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diff --git a/devsetup.mdwn b/devsetup.mdwn index 77abb13..52fa909 100644 --- a/devsetup.mdwn +++ b/devsetup.mdwn @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ have to share devices for development, that will create congestion, and block work that would otherwise progress smoothly." -"I see. Very well. I'll what we can find." +"I see. Very well. I'll what see we can find." "Wait. I'm curious: these devices, can we use your normal mass produced SmartHome hubs for development? The ones you @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ access to the serial port, right?" "Yes, Miss Nina." -Nina frowns at Nick. "Why are you calling me Miss Nina? A re +Nina frowns at Nick. "Why are you calling me Miss Nina? Are you being sarcastic?" "No, Miss Nina. I don't want to anger you any further." @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ broke." "Oh dear. You should probably be told that the lab is Nina's special place. She's spent months of work time setting it -up, and it's where spends almost all of her time. The rest +up, and it's where she spends almost all of her time. The rest of us do not enter without an explicit invitation each time. She doesn't usually tolerate other people there, lest they make a mess there. If she didn't shout at you, she must like @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ share the actual kernel source code they use, or are missing some build step from their documentation, or do something else stupid. We know it's possible to get Linux booting, and we have access to the people who made it happen. I'm not -worries, but I am irritated that this particular problem +worried, but I am irritated that this particular problem keeps coming up over and over again. I take me time to finish my cup of tea. When I'm done, I put @@ -392,8 +392,8 @@ or is tomorrow morning OK?" "Tomorrow morning at nine would be perfectly fine." I look at Andy with my eyebrows lifted, for confirmation, and he -nods. "Can you ask them to use the door phone, and if call -Andrew if there's any problem getting in?" +nods. "Can you ask them to use the door phone, and call +Andy if there's any problem getting in?" "Sure thing." @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ them to be left alone, so I don't go and introduce myself and tell them they're welcome. Three hours later, they exit the Andy and Bert room, and -shake hands and say goodbyes. They're gone before get out of +shake hands and say goodbyes. They're gone before I get out of my room. "Good morning, Andy and Bert. I guess those were the SmartHome kernel engineers leaving? How are things?" @@ -524,11 +524,11 @@ after fifteen minutes with take-out Indian food, and takes the food to the kitchen. She takes a carton of milk from a cupboard, and sits down at the kitchen table to feat. -Nina doesn't not usually care much what food she eats, but +Nina doesn't usually care much what food she eats, but when she finishes a build or other project, she celebrates with her favourites. It's always the same Vindaloo, from the same takeout restaurant, and with a liter of cold milk to -becalm her taste buds. Some years ago, the restaurant she had +calm her taste buds. Some years ago, the restaurant she had been using went out of business, and Nina spent a week to find a new favoured restaurant, eating Vindaloo three times a day, until she found one she liked. It was a very aromatic @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ lighting gadgets, with a light bulb each. Each hub has its own light bulb. The light bulbs are inside the trunk, and there's a webcam so you can watch them remotely. Questions?" -The four of us are standing quite for a moment, until Andrew +The four of us are standing quite for a moment, until Andy speaks. "Nina, you'll have to excuse our silence. We're used to you being excellent, but you've outdone yourself. This is a great setup, and it'll help the rest of us work faster." @@ -588,22 +588,22 @@ satisfied. She goes to her laptop, opens up Inkscape, and quickly makes a drawing with the words "SmartHome Torture Chamber" laid out nicely and using a Germanic font. She punches a key combination, and the printer in corner of the -lab spits out a few sheets. Nine gets the sheets, which turn -out to be A4 sizes labels, with the Inkscape design now +lab spits out a few sheets. Nina gets the sheets, which turn +out to be A4 size labels, with the Inkscape design now printed on them. She peels off the labels and attaches them to four sides and the top of the trunk. "OK then, there's documentation in the internal wiki, and if -you questions not answered by that, ask on IRC, though I'll +your question's not answered by that, ask on IRC, though I'll be at home sleeping for the next 24 hours or so. Now, who'd like to carry this to the server cabinet?" We have a few servers we run in the office. Cloud computing -is all very well, but it requires Internet good connectivity +is all very well, but it requires good Internet connectivity to use it for development, and when we need to work from customer premises, that doesn't always exist. We keep the servers in a small room that may have been a child's or -servants bedroom in prehistoric times. Andrew and Bertram, +servant's bedroom in prehistoric times. Andy and Bert, our two strongest members with the least back problems, carry the SmartHome trunk there. They place it next to our development infrastructure trunk, and connect power and @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ and connected it up in the server room, I quietly ask her to step into my office. "Good work with the torture chamber, Nina. I guess you -worked around the clock for to days, is that right?" +worked around the clock for two days, is that right?" "Yeah, Anna, that's right. I went a little overboard. But don't worry, I'm going to go home and rest and recover @@ -667,13 +667,13 @@ binge on the new season of Agent Carter. See you on Monday!" Nina gets up and walks to the door. "Wait! What did you think of the young man from SmartHome, Nick?" Nina turns -around. "He's OK, I guess. A big clumsy, maybe a bit +around. "He's OK, I guess. A bit clumsy, maybe a bit inexperienced, but at least he seems to not have a big ego that ruins everything. I can work with him again." I'm surprised. That's the most positive appraisal I've ever heard Nina give of someone outside the Team. "Good to hear. -By now." +Bye now." ------------------------------------------------------- @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ signed, unlike packages in the Debian format. This is a snag. This is the client having ideas of things beyond their understanding. It usually happens in every -project. While they do not mean ill, the end result it still +project. While they do not mean ill, the end result is still that if we accommodate them, it's not just shooting our collective foot with a shotgun, it's surgically amputating both feet, while running, and putting in prosthesis made |