SpacemanSpiff
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Comment · 9 years ago
Hey, any chance your hardware developer friend could spare a few minutes to talk about his/her work? I'm a freelance hardware+software developer and there's not many of us out there it seems. It would be great to get some feedback on some long-term business goals. You can reach me at [email protected]
Thanks!
Comment · 9 years ago
I just ordered my book. Here's a 37% off discount code: fccpicheta courtesey of /r/nim and /u/psychotic_primes
Comment · 9 years ago
HP 32SII scientific calculator. I had one in high school (not sure what happened to it), recently picked one up on ebay and haven't regretted it!
Comment · 10 years ago
I've recently started using Syncthing to synchronize files between different machines. I'm super impressed at the quality of the application, its stability, and the documentation. Syncthing is written in go and open source. https://syncthing.net/
Comment · 10 years ago
This article was linked on HN last fall I believe: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-...
Basically the airlines are outsourcing maintenance to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China. The FAA has very little capacity for providing the same level of oversight previously conducted in US-based maintenance facilities. Scary.
Comment · 10 years ago
wow, with all due respect, to me this vision of the future sounds horrifying. My refrigerator on Facebook? No thank you.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Hi, I'm quite new to the community myself, so I don't have any established contacts to share at the moment. I recommend checking here: http://www.meetup.com/Elixir-Berlin/
This company also has an office in Berlin now: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/contact.html
Comment · 10 years ago
Embedded systems programmer here. I'm learning Elixir and am very excited about the nerves project:
http://nerves-project.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzQrFC55q4
Edit: There also seems to be a good Elixir/Erlang community here in Berlin Germany where I live at the moment.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
I totally agree. It seems birds are not dumb enough to do this: https://youtu.be/F4ml61jI5ow?t=207 (at 3:42)
Comment · 11 years ago
This is simply not true in my experience. I have personally seen birds perform significant aerial maneuvers to avoid collision with my aircraft, going very close to 130MPH. By the time I see the bird it is often in a very steep dive, the bird saw my plane long before I saw the bird.
Comment · 11 years ago
Birds are very different from drones in the sense that birds often practice active collision avoidance, at least in the case of encounters with a small aircraft. I have often seen birds take evasive maneuvers when a collision is imminent, much more quickly than I could have as the pilot of the aircraft. Drones at this point have no sense of self preservation when faced with a collision with an aircraft and are therefore in my opinion much more dangerous.