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aguywithamum

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aguywithamum··on Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
Yeah, that's in reference to the failure of Beagle 2. It's on the page that was linked by Someone1234 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...).
aguywithamum··on A concise JavaScript tutorial for beginners
Wow, I've never used slides.com. It looks really nice.
aguywithamum··on How my son and I kind of became game programmers
Does anyone have experience with other things like Scratch? I remember using a program, which looks a lot like Scratch (but isn't), at a technical summer camp when I was younger that let one make simple games with Scratch-like rules, but I can't remember what it was called.
aguywithamum··on The programming and engineering skills with the highest salaries
Oh, that's true! I hadn't even noticed the difference. I've never heard anyone use the phrase "integrated developer environment" either.
aguywithamum··on Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
"The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit ('American'), contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, that used those results expected them to be in metric units, in accord with the SIS."
aguywithamum··on Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
The point being that his particular failure could've possibly been avoided if we were not using two parallel measurement systems...
aguywithamum··on A scheme to lower engineers’ wages
But if a company has a high turnover rate with domestic hires, the added cost may become marginal compared to the cost of constantly hiring.
aguywithamum··on The programming and engineering skills with the highest salaries
I wonder what the average Android engineer makes compared to the average Java engineer.
aguywithamum··on The programming and engineering skills with the highest salaries
I think it could also be for people that aren't programmers that may read the article. But, yeah, I've never heard anyone use the full name.
aguywithamum··on The programming and engineering skills with the highest salaries
Yeah, what's wrong with IDE's? (Insert joke about thinking he was referring to sitting down or putting headphones on.)
aguywithamum··on The new MacBook
Exactly this. I love being able to use a plug that is near a well traveled area and have no worries about my computer if people trip over it.