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Veeeery interesting read.... - Andrew

Insanely nerdy but interesting. - Andrew

Maybe DSL can finally compete with Cable on a per MBPS basis? - Andrew

Wow. - Andrew

"The time has come for software liability laws." - Andrew

Some really good thoughts here. - Andrew

Here's the link to the actual paper: http://www.lsadc.org/info... - Andrew

Someone shared this at work...it's pretty amazing and easily worth the 20 minutes. - Andrew

To align suppliers’ incentives, Boeing came up with a risk and revenue sharing system where suppliers pay non-recurring development cost up-front, own intellectual property, and get paid after planes are successfully integrated and being sold. In this model, suppliers are upgraded from subcontractors to strategic partners that share the fate of the program. However, such a system has one fatal flaw: a phenomenon known in economics as “free riders,” where one tries to harvest without work by passing its job to others in the team. Free riders are inevitable in non-cohesive, weakly integrated teams, where everyone shares the outcome that they all contribute to. The surprisingly simple rational is that if one is not held solely and immediately responsible for his/her behavior, it is better for him/her to do less than more. - Andrew

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Andrew

Awesome - Andrew

"The biggest exception? The United States, which has the highest religiosity relative to its wealth on the planet." - Andrew

"That’s right, the word eyeball didn’t actually exist until Shakespeare came up with it." - Andrew

....or an engineer - Andrew

Check this: http://subjectiveobject.com/2010... - Andrew

"It’s the longest-running soap opera since 'Days of Our Lives,' and I’m not sure we've seen the last episode." - Jim Albaugh, head of Boeing’s commercial aircraft and former chief of its defense unit, March 9, 2010 - Andrew

I believe in miracles, but USA Today is right...this is not a miracle. This is just good engineering (damn good engineering at that too, but I might be biased). - Andrew

Soooo...it's like if Radiolab made a movie? (http://www.wnyc.org/shows...) - Andrew

"At this point the only argument against this project is fear, specifically fear of Muslims, and that’s a bigoted, cowardly and completely indefensible position." - Andrew

See also: RFC2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs... - Andrew

This is awesome. I had just started a list of Boeing-isms a few days ago, but this is much more comprehensive. - Andrew

"Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting fucked by Apple." Bazinga! - Andrew

The good stuff starts at 2:50 - Andrew

"the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version" - Andrew

"Twenty-five per cent of all Medicare spending is for the five per cent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple of months which is of little apparent benefit." - Andrew

"We have to be more like engineers building a mechanism whose parts actually fit together, whose workings are ever more finely tuned and tweaked for ever better performance in providing aid and comfort to human beings." - Andrew

It was the John Madden of fireworks play-by-play. - Andrew

Read the story about the guy who proved the speed of light could be exceeded...it's amazing: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewt... - Andrew

If anyone, and I do mean anyone, where to send this letter to me. I would respond with: Dear Sir: Fuck Off. Sincerely, Andrew Seriously, that's not a culture I would ever want to be a part of nor be friends with. - Andrew

OMG....this is awesome and very well put together! - Andrew