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Great news, though the headline is kind of weird.

GPS-only RNAV STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) have been in use for some time.

The "next gen" technologies referred to in the article involve a lot more than just GPS improvements (such as WAAS and publishing more RNAV GPS approaches annually). They include new ground radar for automated taxi operations, a replacement of traditional transponder-based aircraft separation, redesigning ATIS and weather reporting, and an overall push to standardize all ATC data -- ultimately getting more real-time data into cockpit avionics.

http://arpnetworks.com/

I was a customer for several months and the level of service was very good. Good peering, too.

This guy's site is full of fascinating stuff. Check it out.

Retail political and topographic maps are a relatively small part of the work load of most cartographic studios.

Forestry and petroleum exploration require constant updating and presentation techniques.

Precipitation and drainage maps are extremely useful in agriculture.

Aviation section charts are updated quarterly.

Most vineyards, large farms, and ranches have probably had custom mapping done at some point.

It's actually a pretty fascinating field when you appreciate the breadth of data that is regularly correlated to maps.

Heh. Turns out Benchmark and Raven maps use the same studio to produce their maps.

http://www.allancartography.com/

What do you think of Raven Maps? Their state maps are more topographic but offer excellent detail.

http://www.ravenmaps.com/

As a high school student in 1988, I interviewed with Bob's previous company, Parsons Technology, for an after-school customer support position.

At that time Parsons Technology was known primarily as the publisher of a personal finance program called MoneyCounts, but they also released a formidable catalog of Bible-related software.

Much to my dismay, the interview process was heavily skewed toward determining how much of a believer I was and ran into all manner of private territory.

I did briefly meet Bob -- just a handshake and he was gone.

Very little of my computer experience was discussed and by the end of the rushed interview I was given complimentary copies of Parsons Technology Bible-related software.

I drove away from that interview disappointed and tricked.

Obviously you can't jump to conclusions from anecdotal data, but I wanted to share this experience and my personal opinion that Bob Parsons is an intensely self-righteous and dogmatic fellow.

Anyway, from my early experience with his first company, to his bizarre and narcissistic elephant hunt, GoDaddy's obnoxious objectification of women, and now SOPA... I've always felt the guy is just sort of twisted and unsavory.

One man's view only.

He looks like a really nice guy.

If you're into manual monitoring like this, check out https://github.com/hcooper/sarplot

Its only dependency (beyond enabling sar) is gnuplot.

virtualenv can't isolate your system's package util like it can isolate pip.

Perfect way to close out shark jumping week.

Is there any way to implement these memorial black bars in a way that doesn't break the mobile HN apps? I assume they're scraping.

http://arpnetworks.com/

Wow. Thanks for the Reaper tip.

Very impressive effort there, and for $60... Nuts!

An obituary for Dennis Ritchie in The New York Times isn't written for people like you or me.

In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and technology totally distorted by the media every time there's an incident of some kind. :)

> a self-employed American engineer unable to get even basic health insurance

Why is that?

Fantastic. Thank you for that.

I'm asking as a potential user of Pinboard because I don't care much for the new Delicious.

How was that confusing?

Does Pinboard show you how many others bookmarked the same link, including the usernames?

It's nice when a bookmarking service can be a discovery tool itself.

I'm a USAA account holder and it is very true: you cannot take advantage of iPhone deposits unless you are military or family. Same goes for most of their insurance products.

This was one of my favorite college texts. I'm really disappointed that I'd forgotten about it until your comment. Thanks.

Bizarre.

Yeah, that's true. But my environment is such that any one of 100 or so app servers has a significantly lower chance of running out of memory than the Redis server does.

The 0MQ high water mark is set high enough so that it's virtually impossible not to fix a broken DB by the time messages on the client side create an OOM condition being queued in memory.

Good example of a real situation you always end up facing at some point. Why I use ZeroMQ when logging or queueing with Redis.

That's a lot easier when you're a year or more behind following a television series.

The Greenhopper acquisition was pretty slick.

What used to be (I think) a $700 plugin now adds $2,000 to the annual maintenance cost of JIRA.

or licensing it?

Once the fruits of someone else's labor is a concern, you've lost.

Stay interested and keep working hard.

We're people who build things.

Our fortune is a natural one -- not money and not even respect.

It's that we are getting paid to learn new things every single day.

Autism is not a personality trait.

People magazine would have more respect.

Really surprised by all the high-fiving and positive excitement going on about this article.

Putting eight million files in one directory level aside, the whole basis for this event - using the filesystem as a storage layer for a k/v 'database' - is just twisted.

Happy not to be working with devs like this.