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This already exists and is used in much of the US and extensively in Europe for airlines. Look up Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC).

I wasn't quite a software engineer, but a data analyst/scientist/engineer/term-du-jour at a brand-ish name software company for ~8 years, so pretty close in terms of the day-to-day…

I actually sort of did this (but I cut them w/ a CNC router rather than 3D printing them). https://imgur.com/a/fMy19 is the finished product; http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15245…

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The next two parts will have more detail, but the short answer is "yes" to both a raw word list and a Bayesian filter in terms of techniques we've tried here. One of the simplifyin…

A couple of weeks, probably, depending on how much I feel like working on it. It was designed to be modular and easily extracted, but still needs some cleanup work and has a few na…

Briefly, probably not (everyone here at 37signals got treated to a 3000 word treatise on our statsd journey a few weeks ago). I did write up a few reasons at https://github.com/noa…

Definitely. There's a teaser screenshot of Flyash (the big, reusable chunk of our dashboard) towards the bottom of http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3091-pssst-your-rails-applica... (…

We don't use the same backend as Etsy's original implementation, but you should be able to take any script, etc. that emits statsd measurements for use with the original implementa…

(I work for 37signals and wrote batsd) This is really just one piece in a bigger set of things to track performance, usage, etc. You can think of it as: Emitters --> Statsd (or in …

(I work at 37signals, though not as a sysadmin or developer) Just to clarify - we do have a 24/7 on-call system administrator who is the first line of defense for when things go wr…

This is the second long-form piece about Caro and his new book I've seen this week (the other is in tomorrow's New York Times magazine - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/…

(author of the original post) I'm not aware of anyone offering it as a service, and I don't know how well it would work. Since it's all UDP, there's risk of data loss. We experienc…

Absolutely no offense taken, and I actually share your desire to avoid KoolAid drinking. Every post should be evaluated on it's merits, and while I can only speak for myself, I hop…

(I'm the author of the original post, and obviously I work at 37signals, so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt.) Why do posts make it to the front page? Because enou…

Sure, small A/B testing will probably only get you to a local maxima. I've never understood why most people think A/B testing is just about changing the color of a button -- it's t…

(I work at 37signals) Our test logs in, causes some data to be fetched from the database, and renders a page which we then check against what it should return. We haven’t (to date)…

I have a similar answer - I'm a data analyst at a company full of rubyists. I can (and do) use R for most of my analyses, but there's a cost in transparency -- I can't realisticall…

R -- http://groups.google.com/group/rrook/browse_thread/thread/33... (although detect isn't really the case, but run certainly is)