johlindenbaum

Define short trial period. <14 days?

Somethine something, Hunger Games Tracker Jacker wasps.

Can't wait to see this in action.

What a terrible product website.

After being on a team that was launching cube sats with old ICBMs this reusable launch platform for science excites me!

Looks nice, would like to see cavirtex exchange.

Am I reading the graphs correctly that it states that in 3 days OP only used Chrome and Gmail for roughly 9 minutes each? Yeah... don't use your phone, and OH MY GOSH, the charge lasts forever!

I'll have to try and find the article, this was years ago, but there was a study about people just tapping their brakes lightly that would cause the person behind to do the same, a little longer, etc. etc. that would cause a big traffic jam over time. The study calculated some figure that showed if people just kept their distance up to the person in front, and instead of lightly tapping the brake as a reaction to a merge, and just let the car idle a bit to slowly decelerate, you could reduce traffic slows / jams by a lot. This seems more reasonable than the solutions presented by this article, don't let people merge.. really?

This is an incredibly cool concept.

Few questions. Is Grasshopper intended to be a vehicle that ships a payload into a low earth orbit and return itself back to the launch pad?

With that, a question of descent, once it's reached orbit and released its payload, would it re-enter with a short burn towards its earthly destination, decelerate with, say, parachutes, and then do its final descent onto the pad with the rocket? I can't see it doing its entire descent with a rocket, that would use so much fuel, and require so much extra weight.

Sets the tone of legitimacy for the article. OP can't be trusted. :P

No I'm in a western province in Canada. Most government or publicly traded companies here have massive unions that represent the majority of the work force, including programmers.

The company I works for has a great solution to that, it allows people that want/deserve to move into management paybands (they leave the union), but stay in their technical roles. The become managers without direct reports. Career / Pay advance, without having to take on managerial responsibilities.

There's an application that lets you lock individual applications, but which should allow you to unlock it with dictation, as the rest of the OS is still working. Mac App Blocker (http://knewsense.com/macappblocker/)

There's also QuickLock which was/is a workaround to lock OS X quickly without using the screen saver + immediate password requirement. http://www.quicklockapp.com/

Note: I haven't used either, I'm just googling and looking at videos.

I love that even if the display is in 12 hours, I can type in a 24 hour value and it'll understand and format it correctly.

Sort of relevant: In Canada the word "Engineer" is protected. While I am a Computer Scientist, I can not call myself a Software Engineer (or any form of Engineer), unlike in the US. In Canada you must have graduated from an Engineering College of a University to use the title.