echobase

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by echobase 13y ago
Bizarre response? You should learn to recognize a bit of dry humor when you see it.
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by echobase 13y ago
A single typo may not be enough to justifiably discredit an author - next time look for clusters of typos. :-)
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Columbia's Last Flight (2003)(theatlantic.com)
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E.O. Wilson is Wrong about Math and Science(slate.com)
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by echobase 14y ago
A lot of great links shared in these comments... I'd like to mention a very interesting article on the near-disaster of Apollo 13: "Apollo 13, We Have a Solution" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/apollo-13-we...
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by echobase 14y ago
Not to mention the fact that in many offices, even high-end ones, there just aren't any comfortable places to sit or just be for eight hours, including you're own "ergonomic" chair. It's hard to overstate how fatiguing this can be. Home is
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by echobase 14y ago
I don't think this guy's message is all that complicated. He simply advises a little self-awareness and to not go around acting like your shit has no odor.
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Sand Flea Jumping Robot(youtube.com)
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by echobase 14y ago
Agreed. I'm currently half-way through the latest edition. It is extremely interesting, well-written, thoughtful, and intelligent. What a fascinating era that was.
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by echobase 15y ago
Ha, I was exactly in the same boat you're in. First, since you specifically mentioned the word 'engineer', you'll want to think like one and train yourself like one. If you haven't done so already, build up your math skills to at least a so
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by echobase 15y ago
What alarms me is the kinds of people who have co-opted the term 'engineer' to describe themselves. For example, the guy in my company who's job is to verify that anchor tags inside web pages point to the correct URLs, confirm that a site's