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1point2 | 14 years ago | on: SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station

Spectator here: I too am so excited about the upcoming launch I have been hanging out for it and wish them the best of luck too (even though luck has nothing to do with it and plain good engineering does).

I read the SpaceX pages, reports and updates with the same excitement I had when I read about the Saturn V, the Apollo craft the Lunar Lander, the Shuttle, and the engineering and esp. the control computers behind and embedded in all those craft.

To be involved with SpaceX, designing systems and writing and testing the software and the hardware systems they control must be very exciting right now. That would be something!

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark

Google: It's important X does not see our super secret servers, how best may we attain that, team?

Team: We suggest we co-locate with X and then turn the lights off - that way they can't see our super secret servers.

Google: Awesome idea!

Some time latter:

Co-Facility: Here come the gogglers with their head lamps, quick turn the lights off.

Co-Facility: They are gone, don't they look great with their LED lights, make a cool movie huh?

Co-Facility: Crikey, here come the X's, quick turn the lights on, oh man it's such a shame they don't have LED head lamps, they would look so cool if they did.

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: New Paper Airplane Distance World Record

Wow, that was pretty cool. I wonder if the climb to a stall early on in the flight is part of the typical flight profile, and if the design of the aircraft is optimized to deliver that profile. Anyone know?

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: Pinterest, We Have a Problem

And there in lies the problem with TOS (or is the problem with the law?) if one needs to be an attorney to understand them, what hope is there for the ordinary folk - just saying. No wonder people just click through.

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression

I like this advice (physical work) and its been in the back of my mind for a while as a way to take a break from the continuous onslaught of pressure to 'keep up' with developments in my craft and to give me time to consolidate what I have learnt in the last 15 year sprint.

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does this website make sense?

I think this is great - it kinda _why ish. I think that if it can be solved using the controls you provide that's good, but if short cuts can be made by hacking the code there is an incentive to try - like adding a loop that fires the cannon continuously, a loop that changes it angle over a range... I don't know - but if the 'cheats' are in the code there is a reason to look at it (the code). They need to be simple (initially). I quickly started adjusting the angle force in the code to just to see if I could.

1point2 | 14 years ago | on: Electronic Cigarette Health Study Report

I switched 25 years of tobacco smoking with e-cigs in several days (4 months ago) I am just now starting to enjoy the sense of smell again (oh how I love the smell of coffee). It's more expensive (for me) than smoking tobacco. I hope to drop e-cigs one day - but for now find them (or is it the nicotine) enjoyable. Stopping altogether is by far the best solution - next, I'd say are these.

For any smokers out there who have been considering trying them out I suggest you give them a go. I think you will find they press all the same buttons in a less harmful way - they replicate the sensation of the drawback.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the any e-cig company - just a user.

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