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It's a veritable KSP gallery in there.

Inb4 congress tries to pass a law prohibiting them because they can be used by villains to defeat LEO's spike strips.

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Companies that want you in their office will say you're missing out. Investors who want you to hire and raise from the area will say you're missing out. But these things are only as important as you make them.

I will say that the weather is nice in much of the bay, SF has (I think) one of the highest young single populations in the world which can make for an interesting time, and there are many events that take place that could help your business but a plane ticket can rectify that.

This is brilliant. One of those things that seem obvious once presented.

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wow, what horrible color choices. Totally missed it.

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Masterful use of contrast and texture. Data vis can stand to have more of this.

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Normally you'll only see that behavior if you eavesdrop at a coffee shop, visit some startup's office (not all are like this), end up working in a co-working space, or couch surfing at a hacker hostel of some sort (these are normally whipped together by 4+ people renting a giant house and trying to split rent).

Visit the bay area, enjoy the good food. Find a way to head into any of the surrounding hills for a nice hike. Visit the computer museum. Have some coffee at the Philz on Middlefield Road. Enjoy your time there.

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If you drink good coffee it's amazing all by itself.

Impressive, nice work!

Novel way to approach this problem. On projects in the past I just kept a table of optimal angles (given the boat's performance characteristics) and when there is significant overlap I adjusted the velocity. This approach does a better job approximating wind though.

It is not often I find an article written about true design. Great read/conclusion.

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I am compelled to reply to this because I feel that this is an example of the material being written that confuses the understanding and application of design. Your post mentions several things that can and should constitute a good design but your understanding of it all is highlighted by this single line, "By itself design is art". Sorry, but art is art. Design is a solution or plan to solve a problem. Art can be a part of this as can graphic design, illustration, copy writing, great interactions etc. But know that design is driven by constraints and results, it should be circumspect and in the end effective.

I will point out that you are right when you say that the underlying business goals are more important than the artwork or style that tries to facilitate it, and fundamentally all efforts should be directed to make them a success.

On the matter of RFPs which this article is about honing, well that is a tirade for another day...

TLDR: Design != something's aesthetic, its a solution or plan to solve a problem and in order for it to be good it must be effective. Please do not confuse art and design. It only confuses engineers, budding designers, illustrators, and anyone who may be looking to hire a skilled designer.

http://cl.ly/image/3Z2I3r051J0O <- Simple Memory Map of the C64, those were the days!

I bought a mint C64 off of ebay last year, included was it's original Programmer's Reference. It immediately had me missing the afternoons where the limited functionality and simplicity of it all invited you to peek and poke your way around the system trying to coax music and art out of the hardware. Even people who weren't 'savvy' understood this, ex: in the 6th grade our librarian gave us simple programs to type in and encouraged us to change it.

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I've paid for it. This editor works well, he can take my money.

It's excellent that you'd do that for him, and he was curious/receptive enough to ask and step through it all. So many times I've seen people stay ignorant to save face.

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There are some old coastal defense bunkers/stations along the SF coastline that were used for the same techniques. Except rather than a small rangefinder station each location would act as one eye in a network to provide even greater accuracy.

TLDR Stereo vision FTW...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_end_station

I registered for the selective service and all of that, and it never really crossed my mind. 12 years later, the act seems alarmingly misandristic. It also makes me wonder if any feminists are fighting to have this law updated to include all citizens and not just males...