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SAS: A new no. 1 best employer(money.cnn.com)
1 points by designtofly 17y ago|0 comments
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Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones(nytimes.com)
7 points by designtofly 17y ago|0 comments
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Time Your Attack: Oracle’s Lost Revolution(wired.com)
18 points by designtofly 17y ago|7 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
My guess is that it's the exhaust for the Auxiliary Power Unit [1]. The APU is essentially a small gas turbine generator, so the exhaust temperature is approximately 1000°C. This is way above the melting temperature of composites, and even
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Hamstrung by Delays, Fitbit Explains and Tries to Deliver(nytimes.com)
9 points by designtofly 17y ago|1 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with unions. Georgia has a similar website (and Georgia is mostly anti-union). I think it has more to do with being a check-and-balance when dealing with people who are being paid with public money. You
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by designtofly 17y ago
Georgia Tech's: Technology Incubator (ATDC): http://atdc.org/ Venture Lab: http://innovate.gatech.edu/venturelab More generally, both of these entities fall under the Enterprise Innovation Institute: http://innovate.gatech.edu/
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by designtofly 17y ago
A discussion on one possible outcome: the fight over trademarked domains: U.S. Loosens Grip On ICANN, Domain Chaos To Follow? http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172901/us_loos...
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Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user(news.cnet.com)
25 points by designtofly 17y ago|30 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
This is a good article that describes the company (SAS) and their culture: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.html
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by designtofly 17y ago
Where's the "5 feet tall - not quiet/private enough to get work done" option?
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by designtofly 17y ago
Your point does not change the numbers in question. "About 115 children are kidnapped by strangers ." A non-custodial parent would not be a stranger.
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by designtofly 17y ago
"Stopped after first paragraph." Too bad. "The kind of people who have jobs at Bell Labs and the 6.7m unemployed are probably pretty disjoint." The point of the article was that small subset of people who have jobs at research labs create a
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Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?(businessweek.com)
32 points by designtofly 17y ago|20 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
This was the focus of a short video a group of college students made a few years ago, "A Meditation On the Speed Limit." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5366552067462745475
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by designtofly 17y ago
For those of you who dislike Scribd as much as I do, here's a direct link to author's website and pdf: http://www.physics.gatech.edu/frog/How%20to%20Publish%20a%20...
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by designtofly 17y ago
This was already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=778694 Please don't modify the submitted URL to bypass the duplicate checker.
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by designtofly 17y ago
That's not a fair comparison. If you looked at one of the early slides in the presentation that the slide in question came from, you can see that NASA decision makers are trying to balance three conflicting objectives: 1) Budget realities,
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by designtofly 17y ago
This slide is taken out of context to support the author's own ideology. First off, this slide describes only one of 13 criteria used when deciding on alternatives. This is certainly not the focus of the presentation. This presentation is s
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by designtofly 17y ago
I think you've missed the point of what they are doing. Of course, I may be wrong as well since this is the first that I've seen of this instrument, but here is my take of what they are doing. They are sampling the vibrations of the small g
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by designtofly 17y ago
Over time? That was 3 months ago.
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by designtofly 17y ago
What you call a "nice gesture," most everybody else calls collusion [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion
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by designtofly 17y ago
It's interesting that you brought up the car, so let's use that example. Would you argue that you should have the ability to remove emissions-regulating devices from your car? After all, they add weight, complexity, and reduce power. We hav
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by designtofly 17y ago
The purpose of the modifications is to run pirated games. I don't see anything illogical or indefensible with these companies (and the government) going after people who modify hardware in order to run pirated software. This particular modd
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by designtofly 17y ago
Pretty harmless? I'll admit that I don't know much about this case, but this bit seems to indicate otherwise: "Mr McKinnon admits that he hacked into 97 US computers from his bedroom in north London between 2001 and 2002 and left a message
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by designtofly 17y ago
In the same vain, we should also discourage upvoting simply for agreement. There is no reason why one-liners should get upvoted to very high scores. Upvotes should reward content and thoughtful discussion.
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by designtofly 17y ago
By any objective measure, iTunes has a monopoly with 87% market share in 2008. [1] Therefore, it can claimed that any actions against competitors can be construed as abusing monopoly power. Yes, there are other media players and other phone
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by designtofly 17y ago
I disagree. We're talking about the most closed-off and spiteful technology company here (who do make very pretty products). Not only that, but why in the world would the "security" issue be a more logical when Tim Cook said the following:
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by designtofly 17y ago
Well, I think the half price sale was a very smart move on Microsoft's part. By the end of the promotion, it was sold out on Newegg.com, and it dominated the software category on Amazon. This created a lot of buzz and demand over a short pe
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by designtofly 17y ago
He means that solar and wind power (and other renewable energy sources) represent only a tiny fraction of power generation in the US. Therefore, using them as a justification for the "clean" generation of hydrogen just doesn't make the case

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