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by roedog 16y ago
Managing like Dick is a easy trap to fall into for middle managers. They are given responsibility for delivering something, yet have limited authority. For example they need higher level authorization for their budget. Also, they are depen
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by roedog 16y ago
While I wait for the page to reload I pretend I'm being teleported randomly from place to place. I spend a few moments figuring out how I would survive in this new environment or move down the street to see what is around the next corner b
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by roedog 16y ago
It sounds like they want to control something that works so they can claim credit, or at least reap the rewards. I went through this a couple years ago. It's painful. I worked on a system that we had deployed and that was working. A compe
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by roedog 16y ago
In my experience at big companies the distractions also involve money and disputes. Many of my distractions are involved with planning and budgeting activities where I continually re-justify the budget for projects I work on. The most com
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by roedog 16y ago
This is what the irridium system does, as well as Milstar, and other commerical telecom systems. Irridium is a medium orbit, where milstar and the commercial telcom are in geosynchronous orbits. A geo satellite is typically a few thousand
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by roedog 16y ago
The orbit geometry looks to not be compatible with that objective. A 300 km polar orbit would put it over your ground station once or twice a day for several minutes.
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by roedog 16y ago
You are right, it is an incredibly expensive business. InclinedPlane is right, a 10 year lifetime is pretty good for a satellite. They have finite fuel for stationkeeping, and the electronics wear out. The space environment is very hard
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by roedog 16y ago
Thanks for the correction. I wasn't sure what the range issue was. I wonder if it was because the FTS was different than the one they flew on Kwajalein on the Falcon 1's or due to different range requirements.
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by roedog 16y ago
And the US gov't does not insure its stuff.
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by roedog 16y ago
They all do it the same way. The launch vehicle provider is responsible for deploying the customer's payload to a given orbit. They work side by side with the customer at the range and in mission control. But they are on the hook to deliv
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by roedog 16y ago
Other private companies have been building rockets for over 50 years. Currently, Boeing builds Delta. Lockheed builds Atlas. ATK builds motors used by other commercial firms. Orbital builds rockets based on decommissioned ICBM motors, bui
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by roedog 16y ago
Right, and if I'm not comfortable with doing so on facebook, then I'll go be myself elsewhere.
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by roedog 17y ago
I find it interesting that the women never discuss the high concentration of single men nearby -- yet outside of -- San Francisco, on the Peninsula and South Bay. Why is that? Back in the early 00's when I lived on the Peninsula and went u
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by roedog 17y ago
I schedule a "meeting" in my calendar in the middle of the day. Then I use that time to leave the office and exercise at the gym. This also tends to prevent someone from inviting me to a meeting at that time. I find it really perks me up
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by roedog 17y ago
My lawyer gave me a LLC agreement that had C corp conversion language built in. He says it saved him the headaches he normally encountered when doing so. So, perhaps it's worth asking about when shopping around.
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by roedog 17y ago
Reasons that come to my mind for a ban: So that HN readers will not be inconvenienced or frustrated by a link they cannot follow. To prevent people making posts for the purpose of driving traffic to their own pay wall website. A reason for
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by roedog 17y ago
To summarize: the article is a summary of recent stories about high frequency trading. I found it interesting.
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by roedog 17y ago
I appreciate the practical and intrinsic value of a good website, and how a restaurant owner may not appreciate the difference in work quality of web design consultants. What I wonder is why should they care? I think that the success of a r
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by roedog 17y ago
Talking about not having TV is a way to feel superior. http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-t...