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Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by ZephyrBlu on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:00PM (#29926773)
What kind of stuff does your team work on? Seems like you have to solve a lot of diverse problems.
Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by caethan on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:51PM (#29942085)
Scientific computing. We write software to do domain-specific scientific analysis on customers' machines. So we have a diverse set of needs of the specific analyses to do: sometimes we just use algorithms out in the open literature, sometimes we have to develop them ourselves. We've also had substantial work in devops, because we have to release software packages that not-very-savvy academic users can deploy and run on their own wildly-varying machines.

It's interesting work.