One of the biggest techniques they use is code reuse. The project managers don't like to try anything that hasn't been used on another probe or something.
Another technique they use is extreme simplicity. Try to avoid if statements in for loops, as an example.
Another technique they use is redundancy.
Another technique is restarting often (which sounds weird, but it's basically what we do every time a web request comes in......each request starts with clean state).
These techniques are discussed in the book mentioned in my sig.
Yeah I came here to say the exact same thing.
Nucleus is NOT the embedded OS I would use for anything serious or really, for anything. There are so many other good options. Micro C OS, vxWorks, and QNX all come to mind as better options.
There are 320 million people in this country. 52 people died this year from falling off ladders.
A number of statistics like this have been quoted in this thread.
Frankly, the thing that surprises me is that only 52 people died falling off ladders. Really, I thought it would be more.
That probably wasn't ever true......I read a history of early Italy (ok, it was pre-rennaissance) that talked about how the neighbors could basically hear everything......if they couldn't see it.
What we didn't have was random businesses knowing everything about you, and a government with the ability to easily pinpoint dissidents.
and people had to pay to be known,
You still do......try getting 'known,' it's not easy. That's why the advertising industry exists at all.
People appear to hate the idea of the original internet: open standards with communications that were not monitized or centrally controlled. They much prefer that it be replaced with proprietary services, closed non-interacting protocols, and corporate-censored for-profit services that monitize everything they do.
And ask him how much he'd be willing to pay each month to keep his privacy. For most Americans, the answer is "not much."
As for me, I'd rather have the internet as it was before......with less stuff. The good stuff, I'm willing to pay for.
Tycho over at Penny-arcade made the point:
They hired dozens of artists who worked together for a year to create something that looks nice. Sounds like art to me.
One the other hand, if you're asking for Great Art, something that moves your soul, and changes the way you view the world, most isn't but neither is most of anything.
Plus, plug SI into Metric and quickly, in your head, with only moving zeros calculate how much energy is required to heat some water, from that how long it will take given a specific wattage, or how much a given volume of water weighs (and if you can recall its density, thus how much something else weighs) and from that how much force it will exert on the surface it sits on,
No one calculates that outside of the science world. And in the science world, everyone uses metric (even in the USA).
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One of the biggest techniques they use is code reuse. The project managers don't like to try anything that hasn't been used on another probe or something.
Another technique they use is extreme simplicity. Try to avoid if statements in for loops, as an example.
Another technique they use is redundancy.
Another technique is restarting often (which sounds weird, but it's basically what we do every time a web request comes in......each request starts with clean state).
These techniques are discussed in the book mentioned in my sig.
Yeah I came here to say the exact same thing.
Nucleus is NOT the embedded OS I would use for anything serious or really, for anything.
There are so many other good options. Micro C OS, vxWorks, and QNX all come to mind as better options.
Uh.....no, some code is good, and some code is bad, and you know it.
If you've read the code and you like it, then say it. If you haven't then sit down while the grown ups talk, please.
"Privacy in your own home" isn't really at risk here, unless you are talking about "privacy to post on Facebook in my house"
There are 320 million people in this country. 52 people died this year from falling off ladders.
A number of statistics like this have been quoted in this thread.
Frankly, the thing that surprises me is that only 52 people died falling off ladders. Really, I thought it would be more.
Privacy used to be normal,
That probably wasn't ever true......I read a history of early Italy (ok, it was pre-rennaissance) that talked about how the neighbors could basically hear everything......if they couldn't see it.
What we didn't have was random businesses knowing everything about you, and a government with the ability to easily pinpoint dissidents.
and people had to pay to be known,
You still do......try getting 'known,' it's not easy. That's why the advertising industry exists at all.
It's on Amazon, there's a 10% chance of winning, if you lose, you can still buy it.
Called Zero Bugs and Program Faster, I think it's pretty good.
People appear to hate the idea of the original internet: open standards with communications that were not monitized or centrally controlled. They much prefer that it be replaced with proprietary services, closed non-interacting protocols, and corporate-censored for-profit services that monitize everything they do.
That's kind of sad, actually
And ask him how much he'd be willing to pay each month to keep his privacy. For most Americans, the answer is "not much."
As for me, I'd rather have the internet as it was before......with less stuff. The good stuff, I'm willing to pay for.
COO from Skyward added: "How often do you get to invent a new industry?"
Oh, that's the kind of thing you say when you don't pay enough. Problem solved.
Tycho over at Penny-arcade made the point:
They hired dozens of artists who worked together for a year to create something that looks nice. Sounds like art to me.
One the other hand, if you're asking for Great Art, something that moves your soul, and changes the way you view the world, most isn't but neither is most of anything.
They did
That's a good point, construction, cars, etc, use traditional US measures when it's not problematic.
Everything should be in hexadecimal. Divisible by 2, 4, and 8 just fine.
Fail at thirds, though. Base 12 is better.
Plus, plug SI into Metric and quickly, in your head, with only moving zeros calculate how much energy is required to heat some water, from that how long it will take given a specific wattage, or how much a given volume of water weighs (and if you can recall its density, thus how much something else weighs) and from that how much force it will exert on the surface it sits on,
No one calculates that outside of the science world. And in the science world, everyone uses metric (even in the USA).
Scientists at NASA already use metric. They have been for decades.
People in the USA who want to use metric generally use it.
St Louis has one of the country's rising orchestras.
St Louis seems to be rising in a lot of ways, actually.
Most people who like systemd like it because of the features it provides.
Most people who dislike systemd, dislike it because of the code quality.
You seem to like it, so I'm going to guess you have no understanding of the code quality, and only like the features.
I do help people less fortunate than myself, which is completely irrelevant to the point I'm making.
Of course it is. If you are just a jealous bastard, then you deserve any beatdown you get.
People prefer cobbled together over complex architecture.
That's an interesting point.
Cool thx
That's.....kind of weird. I'm not sure what to think of that.
Sun controls Java.
Hi there, Mr van Winkle!
Do you have a better source available?
No.
Every time I've known the true story behind a news article, the news article has been wrong.
One of the few creatures older are the Jellyfish, so I wonder what will happen to the Jellyfish populations when the sharks are gone?
Jelly fish taste reasonably good, so no big deal. :)