Thanks for sharing this. I grew up a few miles away from the Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT. and as a kid remember seeing on a couple of occasions some of the experimental helicopters flying overhead. A lot of my friends parents worked at Sikorsky and sometimes would mention the program, in particular the ABC (advanced blade concept). It was mainly hushed but after what seemed like many years the experimental programs were moved out of Stratford or maybe scrapped. Then all the overhead traffic everyday were from the Blackhawk and Super Stallion programs the company was focused on to keep themselves going.
I still marvel at the Sikorsky Skycrane, IMO one of the most underrated aircraft ever produced. Whenever I see one I'm transported back in time seeing them flying over my neighborhood thinking that it was like a big giant wasp in the sky.
Yes. The ability to turn features on and off, especially on demand is an important part of the applications and services my team is responsible for. We have a few different levels where features can be enabled or disabled ranging from configuration injected into applications, configuration stores to lookup settings giving us the ability to expose/hide features.
To support per user or group settings we have a `canary` role that can be set to allow access to new features that have been integrated but not available to the general users. The nice thing about having something tied to roles is that the changes can take effect immediately without the need for redeploying, or reinitializing applications in our footprint. Also, the role based model can be made as fine or coarse grained suited to the app's and user's being served.
We tend to avoid encoding feature flags into URLs because users can bookmark them, revisit via history or navigate from old emails, messages, etc. and we'd rather not expose these flags or have them memorialized anywhere.
This just recently happened to me with an old eBay account I've had 20+ years. After reading the story in the document above, you could easily search/replace Apple for eBay and it's identical to my story, aside from emailing the CEO. The reason given in the permanent suspension message to me was a vague reference to the TOC docs and links to support that all lead to dead ends. After, resigning myself to not caring further, because I use eBay these days rarely, the next day my account was just as suddenly and without reason reinstated, as if nothing ever happened.
I'm left scratching my head as to what the reason(s) were for this to have happened and can only think of 3 possibilities.
- An overzealous, newbie type operator that suspended me by mistake
- Some kind of error in automated flagging and error in review
- eBay's radical way of engaging with me to spur me to buy/sell again as the account's last activity was more than 1 year ago
A couple of years ago, I signed up for an eBay account to buy one thing with Buy It Now. After buying it, my account was promptly suspended for no reason. I contacted support and they told me they don’t know why and wouldn’t reinstate it.
Wake turbulence was a factor in the crash of AA587 from JFK back in 2001. The FO flying the take off encountered wake turbulence from a 747 that took off just prior and overused the rudder in response to the point it snapped the tail of the jet, an A300.
Oddly a similar engine incident happened on the same United flight route back in 2016. Apparently it was a bird strike back then. Link: http://avherald.com/h?article=4999bec5
I knew about the story of Phil Katz having read this article before and was also a user back in the day, but just recently watched the movie 'Leaving Las Vegas'. Reading the PK article again in the link reminded me so much about the movie. If you haven't seen the movie it's worth watching and maybe an insight into the problems he was going through.
The original myspace used the profile name for URLs - https://myspace.com/some_name - maybe the reboot will eventually. I tried with mine and it was a 404.
Ok, thanks. I set what I thought was a username during signup but looks like that was just the name. I see now there's a second step going to https://spacehey.com/settings and the username URL is working for me.
Maybe, I'm being somewhat superficial but I can't help to wonder that the name of the company/app "Quibi" only hurt their launch and not helped aside from other factors pointed out.
I wonder how many times in talking about the app have people needed to spell it out or say it's pronounced like "kwibee" not "keebee", etc. I actually needed to go to wikipedia.org to see the exact pronunciation.
So much about the branding reminds me of the "Cuil" search engine failure a decade ago. I remember seeing the original name "Cuill" in some of my request logs and thinking at the time that it was some malicious DDOS bot that wanted to see my site as "see you ill". First time that I saw in the news about "Quibi" I immediately thought of the whole "Cuil" search engine failure. Not a great first impression, but that it was.
I also think the strange name had an effect. Whenever I read about it, first I didn't know how it was pronounced, nor what it was exactly, nor why I would care. The ads would show someone watching a video and laughing, but... we already have other video services, so why was this any different?
Anyway, you could say we now all know how it's pronounced. As of today "Quibi" is pronounced dead.
One aspect of Eddie's playing that rarely gets mentioned was his rhythm and chord playing. His chordal phrasings and how he could make a song sound huge for just a single guitarist was amazing. AND The first few early albums were mixed with the main guitar track panned hard left.
I still marvel at the Sikorsky Skycrane, IMO one of the most underrated aircraft ever produced. Whenever I see one I'm transported back in time seeing them flying over my neighborhood thinking that it was like a big giant wasp in the sky.