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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • You’ve misunderstandood what a PCD is. They are mission devices, assigned by NASA, used to access mission data and communications. They are called “personal” because they are assigned to specific astronauts rather than shared equipment. They didn’t bring their own laptops from home. That’s why they were receiving tech support from NASA to address Micro$lop’s buggy software.

    Kind of ironic to be speaking about ignorance.




  • The only thing I remember from the ethics lecture for my CS program was being distracted by other classmates who were using the time to cheat on assignments for other classes by sharing code solutions with each other via USB.

    Which was pretty dumb because the program encouraged group collaboration on assignments anyway, as long as you weren’t just taking others’ work as your own. They could have just worked together 🙃








  • The program goes through the collection of numbers and prints each one after a delay of milliseconds equal to that number: “Print the number 20 after a 20 millisecond delay. Print the number 5 after a 5 millisecond delay. Print the number 100 after a 100 millisecond delay… etc…” effectively sorting the collection because the numbers will be printed in order from smallest to largest.

    This is a clever (but impractical) way to sort a collection, because it does not require comparing any of the elements of the collection.








  • Worse than 1 hour standup and 4 hour planning:

    1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.

    I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was