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Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by brandnewlow »

jacquesm wrote: post #25
brandnewlow wrote: post #23

You need to round up a voting posse to help push your stories up onto the front page. Doesn't take much, just 1-2 HN users who like your stuff and will toss you a few votes when something goes up. Edit: Of course they need to be people who really like your stuff. Not suggesting he game HN, just that he let fans know when there's a post they can check out.

It would be a very sad thing if that's what it took to get stories to the front page. Unfortunately it seems that quite a few people have adopted your 'tactic', I always find it a little suspicious when links have been posted literally minutes ago and already have 3-5 upvotes without any comments, especially if they then scroll off the new page without receiving further upvotes. My guess is that those are simply sock…

Sock puppets are bad. I'm not advocating that at all.

What I'm saying is that the OP should take note of some of the people who dig what he's doing here and let them know next time he has a post on HN.

I like voting for good stuff and helping to promote interesting links on HN. When people who's stuff I like post new stories, they let me know, and I'm glad for it.

Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by kylemathews »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #35
kylemathews wrote: post #34

This is really just the black swan problem. You can't predict unpredictable problems. The only real solution is to stay agile.

Agile really, really doesn't work with systems like torpedos. Or with hardware in general. Or with many types of security systems.

Sorry -- agile was the wrong weird to use. I didn't mean agile as in loose engineering standards -- I meant agile as in "ability to react quickly and decisively to unexpected events". You can't possibly plan for every contingency, as the story proved, so it's crucial that your organization can quickly and easily fix problems as they come up. This has implications for both engineering and people systems. OODA loop is a better description of what I was thinking of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop).

So having modular, cleanly separated subsystems would matter as much for hardware as for software.

Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by gridspy »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #30
ynniv wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that you can quickly add a commenting system to static sites with disqus.com. I would also consider adding Google Analytics or piwik.org to better understand the hits you are getting.

I'll look at those over the weekend - thanks.

Consider some sort of email or twitter list where you can notify us of new posts and politely ask us to upvote you.

Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by pronoiac »

kylemathews wrote: post #42
RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agile really, really doesn't work with systems like torpedos. Or with hardware in general. Or with many types of security systems.

Sorry -- agile was the wrong weird to use. I didn't mean agile as in loose engineering standards -- I meant agile as in "ability to react quickly and decisively to unexpected events". You can't possibly plan for every contingency, as the story proved, so it's crucial that your organization can quickly and easily fix problems as they come up. This has implications for both engineering and people systems. OODA loop is…

Ah. "Adaptable."

Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by balding_n_tired »

If the sub sank with loss of all hands--not unlikely if a torpedo went off in the tube--how did anyone know about this? A hell of a lot of submarines never came back to base in WW II, and in most cases a) there were no survivors, b) very little debris seen.

I also wonder about the basis of the story. The USS Tang was sunk by its own torpedo in October 1944. That leaves about 8 months for the changed torpedoes to operate.

Re: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

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Post by pvandehaar »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #10
shaunxcode wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what its worth I just read all three and really dug them! It might help to use a more regular blog format so people can post comments?

When I get back from my meeting I'll put links on them back to here - thanks for the idea. I should've thought of that.

Also add a link to "Archives" (http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/)
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