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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by double0jimb0 »

siavosh wrote: post #12

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…

Possibly related to our naturally-selected drive that underpins Persistence Hunting[0]? Doesn’t speak to the “irrational” prong of your question, but more along the lines of “past any/all expectation.”

And no idea if anyone has already studied this. I had the thought about this possible connection a few nights ago, funny timing.

(The prevalence of Persistence Hunting in human evolution is still an open debate I believe)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by baddox »

c3534l wrote: post #94
scotty79 wrote: post #79

Apparently manila folders are sheets of stiff paper folded in half. They look like folder icon in windows or other OSes. I have never seen one in real life. :-)

Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.

I don’t know if hour glasses belong in there. Surely those were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed. Also, I would imagine that most young people still have to occasionally interact with envelopes (government stuff, maybe paying some bills) and cylindrical dry batteries (TV remotes, home thermostats).

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by dahart »

schmilk wrote: post #103
SillaDeRuedas wrote: post #95

I can't believe this silly thing is in the frontpage.

It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page. Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker n…

I didn’t downvote, but just to explain what I see here: you used negative value judgements with words like “cringe” and “pretentious”, and then your question assumes that HN articles must be about technology.

It’s worth re-reading the guidelines, because the definition of what’s invited and acceptable here is (and always has been) precisely that which hackers find interesting:

“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, stories don’t get to the front page on their own. They get there when a lot of people upvote them. Since your insults are directed at the people that upvoted this, and are being read by the people that upvoted this and visited the comments section, downvotes are quite predictable. It’s perhaps a good idea to upvote the things you like, and visit those comment sections instead of complaining.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by mkalimani »

lisper wrote: post #85
ishi wrote: post #32

Building paper airplane models was a very popular hobby in Israel (and probably other countries) during the 1960's. Each issue of the Israeli Air Force Journal came with a model which you would painstakingly cut and glue. Here are some examples of what these models looked like: http://starry-side.com/wpe/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/08/ol... Of course, this guy is on a whole different level of detail and dedication (p…

I have PDFs of some of these Israeli model kits. If anyone is interested LMK and I'll post them somewhere.

I'm interested. LMK if you end up posting them. Thanks for sharing.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by nirmalc »

LittlePeter wrote: post #68
zod50 wrote: post #43

Why is this particularly Air India though? Is the Boeing 777 different for other airlines?

I do not know, but my guess is that it is related to the cabin layout. Each airline typically orders a quite specific arrangement of classes and seats which almost surely are unique to an airline. As to why Air India? Maybe he found a detailed 3D model of their chairs and cabin layout? Or maybe their cabin layout is particularly easy to model? Sorry for the drivel, just felt the urge to share my speculation.

He mentions about that here : https://www.ge.com/news/reports/try-this-at-home-this-kid-bu... "I also happened to find the highly-detailed Air India seat map online, which made it easier to design the interior."

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by Causality1 »

detaro wrote: post #105
Causality1 wrote: post #104

It's always struck me as bizarre that it's the convention to refer to length when using the word "scale". When I read it my mind is naturally inclined to think "volume" and I have to remind myself that 1:60 scale does not mean the model is 1/60 the size of the original.

Curious if you feel the same about scale on maps, or does your mental model work differently there?

Not sure. I've never heard someone say or write "this is a 1:50 scale map" or something of the sort.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by scubbo »

coronadisaster wrote: post #118
yreg wrote: post #64

Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite: Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product. http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ The plane model is nice.

Although I don't really like them, http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose ... I have never seen one that bad actually. What I hate most about them is usually the ads, but in that case it is that it doesn't let me read at my pace (which is a lot worst).

> http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose...

Really? I don't like them either, but what's specifically bad about this? It's among the least-bad implementations of a carousel I've seen:

* Next/Previous buttons so I can override the timing

* Auto-progression timer resets when you click next/previous

* Loops round to the beginning when you reach the end and click "next"

* Has a clickable progress-indicator underneath, so you can skip by >1

In fact the only "fault" I can find in it is that I can't swipe left/right on a touchscreen - and that's defensible as a stylistic choice (to prevent accidental motion), given the presence of the next/prev buttons.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by kevingrahl »

caf wrote: post #129
c3534l wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.

Even electric vehicles use the AA style battery metaphor in their UI.

Perhaps not the best example for how abstract something is. The 18650 battery cells that most electric vehicles use looks very similar to an AA battery. You certainly couldn’t tell them apart from an icon.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by saagarjha »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #125
saagarjha wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Apple removed their restrictions on programming languages long ago. If you can get it to run on the platform, you can use it, AFAIK.

No. Apple doesn't natively support Java on iOS, but there is an app called Pico[0], that supposedly acts like a Java IDE. It doesn't seem to be a particularly popular program, but it's the only one I've seen that does it. I don't know if this[1] ever bore fruit. The transcoder Java->ObjC isn't a bad idea. The languages have a lot of similarities. [0] https://apps.apple.com/in/app/pico-compiler-java-compiler-jd... [1]…

Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!
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