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by sraquo 12y ago
I would like to add this document to the case for inflatable hang gliders: http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/107170/---/l=1 Why I am doing this at 5 AM..? I'm insane.
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by sraquo 12y ago
Well, it's pretty, but its resolution is not very high. If you zoom in enough you'll see that it doesn't take into account particular mountains and valleys, such terrain features are too small for it. Compare it to http:&#x2
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by sraquo 12y ago
No, I mean when the angle of attack of the wing gets too low in flight. This can and does happen due to gusts and thermal activity in the air. Normally a ram-air paraglider wing would collapse at low angle of attack due to lack of pressure
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by sraquo 12y ago
Well, basically, weather models are not region-specific, only the actual computations/forecasts are. So it wouldn't make sense to develop an incredibly complex weather model and then only use it in your local region – it would wor
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by sraquo 12y ago
I've actually researched this option. Using compressed air as a structural component is a valid construction technique and could be applied to hang gliders. It won't work on paragliders because as ram-air wings, they need to col
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by sraquo 12y ago
1. Possibly, but iPhone's screen is pathetic in sunlight, and it's speaker is probably not loud enough for variometer beeping. Also, not sure if it has enough battery power for 4 hours of such workload. 2. AoA is too low-level for
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by sraquo 12y ago
Dammit, how did I forget that. This is more important than anything I've written above. Make a hang glider that packs to 2.5 meters max and doesn't take an eternity to setup and break down (15 minutes max). The performance needs t
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by sraquo 12y ago
I have three windsport-related ideas for you. 1) weather analysis I'm a hang glider pilot, but this applies to all wind sports – windsurfing, kiteboarding, paragliding, sailplanes, possibly even surfing and skydiving. These sports requ
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by sraquo 12y ago
I personally prefer RSS over email, so I've built https://github.com/raquo/hnapp for the task. Just thought you might want some code to get started.
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Show HN: Search HN by keywords, user, score, Read online, on mobile or RSS(hnapp.com)
10 points by sraquo 12y ago|0 comments
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by sraquo 12y ago
I've taken a Written Business Communications course as part of my studies a while ago which used this book – http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/essentials-of-business-c... It explains the basics – styling, struct
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by sraquo 13y ago
Pardon the UI, it's one of my old projects, but it's useful in this case http://hnapp.com/filter/bb4abe7a00d09a35b95c6763f09c0cfb If you want to edit the filter 1) change parameters, 2) click preview to see n
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by sraquo 15y ago
Shameless plug for more useful HN feeds: http://hnapp.com - filter posts by points, keywords, etc. and subscribe to the results by RSS.
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by sraquo 15y ago
A side project of mine that I felt like was ready for publishing (far from perfect yet, but it works). I will add more advanced filters soon, as well as make a couple live visualizations of HN activity.
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Show HN: hnapp – RSS feeds of HN posts filtered by points, title, etc.(hnapp.com)
3 points by sraquo 15y ago|1 comments
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by sraquo 16y ago
Yeah. I also noticed how some games e.g. Reckless Racing "brute-force" controls usability by offering a handful of different options – virtual wheels, accelerometer, simple buttons, etc.
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Usability of Accelerometer Controls in Games(chopperdefense.com)
6 points by sraquo 16y ago|3 comments
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by sraquo 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/gamereviews/ These are those I know about. I don't really follow them much because I don't like most of wh
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Ask HN: Game dev communities?
1 points by sraquo 16y ago|2 comments
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by sraquo 16y ago
While you're fixing UI please consider fixing Jamendo PRO search interface. Your database seems to have more information than you allow to filter by (I really need to filter by tags, e.g. I want something fast, dark and agressive). I spent
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by sraquo 16y ago
Thanks! These are great apps esp. their workflow parts, but for me they don't work unfortunately. Aperture's somewhat better but it also doesn't have a GUI for finding images by keywords unless you create a smart album or something like tha
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Ask HN: what do you use for image management?
5 points by sraquo 16y ago|2 comments
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by sraquo 16y ago
Only iPad for now. Maybe I'll make it universal by the end of December, not sure yet...
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by sraquo 16y ago
There are two kind of ideas for startups: 1) There is a problem, and current solutions are ugly. Think how to fix it and sell your fixture, and you have an idea. Many programmers when faced with some problem will quickly solve it with some
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by sraquo 16y ago
I launched a cool iPad game: http://chopperdefense.com/ . Already have a few "paying customers" and even more Cydia freeloaders :) Now working on getting the word out and on a major update that would also bring it to iPhone, hopefully.
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by sraquo 16y ago
Indeed, I checked Apple dev forums, and it must be the deployment target the parent is talking about. I was used to "built against" meaning Base SDK and really freaked out since my app is now waiting for review and I'm really time-sensitive
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by sraquo 16y ago
By "built against" do you mean mean "Base SDK" or "iOS deployment target" in Xcode? My base SDK is 4.2 but deployment target is 3.2 (it's iPad-only). Am I fail..?
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by sraquo 16y ago
I have some domains which I wanted to use for a similar purpose but I don't need them after all: iosgame.com, ios-game.com, iosgame.net, iosgamer.com, iosgamers.com, ios-games.com, iosgames.net. I can give you them.
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by sraquo 16y ago
Here's my somewhat similar homebrew GTD system: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6109/progressb.png You see time spent (in minutes) coding (+) and anything else done at the computer (-) taken from RescueTime, along with basic efficiency
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by sraquo 18y ago
Thank you, will dig deeper into E-2

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