typpo

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   Show HN: Make all your phone calls on time by starting them automatically(talkthen.com)

   4 points by typpo 12y ago|1 comments
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   by typpo 12y ago

   Is there any company where churning through a list of bugs and maintenance projects will get you further in the long term than launching new things? Hacker News generally praises "ship it" culture, where experimentation and measu
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   by typpo 12y ago

   I'm fascinated by the distinct types of structures that gravity and other forces create at such large scales. The really zoomed-out views of the universe remind me of neurons in a microscopic view of the brain. When I was researching
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   The Moons of Jupiter(medium.com)

   2 points by typpo 12y ago|1 comments
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   Why do so many offer letters suck?(blog.42floors.com)

   4 points by typpo 12y ago|0 comments
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   by typpo 12y ago

   To aspiring amateur astronomers: you don't even need an expensive telescope or clear skies to explore the night. iTelescope [1] lets you rent time on telescopes around the world and is surprisingly easy to use after learning the inter
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   SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic(mashable.com)

   306 points by typpo 12y ago|136 comments
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   Mint is misleading users about Heartbleed (and may still be vulnerable)(ianww.com)

   21 points by typpo 12y ago|6 comments
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   Audi traffic light recognition could save 240 million gallons of fuel(green.autoblog.com)

   2 points by typpo 13y ago|0 comments
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    Crowdsourcing the Search for Malaysia Flight 370(abcnews.go.com)

    4 points by typpo 13y ago|0 comments
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    NASA Offers $35,000 In Prizes For Citizen Scientists To Help Find Asteroids(universetoday.com)

    2 points by typpo 13y ago|0 comments
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Open source/linux version: http://jonls.dk/redshift/ (apt-get install redshift)
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Planetary Resources - Bellevue, WA - Full time Planetary Resources, Inc (PRI), the asteroid mining company, is seeking a Flight Software and Ground Software Engineer (a combined role) for the development of innovative spaceflight products a
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I included it because I've seen similar HN posts mention age (and my birthday was recent, so it was on my mind). I've removed that information so this post stands on its own.
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    Show HN: My year in side projects(ianww.com)

    27 points by typpo 13y ago|5 comments
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    Show HN: refresh your browser as you edit files(github.com)

    2 points by typpo 13y ago|0 comments
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Not quite. According to testers in the other thread[1], Google pulls images on mail open. This means marketers will get more accurate email open stats because now the default behavior is to load images. However, they don't get cooki
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    by typpo 13y ago

    I really like how you've documented the challenges you encountered. The "Building jsOrrery" article is probably one of the best sources on the internet describing the process of building a full solar system viz. Your code i
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Planetary Resources - Bellevue, WA - Full time Planetary Resources, Inc (PRI), the asteroid mining company, is seeking a Flight Software and Ground Software Engineer (a combined role) for the development of innovative spaceflight products a
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    by typpo 13y ago

    This is pretty useful. A couple months ago I started making a free self-hosted version of Boomerang for Gmail, but lost interest because I felt like I would have to devote most of my time to gmail's idiosyncrasies. Maybe it's ti
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    by typpo 13y ago

    My bad, and thanks for the heads up. Of course the problems start right after I submitted.
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    Asterank Discover, Crowdsourced Asteroid Discovery, Reviews Its 100,000th Image(ianww.com)

    6 points by typpo 13y ago|2 comments
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    Show HN: open source Apple inventory monitor(github.com)

    2 points by typpo 13y ago|0 comments
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    by typpo 13y ago

    I agree that the summation solution is an "aha" moment. But I don't think a reasonable interviewer would require someone to get that answer, and I can see how this problem could showcase a candidate's thought process
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Kilroy, I'm the author of this post -- if you're a software engineer interested in space, maybe we should stay in touch (email in profile). I definitely had a hard time figuring out how to "break in" to commercial space
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    by typpo 13y ago

    I'm the OP/author, and you are pretty much right. It's probably not the sort of deal you'd read about in TechCrunch or the WSJ, but it made the work I did in the past year totally worth it. And it got me my "dream
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    What I learned from getting my side project acquired(ianww.com)

    396 points by typpo 13y ago|54 comments
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    by typpo 13y ago

    The last paragraph suggests that it is ideal to fire within the first two weeks or even the first day. I understand the importance of culture in a startup, but I'd be wary of a company that fires in such a short timespan. This may ma
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    by typpo 13y ago

    There are a couple of open source projects for visual regression testing - Wraith, used by BBC: https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith Huxley, by Facebook: https://github.com/facebook/huxley
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    by typpo 13y ago

    Computer algos do a good job at asteroid id'ing - they discover a few every day - but most experts I've spoken with (including people running large sky surveys like PanSTARRS and CSS) agree that crowdsourcing is an approach worth