sasha-dv

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Comment · 14 years ago

It is neither a scientific nor a societal accomplishment, it showcases neither innovation nor courage. It's just - something that happened.

While governments are cutting down their budgets for scientific research and basically accepting the status quo regarding the spaceflight, there's this guy from Africa doing something extraordinary and you see no innovation or courage?

If you describe what happened today as "there was this thing that came close to some robotic arm or something, and then the arm slowly captured it, and ... that's about it.", then I agree with you - that is boring. But, that's not what happened today.

Today we saw one guy's insane vision becoming reality. And if that is not something I don't know what is. And what's even more exciting about it is that this is just the beginning.

Governments can, with care, be kept under control. However bad corruption gets, democratic governments will always be bound to the electorate. Corporations - no.

Aren't corporations regulated by the laws made by the governments elected by the electorate?

Comment · 14 years ago

Whoever was the first to use "bitch" as a verb was almost certainly a male asshole who wanted to subordinate the woman he was talking to. By repeating it, that is the sentiment you are reinforcing, because the meaning does not change. You're normalizing female subordination.

Bitch please!

Comment · 14 years ago

Most likely, he's working at home: http://bit.ly/9NiLQB

Comment · 14 years ago

Watching all of this makes me realise just how lucky we are to be alive at this point in human history.

Indeed. Sexy times!

Captured dragon: http://imgur.com/Vmnzj and http://imgur.com/mQU91

Comment · 14 years ago

The NASA's decision to support SpaceX with money and expertise is a step in the right direction.

NASA (and Roscosmos) should delegate to private companies all of the operations in LEO. They should focus their efforts on sending humans deeper into space.

I want to see a day when docking at the ISS is considered a boring affair.

Comment · 14 years ago

So did I.

But, I think, doing dangerous stunts like that is just a small part of their daily duties.

Comment · 14 years ago

If only my work is as important as his is!

You can say that Knuth went of the grid to accomplish something extraordinary, but I did it once I've realized that my life is actually mine to live and that the world would not end if I'm not reachable. I quit being Atlas and the sky didn't fall.

Comment · 14 years ago

Can we still save the term "life hacker"? For me, that'd be someone without a cellphone.

That would be me.

I don't own a cellphone since 2004. I've got tired of being constantly available (and disrupted), so I ditched the damn thing. It may not be practical for everybody, but it works for me. The world has its own pace and I have mine.

For me, the biggest inconvenience of not having a cellphone are those businesses (websites) that insist on a "cellphone #" being a required field during a sign-up or when requesting a quote.

Disclaimer: I run my own show.

Comment · 14 years ago

Elon Musk is a legend.

... and an inspiration!

I'm done with CRUD-ing my life away. It's time to tackle some hard problems.

Comment · 14 years ago

Falcon 9 is in Orbit! Hell yeah!

Comment · 14 years ago

What exactly is the author's conclusion? To ask more questions?

It seams to me that in a post named X-vs-Y you should arrive at some sort of conclusion. Say, X is the way to go or something like that.

I'm not a db geek and I'm not pro-NOSQL or pro-RDBMS. Having no horse in the race, and a very modest knowledge of DBMS, I wonder what would be the best choice in this specific use case (building mailman archive)?

Comment · 14 years ago

As for mutual hatred, many people lost their families in the war, and obviously many Serbs were part of the aggression, so the relationship is no wonder.

The hatred dates well before the 1990ies. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp. The more you know, the less you want to know.

Comment · 14 years ago

- if you're in Croatia, Tesla was a Croatian (and a god)

Don't be so sure.

During the recent war they burned his memorial house and destroyed the monument in front of it. They also demolished his monument in the nearby town of Gospic at the beginning of the recent war and it appears they don't want it back: http://bit.ly/JnSQkg

Comment · 14 years ago

Same here.

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Comment · 14 years ago

I think it's in society's best interests to roll these people up. I have absolutely zero qualms about taking people off the chess board that think it's a great idea for everyone to pile into the van and visit the bomb site.

I agree.

That's why we formed the PreCrime police force, but were forced to shut it down because of that movie with Tom Cruise ... Minority Consort or something like that.

Damn you Hollywood liberals!