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The pay gap comes down to personal decisions: https://dadatho.me/notebooks/p...

I left the workforce to stay at home with our son. I dropped down to making "80%" of my peers that didn't leave industry. Not because of my gender but because of a personal decision I made.

If you want to address the wage gap paying lip service to actual salaries isn't going to do anything.

the women get less money because

Women get less money because most of them tend to make different personal decisions than other people. http://dadatho.me/notebooks/pe...

I'm making 80% of what my peers make. It was my personal decision to leave the work place while my wife kept working. It's not a grand global conspiracy it's Math and Averages.

Now, if you want to discuss *why* women are leaving that's a separate discussion. But pushing the 78% salary narrative doesn't help you do that because it leads you down the entire wrong path of discussion.

The "problem" is it's a personal decision. I'm earning 72% of my peers (and that number is just going to go down the longer I'm out of the work force) because I voluntarily chose to leave the workforce to raise a family while my wife works. It's not a massive conspiracy it's math. http://dadatho.me/notebooks/pe... I will be at pay parity with my peers at time = infinity.

The problem isn't that women are earning less it's that America (and most companies in it) don't have policies in place to accommodate them. We're framing the entire problem wrong. Old companies are hostile to teleworking and 'modern' work practices that work just fine in other first world countries.

If you want parity forget about salaries and concentrate on other crap. But repeating the 72% number does nothing but prove how averages work.

It all comes down to personal decisions It has absolutely nothing to do with gender.

Your personal decisions affect your earning potentials. Women typically made different personal decisions than men. And I say this as a stay at home dad that has earned 80% of what my peers have because of my own personal decisions

I wish I saw Backblaze's previous report. I have a whole lot of Seagate paperweights. I couldn't do anything but laugh when one of their SNs ended in FML

In comparison all of the WD Red's that I bought to replace those (and their warrantied replacements) are still going strong. I did everything 'right'. Spread out my purchases, bought from Newegg and Amazon, kept them cool, etc. I think out of the 12 or so 2 & 3TB Seagate drives my current FreeNAS machine still has all of 1 or 2 still running. And one of those just started throwing SMART errors (even though the zpool scrub go through fine).

I wish I saw Backblaze's previous report. I have a whole lot of Seagate paperweights. I couldn't do anything but laugh when one of their SNs ended in FML

In comparison all of the WD Red's that I bought to replace those (and their warrantied replacements) are still going strong. I did everything 'right'. Spread out my purchases, bought from Newegg and Amazon, kept them cool, etc. I think out of the 12 or so 2 & 3TB Seagate drives my current FreeNAS machine still has all of 1 or 2 still running. And one of those just started throwing SMART errors (even though the zpool scrub go through fine).

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We do it all in Simulink. If you have experience with C you'd probably be best making device drivers for Simulink.

Not that we don't have people that don't know what they're doing in Simulink. I've seen some terrible 'coding', but Matlab helps to catch most of the errors, even if people get lazy with datatypes.

You are correct. Not only that, the learning objective with drag and drop might be colloquially called "coding" but in reality it might be to teach the logic of problem solving and the logic of coding using graphics

I use Simulink for a living. This is exactly what it it is, the buzz word is "Model Based Control". It doesn't mean I spend any less time trying to figure out the logic of how things work. Our whiteboards at work are covered with sketched block diagrams on how we need to implement a strategy.

Almost every company I know of has moved on past C for their engineers and just has them design and implement algorithms in Simulink. It's why the are a lot of positions open for Simulink across the country.

It writes better C faster than I ever could. Including C that meets ISO® 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and related functional safety standards such as IEC 62304 and it's cutting development time in half

I got an Arduino Robot the other day and I spent more time messing around with C than I ever have with Simulink. I can make a control system to run a 16 cylinder engine in a half an hour. Drag and drop an engine speed sensor, drag and drop injector block. Toss in some PID control and it's done. Right now I would kill for a Python equivalent of Simulink but nothing comes close, I'm about ready to just make an Arduino mako template so I can teach python to write my C for me.

Not that people that need to know C disappeared, they're just the ones writing our 'device drivers' for Simulink. When I drag and drop a "Digital I/O" block into the model I trust that they made it so it works. (And sometimes it doesn't, but that's all code). It validates the datatypes. Does fixed pointing in a straight forward manner. I know most people think autogenerated code is big and scary but I trust it better than I trust some guy that took a few C courses in college.

Additionally it's much easier to let engineers do stuff how engineers do them and programmers how programmers do things and not make the engineers learn programming or the programmers learn engineering. (Not that we don't exist, but we write the device drivers)

It's why a lot of dev boards also have Simulink libraries. It's not that I don't know C or assembly it's that I'm tired of dicking with it and just want to make a controller. I can take the same Simulink model and compile it for multiple vendors and even different devices for that vendor.

I can swap dev boards without changing any of my model logic in a few seconds. Even compile it for FPGAs and PLCs.

Further reading:

1. http://papers.sae.org/2013-01-...
2. https://www.mathworks.com/tagt...
3. http://www.mathworks.com/compa...

[Meta: Speaking of taking a lot longer to write. This post took an extra 5 or so minutes because I had to format all of the HTML. Please switch to Markdown or Restructured text. There's a reason we use it in industry, it is faster.]

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My local university has one that is completely free and has the source code available upon request. I'm trying to 'rewrite' it in an iPython notebook similar to the AeroPy.

I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1

It was Spring 2012 when I went full-steam ahead with the flipped classroom idea for my Computational Fluid Dynamics course. I've written before about how this came about, but the impetus resulted from already having done the lecture capture, live, in a previous version of the CFD course. I uploaded the videos from that live lecture capture to YouTube (after minor editing and cutting into segments) where, since then, they have collected nearly 220,000 public views (checked 20 April'14). My challenge that semester was coming up with class activities—but that should be the topic of another post.

- AeroPy.