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Job creation: Where are the startups?(blogs.reuters.com)
31 points by roedog 14y ago|44 comments
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by roedog 14y ago
Don't be cruel. I'm reading this on a machine running XP alongside my 100,000 co-workers running with the same. The company-wide upgrade to Win7 has been running late for the last few years...
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by roedog 14y ago
All the dealers in my county have websites with an email address or web form to contact them. After doing some research on models, pricing, etc. I sent an email to each dealer describing what I was looking for and requested a quote. Some
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by roedog 14y ago
I've kept an engineering notebook for years. It was something I was told to do in college. It seem that the act of writing down the problem slows me down enough to focus my thoughts more on the task. I've tried keeping notes on the compu
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by roedog 14y ago
I agree VxWorks would require additional porting effort. I also think that Android was the right choice for this mission. I'm not sure I agree with the implied high priority placed on open source. The relative development costs of android,
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by roedog 14y ago
NASA flies a lot with VxWorks. They could have ported it to the nexus.
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by roedog 14y ago
I'm guessing that the weather balloon got high enough where it might experience some radiation. I'm curious if they experienced any watchdog timer resets during that test flight.
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by roedog 14y ago
Yeah, cost control is a perennial problem. I think it is so hard to solve because, it seems to me, that any solution must address interlocking technical, cultural, commercial, and policy & political concerns all together.
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by roedog 14y ago
This is an interesting experiment. I think it creates an opportunity to discuss the whole cost picture. COTS alone will only achieve minor cost reductions relative to the whole enterprise. Testing costs were orders of magnitude more than
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by roedog 14y ago
I've heard complaints about how tough it was to get ADA code to compile. I'm not sure if it was the language itself, or unfriendly tools and compiler warnings...
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by roedog 14y ago
Context is important here. Note that the article is on a hardware design website. The software development they are talking about is embedded software. In the goverment contracting world in the 90s ADA was very common. The DoD mandated A
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by roedog 15y ago
I don't know if it's so bad if the press hears about the nuclear batteries. It might distract them from the larger risks involved with launching a satellite. For example, the tank of hydrazine used for the propulsion system. If that spri
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by roedog 15y ago
I think poaching would be making an offer that was forbidden - or that you had signed an agreement to not do. In this case, as presented, there is no such violation. (right to work state, any non-compete agreement had expired, etc). A los
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by roedog 15y ago
The autonomy acquisition seems to be the sore point. The reduced forecasts also seem to be a factor.
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by roedog 15y ago
HPQ was down 15% and the DJIA down 0.26%. The gap appears to be widening.
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by roedog 15y ago
I agree there is bad reporting and in his example the bad editing that let the story though. I'm interested in hearing where other people find good reporting.
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by roedog 15y ago
One reason to save money is to have enough to live off the interest when we are too old to work i.e. retirement. Usually, the plan is to not spend the capital in order to preserve the annual earnings from that capital. A couple million do
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Financial Times moves to html5 to bypass app store and newstand(gigaom.com)
6 points by roedog 15y ago|0 comments
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by roedog 15y ago
At first I tried to reason with them. When I brushed off one, another one from the same office would call back. I started hanging up as soon as they announced themselves and not saying e anything. If I had caller ID at that job I would h
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by roedog 15y ago
I imagine those friends in tech will help him bring in new sponsors. Isn't that a big part of the job?
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by roedog 16y ago
Ha! If 'Inside Job' and 'Client 9' are correct then said financiers are spending a lot of their institution's money on said hookers and coke dealers. Then expensing it as research.
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by roedog 16y ago
Another mega-corp data point: 15,000 Engineers plus everyone else uses desktop/laptop windows XP. Linux is used on the supercomputing clusters and on test equipment in the factory. IT controls the desktop domains, while the engineers cont
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by roedog 16y ago
It's not just ballast, or ebay fodder. I see two symbolic meanings of the cheese related to SpaceX's asprirations: Cheese is food, which symbolizes the ISS resupply mission. And the cheese wheel symbolizes the moon, where they also want t
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by roedog 16y ago
I guess it depends on whether the DoD wants to open it up to NASA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 . And to be fair, NASA did have a hand in its development prior to 2004. I don't think it would make sense to use it to replace t
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by roedog 16y ago
It is possible to move a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and done in practice. They will move the satellite by firing the East/West stationkeeping thrusters. Geosynchronous satellites, like the terrestar 1, need to periodically adjust t
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by roedog 16y ago
A contrail webpage with the "jet contrail looks like missile if you look at it from one angle" theory. http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/
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by roedog 16y ago
This is why they usually fire the self-destruct ordnance on spent stages so it's not floating in the ocean. I imagine likewise for anything they want kept secret. Self-destruct or flight termination systems are required by the missile ran
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by roedog 16y ago
Speaking of longevity of the brand, my backup system is an old IBM Thinkpad T42 (circa 2004). It runs Ubunutu 10.04 fine. Sure it's not super fast, but the keyboard is still solid. The screen is a bit dim, but it always was. My next buy
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by roedog 16y ago
Well, it may be petty. But isn't that the whole point of a social website? It's about small talk, ephemera, and socializing online instead of at a party, club, bar or coffee shop. If it's no longer cool because everyone goes there, then h
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by roedog 16y ago
It seems that the disadvantage to being remote is serious. I would consider step 3, a heart to heart, with some fact gathering beforehand. For example, who else sees this guy for the schmuck he is? Can you recruit some allies who are in t

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