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gao8a··on NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan
Heck, IBM is 100+ lol
gao8a··on Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
I believe there are exceptions like the "Combat Engineer" in the Canadian Forces.
gao8a··on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
How to win friends and influence people: It's a book of common sense; and made me realize how little common sense I had.

Stranger in a Strange land: "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

gao8a··on New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
I was looking at purchasing laptop but then I saw this: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-briefly-teases-new-XPS-13....

Does this mean a newer version of this will be out in a few months?

gao8a··on Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
Does anyone know if this will support egpu?
gao8a··on Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
Helping out with a profs side project
gao8a··on The Daring Life of a Forgotten Female War Photographer
In some cases ammunition is the limiting factor https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/24/buying-sellin...
gao8a··on Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
Something I didn't know until recently is how much better the wages are for Canadians that work as contractors to large companies/banks that bill to their own companies. I understand that this is probably out of reach to younger folks with no experience but finally realized the appeal of a contractor here.
gao8a··on Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
ng-wat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU

We need more stand up comedians as presenters

gao8a··on The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a reason
I feel like drinking unpurified water out of desperation is a tale you'll eventually hear from people that've been outdoors a lot. It will either end unpleasantly or with extreme emphasis on how lucky they were that it didn't end unpleasantly.
gao8a··on JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this
gao8a··on I have to move back to PR, what should I bring?
Definitely a multitool like a leatherman. I wish there was a check-in just for multitools on a plane since thats the only thing I can't bring with a carry-on. Obtaining a quality multitool in some countries can be hard/expensive.
gao8a··on Chester Bennington: Linkin Park vocalist 'took his own life'
Rest in peace. I regret never going out to see them live because I wasn't a fan of their albums past Minutes to Midnight :(
gao8a··on Ask HN: What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?
- If a decision comes down to either not having enough time or not having enough money, rest assure there will never be a sweet-spot where you will have both.

- Always take into consideration mental health cost. Your commute, your work, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Debt in this area is unpredictable and therefore dangerous in the long run.

- No one has it figured out. Youth will always be wasted by the youth.

Good luck.

gao8a··on Ask HN: Good public speaking course/resources?
I too recommend Toastmasters, without repeating what's been said, see it as a place to experiment different styles of speaking and a cheap place to fail. I would perhaps not start at a corporate toastmasters at first but a local community one. Also look into Advanced clubs where everyone is very driven about improving. Giving productive feedback through their evaluation program is also a useful skill.

On practise: I don't recall who or which podcast I heard this from but even professional comedians practise a lot. There was a metric of practising minimum an hour for every minute of your speech/act. It's not all about brute memorization, its the fine tuning of little things that make the delivery amazing.

On fear: Even the best still get butterflies. Public speaking is said to be very counterintuitive to our survival instincts since you expose a lot about yourself to a large group of people. Practise lets you manage that fear and fosters more confidence.

I think you'll learn a lot about speaking, and entertainment in general and will gain appreciation for good presentations.

Finally, you'll realize you won't reach out to everyone in your audience. In an average technical presentation, if 25% of my audience felt the content was too complicated, 25% too easy, but 50% just right, then I've succeeded.

Best of luck!

*Edit: typo

gao8a··on Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
These shots are outstanding, I can make out very familiar glacial features (carved by solid nitrogen!)
gao8a··on The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV
We use the MILCOT (Silverado) here in Canada, though the G-wagen serves a similar role b.c its so lightly armored.
gao8a··on The Globe in 3D
They also made the awesome Carl G: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_recoilless_rifle
gao8a··on Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?

  High Flight
  By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
  Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
  Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
  You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
  High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
  I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
  My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

  Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
  I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
  Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
  And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
  The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
  Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
gao8a··on Show HN: Infinite Loop – simple, free game for mobile and web
Very eloquently designed, glad you didn't add any music. Keep it up!
gao8a··on Awesome-C: A curated list of awesome C frameworks, libraries, resources
Don't forget ArnoldC :) https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
gao8a··on Ask HN: Tips on starting developing project?
Very cliche suggestion, but just start.

Keep adding to it. You're gonna for sure write bad code thats going to be trashed, but keep working at it. The whole project might even be trashed but such is the expense of a creative.

Code, ship, fail(or succeed!), repeat.

gao8a··on The Spirit of the 1914 Christmas Truce
UEFA also created a powerful piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYv6dHy5TJE
gao8a··on Making a brain for my model plane
Very cool project and website design!

Which shop did you use to print the PCBs and how much did each of them cost?

gao8a··on The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home
I wish it could make this into 100% :)

http://www.80percentarms.com/products/0-billet-ar-15-lower-r...

gao8a··on Who Made That Paintball?
BB's are mostly propelled by a pocket of air from the chamber and typically backspun via hop-up, while i'd say most paintball markers are launched by a physical bolt slamming into the paintball and driven out of the barrel normally (with the exception of tippmann's flatline barrel)

Psychology and this whole milsim thing aside, some of the tech driving the airsoft/paintball 'guns' reflect their country of origin.

In asia, access to HPA/co2 tanks isn't has widespread as North america, hence a lot of the gas guns are powered via common consumer sources like propane and duster gas.

Airsoft guns that use a MCU (most built on top of MOSFET units) has only recently appeared in airsoft, while pretty much every electronic paintball gun has been the case since the 90's (mostly due to solenoid control), which is also a huge factor to the design.

gao8a··on Who Made That Paintball?
Anyone notice a downfall of paintball after the 2008 recession? I think that era was the peak in terms of innovation and public participation (I'm pretty sure NPPL was broadcasted on ESPN/Fox).
gao8a··on CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician
Couldn't agree more. Crazy how he had setup his own payment system for his merc in an age before paypal, and the good ethics toward other artists
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