won't be around for their court date.
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When you're old enough to remember when C++ was the easy language to choose from the given choices....
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I remember learning to code 16 years ago and everyone was saying c++ was the one and only way to go.
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As a backend guy, I can tell you the reverse is also true. Clients yell at front end devs because website isn't working when it's my bad data / processes causing them screw up
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I do respect you guys, as frontend. Managing all those processes and data seems so complicated.
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Depends specifically on the kind of ML you're doing. Running a sizable k-NN model could take a while, but be doable on a laptop.
And somebody's gonna yell at me for saying that ML is more than just neural networks. But then when I use ML to just mean neural networks, a statistician yells at me for not including SVMs and decision trees. So, you know, whatever.
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decision tree? I think you mean if statements.
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I do respect you guys, as frontend. Managing all those processes and data seems so complicated.
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I'll take it any day of the week vs the light speed changing frameworks and "this doesn't look the way I like" that you guys put up with
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I'll take it any day of the week vs the light speed changing frameworks and "this doesn't look the way I like" that you guys put up with
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Well, yes, my day is not complete if I don't listen "Can you make it more pretty? Can you make it with more style? Can you change the colors?" C'est la vie...
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If statements that are defined via a statistical process, rather than an analytical one. But yes.
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Could you explain that a bit to an idiot? What’s the difference between of statements coming from statistical/analytical processes
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I remember learning to code 16 years ago and everyone was saying c++ was the one and only way to go.
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Started learning programming in school 9 years ago and C++ was the first language we did. Oddly enough, never used it since actually. Throughout the rest of that class, it was java, for object oriented stuff. Then in university it was a tiny bit of java, C#, SQL and pretty much only C. Now I work with C#...
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It's not even clear if he's holding anything from the picture. You'd give him a ticket solely on the assumption that he might be holding one?
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Dude was saying an employee looking at 300 photos an hour for 7 hour straight would zone out and just see the hand by the face and move on.
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Yeah this I why you always have a dash cam. It's definitely legal to speed if all of traffic is speeding. Actually I got pulled over one time for NOT SPEEDING. I was on the way to my honeymoon, so I was taking no risks. He pulled me over and said it was more dangerous if all of traffic was going 20 over and I wasn't. No ticket obviously, just looking out for everyone's well being.
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My drivers training program taught me that but I've always had doubts, especially considering my drivers training program ended up being a scam and I didn't get my certificate.
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The thing about Japanese, I’m learning, is that What’s shown here is Hiragana, the basic writing system used by people in everyday lives. But printed materials (like newspapers) often use Kanji, which are essentially just Chinese characters.
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Well it’s a little more complex than that. You wouldn’t write out whole sentences in hiragana, but grammar elements like suffixes, tenses, and conjunctions are written in hiragana. That there is the word ‘hello’ (konnichiwa) which is properly written in hiragana. Kanji make up the bulk of words and names in Japanese. There is also Katakana, which is all the characters from hiragana written differently. These are used for loan words, signage, and some other uses in Japanese.
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Idk the technology just isn't there yet. I enrolled my laptop in college last semester and it's just doing terrible.
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My Desktop is on the honor roll. Parent harder!
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Well it’s a little more complex than that. You wouldn’t write out whole sentences in hiragana, but grammar elements like suffixes, tenses, and conjunctions are written in hiragana. That there is the word ‘hello’ (konnichiwa) which is properly written in hiragana. Kanji make up the bulk of words and names in Japanese. There is also Katakana, which is all the characters from hiragana written differently. These are used for loan words, signage, and some other uses in Japanese.
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Thanks for the elaboration
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Except some dude in U.S couple years ago got into jail for murder because his android phone showed he was within 1 km from crime scene at the time of murder. He was released year later after hiring lawyer and going to court several times to prove his innocence
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Was the guy by chance played by Tom Cruise?
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Wait until someone tells them about how the first two use the last one's characters sometimes
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Yes, but rarely in Hangul/Korean. A surprisingly simple alphabet.
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A huge problem with that is that they wouldn't let you use your phone location to prove you weren't at a crime scene. They would just say you could have left your phone far away. Seems like BS evidence to me but I'm just a civilian layperson.
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The criminal justice system nowadays is mainly focused on keeping for-profit prisons filled.
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change your dates to yyyy-MM-dd and you'll get more of the other kind of date
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Damn Straight. ISO all the way.
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Uģa buga... Ides are there for a reason. Why don't you be real programmer and do it with punch cards?
Same as, you can't drive manual, you are not a real driver. Birch can you ride a horse? You are not a real driver.
Love you guys.
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Indeed! The best programmers code with a magnetized needle and a steady hand!
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Pretty sure we've been "5 years away from automating everyone's jobs" for 20 years now.
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The problem is that when we automate everyone’s jobs away we don’t fire them, we increase the amount of output we expect.
So the total number of jobs don’t decline.
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He’s the only one who gets to. There are more planets that exclusively use Linux in the solar system than ones where windows is used.
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This is my favorite technically true statement I've read in a while and will be using it. Obviously windows is used on earth, what planet other than mars is using Linux, I know probes have gone to other plans and orbited but I didn't know if they landed.
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Enjoy it while you can, Linux. If exploring Mars becomes profitable Microsoft will find a way to acquire it.
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Looks like you're landing on mars? Would you like help? -Astronaut Clippy
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Having learned/used mostly C++ in college and now using mostly Python, I ca confirm this is true.
