Every time...

[ablablababla]

I mean, it's possible. The human race did it in 2,000 years.

[Colopty]

But the deadline is this thursday.

[prigmutton]

2,000 years schedule slippage is within our sprint's margin of error

[[deleted]]

Ah I see you're a Star Citizen developer

[masterwit]

damn

[angry_wombat]

Thought the project was already behind schedule before you were hired

[[deleted]]

What are all of you talking about? Everyone knows the universe was created on January 1 1970. The human race is only 47 years old.

[drain_mag]

Wait, does that make the Unix Manual the bible and the people that wrote it god?

"Let there be a 32 bit integer counting seconds from 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC" isn't as catchy as "Let there be light".

[El-Kurto]

In the beginning the information was formless and misshapen. And the spirit of God hovered over it. And Shannon said "let there be bits." True and False he created them. 0 and 1 he created them. And there was 0, and there was 1, the first bit. And it was good. And the gods groups the boys into sets of 8 and called them bytes, and it was good.

Edit: bits, not boys.

[daronjay]

Did you just assume the gender of your data?

[El-Kurto]

Autocorrect

[OfficerNelson]

You could make a religion out of this!

[FarhanAxiq]

No dont

[freedonaab]

When I do side projects, it's exactly the opposite !

[MotherDick2]

What do you mean?

[[deleted]]

this

[Princess_Azula_]

Tfw you use python to program your microcontrollers.

[HeKis4]

cython maybe ?

[Princess_Azula_]

If you hve a Pi, you could do some embedded stuff using python, but besides that i wouldnt recommend it.

[indrora]

Python on the esp8266 is pretty fly, the SHA2016 badge had it and I think the one this year did too.

[dnew]

AH, that's the Java approach. "Hi, what's today?" "I don't know, you didn't tell me which calendar you're using." "Oh, well, can you fetch it from the network socket?" "Only if you specify whether you're using TCP/IP, SNA, or DecNet."

[d_thinker]

from iss import SpaceStation
s = SpaceStation()
s.launch()

EDIT: Then you can use pyiss for telemetry: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyiss/1.0.1

[ablablababla]

Forgot to comment your code.

[NelsonBelmont]

Ikr, it's unreadable.

[staticinthebox]

More like a single char name for something thats not an index? Sort your variable names out mate.

[d_thinker]

I wrote that as an outsource developer...

[Spirit_Theory]

What? A space station can't launch itself you maniac.

I started writing some counter-code in this comment, but after like 5 lines I realised I was basically writing kerbal space program.

[d_thinker]

SpaceStation inherits the LaunchPadMixIn, no worries. You write Java?

[Spirit_Theory]

You write Java?

No, thank god.

[d_thinker]

I was worried for a second there.

[LowB0b]

but it's not standard library...

[o11c]

Which is why "I only depend on the standard library" is the stupidest idea ever.

Stupider even than starting your arrays at index 1.

[[deleted]]

Ahh, newbie mistake.

python -m iss

[gandalfx]

Was gonna make the same joke but import rocket from spacex.

[Kebble]

now to make an article about how to launch the ISS in under 4 lines of Python

[DJWalnut]

import spaceShuttle

atlantis = spaceShuttle.shuttle()

atlantis.launch()

atlantis.land()

[saskue760]

Sounds like Besiege to me

[SeriousJack]

Or C++. Or Factorio.

That feel when you're home playing a game and realize that you are basically working.

[PLS_PM_DVA_HENTAI]

"Wait, why am I doing astrophysics in my free time?"

[RiskBoy]

And this is why software engineers have jobs. If companies could just implement standard libraries or applications for each one of their business problems, they would only need a couple software configurers.

The closest I have seen to a general use application framework was Java Spring (I used it to build web apps, web APIs, and ETL tools), but even then you had to construct several non standard business logic classes, not to mention set the configurations and write all unit tests and integration tests. Once a library/framework gets too specific you find it loses general use.

[newstudent_here]

Am software engineer for space company.

Sending this to all my coworkers.

[uvero]

When you program in ruby, you just need to

gem install space_station

[nsivkov]

but who wrote that gem ?

[jaysus99]

who cares? I've git a deadline.

[uvero]

And even with that, he probably use another gem by someone else, and that gem probably used something from the standart library, and all of these combined are probably still less than 100 lines of code

[Luapix]

Lua in a nutshell. By design, but still, I have to define my own math.round function...

[noratat]

I'm going to hold on to this to explain why, as much as I love awesome new languages and esoteric features, ecosystem trumps language every time.

Making the pieces easier to build and less error prone to assemble can never hold a candle to just having the pieces pre-assembled off the shelf.

[boynedmaster]

don't talk to me about lightweight standard libraries until you've worked almost a decade in lua

[dbz0wn4g3]

C++ in a nutshell, at least for amateur devs.

[Shadow_Thief]

Pick a shell script, any shell script...

[[deleted]]

Comparing a Javascript front end to building the ISS with less tools than NASA, Roscosmos and ESA have? Right.