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- What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500K a year do? http://www.aminariana.com/essays/million-dollar-handcuffs 4 comments
- A kind of world-engine for games https://worldsmith.itch.io/ 23 comments gamedev
- New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-kind-of-magnetism-spotted-in-an-engineered-material-20240110/ 49 comments science
- What kind of jobs are there in NYC for senior engineers wanting to work with 'big data'? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6qb7x3/what_kind_of_jobs_are_there_in_nyc_for_senior/ 14 comments cscareerquestions
- Do most software engineering jobs have some kind of training program before you technically begin? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6kylng/do_most_software_engineering_jobs_have_some_kind/ 4 comments cscareerquestions
- To those of you that broke into a CS career without having a degree in CS (or any kind of engineering), what was your path like and how much do you feel the lack of a CS degree has affected you? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4xwyrl/to_those_of_you_that_broke_into_a_cs_career/ 30 comments cscareerquestions
- Be kind. An important read for anyone who works in engineering. http://boz.com/articles/be-kind.html 113 comments webdev
- What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500K a year do? http://www.aminariana.com/essays/million-dollar-handcuffs 29 comments webdev
- What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500K a year do? http://www.aminariana.com/essays/million-dollar-handcuffs 79 comments technology
- What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500K a year do? http://www.aminariana.com/essays/million-dollar-handcuffs 4 comments business
- Live video - TM65 rocket engine test in a few minutes! (largest amateur build rockets of its kind?) http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/live-tm65-rocket-engine-test/ 3 comments space
- Researchers one step closer to new kind of thermoelectric 'heat engine' http://www2.electronicproducts.com/researchers_one_step_closer_to_new_kind_of_thermoelectric_heat_engine-article-newscn_jul201212-html.aspx 16 comments science
- Led by MIT engineers, a multidisciplinary team is designing a new kind of spacesuit. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/45/45s_building_future_spacesuit.html 132 comments space
- What kind of engine or tools Being a DIK or Milfy city games use for their graphics? https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/kr3bra/what_kind_of_engine_or_tools_being_a_dik_or_milfy/ 6 comments gamedev
- A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-mit-nasa-kind-airplane-wing.html 5 comments worldnews
- Time has come to engineer massive investment for southern Europe, a kind of new Marshall-plan http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1066-time-for-us-to-bank-on-a-new-marshall-plan/#.uv7bn5aw0w9 4 comments europe
- Remember Sauerbraten/Cube2, the game engine where you can edit maps while you're playing? It now has dynamic lighting, opening the door to all kinds of new gameplay. http://cubeengine.com/forum.php4?action=display_thread&thread_id=2534 30 comments gamedev
- Evaluation bar chess 7 years later: What do you think of this kind of HvH variant where both players see the evaluation bar/score? No engine lines, just the score. https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/314q4v/real_time_evaluation_in_online_chess/ 4 comments chess
- Cleveland Clinic researchers have engineered a first-of-its-kind bionic arm for patients with upper-limb amputations that allows wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an amputation. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926453 12 comments science
- Researchers have genetically engineered yeast to soak up various kinds of heavy metal pollution, such as cadmium and cobalt. The engineered yeast reduced contamination by around 80%. http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/07/14/genetically-engineered-yeast-soak-heavy-metal-pollution-11561 570 comments science
- Engineers have developed a kind of surgical duct tape — a strong, flexible, and biocompatible sticky patch that can be easily and quickly applied to biological tissues and organs (particularly in the gastrointestinal tract) to help seal tears and wounds https://news.mit.edu/2022/surgical-tape-bioadhesive-sutures-0202 57 comments science
- Hiking trails and other rough terrain are especially difficult for people with prosthetic legs. Engineers have come up with more stable prostheses, a kind of tripod foot that responds to rough terrain by actively shifting pressure between three different contact points. https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/29/prosthetic-foot-tackles-tough-terrain/ 5 comments science
- Here's an amazing video showing a method to render real-time path tracing, by using an advanced denoiser engine. This kind of technology is the future of video-game rendering. Enabling path tracing to finally replace rasterisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSmm_vEVs10&t=0s&list=LLgfq775q6CIJqZNJKLpqumA&index=2 92 comments nvidia
- What's up with the sounds the engine is making? Firstly the kind of grindy noise in the lower revs, and then the sort of uppy downy (can't explain it properly) sound during corners? https://youtu.be/_BpQbx_qiGw 24 comments formula1
- Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without using any motors, servos, or power supply. Instead, these first-of-their-kind devices paddle through water as the material they are constructed from deforms with temperature changes. http://www.caltech.edu/news/no-motor-no-battery-no-problem-82253 5 comments robotics
- Lotus Announces 'Omnivore', A Car That Can Run on Almost Any Fuel: this new kind of engine takes aspects of a conventional 2-stroke, and adds a few neat tricks to that proven technology to create an engine truly flexible enough to run on almost anything. http://gas2.org/2009/03/02/gas-ethanol-kentucky-moonshine-new-lotus-omnivore-takes-whatever-youve-got/ 12 comments technology
- President Barack Obama says Curiosity's landing advances his goals of improving education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: "This is the kind of thing that inspires kids across the country." http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120813.html 3 comments politics
- Most materials expand when heated, but a few contract. Engineers at Caltech have figured out how one of these, scandium trifluoride (ScF3), does the trick—a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of all kinds of materials. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-incredible-material-reveal-scandium-trifluoride.html 10 comments science
- Engineers hope an early warning system being installed at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] could prevent incidents of the kind which shut the machine last year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8270427.stm 5 comments science
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that as an engineer he's sure the twin towers were not brought down by jetliners, says it would have been impossible for two jetliners to bring down the towers... he says some kind of planned explosion must have taken place. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=140724738#commentblock 4 comments reddit.com
- University of Kansas engineers have developed a new kind of technology that could double the life of exiting bridges. “This technology will allow our existing bridges — to be safer for longer,” said Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, associate professor of aerospace engineering at KU. http://www.technology.am/engineers-use-composite-materials-181104.html 5 comments science
- Edge: “ well, actually maybe not so secretly — I’ve kind of engineered this thing to get Rhea and Beth face-to-face in the ring as many times as I could...” https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2023/3/10/23634437/edge-secret-goal-judgement-day-get-beth-phoenix-rhea-ripley-in-ring-together-as-much-as-possible 37 comments squaredcircle
- Engineers Have Just Finished Drilling the First Geothermal Energy Well in the UK—and It's the Deepest in the World. At 3.1 miles deep, the geothermal pool is now the deepest well of its kind. And with temperatures reaching 383ºF (195ºC) it is also the hottest geothermal well in the world. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/engineers-finish-drilling-first-geothermal-energy-well-in-uk/ 35 comments europe
- Engineers Have Just Finished Drilling the First Geothermal Energy Well in the UK—and It's the Deepest in the World. At 3.1 miles deep, the geothermal pool is now the deepest well of its kind. And with temperatures reaching 383ºF (195ºC) it is also the hottest geothermal well in the world. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/engineers-finish-drilling-first-geothermal-energy-well-in-uk/ 113 comments energy
- Former Software Engineer at Spotify on their revolutionary (and kind of insane) solution of using self-contained iframes to increase team autonomy. (excerpt in comments) https://www.quora.com/how-is-javascript-used-within-the-spotify-desktop-application-is-it-packaged-up-and-run-locally-only-retrieving-the-assets-as-and-when-needed-what-javascript-vm-is-used 706 comments programming
- engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120305081130.htm 23 comments science
- WASHINGTON -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that as an engineer he's sure the twin towers were not brought down by jetliners. ...it would have been impossible for two jetliners to bring down the towers simply by hitting them. he says some kind of planned explosion must have taken place. http://911blogger.com/news/2011-09-22/iranian-president-decalres-pre-planted-explosives-brought-down-towers-not-just-planes 31 comments worldnews
- Google Engineer Gets $6 Million For Not Going To Facebook: The trouble with paying these kinds of retention bonuses is that once you start, it's very hard to stop http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-gets-6-million-for-not-going-to-facebook-2010-11 53 comments business
- "Doug Pederson now lives on the water in Jupiter, Fla. A source who has known him for years says Pederson just took delivery of a 38-foot, center-console fishing boat powered by four 400-horsepower engines...It’s the kind of boat you buy when you’ve got nothing but fishing in your future." https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/philadelphia-eagles-doug-pederson-20210417.html 33 comments nfl
- New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster - If we're ever to make regular journeys from Earth to Mars and other far-off destinations, we might need new kinds of engines. Engineers are exploring revolutionary new technologies that could help us traverse the Solar System in much less time. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48912458 5 comments space