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721.
by smackfu 12y ago
It just sounds like an anecdote someone would use during a talk.
722.
by smackfu 12y ago
>I've seen several companies where analysis like this would be for management only I've found it to be pretty standard in the hosting world. I assume because if you have unexplained outages, customers leave.
723.
by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, there's still huge cost savings even if you need to take apart and reinspect the engines. Building space components is not cheap.
724.
by smackfu 12y ago
Well, either they tear apart and inspect the engine in between launches or they don't. If they don't, their turnaround will be way faster, but there is a greater chance of failure, and if there is a failure, a much lower chance o
725.
by smackfu 12y ago
This is where you can really tell that SpaceX is a private company. If something has a chance of going wrong, and they can avoid live-streaming it, they will.
726.
by smackfu 12y ago
For efficient re-usability, you need at least three things. The first is reliable launches that don't have lots of delays. The second is reliable recovery. The third is efficient readying for another launch. That last one is trickie
727.
by smackfu 12y ago
It could also be a matter of "expected" vs "actual."
728.
by smackfu 12y ago
>Apple and Google already solved the UI problem - you don't need to have the damned ugly in-car UI anymore. I haven't seen a good example of those systems not sucking yet. Also, they require that you plug in your phone, which
729.
by smackfu 12y ago
I really doubt Microsoft is going to make it Windows Phone only. Windows Phone is just not that valuable as a platform.
730.
by smackfu 12y ago
For professional, technical, and related employees, it looks like starting at two weeks and moving up to three or four after some time is the most common, which agrees with my experience.
731.
by smackfu 12y ago
If a company only has 10% inefficiencies, they are doing a fabulous job. Most companies probably have 50% of their workforce surfing the web at any one time.
732.
by smackfu 12y ago
Do you at least get compensated for on-call?
733.
by smackfu 12y ago
Year-end change freezes are common in anything oriented at businesses. In general, busy vacation times are claimed as first-come / first-served. It seems like that would screw some people, but in practice, it usually works out, since
734.
by smackfu 12y ago
>Outside tech (which is dripping with privilege) it's common to have 0-2 weeks of vacation in the US. I have to disagree. Maybe outside of white-collar work. But "tech" is not all of white-collar. Most people who work in
735.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's not simply that Apple is in the hardware biz, it's that Apple has a strategy for the hardware biz that enables 40% margins. They're an outlier. None of their hardware competitors have that. If someone could show IBM a s
736.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think I'm missing something. These sounds like generic industry apps, but Fortune 500 companies don't use generic apps, they use stuff tailored to their business. It says they are customizable, but that's a lot easier sai
737.
by smackfu 12y ago
Like the laws requiring every car to be a recent model, pass safety checks and have credit card readers? That is a huge penalty to legit taxis.
738.
by smackfu 12y ago
You watched different movies than I did.
739.
by smackfu 12y ago
That's assuming that the penalties are enforceable upon the drivers. I wouldn't be surprised to see the laws written exactly the opposite, to protect the drivers from bad actions of the employer.
740.
by smackfu 12y ago
This article has a good review of the map spammers and their motivations: https://sites.google.com/site/mapmakerpedia/maps-101/wiping-... Basically any business that is aimed at homeowners, but tends to be lo
741.
by smackfu 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter
742.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's also technology. "But the project suffered a series of technical issues last year that pushed the service module preliminary design review back by about 10 months." http://aviationweek.com/blog/nasa
743.
by smackfu 12y ago
Probably not, but NASA paid for the development of Dragon as part of the Commercial Resupply Services program.
744.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, during Apollo, the NASA budget was 2.5-4.5% of the total federal budget, vs. 0.5% today.
745.
by smackfu 12y ago
Just the Delta IV Heavy cost $375 million. Rockets are expensive.
746.
by smackfu 12y ago
A better headline would be: Future of Popular Coding Tool Unclear After It Splits in Two
747.
by smackfu 12y ago
Do the security problems with MD5 make it bad as a hashing algorithm?
748.
by smackfu 12y ago
Orion is pretty unsuited for a mission as long as a Mars trip. So I doubt the spacecraft used for that would have anything to do with what they are currently calling Orion.
749.
by smackfu 12y ago
Outside the tech bubble and the big cities, the viewpoint is generally "What's Uber?" and "What's AirBnb?" I even have had Uber drivers in big cities who had no idea what AirBnb was.
750.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's kind of like, NASA taking advantage of the Orion test flight press to get their Mars plan out there.

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