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by taloft 14y ago
So the same results can be achieved for less than a hundred bucks without the risk of spending the rest of your life in jail?
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by taloft 14y ago
I really wouldn't worry about pilot lingo in that situation. Just get on the radio and ask for help. People will respond to that.
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by taloft 14y ago
Absolutely true. The odds of an untrained person safely landing on their first attempt are astronomical, but that doesn't mean you get to throw in the towel. If you are now the pilot, you better start acting like one in short order. First p
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by taloft 14y ago
The call sign Lifeguard is used on the radio to make everyone aware of this. No need really to explicitly declare a medical emergency unless you're not getting the priority handling from ATC that call sign is meant to provide. When I was fl
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by taloft 14y ago
Can someone clue me in on the value proposition of this vs something like spread shirt ?
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by taloft 14y ago
I like option 1: "You can fire me. I won't quit!"
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by taloft 14y ago
Pre-Internet. Information overload hadn't been invented yet. We relished whatever rare information we could dig up on what interested us.
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by taloft 14y ago
Agreed. This is a simple case of doing good preparation. Gamification has zero to do with it. Sadly, he spent the entire article talking about the wrong thing, because gamification is his SEO soapbox. "Must make square peg fit in round hole
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by taloft 16y ago
What many of us emacs users understand, but can't convey adequately, is that he seems to be asking the question "I want to learn Common Lisp, without learning Lisp". Or, "Lisp is just a language like Ruby or Python. Editor is irrelevant."
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by taloft 16y ago
Pilotless military planes are designed to kill people. I would prefer not to use that as a criteria for creating pilotless passenger-carrying aircraft.
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by taloft 16y ago
What's more is that for some time they allowed pilots to carry handguns in the cockpit (federal flight deck officers). I always found it amusing when one of the pilots got waved through carrying a firearm while the other had to go through
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by taloft 16y ago
Apparently not difficult http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/news/
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...he would think twice about investing in Facebook again(techcrunch.com)
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by taloft 16y ago
Not to mention the different kinds of airplanes, different kinds of electronics, and all possible permutations of the above. Yes, this may seem like overkill to many software devs. Safety-critical systems require huge amounts of testing.
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by taloft 16y ago
Sorry, but the chances of this are minuscule. However, there is a chance and it depends on their mental state, how much they've flown the simulator, what types of maneuvers they've practiced and how closely it matches to the actual aircr
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by taloft 16y ago
Most of this advice is (unfortunately) true in large companies. It's sad that the idealism of our youth is corrupted by the reality of survival/prosperity in the workplace.
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by taloft 16y ago
He will be introducing the $99 holographic PC.
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by taloft 16y ago
Yes. You are missing the joke. The answer is 42. The question is "What is six times nine?" Yes, we all know that 6 * 9 is not 42. It makes no sense, and that's just part of Douglas Adams' humor. Many people mistakenly remember the questio
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by taloft 17y ago
You know what? I don't get it either and it's ugly at the moment. But, I didn't get Twitter. Hell, I still don't get Twitter. And who would've thought Facebook could ever replace MySpace? Well, ok MySpace was bad... really really bad in a