I live next to Geneva in Switzerland. If you come to Geneva, be sure to include in your visit the ramp leading up from the Parc des Bastions and running parallel to the edge of the old town. There you will find the longest bench in Europe, the last meters of which sit in the […]
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We have recently been recruiting a couple of new programmers at Neurobat. This time we submitted the candidates to an online programming test, which consists of a couple of (relatively) simple programming assignments to be completed in a given time. Out of about 100 applications, 34 were given this test. I have collected the data […]
I just finished reading Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days, which I had never read before. It’s a great read and I highly recommend it to children and adults alike. But half-way through the book I realized there’s more to this book than a nice tale of adventure. This book is a complete […]
The first thing we did this week was to hold a sprint retrospective. And one of the first things we decided was that I should step down as ScrumMaster. Which I gladly did. In recent months I had been travelling more and more, attending more and more meetings, and it had become clear that there […]
Very often I hear scrum standup meetings go something like this: Fred: “yesterday I used Git bisect to find out where and when bug #1234 was first introduced. That didn’t work so I created a new unit test to reproduce it and asked Alice what the naming convention for unit tests was and…“ Stop. Do […]
The ZyXEL NBG4115 is a small, cheap 3G router that can be used to build a wireless network where there is no access point available. You plug one of those 3G dongles into it, enter the PIN number, and you have a local access point in the middle of nowhere. At Neurobat we use these […]
You may have several decades of programming experience, certain classes of problems seem to repeatedly cause endless confusion. Floating-point computation is one such class. I’ve been doing a fair amount of numerical analysis these past few months, implementing floating-point calculations on embedded platforms. In the process I’ve stumbled across a few programming gotchas which I’d […]
I haven’t written anything in a while, so I thought I might begin by sharing some ideas on how we collect test site data at Neurobat without using FTP. We have a Dropbox Teams account, which gives us about north of 1 TB of storage. The idea is to install Dropbox on each netbook that […]
For the past few weeks we’ve been very busy here at Neurobat with the analysis of field tests results. In the process of doing that, we had to implement several functions in R that relate to building physics. We thought it might be useful for the community to have access to those functions, so we […]