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by mattrp 8y ago
I had my five with me (all under ten). We debated endlessly about whether to buy nasa tickets until they were sold out. We flew down the morning of (this was the demo flight last year) - and by 10 am we were in the vicinity of the launch
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by mattrp 8y ago
Agreed r/Spacex is awesome - like Hacker News for all things space.
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by mattrp 8y ago
It’s not hard to get tickets but there are a ton of viewing options that are free - and no one is truly close - at best you’re still miles away. I wouldn’t sweat the location - just go!
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by mattrp 8y ago
I was on cocoa beach for the FH demo flight. As hard as I tried to experience it with my eyes I couldn’t help but try to take some video. But it’s true what they say - one or the other. Make your decision to watch or film but don’t do bo
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by mattrp 8y ago
It’s just a practice round for the startup of regular New York to London service.
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by mattrp 8y ago
I took my kids to see the demo launch and they said the rentry burns looked like evil eyes but to me they looked like half an x-wing. ;) everyone must see a live launch.
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by mattrp 8y ago
This seems interesting and nicely done. What are your thoughts behind it being free long term? And how do you see it integrating with other agile tools (or not)?
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by mattrp 8y ago
And not to diminish this one issue - but if this can happen to Boeing, imagine the risks that many other companies with less of a track record in engineering may be inadvertently taking with introductions/reliance on ML. We've fo
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by mattrp 8y ago
Unfortunately, there's nothing different he can say at this point. If he wrote it they way you and I would like it to be, he'd probably be facing shareholder lawsuits and SEC fines and none of that would lead to a productive outc
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by mattrp 8y ago
N gets to be a big number my friend. I love aws but I can’t get over the number of startups I’ve seen with $100k MRR and $35k MRC allocated to AWS.
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by mattrp 8y ago
Even strong cartels like opec have to deal with “cheaters” - members who break the rules just a little bit to line their own pockets opportunistically. I’m not saying trust the content oligarchy but I do think there remain sufficient sourc
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by mattrp 8y ago
You do raise an interesting point. For ex, I saw this elsewhere on HN: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/zucker...
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by mattrp 8y ago
I am not sure exactly the distance to the new Leo constellations. Maybe 2k km? If that’s the case even with the speed of light advantage it’s still roughly 30ms round trip just to go up and down not including any electronic delays in the e
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by mattrp 8y ago
40tbs is 100x400G.... Vs 10G. I agree that Leo will open up opportunities but it won’t supplant fiber economics.
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by mattrp 8y ago
I think it's a bit far fetched to describe the current situation as a cartel. First, what is the function of a cartel? It's to coordinate supply to keep prices high. Do we really think that anything the content players have don
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by mattrp 8y ago
just remember the underlying unit economics of LEO vs fiber. A repeated system is generally thought to be capable of 40+Tbps / pair where as LEO might be good for gigabit at best.
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by mattrp 8y ago
For ex. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvH3sS1FuPy/
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by mattrp 8y ago
This thread is worth it just for the instagram links above!
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by mattrp 8y ago
I have thousands of Evernote notes and have been an Evernote user since 2009. I’ve often thought of switching to Apple notes but I stick with Evernote. If I could change things, I’d make searching better and I’d find a better ways to crea
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by mattrp 8y ago
I would just add that if you’re new to Django read https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com - there are ton of detailed explanations that go deep in how Django can be extended. It’s definitely not the run of the mill tutorial blo
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by mattrp 8y ago
Apps can be a good way to generalize a set of classes for reuse in other projects. For instance we put auth into an app so if we fire up other projects we don’t have to rewrite auth.
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by mattrp 8y ago
We built rationalpilot.com using Django, postgres and pandas. I love staying python native and really like Postgres support for the json model field in Django.
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by mattrp 8y ago
You’re right that it’s silly - from an IP topology layer Iceland might as well be mars. There was a bunch of news several years ago that Iceland was awesome because geothermal but a) there are other grids that are just as good if not bette
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by mattrp 8y ago
No you’re right - very little if anything was accomplished here. The other side of the cables connecting Iceland land in five eyes territory and cost like n times more for capacity (and are old etc).
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by mattrp 8y ago
Hah yah he gets the history delete button that doesn’t exist.
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by mattrp 8y ago
Perhaps but shouldn’t there be a rule that if it takes more keystrokes we shouldn’t do it? It’s like deprecating df.ix for df.iloc... why do I need to type two more letters for essentially the same functionality?
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by mattrp 8y ago
I will never understand why iPad keyboards do not have a proper esc key. I know you can remap but it’s not the same. It’s almost as if apple knew this one key would forever preserve the MacBook as a developer platform.
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by mattrp 8y ago
Highly unlikely that 5g / iOS will play a role in the context of hft. Also your view of the ecosystem (eg zayo and co being the big winners) is massively outdated by five years at minimum.
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by mattrp 8y ago
Follow @sniperinmahwah if he is still active... everything else is stuff that’s been known for quite some time.
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by mattrp 8y ago
I know the author well and he would likely conced to you some of the practical points you’re making about collocation and market microstructure. However he wrote the paper to illustrate how global compute networks could someday collaborate

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