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Classical control theory is often sufficient for dealing with changing loads, terrain and wear and tear. Rejecting unknown disturbances is what a control system does. No training i…

http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/ Tutorial: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-teapot-l...

"Our only monetization strategy so far has been LocomotiveHosting. We had big hopes for it, but it has gained little traction and too little interest from our users." http://suckys…

The mayday call from Estonia and the ensuing radio traffic is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cZTEQJ2VQ

Last year someone mentioned an 8 hour recording of Patterns and Conflict that was apparently distributed among some of the participants of Boyd and Beyond 2012. Googling the write-…

It's too bad that the longer audio recordings of Boyd's briefings that exist are stuck in some military or private archive. (I'm not talking about the stuff that's currently availa…

"But they haven’t stopped Swedish entrepreneurs from building giant firms like H&M, Ikea, and Tetra Pak." Look at when the mentioned companies were founded: IKEA - 1943 H&M - 1947 …

The book reads like an extended rant written by a high-schooler on how the system, like, forces you to conform, and stuff. The anecdotes that are given in support of the "thesis" a…

Those of you who think this is a positive review might want to read it again, more carefully this time.

"But the researchers believe that a more refined version of their system could prove useful even at something like its current scale. Armies of mobile cubes could temporarily repai…

"The terms and conditions did not seem to forbid this." Why would they forbid that? Do you realize that you are paying basically nothing for a dedicated server with a 500GB harddri…

20 min interview with the "captain", recorded a month ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bodv2P19Vc

For somewhat less idealistic blog posts on education, Educationrealist is worth reading: http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/2012-in-rev... http://educationrealist.wor…

The differences between the comments posted so far in the two threads seem to illustrate the importance of the submission title.

Emacs-related things I have learned recently: * Sticky modifiers: I don't know why it took me so long for me to activate these. The difference between holding Ctrl while hitting an…

You can export/import views as XML or CSV. The generated XML is UTF-8 encoded and it only has three element types in total for the cells and rows so the structure of the file isn't…

Far from identical, but along similar lines: http://treesheets.com/ "It's like a spreadsheet, immediately familiar, but much more suitable for complex data because it's hierarchica…