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This = awesome. And hilariously true. :)

I want to go check it out too, and I'm all the way out in SF!

Leave it to the economist to write the best obituary. RIP.

Love it. Couldn't live without it now that I'm used to it. Wish iOS allowed direct control of screen settings also.

Thanks for the post, Abby!

Cool Kevin, thanks!

Hah! Impossible to please everyone, I suppose :) I originally wrote the story casually rounding everything to nearest integer values, but then figured that, most people reading this (probably) being developers, I should maintain exacting precision. That said, your point is well taken. :)

Solution found, typed up as Answer.

clickable link: http://www.deviantart.com/download/144235675/Eclipse_by_A4si...

Agreed, X-Plane is now the place to go for an authentic flight simulation experience.

I love VLC but my buddy swears by Media Player Classic (at least on Windows). Anybody else?

That's interesting. I didn't know that. I would assume, therefore, that domestic operators in East Asian countries tend to average at least slightly better fuel economy? Would be interesting to see some numbers on this. A 10-13 min descent is a huge improvement over the 20-25 min descent commonly used today elsewhere.

It's about freaking time. I remember back in May 2009 I was on a UA flight from HNL-SFO and if I'm not mistaken, they were testing SFO's GPS approach system: IIRC, we descended from cruising altitude to wheels down in about 10 minutes. Awesome.

If you want a fast, free, easy-to-use VPN, just get AnchorFree's HotSpot Shield. Most downloaded free VPN in the world. AnchorFree's CEO was also selected as one of Inc's 30 Under 30 this year.

DISCLAIMER: AnchorFree's CEO is one of my dearest of friends for nearly 12 years, but that's not why I'm promoting HotSpot Shield here. It just really is that good, and I use it all the time on public hotspots.

Yeah I noticed it too. And check #linkedin on twitter: seems like it was down for over an hour or so. Finally back up though.

Hi HN: a while ago I invited you to visit a very early build of our new startup. On June 8 we finally opened up to the public even though (technically) still in beta.

On behalf of the Venturocket team, I'd like to re-invite you to take a look and see how we've learned to quantify human talent.

Thanks!

Hi HN: a while ago I invited you to visit a very early build of our new startup. On June 8 we finally opened up to the public even though (technically) still in beta.

On behalf of the Venturocket team, I'd like to re-invite you to take a look and see how we've learned to quantify human talent.

Thanks!

Congratulations to my my dear friend of 12 years, David Gorodyansky of AnchorFree, makers of HotSpot Shield! :)

Congratulations to my dear friend of nearly 12 years, David Gorodyansky! This is awesome :)

I almost missed it myself, so I wanted to point out that you watch the second embedded video in full screen @ 720P ... very impressive.

Actually, this was one of the original reasons I set out to build our new startup http://www.venturocket.com We use a unique skill keyword-based pay-per-connection bidding and matching system as a means of filtering out unqualified candidates. I'd love to invite you to try it out, and hopefully it will help you with your awesome developer search (at least once we get more users!)! :)

From our FAQ (www.venturocket.com/faq):

Well, this is all pretty cool, but why Venturocket? It's kind of a long name.

The "Venture" in Venturocket is both the verb ("to venture") and the noun ("a venture"). We help you find the perfect job for your skills, build your startup (or other business venture), or find the best talent for your team; so you can Venture Forth™ and make the world a better and more productive place. "Rocket" conveys the image of launching your life, your career, your business, or whatever it is you want to accomplish. It also indicates the speed at which Venturocket allows such ambitions to come to fruition. Put them together and you get Venturocket!

Thanks :)

Thanks for the kind words! It means a lot coming from a fellow HN'er. :) I do hope you'll help spread the word, and hopefully it can generate more views here on HN as well.

Best of luck to you with your project as well. We should connect and share stories!

I was in high school when I got the news that he had died. Having grown up treasuring a hardback copy of Cosmos that my parents had got for me when I was 5 or so (still on my bookshelf today of course), I had fallen immediately in love with the phenomenal PBS series of the book and looked up to Carl Sagan as someone very special indeed. It was no wonder that my parents helped me to become a member of Carl Sagan's Planetary Society back in grade school, a membership I held all through high school.

In utter shock and disbelief when I received his news, I remember I had been walking to our school's computer lab. By the time I reached it, my brain was numb and I just sort of walked aimlessly to a computer along the south wall. As I approached the desk, I told our lab teacher what I had just learned, sat down, put my head in my hands, and cried.

Looking back on it now, I'm still not entirely sure why news of his death had so profound an effect on me, but I suspect it had something to do with Carl Sagan's "real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level," as burke so eloquently pointed out.

EDIT: Just finished watching the three videos. Absolutely blown away. And no, it's not really a mystery why he had so profound an effect on so many: between the eloquence of his words and his hypnotic speech and diction, who couldn't help but we swept away by his lessons? Only he could render in such convincing detail "the view that Kepler dreamed of," (if you have a copy of Cosmos lying around, you'll recognize that particular caption's stunning photo), and so much more in the universe beyond.

This is awesome: I have seriously been searching for an explanation on this ever since I was a little kid and my dad bought me my first bike at about 3 years of age and immediately removed the training wheels.

Agreed. I guess some people (and companies) just like to "Think Different.™" :)