patrickwalton
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You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.
All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a constraint so something had to be bad. Every engineering problem has constraints.
We're making satellites that rapidly track wind over the entire ocean. NASA's head of oceanography said everyone will want to buy our data.
Weather satellites are disjointed. We iterate on our satellites weekly at 1/1000th the cost. We're aiming to develop the world's first cohesive weather information system.