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by poof131 6y ago
I joined in 2015 and left after 2 months. I had left a fast growing late-stage startup, AppDynamics, where revenue was doubling every 12 months, from $75M to about $150M when I left. The director of engineering at Optimizely who hired me
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by poof131 6y ago
The commercial property aspect of Prop 13 is actually up for a vote in Prop 15, to repeal these tax breaks for commercial property over $3M. It’s interesting to see people come out of the woodwork railing against it for all sorts of reason
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by poof131 6y ago
Too funny, I went through flight school with Colin. Great guy and glad to see he picked up command but disagree with him on the benefits of BFM and the true value of manned fighter jets over the coming decades. The US military is caught b
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by poof131 6y ago
It strikes me as reducing virulence would be a responsible first step before conducting research on increasing transmissivity of a deadly virus.
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by poof131 6y ago
Is this actually the case? This paper [1] seems to indicate that there are multiple types of gain-of-function research, not just an increase in virulence. In fact, the paper specifically discusses “transmissibility”, which would seem to s
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by poof131 6y ago
I think it’s a fantastic idea and applaud you for your work. The major hurdle is leading companies only want to hire senior devs. Why spend money and implement a training program when you can outsource it. There seems to be 3 paths in.
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by poof131 6y ago
The privatization of the military is one of the most corrupt and corrosive things our country has done in a while. I flew F-18s for the Navy and did a ground tour in Iraq with Special Forces. Look at the pay grades in 2020.[1] E3-E6 are m
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by poof131 7y ago
Ordered to close now. [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tesla-s-Fremont...
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by poof131 7y ago
People were hoping that closer ties would open up China to democracy, that capitalism and democracy would go hand in hand. But it hasn’t happened and in fact, is going in reverse. The trend has been obvious for a long time. I remember re
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by poof131 7y ago
Salesforce | Distributed Systems / Backend | Multiple Levels | San Francisco, Palo Alto, Remote | $150k+ | Full Time | Visas Come help Sales Cloud find Insights from its activity data. The Activity Insights team is responsible for run
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by poof131 8y ago
Great video, thanks for sharing. That simulator work at the end was a fantastic demonstration of team work. Crew Resource Management.[1] I still remember DAM CLAS from the Navy.[2] Numerous examples in the video. Sad and terrifying thi
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by poof131 8y ago
“Find targets to shoot at.” The man is hardly involved at all. It’s a battle of sensors. It’s a battle over the electromagnetic spectrum and the man in the loop in the aircraft isn’t the critical part. Unless, you lose the battle of the
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by poof131 8y ago
I've posted about this a couple times here in the past (though misspelled Tucano), and saw exactly what you are talking about in Iraq.[1] This article and the F-35 make me sad. It's the last of the samurai. For close air suppor
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by poof131 8y ago
> the system rejected the data as invalid and temporarily stopped the stall warnings. However, "this led to a perverse reversal that lasted nearly to the impact: each time Bonin happened to lower the nose, rendering the angle of at
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by poof131 8y ago
I think you are on the right track about one of the underlying problems. From another comment on a different thread. > My company's error rates have increased on the "common fleet" by almost triple. [1] The aircraft manuf
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by poof131 8y ago
As someone who flew a Boeing plane for a long time, if it’s true they released a stick pusher (automatic trim) that would dump the nose,[1] couldn’t be overridden by pulling back on the stick as in previous versions of the aircraft,[2] but
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by poof131 8y ago
> My company's error rates have increased on the "common fleet" by almost triple. That is Terrifying. It seems like the FAA has optimized for allowing the Manufacturers and Airlines to streamline changes and operations wh
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by poof131 8y ago
If this accident is a second trim related incident due to their MCAS system, it is damn near criminal negligence at this point and they probably need to ground the fleet. From an earlier article, pulling back on the yoke would disable the
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by poof131 8y ago
What are the hard parts and what does ForeFlight get right?
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by poof131 8y ago
Zipline is doing good work. I think we will get there, it’s just going to take time. Acting FAA administrator Dan Elwell gave a great speech at InterDrone last year about the safety aspect.[1] Personally, I think in some ways parts of in
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by poof131 8y ago
Thanks for the reminder, three investigations. It’s been awhile and FNAEB was always a terrifying word that imprinted on my brain. Accepting responsibility was definitely a key part of Naval aviation.
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by poof131 8y ago
The Navy likes to keep things simple and called it the Swiss cheese model.[1] It’s usually never a single factor, but a combination of factors. The holes line up and an accident happens. I think it’s also important to emphasize that getting
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by poof131 8y ago
Those numbers don’t remotely reflect the cost of living for people moving to the area now. Prop 13 has distorted things dramatically. In Palo Alto, there are numerous retired people living in houses paying property tax rates essentially s
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by poof131 8y ago
> Take it up with the FAA and the airlines? Sure. It's not just Boeings fault. I believe the FAA will course correct from this and probably all changes to flight controls will need to be reported to pilots. More lessons written in
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by poof131 8y ago
From the article: "Older 737s had another way of addressing certain problems with the stabilizers: Pulling back on the yoke, or control column, one of which sits immediately in front of both the captain and the first officer, would cut
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by poof131 8y ago
Reminded me of the two times I’ve been hypoxic. One was in the altitude chamber. The Navy was great about training and had all pilots experience hypoxia so they could understand how the symptoms effect them in particular. My first indica
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by poof131 8y ago
A puppet government? Hardly. We simply replaced Sunni for Shiite and slightly shifted things in a millennial old civil war. It was naive optimism of the Potomac chess players that we could reshape a country by invading it.[1] Others have
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by poof131 8y ago
The problem is the architecture is intertwined with the product is intertwined with the people. Believing that these things can easily be broken apart is an illusion. It’s how product believes one thing and engineers believe another, resu
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by poof131 8y ago
There is an “arm” switch.[1] This certainly shouldn’t have happened and indicates a break down in safety procedures. Significant maintenance should not be performed on an aircraft with ordnance. The plane never should have been armed. Th
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by poof131 8y ago
I agree that the comment came across as from some one without skin in the game themselves. But I also believe the current procurement process is broken and after spending time using these systems I don’t hold the people building them respo

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