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Someone get this guy a job at Boeing. He seems like a better engineer than some of the people making real planes.
What do you have against him? After having worked at Boeing for 35 years, I would never recommend it to anyone I cared about.
Why is this particularly Air India though? Is the Boeing 777 different for other airlines?
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What do you have against him? After having worked at Boeing for 35 years, I would never recommend it to anyone I cared about.
Why did you work there for so long if you despise it so?
Same with IBM: they used to be great back in the day, but now I won't join them (except maybe if I were an IC manufacturing or quantum computing specialist, and the position were in IBM Research).
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I have not run Java on iPhone (that I know of). Do you know if it will pass the App Store review?
I'm first transcoding the Java code into Objective-C code with a Java to Objective-C transcoder that I wrote for fun. Google has their own Java To Objective-C transcoder, though I've never used it.
What a nightmare.
You have cool hobbies.
vector art layout step is surprisingly manual! I wonder if there's a market for a CAD tool that focuses on creating 2D cutouts for 3D models
I've used OpenSCAD to design simple 3D models and then used Pepakura to unfold them into flat designs. Manually cutting the designs is slow painstaking work. I eventually purchased a Cricut to cut the pieces out, but it's ability to cut shapes to a very specific scale is lacking. So, I find myself not having created very much.
The level of detail, thought, and painstaking effort behind creating this model is incredible. I imagine it was a fun or cathartic hobby for this person, but man when you think of what else they could have accomplished with a similar level of effort. They could be in a substantially better place financially, which probably would have been more valuable to them personally. If not, then by all means it is time well spe…
Request - any books/articles anyone can recommend on the human mind's instinctive need to become obsessed with something? Periodically, like many others, my mind becomes obsessed with something and I need to learn/build until it ceases to be interesting which can range from days to years. Like hoarding, I think there's probably an evolutionary drive in this, but curious if there are good resources to better understan…
And this famous quote from that book:
> “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility."
Edit: before the book was the New Yorker article, if you want to “try before you buy” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever