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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @05:03PM (#10503061)
> That's a very professional process.

There's nothing professional about choosing the wrong platform for your application and then jumping into a new proprietary language in the hope of fixing things with a rewrite.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by drauh on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @05:38PM (#10503240)
Have you looked at the medical devices in a hospital, recently?
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by Alupis on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:54PM (#10503616)
> Have you looked at the medical devices in a hospital, recently?

Are you trying to imply they are Apple devices and/or becoming Apple devices? Because that's entirely opposite of what's going on at the several local hospitals (admittedly all under the same organization) near me.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by colincsl on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:36PM (#10504435)
They are implying that medical devices are notoriously bad at being proprietary/closed. Hospitals would be much better off if the devices could talk to each other but it isn't feasible as-is because device manufacturers want lock-in. The current situation leads to issues like alarm fatigue where nurses effectively ignore problems due to too many devices. If they were centralized then there could be one management system that intelligently alerts the nurse of any issues.

We have a major effort at Hopkins going on right now to get around this. See this article more info: http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/10/19/hopkins-microsoft-patient-safe...

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by alwillis on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:27AM (#10504777)
Let's not forget that Apple announced back in June that Swift would be open sourced by the end of 2015; it might end up being a holiday present for developers.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:04PM (#10503887)
There's also nothing professional about irrational hatred of a platform, or having the need to complain about another's choice of platform.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:48PM (#10504054)
What's irrational about disliking an environment hostile to developers? When you you do robotics, you want full control over the software, so the natural fit is some Linux variant, not OS X or iOS.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:44AM (#10504824)
Hostile to FOSS developers you mean.

Many of us don't have any issues with comercial vendors.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @09:50AM (#10506916)
Many of you have no issues with the lack of quality in your work.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:34PM (#10508130)
Actually, I am the opinion all types of software should suffer the same legal penalties and quality control that other industries have in place.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:38PM (#10508169)
I could say that far more about FOSS developers. Many of them operate under the idea that they bear no responsibility for the software they write, and as such, have no impetus toward quality.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:37PM (#10508157)
Yeah, no. I've never bought the "hostile to developers" argument. Try again.

"When you you do robotics, you want full control over the software"

And OS X gives me this.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:57PM (#10510089)
Maybe you don't realize that "software" includes the kernel. Is it even possible to do a real-time fork of it like people did with RTLinux, RTAI and Xenomai?

Of course it's not, because OS X gives you shit and you invested so much in it already that you have to convince yourself that it tastes good.

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