what happens when you give a government agency all sorts of money and tells them to be creative.

No thanks, I'll stay in the private sector.

Qualcomm has a high end ARM attached to all sorts of radios, including 4G and GPS, and dozens if not hundreds of GPIOs. I can see lots of applications for autonomous robots (farmers checking fields or picking crops, the state checking trails, companies cleaning floors/windows, vending machines that phone home when they need a refill, etc etc etc).

Qualcomm isn't necessarily in the business of making cell phones, they're in the business of selling chips.

It got us a pretty cool cover of Space Oddity.

I'd be wanting to work at 110% of my ability 24/7, if I was forced to learn/use a device foreign to me I'd be pissed. I don't care if it's a surface, iPad, or chalkboard, let me work in a way that's most productive for me.

WTF does that even mean? Is there 1/3 of the expected lithium? Or something else?

I learned years ago to work in CD increments. As in, put on a CD, work, when the CD is over get up, pee, get coffee, and walk around a bit to get the kinks out. Repeat as needed.

else it might have been teenage me shooting off my home-made rockets.

/ yep, I'd be in gitmo nowdays for half the crap I did as a teen

True dat. I was in Jr High (grades 7-9) in the 70s and I spent a lot of time in chemistry class pushing mercury droplets around with my finger.

Don't care how many celebrities got their nude selfies exposed, nor various websites' responses, nor that at least 1 celebretard was underage when she took her pix.

If the person who coined 'fappening' comes to San Diego and drops me a line, you get 1 free beer.

Anything is better than the way I was taught history. In high school it was nothing but names and dates. No context, no motivation, nothing.

About 30 years ago there was a show called Our World on TV. It gave context, explained motivations, and in general made history pretty damned interesting. Too bad the show only lasted 1 season.

Then I had a college history class. Yep, back to names and dates and not much else.

History can be interesting, the way it's taught in school is a sham.

I ride my bike a lot. Unless I'm doing 65 on the freeway, how do they know I'm driving to the grocery store instead of riding my bike? The route is flat and through a residential area, I average 20 MPH there and back in a 25 MPH zone.

True dat. The solution is that for every bugfix submitted there is also an automated test to verify it stays fixed.

Automated test suites are not static. They should grow as the project matures and users/developers gain experience with it.

In the late 80s and early 90s I was involved in 2 projects run under MIL SPEC 2167, which was supposed to ensure product quality. Both were epic disasters. IMHO, 2167 pretty much guaranteed mediocre at best software, taking 3x longer to do, at a cost at least 6x of non-2167

This sounds like the 21st century version of 2167.

I would be very surprised if the entire archive isn't on TPB by now.

I rode a motorcycle for 2 years. I finally gave up on it when I realized that it wasn't that motorists didn't see me, rather they saw me and actively wanted to kill me.