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by tezzer 12y ago
It takes close to half a billion dollars just to test it. Stuff has to work right the first time, and every time after that, for 40+ years. They (and by they I mean we) test the human factors of the displays the controllers work at, the c
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by tezzer 12y ago
It's also the disaster that kicked off the field of software engineering. They looked at the mess and thought maybe there should be a formalized approach to doing something this vast in software.
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by tezzer 12y ago
I've contracted for several government agencies and research firms, and I've noticed only PhD's get to run laboratories. Without one, you hit a glass ceiling rather quickly (by which I mean you don't make the leap from
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by tezzer 13y ago
I just got a report from NASA's systems admins saying they have approved IE9 for general rollout to the work force. The key paragraph: "Beginning Tuesday, March 25, Internet Explorer (IE) 9 will be deployed to all ACES Windows co
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by tezzer 13y ago
So a state government wants to enact legislation to harass a federal agency? I doubt that will be an issue for very long. Also, the article mentions Fort Meade uses as much electricity as the city of Annapolis. Baltimore Gas and Electric a
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by tezzer 13y ago
Yeah, but at least if they're spouting total nonsense it's easier to identify and ignore ;)
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by tezzer 13y ago
Back of the envelope: If there are 100,000 gallons (400 tons) of radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean in Japan per day, to be diluted by the 187 quintillion gallons of water already there (not hyperbole, a reasonable estimate
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by tezzer 13y ago
And I can confirm that if I load 6 tabs in Firefox and go to work, when I come home it will have eaten 2G of my memory, the next morning it will have eaten 5, and a couple of days later nothing on my system will run without disk thrashing b
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by tezzer 13y ago
I've been using Thunderbird (IMAP) to keep a local copy of my gmail for ages. It works very well, and as a bonus, you can sort by field and get more than 20 responses per page to a search.
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by tezzer 13y ago
So in your case, a crowded field is a boon, because lots of companies could then be expected to hit the problems you've got a solution for, yes?
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Ask HN: Would you rather work in a crowded field or a wide-open one?
6 points by tezzer 13y ago|2 comments
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by tezzer 13y ago
Also, they recently bought Perot Systems (remember H. Ross Perot?), a large government contractor with fingers in many pies.