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by poof131 12y ago
Was Edward Snowden a bridge burner for the NSA? We need transparency both in government and the corporate world. If a company isn't willing to stand by their actions in public, they shouldn't be doing it. And paying the OP sever
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by poof131 12y ago
While part of me is fascinated by the idea, part of me is slightly appalled. For one, they seem to be mixing internet UX with aviation UX and hoping for the best on America’s roadways. I’ve flown extensively with both a HUD and an HMCS.
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by poof131 12y ago
Bravo for stepping into government and I wish you the best of luck. Dealing with the bureaucracy is always painful. After a decade in the Navy, I always thought that talented programmers could do so much for the service, but the current s
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by poof131 12y ago
Tools for development, building, and dependency management are all important. For web, I like Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower. These require NPM which is nice for dependencies too, allowing both local and global. These teams all are doing some
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by poof131 12y ago
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this. Violence in the name of religion is wrong no matter the side. While I disagree with the war in Iraq and only wish the best for the Iraqi people, to draw too much of a parallel between Bus
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by poof131 12y ago
Thank you for sharing your personal accounts. I wish the politicians and the media wouldn't exploit citizens' fears. It's time to end the 'war on terror.'
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I agree with your first point: They should have vaccinated everyone. I don't agree with your second point, way too much information about the operation was released. And your last point I find most discouraging. It's the presi
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Of course not at any cost. The irony of this tragedy is that the intent of the operation was to mitigate the possibility of collateral damage and going after the wrong target. I'm pretty sure Cowboy Bush would have been all in at the
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by poof131 12y ago
I agree, the vaccination part of the operation was a mistake. But if the information had been released in 5-10 years the effects would have been less tragic. There are reasons clandestine operations should stay clandestine, at least for a
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by poof131 12y ago
I sometimes wonder if we are in the mid to late republic. [1] I want to believe in the progress of the country, but sometimes it seems like stagnation since the 70s and that post WW2 may have been the zenith of the American Rebublic. The
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by poof131 12y ago
The US Military has seldom had a decade of peace, New York and San Francisco have had centuries.
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I don’t believe that is an entirely fair characterization of that action. Was the United States not supposed to go after Osama Bin Laden? Hiding in an allied country whose intelligence services derailed previous missions? [1] I’m impressed
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The military is especially prone to this problem. I’d hesitate to refer to people as dead weight, but the retirement structure encourages mid-level management to hang-on for twenty. Even if people are burnt out after 10 years, which the m
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by poof131 12y ago
As a former F/A-18 pilot, we were the jack-of-all-trades master-of-none. It does make some sense on an aircraft carrier with a limited number of planes, but even then there was talk of having two of the four squadrons specialize in air
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by poof131 12y ago
Things like this already exist in various forms and the U.S. government isn't too happy when our 'friends' try to sell some of them: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005&#x2
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by poof131 12y ago
I believe the Phoenix usually falls off its plane (the F-14) directly into the ocean. The Tomcat pilots then RTB to the bar and tell each other how great they are. The Phoenix is the Yugo to the AMMRAM's Ferrari. They are different
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by poof131 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I was in Iraq when Task Force kicked down the door and found this stuff. Didn't realize it was declassified. An amazing example of incompetence and under estimating your enemy. Don't bother encrypting your
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by poof131 12y ago
Not entirely sure, but it seems if you had a type system that describes every system you may be on your way to disproving the first incompleteness theorem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_t
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by poof131 13y ago
Great reference. That first point relates more to Crew Resource Management (CRM)[1], an important concept making its way from aviation to surgery. After a decade flying F-18s for the Navy, I value checklists but communication is probably
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by poof131 13y ago
The Rafale and the Gripen? The difference in performance between most the Cat-4 aircraft is minor. And are we talking about performance in BVR or WVR. In a dogfight an F22 will fall to a hornet with 9x and HMCS. But are dogfights even r
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Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA(washingtonpost.com)
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The NSA did what the President asked them to do. Now the President is distancing himself from them for his own political reasons. Americans loathe to blame the leaders they elect, for then they would have to blame themselves. It is easi
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After a decade in the U.S. Military, I always wondered how government got anything done. The mere idea of ‘conspiracies’ assumes a level of competence that far exceeds the capabilities of the largest, most bureaucratic organizations in t
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by poof131 13y ago
Question: does anyone know if software patents were declared null and void, would this case still exist? It seems he only took snippets of code and not the entire system for profit. How would this case differ if software was copyrightable
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by poof131 13y ago
Spent the past month putting together an app with Angular, Firebase, and Geo. All three play together very well and have significantly reduced the dev time. Thinking about how much more work I would still have to do without Firebase and G
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Lessons from a Janitor(homeofheroes.com)
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by poof131 14y ago
I agree with the article, I think? <TLDR> The only difference between math and English, or any other language, is a degree of precision. In math, the symbols and connotations are more refined, but the results are still interpreted.
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I think the fact it was downvoted speaks volumes to the main point of the story.
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I guess the question is what do you mean by advanced topics? What direction do you want to go in? The latter book you mentioned seems to cover a number of topics and is probably a good bet. If you are interested in the web, both these boo