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To be globally competitive in the long run, ITAR restrictions around space vehicles need to be reassessed. Right now to work for a US aerospace company you need to be a US citizen. This excludes a huge part of the available talent pool [1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/95.html

Humorous, but relevant. PHP and Wordpress are derided by many, perhaps rightfully so. Despite many well founded claims against them they remain ubiquitous.

Which metric do we use to define success here? Can shitty software be considered successful just because everyone uses it?

For those interested in the history and mathematical development of Maxwell's Equations as we know them today, Paul J. Nahin's book on Heaviside[1] is a must read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-Genius-Vic...

Replacing terrestrial broadband is great, but what happens when your internet stops working because it is raining outside? How exactly do they plan to deal with rain fade while operating in the Ka band?

"Altera’s devices can have their function updated, even after they’ve been installed in end-devices. While they’re sold in relatively small volumes, programmable logic usually requires the latest in production technology because it’s some of the largest chips in the industry."

Somebody at Bloomberg is obviously a little confused about FPGAs.

> FOAM is a full-stack Reactive MVC Meta-Programming framework.

Inevitably reminds me of this: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/

I understand MVC, but what is reactive meta-programming exactly?

You can become an "e-Resident" and receive an ID card. I believe this requires you to travel to Estonia once to get the card, however they are working on rolling this out to their embassies in other countries.

Estonia is trying to make this possible with their e-Estonia initiative https://e-estonia.com/component/e-business-register/

So 11% of people who attended public universities are "thriving", and 4% of people who attended private universities are thriving. That means somewhere between 89 and 96 percent of people who attended university are not thriving. This paints a pretty dismal picture of the utility of a university degree for those who want to thrive, white middle class kids or otherwise.

Sure, email is in my profile

I am interested to know what the correlation is between uncertainty and returns. Are companies that succeed in highly uncertain spaces more profitable than those which succeed in well known markets? If you include companies that fail in uncertain spaces, is the average return still greater than those in more certain markets?

I would think yes, otherwise we would all be sticking with mining precious metals.

The deck looks nice but I am still very unsure of what the product actually is.

Full disclosure: OP is the Design & Product advisor for this company

Interesting "art" can be generated by running the algorithm against a random initial map.

Edit: adjusting the density of the initial map seems to result in different patterns appearing in the output

http://jsfiddle.net/2yxyno52/4/

I am curious as to how this will work.

How does bot A simulate bot B that must simulate bot A to determine its answer? Seems like infinite trampoline recursion.

EDIT: it seems you run the simulation against a different bot implementation than the running one and attempt to determine its characteristics given the responses and the known behaviour of the other implementation.

Links to the release notes in the article are broken for me, these seem to work:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.13/3.13.3/NEWS

https://download.gnome.org/apps/3.13/3.13.3/NEWS

The earlier blocks being corrupted would affect later blocks because the later blocks are encoded as the difference from the previous block, hence the error of the previous block propagates even if the later blocks are correct.

What's the motivation behind doing this exactly? Why not actually write some code to practice...writing code.

Cool! I made half a sphere with 0.5+sqrt(0.2-((x-0.5)^2+(y-0.5)^2)). If there was a way to do a mirroring on the xy plane (as in a +/- z value) it could be a full one.

Agreed, many of those thoughts really resonated with me. I would love to see a video!