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10:02 am
February 4, 2011
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sheila
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Speaking of Scalzi, I think they should recruit older people along with people they don't normally recruit. It's so weird to think of the majority of people out there being so young, teenagers. Or am I wrong? I was in so many ways an idiot as a teenager. Even in my 20s. there should be a mixture of old and young, hawks and doves… maybe they'd make wiser decisions.
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10:08 am
February 4, 2011
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sheila
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Hljothlegur said:
sheila said:
right?
Yep.
It's like immune system response. a virus or bacteria evolve, the immune system evolves… in people terms
Someone presents a design, someone counters with flaws, design is refined, and so on.
If we could make the flaws make things fail fast you'd be able to catch them earlier and refine things. software developers have the "fail fast" and short iterations philosophy.
speaking of which, automation in the development lifecycle can be pretty useful. we change code, check it in to a repository, then automated things run to see if we've checked in something that has caused the system to fail. we also have deployment partially automated, and in other companies they have deployment even more automated than we do. so, you can push a change, which triggers tests to run, and then you can push the change to production, then detect if things begin to fail and roll it back.
you get a mix of automation and monitoring to pick up failures quickly.
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10:10 am
February 4, 2011
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sheila
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and then of course when you start with something new that you have to build, you try to and anticipate things you will need in the design. like, you have people building components that will talk to each other, and you want to be able to anticipate the conversations that they will need to have for it to be a good design. if you work out good conversations and good messages, everything is smooth and wonderful.
but of course you won't be able to anticpate everything, and maybe you design a really annoying and bad conversation and it sucks and causes a clunky system with messages that are too noisy or big or don't have the information you want and then you have to toss in a bunch of crap…
and that's in something that doesn't cause people to die.
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4:47 pm
February 4, 2011
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sheila said:
Speaking of Scalzi, I think they should recruit older people along with people they don't normally recruit. It's so weird to think of the majority of people out there being so young, teenagers. Or am I wrong? I was in so many ways an idiot as a teenager. Even in my 20s. there should be a mixture of old and young, hawks and doves… maybe they'd make wiser decisions.
I think, this would be somewhat like militia in Switzerland, having a strictly defensive mission. Every soldier has uniform, weapon and some ammo at home. "Switzerland doesn't have an army — it is an army!" Maybe this had been the intention of the "Second Amendment" in USA… but I think, this is mined territory.
Preferring younger persons: They are more impressible. And there is the issue of physical fitness (but I think this argument as a bit overrated). I'd been in rehab in spring and our trainer told us, that with adequate training he could get anybody in the group in six months to Marathon. I told him that I've got no problem doing exercise — if getting paid for it, but not for fun.
Operating drones could probably be done by anybody able to play a flight simulator. I would prefer this job to one as a callcenter agent, selling useless and/or expensive junk. Though I won't shut down my critical mind (and maybe break due to overrides, too). (Choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, anyway.)
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10:59 am
February 9, 2011
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sheila
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I am currently working on a part of this service that is supposed to use hibernate to write things to a database and omg is this completely boring shouldn't I be done by now? no, so I am easily distracted, oh hey look, a relevant FPP in metafilter on autonomous drones? kick ass!
“Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.”
similar discussions there as here, plus some. in case people are interested. I love this stuff.
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1:29 pm
February 9, 2011
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Poor thang. Altho', I bet what I'm doing is boring-er just now.
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3:42 pm
February 9, 2011
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sheila
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Hljothlegur said:
Poor thang. Altho', I bet what I'm doing is boring-er just now.
oh yeah? and then they made me switch context to go take a quick look through code I hate to cost how many sprints it would take to add a feature. (see, I verbed cost. that's how bad things are)
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10:43 am
February 10, 2011
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sheila said:
Hljothlegur said:
Poor thang. Altho', I bet what I'm doing is boring-er just now.
oh yeah? and then they made me switch context to go take a quick look through code I hate to cost how many sprints it would take to add a feature. (see, I verbed cost. that's how bad things are)
You win! 
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