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Comment #30278211
Thanks for sharing this. I grew up a few miles away from the Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT. and as a kid remember seeing on a couple of occasions some of the experimental helicop…
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Comment #30116344
Yes. The ability to turn features on and off, especially on demand is an important part of the applications and services my team is responsible for. We have a few different levels …
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Comment #29449234
This just recently happened to me with an old eBay account I've had 20+ years. After reading the story in the document above, you could easily search/replace Apple for eBay and it'…
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Comment #29361629
It is the "chief" type roles in a company - CEO, CTO, CFO, COO, CMO, etc.
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Comment #27154088
Wake turbulence was a factor in the crash of AA587 from JFK back in 2001. The FO flying the take off encountered wake turbulence from a 747 that took off just prior and overused th…
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Comment #26208887
Oddly a similar engine incident happened on the same United flight route back in 2016. Apparently it was a bird strike back then. Link: http://avherald.com/h?article=4999bec5
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Comment #25829882
I knew about the story of Phil Katz having read this article before and was also a user back in the day, but just recently watched the movie 'Leaving Las Vegas'. Reading the PK art…
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Comment #25248797
Ok, thanks. I set what I thought was a username during signup but looks like that was just the name. I see now there's a second step going to https://spacehey.com/settings and the …
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Comment #25247802
The original myspace used the profile name for URLs - https://myspace.com/some_name - maybe the reboot will eventually. I tried with mine and it was a 404.
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Comment #24854028
Maybe, I'm being somewhat superficial but I can't help to wonder that the name of the company/app "Quibi" only hurt their launch and not helped aside from other factors pointed out…
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Comment #24705312
One aspect of Eddie's playing that rarely gets mentioned was his rhythm and chord playing. His chordal phrasings and how he could make a song sound huge for just a single guitarist…
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Comment #23752694
One of my favorites from his Edna character. "Edna: Which of the following would you most prefer? A puppy, a pretty flower from your sweetie, or a large, properly formatted datafil…
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Comment #23554257
I'm also in the GitHub as a tool vs. social app camp and have rarely if ever had the inclination to visit the daily trending page (cue Pete Davidson - "my bad"). One feature I do l…
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Comment #23546995
Looks great man. Once you have your main board set (like you do), don't forget to think outside the board you've built to add things like a wah and volume pedal. For me these have …
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Comment #23075524
> Don't write unit tests. Don't accept pull requests. Simply write software for yourself and have fun doing it. There's a careful balance here though right? For most projects your …
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Comment #22920622
First off, I'm so sorry to hear that you've been diagnosed with this condition. I haven't read through any of the replies to your question aside from a quick read through, so I'm s…
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Comment #22755154
Are there other sources you're using besides LinkedIn? I ask because every job listing I clicked on is taking me to LinkedIn as the next step to learn more details and apply. I rea…
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Comment #22519074
Yes, absolutely, every day. Revision history really is a critical part of the development and code review process. My team uses Git/GitHub and for me using diffs across previous co…
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Comment #22016046
"The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time It's the only return that you expect". - Neil Peart, The …
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Comment #21116342
Something that has helped me with recognizing incremental progress on long running side and personal projects where completion seems so far off is relating it to the crawler vehicl…
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Comment #20854234
I was at an Air Show at the old Willow Grove NAS in Pennsylvania when I was a kid and there was a Navy S3 Viking Jet set as a ground display. They were allowing people time where y…
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Comment #20650337
I've been using http://zaa.ch/jsonlint/ for a while. Does validation and formatting. All in browser.