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Maybe I was super lucky or somehow immune.. but as a Kid I got zapped by flyback transformers quite a bit of times.. (5 or 6 times?) It hurts,and it leaves a burn point where it to…

To me, Unit Tests are live documentation for your code. You definitely do not need 100% coverage, but if you can exercise a good percentage of your code, you are making your future…

In my experience, At large companies that hire a lot of contractors, it is not that hard to pull this off. I've seen where the contractors A team do all the interviewing, then you …

Our minds are wired to wonder, recall previous similar situations , associate and predict what is coming.. some minds are more active at this than others. If you want to get some c…

I recently found out that "unfinished" structures in Peruvian emerging towns is by design, as you don't start paying property taxes on a building until is "finished" , leaving it o…

"His buildings are nicknamed cholets, a portmaneau of chalet (a Swiss mountain house) and cholo (derogatory slang for indigenous person)." Just a small comment on the above paragra…

1. This in Peru, far away from FAA's reach ;) 2. No,It must be a camera sync issue.. I was giving it just enough power to keep altitude 3. This was done just for fun.. To prove it …

And one more niche area.. Electric engines do not care about low oxygen, going up and down from coastal areas to high altitude Andes is economically achievable. Going from a place …

Agree with the big benefits for training, specially if you can swap batteries like you do with industrial drones. Other niche area where there would be a great benefit: Remote regi…

Been using mindmaps to keep "knowledge" for years (freemind) best thing ever. The older I get, the more useful they become.

In this case, ships will be heavily loaded on the way down (carrying heavy produce) and lightly loaded on the way up (carrying lighter products like medicine or high value manufact…

How high can this ships go? How Fast? All along the Andes in South America there is a dire need to efficiently move products from high altitude to the coast (where major cities are…

How high can this ships go? How Fast? All along the Andes in south america there is a dire need to efficiently move products from high altitude to the coast (where major cities are…

This brings nice old memories to me.. Some forty some years ago, as a kid, I wrote a morse-to-text decoder program in Basic that took it's input from the audio in port that Tandy's…

Agreed and point taken.. A good MBA's would realize the short sightedness of the actions they are taking (like they should have done in Boeing's case) and good engineers should hav…

I might be biased (I am an engineer) but I call this behaviour " MBA mentality VS Engineer mentality". Is this malady that slowly has infected top engineering firms (Read HP, Boein…

Over here in S.A. there is a common saying: Behind every fortune there is a crime. I guess it is pretty international after all.

So sad, such a genius.

In my experience this is not 100% true. Many times you get involved on OSS to "scratch your own itch" be it a personal project from scratch or collaborating on somebody else OSS pr…

Wow! Looks exactly like the desert of Paracas in Peru. Amazing!

VR Apps (Alt Space and others) can solve most of this issues right now. The soon coming generation of VR googles actually read your face expressions and replicates them online. IMH…

Some fun facts.. Andean Condors in Peru glide from 14'000 ft up in the andes of Pampa Galeras all way the down to sea level at the Guano islands in the coast of Paracas. All to get…

FWIW, the estimated glide ratio of a South American Andean Condor is ~ 12:1 or about what a competition Paraglider does. (Or an old hang glider)

You can point your telescope to any reflection or light (even fluorescent ones) on a room, and the induce vibration will be enough to create a signal to listen.. I accidentally fig…

Fantastic Skydiving vehicle.. If you can get 9 people (+ gear) 12'000ft on a 30 minutes flight, then you can glide all the way down for the next load. at $6 worth of fuel it would …