plan6

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by plan6 10y ago
> I would take your dad's offer. I would start working with him. But, don't give up coding. You will succeed if you continue to practice. Don't just write code for yourself or as an attempt to start a business. Instead, jo
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by plan6 10y ago
> I admire the author's selflessness. But if he is publicly regretting donating a kidney, won't he be preventing many kidneys from being donated? I just don't him going public with his opinion as a good thing. It may becom
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by plan6 10y ago
To any Walmart developers reading: thank you for open sourcing this! However, there's something I'd like even more than your time spent on this project. Currently, walmart.com will indicate to customers that there is inventory ava
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by plan6 10y ago
Flew two planes on my phone. Both normal designs. Didn't see the point. Caught one and then put my stamp on it, too. That was neat. Still, I think there is a missed opportunity here. If I could design the plane however I wanted and com
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by plan6 10y ago
Congrats, Sam! That's a really nice article. Now, please ignore it, and go about your business. The worst thing to happen to a person's acceleration would be belief in having success. The only person you race in life is yourself,
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by plan6 10y ago
>> upgradable via conduits, etc. > I agree but if you're clever you can low-tech hack by inserting pipes through the wall which contain what I'm going to call 'guide wires'. Pipes can be conduits. And instead of
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by plan6 10y ago
I get not accepting a counter-offer, although I know one employee that took a counter-offer that was insanely good and has been in golden handcuffs ever since, but couldn't be doing better financially. However, I think that retention a
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by plan6 10y ago
By building smaller houses with better materials, we can reduce the energy requires to heat and cool them, slow acceleration of CO2 generation, and reduce maintenance costs. If you can't afford to even build a tiny house with great mat
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by plan6 10y ago
> Other cheaper insulation types are really good already. This is short-term thinking. I don't expect the insulation in my house to be sufficient for the significantly increased and/or decreased temperatures caused by deforesta
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by plan6 10y ago
Nevermind the fact that all over the world people have been living in smaller houses on average compared to those in the U.S. for many years. But, what I think is unfortunate in house design and construction is that houses are built for use
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by plan6 10y ago
You are correct. It seems like they don't plan to use them intentionally to carry nukes. They could perhaps be fitted with one and possibly wire it into the self-destruct mechanism, but that would take a lot of work, I'd think. Th
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by plan6 10y ago
"Next up, live fire testing moves to Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. The military will ultimately use QF-16s for weapons testing and other aerial training." http://www.boeing.com/features/2013/09/bds-q
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by plan6 10y ago
"Where Have All the Phantoms Gone?" (2008) is a good personal story about the QF-4's: http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/where-have-all-...
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by plan6 10y ago
F-16's can carry nukes. And why would you have a small very expensive fleet of fast moving drones that can carry bombs? Targets/training only? Wouldn't that be wasteful? Wouldn't those be expensive to just send in for re
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by plan6 10y ago
Note that QF-16's, not F-16's, are the unmanned/drone version of the F-16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynam
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by plan6 10y ago
To those not in the know: 1. Plan 9 was led by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom, with support from Dennis Ritchie and released (closed source) by Bell Labs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell