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by crikli 15y ago
Well that just makes me sound like a psychopath. Oh, wait, my original post did that. Carry on.
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by crikli 15y ago
Off-topic: I would like to find the person that made the decision to implement that POS "mobile friendly" theme and beat them to death with a shovel. These themes are crap on both my iPad and my Touchpad running Android.
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by crikli 15y ago
Makers could disable texting if the phone is moving > 5 mph. Easily defeated and annoying, yes, but marginally less stupid than trying to legislate a change in behavior.
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by crikli 15y ago
Posts like this are little snapshots of a programmer's development during which he really thinks he has this shit figured out.
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by crikli 15y ago
Oh sure but most passenger planes are pretty docile a stall.
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by crikli 15y ago
> You can be moving backwards relative to the ground and still be overspeed Only in a simulator. A Cessna 152 is a slow, low-powered trainer. It has a never-exceed speed of 141 knots. So for that aircraft to be going backwards AND
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by crikli 15y ago
Yup, intentional stalls give plenty of warning in a trainer. It's the stalls caused by uncoordinated flight during a steep bank or snap spins caused by exceeding critical angle of attack, regardless of speed, that will kill you. The first
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by crikli 15y ago
> I'm sure you'd want to have a Big Flashing Warning Light telling you that ground speed <> air speed That light would never stop flashing. :) Once you get up a couple of thousand feet, even if the flag is hanging flush agains
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by crikli 15y ago
> What problems specifically? All aircraft have a VNE speed, the NE standing for "never exceed." Going beyond this threshold invites structural failure and loss of control. > If you're inside the plane, how does it feel when the
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by crikli 15y ago
There was a thread on here recently about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144099 I think my comment on the subject is near the top: to summarize, it's not as dramatic as all that. :)
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by crikli 15y ago
Our bodies are horrible when it comes to spatial awareness. Pilots are trained to ignore sensory input like the feel of gravity, the feel of being in a dive/climb/bank and use the instruments to make determinations about what the aircraft i
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by crikli 15y ago
I'm a pilot and that seems insane.
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by crikli 15y ago
They still put on a good show, no doubt. You don't walk out disappointed in their ability to entertain. What I'm saying is that from a musicianship perspective they're a disaster in a live setting. Lars can't maintain a steady tempo and i
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by crikli 15y ago
lucasjung has done such a fantastic job of debunking this idea that they's very little to add; however one aspect that hasn't been expanded upon is the glacially slow pace at which the FAA approves systems for use. Approved aviation systems
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by crikli 15y ago
I'd like to see an infographic on how badly Lars' ability to maintain tempo live has degraded over time. I love their pre-Black studio work and LSB&P, but live it's just tough to listen to them bludgeon their songs to death at 110-200B
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by crikli 15y ago
This isn't the right question to be asking. There are certainly cases where one language at another for a given task, e.g. Ruby is better for string parsing than PHP. But in many (most?) scenarios the technique used for the job matters
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by crikli 15y ago
The only thing that I can really communicate via a musical instrument is that it's a good thing I'm a programmer.
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by crikli 15y ago
I can play a few Megadeth riffs and I've written two very shitty songs. This does not make me a musician or a songwriter. It makes me a dude who can create noises that resemble music. The OP groks the basics and has learned how to use Dja
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by crikli 15y ago
Speeding tickets exist to generate revenue for townships and municipalities. Period, full stop.
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by crikli 15y ago
All it takes is little planning ahead. For example, our business requires that I travel all over the US and I use a debit card exclusively. Never have a problem with the airlines, hotels, or renting cars, but that's because we've taken the
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by crikli 15y ago
Take a step back though. Why were you pursuing these loans in the first place? Did you really need to get a car loan or did you just not have the cash to buy the car that you wanted. Could you have bought a little less car, paid cash,
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by crikli 15y ago
No, credit cards exist because in 1978 the Supreme Court released an opinion allowing banks to export interest rates from one state to the other. So a bank in a state with a 25% interest rate cap could lend to a family in another state wit
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by crikli 15y ago
Might want to update the title to highlight that this article is from 2007. :)
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Ask HN: Anybody heard back from HP/Palm on the $149 Touchpad?
2 points by crikli 15y ago|4 comments
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by crikli 15y ago
You're not acknowledging some of the political realities of the work place that make such silliness necessary. At my last job the IT guy, who had at some point been frightened by soap and had since managed to evade it in every form, would c
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by crikli 15y ago
I contributed to this and it's been worth the expense just to observe the design and production process. I had no idea that making a plastic widget was so complicated.
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by crikli 15y ago
Nor have I.
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by crikli 15y ago
Technical curiosity?
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by crikli 15y ago
It feels like that, doesn't it. I had the same thought going through the clunky process to try to make this happen. WebOS is a hell of a platform; it's a damn shame it's probably going to die on the vine.
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by crikli 15y ago
Right. Read that. But where in the HP online store is there a "buy now" button? I can buy all kinds of accessories, but no touchpad. Remember, I'm dumb. I mean, I write PHP, fergawdsakes. I'm going to have to be led by the hand here.

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