chadmaughan
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Comment · 6 years ago
On SHI, it's listed at $16,779.00 (per unit?)
https://www.shi.com/products/productdetail.aspx?SHISystemID=...
Comment · 7 years ago
Agreed. We got around this by hacking the single use CVS/Rite Aid cameras according to the below guide. Dropping one of these in the water or on some rocks didn't feel quite so devastating.
Comment · 7 years ago
I also had a lot of fun KAPing before drones. Stabilization was handled fairly easy with a Picavet (or Pendulum) suspension system. Neat and low tech.
More details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography#Pica...
Comment · 10 years ago
First thought (to the article title "Why we stopped building fatjars") was that the build person had "graduated" and took their newly "acquired superpowers elsewhere" [0]
Joking aside, fantastic idea =)
Have you received a cease and desist from SlimFast yet for violating their trademark?
[0] - http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...
Comment · 11 years ago
They've already increased it from the originally published concurrent requests per function limit (originally 50, now 100) [1]
We'd like the "Total size of all the deployment packages that can be uploaded per account" increased. Since you have to "require in" (as you put it) all your dependencies with each published function it's plausible to hit that limit pretty quick.
The average node module is 1.6MB [2]. If your functions have 3 dependencies, you're near 5MB. That limits you to ~300 functions. That initially seems like a lot until you realize you may have to start breaking up complex logic into multiple functions to hit time limits. You also might need to maintain multiple versions for backwards compatibility (think v1 endpoints). And if you use Java 8, you're just screwed. That size limit can be hit quick.
[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150315092544/http://docs.aws.a...
Comment · 11 years ago
It was published by the Wall Street Journal. The opening sentence incorrectly attributes Forbes.
"Yesterday Forbes published a piece on 'The Billion Dollar Startup Club'.”
Comment · 12 years ago
Someone did (Marty Lagina) and they attempted a number of things last year. This is the premise of a reality show on the History Channel called "The Curse of Oak Island."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Oak_Island http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455408/
Comment · 12 years ago
Totally agree. For example, the Frontlines project, or "70 miles in 7 years" was done 2 years early and 300 million dollars under budget. [1] That goes a long way towards future budget increase requests and tax increase votes.
[1] - http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56733855-90/2015-alleg...
Comment · 12 years ago
Salt Lake City (also "in the West") already has ~45 miles of light rail track [1], 88 miles of commuter rail track [2], ~3 streetcar track miles [3], and 69 transit stations. It was named as one of the top transit systems in north america for 2014 [4].
This was approved in 2008 by voters in Salt Lake County [5]. Already under works are plans to expand the commuter rail beyond Ogden to Provo (from 88 to 135 miles) and expand the streetcar concept. Additional lines are also currently being studied [6].
Of course, when Fastracks is done, it may have more "track miles" but that will be mostly due to the airport being so, so far away from the city center (~23 driving miles from Denver to DEN compared to ~6 from Salt Lake to SLC).
I'm excited for Fastracks. Can't wait to never have to fill my rental car out at that single, lonely Conoco gas station by DEN again.
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAX_(light_rail)
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontRunner
3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Line_(UTA)
4 - http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865605797/UTA-named-one-o...
Comment · 13 years ago
After ~36 years in the US Senate you're bound to get a few things right.
Comment · 13 years ago
The social safety net and creative destruction discussion is interesting.
However, I'm interested from a design perspective. Does anyone know if this was built by the "apps team" at NPR? IMO, it's very well done.
More from the NPR "apps team."
Comment · 13 years ago
His profile lists "CEO/Co-Founder of competehub.com and ignitelab.net"
The irony, of course, is the tagline used at ignitelab.net is: "Ignite Your Innovative Internet Business Idea Right Now"
Comment · 13 years ago
Several people at my work had the same Google Wallet problem. Most of us had a $900 charge that was later cancelled. Ultimate tease.
This was my favorite tweet:
"Another year, another batch of developers who will be sure to never ever use +Google Wallet in anything they build. #io13" [1]
[1] https://twitter.com/seedifferently/status/311856162440093696
Comment · 13 years ago
This is beautiful. I love NPR.
I'm curious, what are the rules/requirements for initiating a new "NPR app"? An election app seems totally obvious, but what about other apps? Is it based on available data? Available funds? Pervasiveness of a certain story? An individual reporter's weight? (for example, if I was on the team and Nina Totenberg made an app request, I'd drop everything and do it for her - she's dreamy)
Also, how much lead time do you typically get with your apps? A few days, a few weeks, longer?