angstrom

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by angstrom 14y ago
Especially considering consoles didn't have multiplayer beyond the living room. Having access to B.NET, Kali, MPlayer, and other gaming networks of the day was very cool.
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by angstrom 14y ago
Between 95 and XP there was a period of "What's next?" similar to Apple in the 2007-2012 time frame and Google in the 2002-2007 time frame. What made them cool was the ability to change the way we work and play.
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by angstrom 14y ago
You left off the part where he also had the technical chops beyond just being a pilot he had a background in aeronautical engineering. He was lucky, smart and humble enough to know the difference between the two.
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by angstrom 14y ago
If nothing else, the following plaque sums the humbling nature of someone who accurately captured the gravitas of the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A11.plaque.jpg Today, some of the flags planted on the moon still stand uprigh
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by angstrom 14y ago
Yes, that's a closer description than what I recall. My understanding is based on a book I read several years ago: http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...
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by angstrom 14y ago
>>This would also explain why days with unusual content seem to last much much longer than others (at least that's my experience). I've heard this explained in part because of how our neocortex works. New events tend to require the
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by angstrom 14y ago
Now tack on the fact that it has an initial 2 year mission powered by an RTG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen... ...but not just any RTG, a MMRTG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Mission_Radioisotope_Ther.
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by angstrom 14y ago
> That's boring, and there are no incentives for fixing bugs in obscure features because only launching successful new features gains visibility from higher-ups. Companies really should find a way to incentivize this. Rewrites are about
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by angstrom 14y ago
That's more along the lines I was thinking. Don't fighters still do evasive maneuvers? Of course, the SR-71 Blackbirds had one of the most effective solutions. Fly fast and unpredictable vectors. Anything on an interception vector would be
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by angstrom 14y ago
So how many G's can one of these pull? I imagine it's much higher than any human fighter since the upper limit is what can safely hold the craft together.
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by angstrom 14y ago
Wait, you mean like how everyone is in the top 10% and they only hire the elusive 1%? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
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by angstrom 14y ago
Was working on a major project recently and had the opportunity to put stress in perspective. One of my parents had a stroke the week I needed to be working on the release. Nothing is more fucked up in the modern workplace than how people w
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by angstrom 14y ago
Reminds me of a place I worked where we joked the company's technology was 180 degrees out of phase with whatever was the hot new thing. Looking at the code base you could see how it oscillated between what was hot or great at the time.
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by angstrom 14y ago
Heard of it? The first Iron Man movie was based on it.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Already actively looking, but thanks for the advice. If you're straight out of college with no other realities in place, it may be doable, otherwise it's just a stupid waste of an already too short life.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Currently working in an open plan office and I hate it. The open plan office seeks to solve the problem of knowledge silos where people hole up and wait for people to come to them. Unfortunately, once that knowledge is distributed the const
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by angstrom 15y ago
Peak Labor. Anyone that's ever argued this in the past 200 years has been called a luddite. Yet, in the past 40 years as computers have automated more work, both labor and white collar, it's become clear that the productivity gains are only
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by angstrom 15y ago
Sounds like lore. Won't let them fly on a plane together? I hope they don't ride in the same car to the airport since that's even more dangerous. (see my point?) It's possible only 2 people know it since 3 can't keep a secret. More likely a
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by angstrom 15y ago
I see no electrocuted elephants. There's nothing wrong with changing expectations to match reality. I think the short term expectations might dampen, but the long term expectations are still intact. Oil refineries aren't being built to meet
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by angstrom 15y ago
All the more reason it would be funny if every car on the road in the future carries the advances of a company named for him.
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by angstrom 15y ago
He's talking about the supply chain optimization. One example is the dram chips used to build the iphone came from Samsung. They were sourced at quantities so large they are actually cheaper for Apple's iPhone than they are for Samsung's ow
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by angstrom 15y ago
That was my thought. I curl requests like this all the time. This is like a tire obstacle course, not a high jump bar.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Good point, I was thinking about that not long after I posted it. I think it had more to do with management shuffles than employee shuffles. Most stats I can find state it as 80-90% leaving in 6 months to 1 year which sounds right, often re
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Microsoft withdraws 2nd patent in dispute with B&N(news.cnet.com)
1 points by angstrom 15y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 15y ago
Looking for the stat, but it's at least an 80% chance they'll be gone in 2 years; either of their own accord or the company's. So if your boss ever pulls one of these maneuvers either get on their boss's good side or start looking for work
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by angstrom 15y ago
You're also legally liable for everyone you share with. A usenet client does not redistribute.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Binreader suffices for most.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Funny thing is I search these services first. If I don't find it, I go to usenet and usually find it. Since it's SSL my ISP doesn't throttle it and the downloads only take maybe 30-50 minutes. Unlike torrents I can watch while it downloads.
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by angstrom 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a correlation between children's transition from asset to expense in the typical urban household. As a child I would've been the perfect ADD candidate, but with plenty of stimulation in the form of work o
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Confessions of a Car Salesman(edmunds.com)
4 points by angstrom 15y ago|0 comments

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