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A narrowly averted disaster(stellar-status.tumblr.com)
2 points by joshwa 13y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 13y ago
Actually, the latest Gallup poll[1] showed (and this was a surprise to me) that Republicans disapprove of these policies way more than Democrats do: Party app disapp ---------------------- Democrats 49% 40% Ind
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Cooling panel sends excess heat back into outer space(venturebeat.com)
25 points by joshwa 14y ago|14 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
I'm guessing the exploits he's talking about are buffer overflows in the on-board ACARS receivers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that ACARS can directly update/access the FMS? If so, then you could exploit the vulnerability to change
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Flying Nonmetric Airways(bit-player.org)
4 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
It uses google. I use Rover instead; they do the routing themselves based on the real-time arrival data (and they include sidecar and instantcab, though not lyft. http://www.roversf.com/
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by joshwa 14y ago
A big problem I've seen with the proliferation of these apps is that I've seen drivers with three or four devices, (which makes sense from the driver's perspective--maximizing opportunity), but even though I'm in the car paying a fare, they
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by joshwa 14y ago
Gauges are actually pretty terrible interfaces for quickly communicating information in a dashboard. * hard to scan (insufficient contrast between needle and gauge) * typically don't show labels/values for boundaries * typically do
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by joshwa 14y ago
Ah, you're right: looking at the patterns of the positioning of the lines, at the beginning of a flight, red lines extend left towards the scheduled departure for a late departure, green to the right for an early one. The reverse applies fo
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by joshwa 14y ago
Is anyone else totally fascinated by the UI design of slide 8 in the slideshow? http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/03/03/business/03alask... I'm counting up the datapoints in the 150+ flights in that display, which appears to be based
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by joshwa 14y ago
Reminds me of the old "what the customer actually wanted" comic: http://imgur.com/NXHbZ
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by joshwa 14y ago
This project is mentioned in the Wikipedia page ("Project 1794")--it actually predates the Avrocar. The attitude/flight control design was slightly different: where the Avrocar had an asymmetrical rotating ring around the edge to provide at
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Frequent Travel, Miles and Points: Time to Give Up?(flyertalk.com)
1 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
Reading the functional spec, I'm having a really hard time figuring out how this could be built for $3mm, even with mostly offshore resources. Unpacking just a few of those line items is a huge amount of work, and there are >100 of thes
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by joshwa 14y ago
Fundamentally we're talking about a load balancer. Even the most basic load-balancers can use a least-connections algorithm. Even a round-robin algorithm would be better since that would give each dyno (number-of-dynos * msec per request) t
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Why Functional Programming in Java is Dangerous(cafe.elharo.com)
2 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
So if I understand the product correctly, I have to give you the money first, wait 3-5 days, and then I can pay people? That's why there is no way to specify the source account?
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by joshwa 14y ago
Where in SW china were you doing your cycling? And what kind of startup were you doing that allowed you to be there? (NB I just moved back to SF after a year and half in Kunming)
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by joshwa 14y ago
OKM for eCommerce is revenue growth TY/LY by week, closely followed by average order value, average items per order, and conversion rate
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HATEOAS 101 - Opinionated Introduction to a REST API Style(slideshare.net)
1 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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Instagram cuts off Twitter cards integration, further souring relationship(theverge.com)
3 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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When to shout, the art of constructive destruction(service-architecture.blogspot.com)
1 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen%E2%80%93Zatsepin%E2%80%... http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-... http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847 http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/hindawi-publishing-corporation/a-...
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by joshwa 14y ago
previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523380
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by joshwa 14y ago
During the beta period it was pretty terrible. Place names that I could see on the map would not show up in search, either as chinese or pinyin. It was better by the time GM was released, though. Another example: in Saigon, the Mekong was
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by joshwa 14y ago
At macys.com, we use http://www.fiftyone.com/ .
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by joshwa 14y ago
Yes, Austin Meyer (creator of X-Plane) is a bit of a loon, but if you can see past the ALL CAPS he does give some pretty good explanations of interesting aviation-related stuff. More Austin Meyer goodness: http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/au
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The physics of making an iPad into an accurate aviation instrument(x-plane.com)
46 points by joshwa 14y ago|26 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
What was that set of rules?
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How to Be a Good Dictator(rowansimpson.com)
2 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments

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