Same. Admittedly, my work with it was with a fairly early version, but in spite of initial enthusiasm due to the fact that it is written in golang, I ended up very disappointed with a terrible developer experience. IBM's role in this mess didn't give me a whole lot of hope either.

Along the lines of this "detection bias," I've long wondered if there's another bias: the orbital angle of the exoplanets with respect to the plane of ours. If the detection is based on transit across the star of the system, what if we're looking at the axis of the planetary system, and not its equator? All systems similarly oriented toward our instruments would come up as a false negative, no? (I'm not an astronomer, please correct my jargon).

You're correct that most of our detection is by transits in front of stars and will only see planets with orbital planes aligned toward us.

However, it's super cool to note that we've actually directly imaged expoplanets orbiting around their stars in other planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...

Another possibility is detecting planets by the wobble that they introduce in the star's position. I'm not well read on the subject, but I wonder if Gaia's position measurements via parallax are accurate enough for this.

EDIT: A bunch more information from Wikipedia on detection methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...

The space-based observatory Gaia, launched in 2013, is expected to find thousands of planets via astrometry, but prior to the launch of Gaia, no planet detected by astrometry had been confirmed.

I do hope that someone brings this up during Heroku's "Waza" developer conference. It's the perfect opportunity to air it out.

Agreed. Few people here or elsewhere discuss the role of so-called "politics" in the workplace. You may be referring to those who resort to more than their engineering skills to get ahead, sometimes ruthlessly.

There's nothing that suggests this material has to be derived from wood pulp, or from trees. There are plenty of other organisms that produce the type of cellulose they're working with. As mentioned elsewhere, it could be more efficient plants such as bamboo, or even sugarcane grasses, or hemp, for that matter.

"ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 10. -- Mrs. Eugene Batten, whose first husband, David Rothschild, died in Sing Sing Prison, where he was sent for wrecking the Federal Bank of New York and the Globe Securities Company, to-day told where was to be found $422,000 in currency which her husband secreted just before his two institutions were closed. "

Ah, the good old days, when bankers were sent to Sing Sing for their crimes, and their wives even returned the money. Hey, at least something has changed in 100 years.

Also, in those days reporters weren't payed by the sentence...