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Re:Airplanes Can Now Take Off and Land With GPS. Will Flights Be Faster?
on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @04:28PM (#3568578)
Great news, though the headline is kind of weird.
GPS-only RNAV STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) have been in use for some time.
The "next gen" technologies referred to in the article involve a lot more than just GPS improvements (such as WAAS and publishing more RNAV GPS approaches annually). They include new ground radar for automated taxi operations, a replacement of traditional transponder-based aircraft separation, redesigning ATIS and weather reporting, and an overall push to standardize all ATC data -- ultimately getting more real-time data into cockpit avionics.
Re:FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types
on Monday January 16, 2012 @11:04PM (#3473701)
http://arpnetworks.com/
I was a customer for several months and the level of service was very good. Good peering, too.
Re:Warping (domain distortion)
on Sunday January 08, 2012 @02:47PM (#3440324)
This guy's site is full of fascinating stuff. Check it out.
Re:The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
on Monday January 02, 2012 @04:05PM (#3417344)
Retail political and topographic maps are a relatively small part of the work load of most cartographic studios.
Forestry and petroleum exploration require constant updating and presentation techniques.
Precipitation and drainage maps are extremely useful in agriculture.
Aviation section charts are updated quarterly.
Most vineyards, large farms, and ranches have probably had custom mapping done at some point.
It's actually a pretty fascinating field when you appreciate the breadth of data that is regularly correlated to maps.
Re:The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
on Monday January 02, 2012 @03:05PM (#3417109)
Heh. Turns out Benchmark and Raven maps use the same studio to produce their maps.
Re:The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
on Monday January 02, 2012 @01:45PM (#3416847)
What do you think of Raven Maps? Their state maps are more topographic but offer excellent detail.
Re:Here is Godaddy’s statement in support of SOPA
on Friday December 23, 2011 @04:22AM (#3385189)
As a high school student in 1988, I interviewed with Bob's previous company, Parsons Technology, for an after-school customer support position.
At that time Parsons Technology was known primarily as the publisher of a personal finance program called MoneyCounts, but they also released a formidable catalog of Bible-related software.
Much to my dismay, the interview process was heavily skewed toward determining how much of a believer I was and ran into all manner of private territory.
I did briefly meet Bob -- just a handshake and he was gone.
Very little of my computer experience was discussed and by the end of the rushed interview I was given complimentary copies of Parsons Technology Bible-related software.
I drove away from that interview disappointed and tricked.
Obviously you can't jump to conclusions from anecdotal data, but I wanted to share this experience and my personal opinion that Bob Parsons is an intensely self-righteous and dogmatic fellow.
Anyway, from my early experience with his first company, to his bizarre and narcissistic elephant hunt, GoDaddy's obnoxious objectification of women, and now SOPA... I've always felt the guy is just sort of twisted and unsavory.
One man's view only.
Re:Regretsy Issue Resolution
on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @02:13PM (#3320524)
He looks like a really nice guy.
Re:CLI curses based monitoring tools
on Sunday December 04, 2011 @04:39PM (#3311920)
If you're into manual monitoring like this, check out
https://github.com/hcooper/sarplot
Its only dependency (beyond enabling sar) is gnuplot.
Re:Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
on Monday November 28, 2011 @02:03PM (#3287119)
virtualenv can't isolate your system's package util like it can isolate pip.
Netflix Admits Problems With Desperate Cash Grab
Re:Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
on Friday October 28, 2011 @12:42PM (#3168977)
Perfect way to close out shark jumping week.
Re:John McCarthy Has Died
on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:43PM (#3152111)
Is there any way to implement these memorial black bars in a way that doesn't break the mobile HN apps? I assume they're scraping.
Re:FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 Available...
on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:17AM (#3148713)
Re:The Setup: Zed Shaw
on Saturday October 22, 2011 @03:37AM (#3143096)
Wow. Thanks for the Reaper tip.
Very impressive effort there, and for $60... Nuts!
Re:Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70
on Friday October 14, 2011 @03:40AM (#3110386)
An obituary for Dennis Ritchie in The New York Times isn't written for people like you or me.
In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and technology totally distorted by the media every time there's an incident of some kind. :)
Re:Court order seeks email of Wikileaks volunteer Jake Appelbaum
on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:40AM (#3093706)
> a self-employed American engineer unable to get even basic health insurance
Why is that?
Re:Show HN: My network connection monitor for Mac
on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:19AM (#3092475)
Fantastic. Thank you for that.
Re:A New Flavor... Still Delicious
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @03:57AM (#3042320)
I'm asking as a potential user of Pinboard because I don't care much for the new Delicious.
How was that confusing?
Re:A New Flavor... Still Delicious
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @03:52AM (#3042307)
Does Pinboard show you how many others bookmarked the same link, including the usernames?
It's nice when a bookmarking service can be a discovery tool itself.
Re:A First Look at BankSimple
on Thursday September 22, 2011 @03:39AM (#3025236)
I'm a USAA account holder and it is very true: you cannot take advantage of iPhone deposits unless you are military or family. Same goes for most of their insurance products.
Re:PG's Rarely Asked Questions
on Monday September 19, 2011 @06:29AM (#3013010)
This was one of my favorite college texts. I'm really disappointed that I'd forgotten about it until your comment. Thanks.
Re:OpenShift by Red Hat
on Friday September 16, 2011 @04:32AM (#3003657)
Bizarre.
Re:5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you
on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:28AM (#3003512)
Yeah, that's true. But my environment is such that any one of 100 or so app servers has a significantly lower chance of running out of memory than the Redis server does.
The 0MQ high water mark is set high enough so that it's virtually impossible not to fix a broken DB by the time messages on the client side create an OOM condition being queued in memory.
Re:5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you
on Friday September 16, 2011 @01:55AM (#3003336)
Good example of a real situation you always end up facing at some point. Why I use ZeroMQ when logging or queueing with Redis.
Re:Netflix stock plunges as subscribers quit
on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:49PM (#3002059)
That's a lot easier when you're a year or more behind following a television series.
Re:From $0-100million with no sales people. Atlassian's commandments f...
on Thursday September 15, 2011 @02:41PM (#3001538)
The Greenhopper acquisition was pretty slick.
What used to be (I think) a $700 plugin now adds $2,000 to the annual maintenance cost of JIRA.
Re:Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down
on Thursday September 08, 2011 @06:37PM (#2975967)
or licensing it?
Re:If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @04:35AM (#2919965)
Once the fruits of someone else's labor is a concern, you've lost.
Stay interested and keep working hard.
We're people who build things.
Our fortune is a natural one -- not money and not even respect.
It's that we are getting paid to learn new things every single day.