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by cletusw 9y ago
Don't miss NASA's incredible CG video of what this was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGAQCq9BMU
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by cletusw 9y ago
Link should be changed to https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table
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by cletusw 9y ago
Sure, it's not as convenient as instant streaming, but the Netflix DVD shipping catalog is unparalleled. Every old movie you can think of plus new releases as soon as they release on DVD. Well worth what I pay since I'm patient en
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by cletusw 9y ago
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20038/catan-event-cards
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by cletusw 9y ago
Of course, it looks like all of the breaking changes introduce compile time errors, so if you try it out and it compiles, you're good!
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by cletusw 9y ago
Looking forward to the string enums! I've been using https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3192#issuecom... but it'll be nice to have this built-in.
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Netflix’s DVD Subscription Is Still Great(medium.com)
30 points by cletusw 9y ago|9 comments
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by cletusw 9y ago
I haven't used Flow much, but having used TypeScript at work for only a few weeks we've already found several instances where the type system isn't flexible/complete enough to describe several perfectly valid JavaScript
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by cletusw 10y ago
They did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3LQFpuzqs&t=12m19s http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42544.msg16... This one probably isn't reusable since it landed in the water. Their n
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by cletusw 10y ago
Could be true, but SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell challenged that report directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjXYSJF-7Cs&t=16m31s
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by cletusw 10y ago
The main factor supporting their claim is that they have a very strong incentive to be ferrying crew to/from the ISS around this time, so barring any big mishaps with Falcon Heavy (supposed to be ready this summer/fall), all the p
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by cletusw 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748302
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by cletusw 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748302
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SpaceX says 2 have paid for a mission around the moon in 2018(twitter.com)
1 points by cletusw 10y ago|1 comments
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by cletusw 10y ago
Main conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547
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by cletusw 10y ago
I imagine their relative distances change frequently, so probably not.
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by cletusw 10y ago
Link to live stream on YouTube (supports rewinding) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmHHpAsMVw
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by cletusw 10y ago
Apparently finds are close enough to us that we should be able "to follow up, to see, for example with the James Webb Space Telescope that we're going to launch [next] year, the atmospheres and also to look at bio-signatures, if t
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by cletusw 10y ago
Investigating strange behavior of the Thrust Vector Control system on the second stage.
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by cletusw 10y ago
HOLD, HOLD, HOLD. Next attempt 9:38 a.m. EST on Sunday, February 19.
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Gene Cernan has died(nasa.gov)
409 points by cletusw 10y ago|172 comments
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by cletusw 10y ago
"That means we don’t have to rely on GPS technology, or a single point of data such as lane markings, to navigate the streets." GPS accuracy is terrible, and I can only imagine that lane markings (where they even exist) are only s
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by cletusw 10y ago
Sandbox mode has support for two or three "centers" of political views. And yes, this is just a model. Better to make a decision based on a model than a "gut feeling". This is also why the author recommends experimentati
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by cletusw 10y ago
This added contract between the caller and callee is huge. No more searching for that one branch of a non-trivial function that failed to wrap its immediately available return value in a Promise.
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by cletusw 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723157 ?
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by cletusw 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722775 ?
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by cletusw 10y ago
https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/issues/376
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by cletusw 10y ago
Rumor is ( https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3b0stk/falcon_9_wha... ) that the barge does not communicate any information to the booster. Instead, it uses GPS and some ingenious motors to maintain p
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Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know(arstechnica.com)
8 points by cletusw 10y ago|1 comments
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by cletusw 11y ago
I imagine that even with of the possibility of cancellations, the number of reservations is still a good proxy for interest. Using that they can set up their production lines without worrying too much about over- or under-investing in tooli

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