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Get a lot of high power projectors, creating 3d models of the building, animate parts of the 3d models, and project it into the 2d plane of the building. See this video for additional reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHfa03XzaM

Indeed, the current autopilot implemented has the initial "proportional controller" feedback loop, which only stabilizes the flight vehicle, which is a crucial first step to building a guidance system on top of that.

I do think that the best engineering ethos that I admire is that engineers are not just motivated by a payday but to build something useful for everyone. HP at its best time represented that. I do like that his quote at the end:

"Companies should not merely be thought of as money generating machines. Business can represent human society at its best. A business is a group of people working together to deliver value to the world and improve people’s lives. When done ethically, business quite literally changes the world for the better. However, if the dark side of human motivation is not mitigated with standards and ethics, business can destroy."

Thanks! Not a bad solution, though not a perfect. I just search some of the newest HN entry. It seems to have a 2-3 hour lag to crawl and update to the latest post.

Yeah, the birds was quite striking. It reminded of a similar effort that was written in Processing by Robert Hodgin. http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=81 If I recall, certain parts of Processing was ported to javascript for the express purpose of animating HTML canvas.

From my impression of this article, detailing a former executive's proscription to saving Nokia, Nokia has very bureaucratic and change-adverse middle management layer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/nokia_manifesto_risk...

An article worth reading for a lot of astute observations. Andy doesn't shy away from making painful points. One of his more striking quotes:

"But what kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work -- and masses of unemployed?"

(Actually, my guess is the over-dependency of faith of individual meritocracy will cause us to miss the deeper structural problems that Grove is pointing to.)

EDIT: (Anedoctal single point of data with limited context), My friend worked in a Battery startup company in the Silicon Valley. After the initial design phase, the VCs and management decided not scale up into manufacturing, they rather lay most people off and sell the design.

Well said, alnayyir. I eventually fixed the script, and also endded up running a dual boot Ubuntu install. But, my experience with other more mature languages like Java and Ruby do not involve that level of pain and time. Like joe_the_user said, getting Clojure to function easily in multiple-platform will only help Clojure's credibility.

(In some ways, the very expressiveness of LISP creates a this cacophony of ways to do things, but that's a post for another day....)

This article definitely speaks to my experience starting in Clojure. Lots of the Clojure pioneers seem to develop in Unix environment like Linux or OSX. A lot of times, their unix shell build scripts are not directly portable to Window's cygwin. Yikes.

That being said, with a lot of the Clojure IDE plugins and build system reaching usable maturity, the n00b experience has gotten a lot better than when I started a year ago. So, keep up the good works, guys....

Yeah, interesting how everything in the clip suggest speed. The music, the quick cut, starship Enterprise hitting warp.

The fascinating part for me is toward the end of the article where he talked about the 2005 Playchess.com competition, in which teams of humans are free to use computers to compete in Chess. To everyone's surprise, a team of amateurs with 3 cheap computer won against both stand-alone computers and Grandmasters with state-of-the art computers.

His take away message: "Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process".

I see this trend going on in AI for the long time, where the best use of development goes to augmenting human intelligence rather than supplanting it.

I actually sympathize with Geithner. You have to look at Geithner's approach from a system design point of view. All things being equal, financial instruments will prefer less regulation over more. As other areas of the financial system become more regulated, he has to be mindful of the money will just flow to unregulated areas.

An analogy would be like squeezing a circus balloon on one end, and unless there's equal pressure all around, the other sides will just expand.