Timothycquinn

This looks awesome. Great to see a project like this in a space dominated by commercial offerings. I sincerely hope thus grows and thrives as it's desperately needed in this world of persistent attacks against our infrastructure.

How sensitive is the systems to airborne sodium chloride if located near salty bodies of water? I would assume that colocation with nuclear power would be ideal and many nuclear plants are next to salty bodies of water.

Being an energy auditor in my early career in the energy sector, I'm very interested in seeing such systems implemented to balance system loads during off peak times which will make Nuclear (safe and well designed) more cost effective.

These days, Xamarin looks interesting. Can target windows, Linux, Mac, Android and IOS. I have not used it yet but if I get a project that needs full Cross platform distribution, I would probably use xamarin with a F# code base where possible.

They actually grow in the dark by processing starches in roots. They candle are just used for viewing or picking. Fascinating process. I can't wait to try some of these one day.

This marketing blunder does not touch the best of all time: Harvey's (a Canadian fast food chain) had a bold advertisement stating they only use "100% real processed cheese". But, at least Harvey's was not lying ;)

Yes. OP: Please add (2009) to title.

I agree. That and the resulting sales impacts would seem to be the key motives to these decisions.

However, they did actively choose to not put in redundancy and the status systems in the cockpits which should have been done out of the box following any common sense and failure mode analysis procedures. This decision itself is enough to bring this to court and as a result the internal communications on these decisions will be explored.

Great idea but what if you want to use a separate VPN service which is disabled by this app? Does this VPN just cover DNS or does it secure all traffic? When on public wifi, I want to have PIA VPN enabled.

Does this secure all DNS traffic like Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 app? If it does, I may use it with the exception of public wifi.

That hardware solution sans wifi could offer some interesting security solutions such as trusted bridge between any computer and your mobile phone. Can't wait to see this torn down and hacked.

I just finished tuning up a White sewing machine and it blew me away how well built the thing was. Very well used but still works like a charm. 99.9% metal and made in Japan.

How is this? According to the International System of Units, a minute is 60 seconds.

Thanks for that clarification. After this, I was able to find the International System of Units Wikipedia page which clearly defines a second as per your summary. It's a relief to see that it's a constant formula like that of the Kilogram.

Excellent question. I assumed that one mars minute differs from an earth minute but I just learned that they don't. Seconds, minutes and hours are universal. Hours in a day is what varies by planets, moons etc. Funny that I never thought of that before :)

Please have one minute of silence to remember this wonderful machine that gave us all so much...

Kudos to all those who contributed to make this such an overwhelming success.

Science FTW.

Took a look. Interesting project. The abstraction model available to declaring relationships/vertices was hard to grasp at first glance but as I thought about it further, I can see some interesting benefits for pattern matching grammar. eMatrix did not have abstraction for relationships/vertices types but did for object/edge types.

Anybody have an idea what the BOM cost is of this build?

Thanks. I'll take a look :)

[more info] Some notable customers of Enovia (eMatrix): Boeing, Honeywell, Tesla, Bombardier, Airbus.

Disclaimer: I don't work presently work for Dassault. I just really like their DB kernel ;)

[update] Dassault Systemes purchased Matrix One about 10 years ago. They still use their Graph based DB kernel in many of their products. From my understanding, this DB kernel was written in the early 90's and targeted PDM (Product Data Mangement). They now target a broader category of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). Again, there is no way to purchase their Graph DB Kernel last time I checked which is a shame because its so awesome to develop with :(

It's not commercially available unfortunately when I last checked. You have to buy business software and licences to get access to the DB kernel and api's. The main product is called Enovia, formerly called eMatrix by matrix one. Dassault Systemes in France.

Would be sweet to have a similar system in FOSS middleware on top of Neo4J or OrientDB.

I spent a bulk of my programming career modelling business processes in a graph database with strong schema, lifecycle control (state machines) and formal change control (revisioning).

I was always blown away with how easy it was to turn around a very stable and useful system where the customers could actually understand the data model and refactoring was easy to reason through.

Graph databases FTW.

I was wondering what the fit with Qubes OS was. Found this entry on Genode challenges page:

"Genode as virtualization layer for Qubes OS - ...This exploration project pursues the goal of replacing Xen by Genode as virtualization layer for Qubes."

Excellent article. Kudos to the authors. I look forward to digging into your references.

This would be a great primer for young developers to get a good overview of of programing paradigms and modern OS language evolution over the last 25 years. I will be sending this along to all my peers.

Also, I am impressed with .NET and Microsoft's embrace of OpenSource. I am one of those developers who got stung by Microsoft in their earlier days when they were the true Evilcorp and now they really seem to be less evil with this embrace.

I will actually consider using F# for my future projects, but of course as long as it runs 100% on *Nix platforms.

Do you know which talk this is discussed? I'm interested in watch his stuff.

Nick is a very nice guy. I recall chatting with him back in his MatrixOne days. Great coder too.

I would think he would sway toward VB ;)

IMHO, a party that owns or invents a patent that it does not use and never intends to use in any real products and they only litigate with said patent makes it a true patent troll.

Saw the same. The thing I like about Qubes OS is that they are trying to move to an OS / hypervisor agnostic model. I personally would love to see Qubes on freenas driving Jails.

I was an early adopter of Virtual PC on OSX. I have to say that it never worked to a performance level of being useful even for business needs like running basic business apps like Excel, Outlook, Visio, Ecco Pro and the like.

I abandoned the idea of VirtualPC once Microsoft bought connectix as they were still the EvilCorp of the time.

I did not see any useful PC virtualization on OSX until Apple switched to Intel and VMware jumped into the game.