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Especially now where you can finally, *finally* expect python 3 to be normal.
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Being interrupted is like yanking the RAM out while the computer is running...
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I've never heard of such an accurate analogy...
I am in awe. If I wasn't a broke student I'd shoot over an award to you.
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I was pairing with a co-worker the other day and he was enraged by my CTRL + S S S S S S every time I made a change lol.
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Another dev I worked with did the same, but this was 20 years ago in a really old version of Visual Studio. Unfortunately it had a bug that would eventually make it crash...caused him a lot of grief.
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Astronomy: Look, if your biggest goal really is to lick Uranus, then so be it
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My favourite addition.
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Or... you know... just extend common courtesy to fellow professionals before you end the meeting.
Do you know how you really make sure that doesn't happen, Brian?
Having the trust of your fellow employees that you have the discipline and professionalism to be paying attention and not watching Netflix so they don't have to check on you to make sure you heard them.
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It's a fucking joke Bob, take it easy.
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Nobody asking this really wants to know if Brian has anything to add. Asking this is because fuck you Brian, you are not sitting there quietly making me suffer by doing all the talking.
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For real. Fuck people like Brian
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I do this to ensure the quiet ones get a voice. Socially shy people don’t always contribute in meetings even though they tend to be the most insightful of people. The loud ones on the other hand talk a lot and add nothing
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And the quiet ones will spend the rest of their quiet time plotting revenge for making them speak and be the center of attention.
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More like:
Web developers: I will use the webform module that came with this framework that was just released this morning. It doesn't handle UUIDs yet, so I'll also include the entire cryptography module from this other framework, and nest it all in an iframe so we can collect statistics on it using our in-house framework from 2009.
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I thought I was ready to be a web developer until I read this, god help me
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Sometimes it's tasty halite, sometimes we're just curious. You never know what a rock tastes like until you try.
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I used to put rocks in my mouth because it tastes like rain
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Rockstar Games: “4 minutes, it’s good, but we can definitely make it take longer”
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"If we can load the world super quick, the user will start expecting too much. We can't have that"
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Imo, it's even more scary when anti-virus does *not* trigger after you basically made a fancy keylogger
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Made a screen grabbing program. Avira didn't even care.
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Programmers in general are just bad at making that tradeoff. I don't know if I've ever seen anybody nail a decision like that, inevitably you either mismanage the complexity and make it into a mess of spaghetti, overengineer it so you deliver something maintainable but it takes twice as long as it should, or you ship a decent MVP which is totally inflexible and doesn't have much ability to expand functionality (but it's on time).
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Pick 2: Flexible, simple, well documented.
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Thanks for putting words to my thoughts! I thought I was the only one who experienced this. Then, I get embarrassed when I look at code I wrote while under deadline pressure. Like, "oh god, I hope another developer never looks at this because they're going to say, wtf?! Why'd he do that?"
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Look mate, I'm not going to argue that devs will go with either spaghetti hell, over-engineered hell, or the solid block of metal, but in all honesty you know that most of these problems are a mix of novelty seeking in the market (i.e clients go "uuh that's shiny" and architects/pms/devs do the same with frameworks.libraries/whatever) that is constantly being teased by "the next best thing" (I think we're on #2301 now) AND the clients never knowing what they want (i.e it's impossible to defensively design and code without over-engineering) and everything having to be done in super-crunch time (i.e it's impossible to achieve stability and code-cleanliness without making it a block of solid metal).
In short: in a world where every 2 weeks a new bullshit "revolutionizes" development world, making valid technologies quickly obsolete trough sheer power of the bandwagon and where customers don't know what they want but they want it now, for cheap and want to be able to add to it for the next 25 years, it's easy to have problems
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I'm no programmer but I think I can optimize this.
Throw in some threading, that should do it.
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No no, your killing my brain cells. This obviously is a perfect place to implement AI. We run the above function, with random number sets, input the inputs into a neural net and train with the outputs. We then segment it into a docker friendly micro service platform, make a web browser client to run the Neural Net on AWS for maximum optimization.
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"If we can load the world super quick, the user will start expecting too much. We can't have that"
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that is the secret of Rockstar Games
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Access is a nightmare, my wife asked me for help with it and I went in all cocky but it's UI is fucking incomprehensible, and there's no way to cheat by getting at the SQL under the hood
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not to mention it's incredibly slow and gobbles more ram than chrome
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I wish it would gobble more CPU cores to be faster, but guess what, even Access 2019 doesn't support multithreading...
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Only utilizing a single core on an Enterprise application, yikes.
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Probably fucked 100 other things that interacted with it and spent 1-2 months doing something that wasn't his job.
Also PHP meme
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Reminds me of a coworker who kept recreating all our spreadsheets in R. He pushed R so hard I thought maybe he worked for them.
I get R has a lot of really positive features (I use it a lot personally) but at work we’re hamstrung by the fact that everyone else needs to also interact with the spreadsheet you’ve worked on. Especially people outside our department, that are barely comfortable with Excel let alone anything more involved than that.
He was oblivious to how difficult he was making other people’s work by just dropping R in their laps instead of spreadsheets. Even people get were comfortable with R didn’t want/have time to peer review code when simply checking a couple Excel formulas would have sufficed. He didn’t last long at our company.
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You joke, but literally everything in my workplace is coded using Word 2005 macros
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The light you see? You're meant to walk towards it.
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