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New comment by umichguy in "US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code"

umichguy — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:13:25 +0000

My bad - got it mixed up.

New comment by umichguy in "US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code"

umichguy — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:11:13 +0000

Take the case of F-35, the only country which has source codes apart from the U.S. is the UK. A very special exemption. They are also the only Tier 2 partner.

Everybody else has basically a black box of code given to them in terms of code for the aircraft.

New comment by umichguy in "When did Americans lose their British accents?"

umichguy — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:39:42 +0000

American newscasters and classic film stars sported an accent half in between the U.S.- UK accents, also called as Transatlantic accent.

Look back at old films even as late the end of 60s and you wil hear it.

New comment by umichguy in "Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO"

umichguy — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:13:40 +0000

Reminds me of all the scenes from the movie "The Big Short."

New comment by umichguy in "Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021"

umichguy — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:49:41 +0000

When it was conceived, it was the right aircraft. By the time it arrived, market conditions changed. So it became the wrong plane.

That's really to it. Really.

New comment by umichguy in "Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better"

umichguy — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:12:18 +0000

Unfortunately with the chaos with the UK and it likely crashing out, there will be a less of vocal opposition. Though, ironically, the UK itself right now can't seem to make up its own mind up about anything.

New comment by umichguy in "SoftBank Finds Limits to Its Love for WeWork as Investors Push Back"

umichguy — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:08:31 +0000

Probably should replace the word Arab with Middle Eastern in the OP's title.

New comment by umichguy in "Google announces major expansion in New York City"

umichguy — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:31:24 +0000

You guys drink/ booze like it's going out of fashion. Must be all those cold long Wisconsin winters. Madison is an OK place in summer, but not a place I would like to live in. And this coming from a guy who grew up in Michigan. I prefer Ann Arbor for that reason.

Wisc-Madison has a great reputation for mech/industrial/ops types of degrees.

New comment by umichguy in "Pixel 3 call quality issues"

umichguy — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:39:41 +0000

Apparently, they do. How quaint.

New comment by umichguy in "The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio"

umichguy — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:45:42 +0000

I totally agree with your point. But unfortunately/ fortunately, those other fields you mention do require a degree as a minimum. But again, they also tend to have larger consequences (usually), compared to a few bad lines of code (usually).

New comment by umichguy in "On Shutting Down"

umichguy — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:08:03 +0000

There's probably a template which rearranges the words a bit and fills in your company specific info. It's going to be aahmazing!

New comment by umichguy in "EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter"

umichguy — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:14:11 +0000

You will find that the Swiss comply with most EU laws, including GDPR in most instances. And so is/has/will the UK. You really can't sit next to one of the largest trading blocs in the world and ignore it, unless you don't intend to do deal with them/ conduct business with them in any shape or form. Good luck in your quest to find, freedom or whatever else you're trying to find.

New comment by umichguy in "EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter"

umichguy — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:08:58 +0000

Kia ora! The "issue" here is that most sites which want to cater to worldwide audiences pretty much try to comply with influential legislation to stay on the good side. And GDPR/EU regs wield a big enough stick and come from a large enough region that you can't ignore them unless you want to block your site out completely to traffic coming from the EU. So they try and just do a worldwide rollout, irrespective of where you live. Of course, you can always implement this selectively but maybe more tricky to small and medium businesses, so they play and safe. Probably. I am speculating here.

New comment by umichguy in "The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio"

umichguy — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:01:13 +0000

Wasn't this tried/mooted a few years ago but got nowhere in the end? But you also have to understand that for many/most of these types of professional bodies in other fields, you need to have a basic BS type degree to be accredited and this is where I think it fell down flat as quite a few SWEs (compared to other fields) were self-taught, dropped out etc. and didn't necessarily have a college degree. Maybe they can have a different set of criteria for SW field.

New comment by umichguy in "“Write Drunk, Edit Sober” Is Bad Advice"

umichguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:34:25 +0000

Same here. I sometimes have a glass of wine or beer while working with some music on and zone out and get some proper work done. Maybe it calms down my hyperactive brain a bit - I did have ADHD as a kid and used to take meds.

Of course, there is a fine line between having a couple to calm down and getting drunk, when you don't get stuff done.

New comment by umichguy in "Ask HN: As programmers, why are we still going to the office?"

umichguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:12:44 +0000

So true. At my last job, one of my managers used to complain that he wasn't "seeing" more of his people in the office. Never mind the fact that the stuff actually got done on time and under budget. He had a wife and 3 kids at home and office was his "refuge," and came into the office every single day. So, he wanted people around him.

He was also a smooth-talking backstabbing insert choice curse word here. But that's a story for another day.

New comment by umichguy in "Ask HN: As programmers, why are we still going to the office?"

umichguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:07:03 +0000

Same here, I enjoy seeing my colleagues as well. But I prefer something like 2/3 days in the office and rest from home. This arrangement works better for me, covers all my needs/preferences.

New comment by umichguy in "Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud"

umichguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 05:56:02 +0000

I went to West Bloomfield high and lived in the area for while. And agree with you.

New comment by umichguy in "O2 outage due to expired Ericsson certificate"

umichguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 05:52:40 +0000

They are a bunch of O2 thieves.

New comment by umichguy in "Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages"

umichguy — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:51:23 +0000

It should be "Land of the Free"

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