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The part about knowledge like heat shield technology, rotting away, is kind of disappointing. It seems that's at least one area that would be under continuous development and the art would only be improving, not retreating.

Can someone teach me how to use Twitter? Still don't get it. It's like an IRC channel for social media professionals, right?

+1 for circuithub. Andy gave me a brief tour last weekend and really impressed. Worth a try and costs you nothing to get a near dinstant quote on pcb fab by uploading you design files.

Tried upverter?

If you're feeling left out: http://www.skullysystems.com/

I'm very curious about the procedures and paradigms followed to develop the safety critical software inside the system, as well as the engineering pedigree of the developers. I don't mean this in a rude, finger pointing way, just proposing that some background and a slightly deeper technical description of the precautions would make a huge difference in confidence level.

For example, are the redundancy systems space and time separated? What kind of methods were used to ensure that? Are there any overall hardware, software, communications development standards used and audited? Does anyone on the team have demonstrated experience in these areas?

If this system were to be audited, what organization would be responsible?

Thanks guys, great work so far and excellent vision!

how does `ls` not work?! and wtf is the `catalog` binary anyway? :)

Some of you software guys looking to move into hardware might appreciate this simple shortcut, at least for PIC programming. Obviously this is a general approach. If you're looking to streamline your HW dev process, feel free to reach out.

so I wonder how this impacts the circleCI funding. Looks like some pretty steep competition. http://blog.circleci.com/we-raised-a-6m-series-a/

So I can run this locally, ensure my test system is dialed in, then scale/automate it with the hosted service? If that's true, it certainly beats having to guess what my test system is actually doing remotely and would definitely help bring some alignment between my prod/test infrastructure.

haha, yeah here too

Upvote for awesome title

Thinkpad T60 purchased (refurb!) in 2007. Still a rock solid machine. It does get a little warm though..

This comment has nothing to do with India, ISRO, politics or Mars, but I am curious if anyone with expertise can comment on the clean room practices seen applied in this video. Is it odd that the workers don't have on full 'bunny' suits and have (what seems to be) a relatively large amount of skin/hair unprotected? I don't know if it matters that much, it just seems a little lax given the cost of failure.

i think I broke it...

no, you're not. That site looks like an advert for Elysium

I think there is a need for more platforms that isolate the 'mission systems' parts from the flight controls systems. There are tons of applications that should not require developers to become a controls engineer to implement.

agreed. I was excited to see how they were getting around that pesky issue of billing people.

http://imgur.com/B7xRaPZ sold out :(

GOT ONE! Try opening a new tab an logging into Google Wallet after a ticket is reserved...That might have been a coincidence, but it worked

I now think there are actually only five tickets available, being distributed in chocolate bars around the world...

Another good idea on the pre-loading of configs. We've shelved that as a phase 2 feature for now, but wholeheartedly agree it's a big win that would make data entry way less painful. Sounds like you know something about aerospace, Sam.

Great point on the example data. Although I disabled emails from the HN test account linked to here, you can get an idea of what the 'purchaser experience' would be like from the JetDeck homepage (www.jetdeck.co) and clicking the "Try a Demo Now" button. This is a link to a demo of what the customer actually sees after a broker has entered the data in the JetDeck portal: http://www.jetdeck.co/specs/4425542.php?name=Sam

Great question. There are actually very few customers for this app. I have worked in this industry (as a broker, for an airframe mfg and now a guidance avionics mfg) for a few years and know many personally. Enough to build it 'virally'. So short answer: email and assisting the converts to invite others. Of course, the standard tools apply as well, but it's a very small niche for sure.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the market data that will be crowd-sourced, not the size of our user base.

It's a broker's screen. The middle man. Buyers and sellers would never see this. However, the buyer would see the spec that is sent (which is not part of this demo).

The concept demonstrated here is to enter and manage my aircraft for sale and the contacts associated with it (from a broker's perspective)

I agree. Since this was mainly a usability test, it's good to know how horrible an ad bar will be. The message has been loud and clear so far.

...likewise

great points.

We're definitely not going to sacrifice usability for the beer money from adsense. Thanks

yeah, good point. that was a rookie mistake

A CRM for business jet brokers.

While the industry may sound glitzy, multi-million dollar aircraft are most often sold with notepads and 30MB of hi-res email attachments. There are no such things as 'cloud data', 'analytics' or 'mobile apps' in the space and any software that is built for business aviation reeks of 1995.

JetDeck is a modern contact and inventory management application to fix the low-hanging fruit problems in an aircraft broker's day-to-day operations.