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This illustration is missing a layer. Buried down in the silt, under the abyssal plane at the bottom of the ocean.. Ken Thompson.

Just yesterday I was working with a data storage system that uses 6 bit bytes organized into 12 bit words. Haha, this is one of many 6 bit byte systems still used in aviation every…

It's still around, they just changed the name. And it's still a boondoggle.

It is. The story of modern GIS systems is mostly about figuring out who dumped what into a river.

His book Insanely Great has more info on PARC, although only through the lens of the development of the Macintosh.

This is very good advice, even though 95% of the people who hear it will still think they're special and don't need to learn their craft before jumping into cool stuff. The thing I…

A cable winch like they use with sailplanes would work really well for this.

From a 30s plan, or something more modern?

There's something about the moving starfield in that game...

Oh man... Derek is an interesting guy. He hired me to do encoding and distribution -- both the business and software sides. I did ok with the software (except for ~2006 Ruby GC unk…

The day I got georeferenced, shaded, 3d terrain working for a synthetic vision system, singlehanded, in bare OpenGL ES 2.0. Friend of mine at work took my picture seconds after I g…

I've worked on safety critical software, for a couple different companies. Code quality is a very real problem. One company, the guy in charge of software was a CE, who would have …

Given what most of those machines were used for, and their scarcity, this has to be the holy grail of data recovery.

Heinlein's 'Year of the Jackpot' is a rumination on this topic.

I've worked at a couple different companies that made safety critical software, and I have to agree with joezedeco. Dav3xor's Law -- Code Quality is Inversely Proportional to Risk.…

Some of the break rooms where I work have a computer you can do searches on. There are some Google image searches that just shine like diamonds. Most of them are somehow PBS relate…

One could say Alan Kay is still around, much like one could say giant redwood and sequoia trees are 'still around'. Always glad to see someone discover one of the greats. :) (edit)…

Not every architecture has an FPU, and doing floating point in software is obviously pretty slow.

Sure, absolutely. Just wanted to point out that the article isn't very sophisticated.

If you're iterating over all your points calculating distances, you are going about this the wrong way. (edit) The author could use my handy python quad tree if he so wishes -- htt…

And for people who've never been to San Francisco -- this bridge is a huge huge thing, and any problems with it are a very big deal.

Hehe, more suited to my chaotic (yet very mild) local weather. A pictograph doesn't show the forecaster's confidence in what it portrays.

curl http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/PQR/AFDPQR | less

I wrote one too -- putting all that clutter under the primary flight instruments (airspeed/altitude/heading/etc) was always a compromise, and probably not terribly helpful. Looks s…