roqetman

You can get a taste of that soviet lander towards the end of the (fiction) movie Apollo 18

I used to also wait for all the data before I tried things like this. Then due to "reasons" I actually started meditation, daily, for just 10 minutes. I've now been doing it for 3 years and I have no data to give you, but the effects on me are subtle yet profound. If you can spare 10 minutes a day you still won't have any data, but you'll have an answer.

I've learned to keep a log of all the work I do (so I can search for information on request or if I want to recall something months or even years later), but I just use a specially formatted vim file (that has references to other scripts etc. if needed). More recently I've started a personal version of this to keep me on track with my own app projects. I love the look'n'feel of a physical journal, but it's just not practical in the long run for the work I do.

I guess this would be useful in the case of an apocalypse scenario involving mass EM pulses (assuming anyone is still around to build new computers with OCR to reload the code). Better use good acid-fee paper stored at near-vacuum though.

Absolutely! Confronting the people who are abusing the system is much more effective and doesn't affect the group morale (the general email would effectively punish everyone because of those few). Managers should, y'know, manage.

I wish someone would - they would make a great addition to a discordant soundtrack.

I've taken apart a couple of discarded pianos. The saddest part is cutting the wires with a wire cutter (watch it, they whip outward) - the sound is so mournful and haunting.

How will it get future funding for upkeep etc?

it's only been 3 days. I would hope that apple checks very carefully before they pull an app. False claims can also be made.

Now this is the kind of stuff I love to see on HN!

One indicator to me that an article would be a time-waster (to me) is the "numbered lists" (10 ways to do X etc.) By avoiding those, my quality to waster article ratio has increased.

I wish it were so, but though I hate to be cynical, this has been going on (for me) since the early 90's (back then Microsoft was the one everyone connected to) so I doubt that anything is going to change.

I still get goosebumps when I listen to some of the greetings on the "golden record" and imagine someone out there listening to it one day: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html

Looks like that's what Oracle has been working on lately: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/overview/...