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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:01AM (#14171285)
Since ejection wouldn't be feasible, wonder if an undercarriage airbag, perhaps like bumper rails to keep weight down and work around landing gear, would be effective in a crash?
Re:Data Structure Visualizations on Sunday April 09, 2017 @12:34PM (#14073058)
This would be nice if it had predefined routines to run through, preferably from a plaintext, line-separated textarea.

For example:

  insert value
  insert value
  insert value
  delete value
  insert value
  insert value
  find   value
  insert value
That way, if someone just wanted to see how the data structure worked, they could step through an existing routine. Others, who may want to validate their own routines match the expected output, can add and edit the routine parameters all at once.

You may want to prefill some fields because it may not be clear to everyone what value is expected in the input box.

Neat project. Thanks for sharing!

Re:Unkown Unknowns: Why you should release early on Saturday April 08, 2017 @08:05PM (#14069765)
I used to agree with this but it's unlikely a MVP will get enough traction to truly damage a software brand. Of course, this depends on the medium (computer software [harder to update] vs website service) and target audience (investor vs public) and if your audience understands it's a MVP.

Question is: should a user come by your MVP now or in six months when it's "done"? The earlier people see your product and not like it, the earlier you can hone it for future users. Plus, a final version could be rebranded if the MVP was that bad.

Granted, I fell into this trap with my website. I kept putting it's release off and now am learning how to refine it as I see how it's used by others.

For instance, I thought the news section of my site (http://www.survivalscout.com/news) would be really popular but almost no one visits it. It's my favorite part but I seem to be in the minority according to the logs. If I had known that earlier, I may have spent less time making it.

Re:Show HN: Survivalscout.com – Outdoor survival guides on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:51AM (#14047993)
- I plan to add offline-mode when I enable user accounts. It will behave more or less like an app when you save guides for offline access

- Most the images are from military manuals that I cleaned up

Appreciate you taking a look

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:20PM (#14038574)
Where can I read more about your SDR project? Is it a transceiver or just for monitoring communications? I'm a HAM (KK6BXK) and starting a website (http://www.survivalscout.com) that plans to cover this type of stuff. I try to link out to neat projects like this
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:32PM (#14034507)
Interesting idea. I used to watch Berkeley webcast videos at 1.5x to shave off ~30 minutes from a 90 minute lecture. Any faster wouldn't be intelligible.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:15PM (#14034275)
Outdoor survival guides

http://www.survivalscout.com

Came here to say this.

This comic is the perfect explanation of interrupting the thought process.

Re:Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:55PM (#13842513)
This is what the Marine's teach when they abandon ship http://www.survivalscout.com/guides/terrain/ocean/abandoning...

Basically cross your arms, legs and look forward

Re:What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make? on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:22PM (#13841245)
... or start your own
Re:How to never complete anything on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:28AM (#13839773)
I can relate to this. I created several products that I never launched. Now that I look back, I wish I hadn't been so reluctant to publishing them. Granted, I learned a lot but I wish I launched early and often to get over the psychological hurdle. Most people don't really care about your project anyway.

I finally bit the bullet and launched http://www.survivalscout.com in January. It's a definitely whole new set of challenges going from coding to trying to market and sell your project.

Re:Ask HN: How much did you pay for your brand identity? on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:07PM (#13813547)
I had an idea for a survival/outdoor/science themed website years ago. Brainstormed some names, found something available and bought http://www.survivalscout.com for $13 (and http://www.srvlsct.com for another $13). Worth it so far.
Over the past couple years I worked on a typed Python-like language with it's own bytecode, cpython-like runtime and memory manager (all in C). To test the runtime and mm, I wrote a webserver with it which runs my website at http://www.survivalscout.com. Eventually I'd like to build an unified operating system and CPU.