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Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station

Ten seconds seems like an incredibly liberal estimate. You need a pretty decent "margin of error" reserve. I'd wager we're looking at something more like 30-60s of fuel during the last stages of landing, at least. So let's call it something like 2-3% of the fuel.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Flappy Thirds

"Hey, what if we designed our entire core game mechanic around a pun?"

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Update on Julie Horvath's Departure

>Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

No, it isn't. It's standard operating procedure pretty much everywhere to put employees on leave while an investigation is conducted. It shouldn't be construed as an admission at all.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Spiffing CSS: the preprocessor made for Brits

You are wrong in the sense that CSS uses 'color', and not 'font-color' to describe the color of text within an element.

You aren't wrong in the sense that CSS's choice of using 'color', and not 'font-color' is completely ridiculous, and breaks convention with CSS itself. I'm a front-end developer using CSS on a daily basis, and this has always bothered me.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: And

If you read the footnotes, he's purposely trolling HN with the title, based on yesterday's discussion.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What happens to older developers?

He's somewhat more important than just the SR-71. He's the father of the entire Skunk Works project, and is also responsible for the P-38, U-2, and F-104, and had hands in at least another dozen important aircraft... and bundling them all up.. Area 51.

So yeah, he's one of the most important figures in aerospace of the last century. Billing him as 'merely' the guy behind the SR-71 is actually selling him short.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Facebook launches employee ferry service from SF

> Your numbers struck me as surprisingly high. It seems hard to believe that running a ferry across the bay with 100 passengers can cost $10,000.

I still found it hard to believe. So I took sfgate's numbers, and did the math.

100,000 riders a year? That's only ~270 riders per day. For an assumption of 8AM to 10PM, it isn't a hundred passengers going across the bay in per hour – it's a grand total of 19.

And for that, they built a $26M ferry terminal?

No wonder it costs so much.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Fraud [video]

Another great example of the kind of mobile advertising you're talking about: Flappy Bird, where ads are shown every time you re-start the game. In a typical Flappy Bird session, that could be up to 5-6 ads per minute — only shown on screen for a second or two.

Recoil42 | 12 years ago | on: Making GIFs From Video Files With Python

The problem, for me, is that HTML5 video is a technical solution with no social advantage. There are so many places on the web where images are allowed that videos will never be allowed -- for good reason. Forums, comment threads, etc.

What we need is an image container format that allows for a silent (and only silent) video stream to be embedded. A better GIF. Something that site maintainers would feel entirely comfortable in allowing.

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