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by natep 14y ago
I don't know if there is a PDF. The media player is interesting, though, in that it's actually just some javascript that loads a sequence of stills at the appropriate time, and if you look at the source, you can write, say, a python script
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by natep 14y ago
Thanks for posting! The existing answer had almost no detail, so I wrote another: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/159687/61021
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by natep 14y ago
Plenty to do, since monitoring and understanding all of the incoming data is most of what operations is, but in this case, no commands were sent while the stream was live.
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by natep 14y ago
They do have covers on the lenses that will be removed, but I don't think it would be practical to put removable covers everywhere. What would happen if the 'skin' didn't come off?
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by natep 14y ago
I think this kind of snarky, rediculous pedantry is exactly one of the things that Russell Kirsch doesn't want people doing, even if you only meant it in jest.
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by natep 14y ago
> Stealing your phone gets one of those things. 2 of those things, if you have an android and they're smart enough to go to Settings > Accounts And they can get your password if you have your browser remember it. So, potentially, lo
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by natep 14y ago
So, dropped the space elevator subject? Did you watch the video? I'm still waiting for your explanation of how the video is wrong and space elevators are practical. And no, I'm not a partisan anything. The disproportionate influence of thos
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by natep 14y ago
> P.S. I'm not arguing either way on whether or not SpaceX will be safer or not than some marker. I'm sure they'll have among the safest launch vehicles ever flown. But my points so far have been 1) Beware people putting numbers or othe
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by natep 14y ago
The 3 failures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_1_launches ): 1. Exploded 25 seconds after launch, rocket parts are still washing ashore 2. Successful transition to second stage, but didn't deploy its payload properly. 1st stag
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by natep 14y ago
> I think it is time we stopped thinking in browser versions and instead check for availability of features. This is the pythonic way, right? Instead of trying to determine the class taxonomy of the object you have, you query it for the
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by natep 14y ago
You've lost me. Are you admitting that you have no counterargument to the video, which argues that space elevators are too impractical to be made in the forseeable future, or just pretending I didn't post it? And by argument above, do you m
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by natep 14y ago
None that I can think of or find, and space firms get bought all the time. I worked with someone who stayed in the same building for many years as it changed hands multiple times. Nobody ever told me they worked for "X, now NASA"--it was
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by natep 14y ago
> your implication that reusability is a done deal. The plan is full reusability, except for a few parts that are lost as each stage separates from the rest, and fuel. There is no plan B. http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=27574 And r
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by natep 14y ago
Let us know how building that space elevator goes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2M73aXuORI
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by natep 14y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all. Every shuttle was designed the same. Every F1 that failed had a different design, and the company's policies and practices changed drastically over that time as well. You can't compare it to an established
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by natep 14y ago
By what mechanism, exactly do you think this will happen? He has no plans to sell. He'd like to go to Mars himself, but not if he doesn't think the mission of SpaceX would continue without him. So...that leaves it becoming 'a nationalised c
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by natep 14y ago
Not counting their initial failures, SpaceX has had a 100% success rate. And each rocket was so significantly different from the previous rocket[1], that it's more fair to say they had 3 rocket models with 100% failure, rather than one mode
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by natep 14y ago
Actually, the largest cost is building a whole new structure. With a fully reusable rocket (as SpaceX is going to use), the only costs are fuel and maintenance, which is more expensive than an airplane (~$50k per flight, IIRC), but negligib
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by natep 14y ago
I don't know if balloons are practical, but that's the general idea of the Pegasus rocket, although it never achieved the cost savings they were hoping for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28rocket%29
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by natep 14y ago
They already have a contract with NASA to deliver supplies to the ISS, and the first mission was a success. I'm not worried. http://articles.cnn.com/2012-05-25/us/us_spacex_1_spacex-dra...
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by natep 14y ago
It also revolves around the fact that it's a comparison to other rockets, not any mode of transport imaginable.
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by natep 14y ago
From TFA: "This is a decisive milestone in human spaceflight and sets an exciting course for the next phase of American space exploration," said SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk. "SpaceX, along with our partners at NASA, will continu
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by natep 14y ago
My guess is that SpaceX is confident that they can fulfill their end of the contract for only $440M, so why ask for more?
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SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor(spaceflightnow.com)
564 points by natep 14y ago|180 comments
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by natep 14y ago
The book I'm currently going through (after a year of using the techniques I learned as a kid to successfully follow random recipes) is Cooking for Geeks ( http://cookingforgeeks.com ). None of its advice is obviously wrong so far, and it's
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by natep 14y ago
I really like the idea of the site, and the mission to limit the number of things on it. Too many options, and I just get choice paralysis. However, to be frank, I don't know who you are, so why should I trust your recommendations? I wouldn
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by natep 14y ago
As he says, Hacker's essay had so many flaws it's hard to know where to start. On the other end of the spectrum, this (and the linked) essays raised so many good points that it's still hard to know where to start.
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by natep 14y ago
And how is it related to join.app.net? I'm very confused that these two different things have the same name.
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by natep 14y ago
Typically, when someone knows they will not accept any acquisition offers, they do not waste their time by going to meetings whose sole purpose is to discuss an acquisition. FB misled him into thinking it was a demo meeting.
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by natep 14y ago
He's upset that what he thought was a demo meeting was actually their way of luring him into an acquisition meeting. And he doesn't seem to have a problem with FB having their own app store, he's going to compete with them regardless. Actua

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