A Goldmine Aus Gene Kranz (NASA - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo)

One thing that jumps out at you from "Failure Is Not an Option" is how sophisticated their simulation methodology was even 50 years ago. They would spend 16 hours a day in simulation and there were a dozen computers working simultaneously on the simulation.

"... math models and a simulated astronaut"

Bill Tindall had started weekly meetings on the descent phase in April and had released a barrage of Tindallgrams and assorted notes. Tindallgrams was the name given to Bill's comic and highly treasured memos of the techniques meetings he conducted from 1966 to 1970 to document key engineering and operational decisions.

"There is another thing about powered descent crew procedures that has really bugged me. Maybe I'm an Aunt Emma. Certainly some smart people may laugh at my concern but I just feel that the crew should not be dibbling with the computer keyboard during powered descent unless it's absolutely necessary. They will never hit the wrong button of course, but if they do, the results can be rather lousy."

The next day, we started a review of every crew computer keystroke and its effect throughout the descent phase.

He was one of the great pioneers of manned spaceflight.

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During the mission rules sessions, Buzz Aldrin was the crewman usually involved, demonstrating his knowledge on a variety of subjects and generally dominating the crew side of the conversations. (FYI, Buzz is a grad of MIT). Neil Armstrong seemed more the observer than the participant, but when you looked at his eyes you knew that he was the commander and all pieces assembled in his mind. I don't think he ever raised his voice. He just saved his energy for when it was needed. He would listen to our discussions and, if there was any controversy, he and Aldrin would try out our ideas in the simulators and then give feedback through Charlie Duke to the individual controllers. Buzz and Neil seldom took a strong position during the meetings, but they were good listeners. They knew enough about us to trust us, to give us the benefit of the doubt. Mike Collins used a different tactic. He worked directly with the trench and systems guys. By the time we got to the rules sessions, all the problems were ironed out. We published our first complete set of rules for the Apollo 11 mission on May 16, 1969, two months prior to launch.

With no landing simulation experience, the first set of rules represented the sum total of our knowledge from our meetings.

Simulation training is broken into two parts - nominal and contingency. The nominal training occurs early in the simulation period. It lasts only two to three days and is used to establish crew - controller action timing, locate the go-no-go decision points and exercise the procedures for the planned mission. The contingency training tests the crew-controller decision process in a mission environment while solving complex trajectory and systems problems. Training scripts are developed by sim-sup's team and problems are programmed into the simulators without the crew's or controllers' knowledge. The training environment becomes as close to the real thing as possible, with the training team testing the flight team's strategy, knowledge and coordination while probing into the psyche of the crew and controllers. Nothing is sacred.

Were it not for GK, I would know about this guy : Bob McCall - Space Artist.

Who Talks Like This?

"An outwardly sardonic Turkish man named Izzet" "who must have been a narcissistic prodigy" :

If you have time to sleep, you have time to do algebra
Didn't you kids lean this in kindergarten?

http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~coskun/
https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/my-graduate-career-in-math-85fd4efb0fa9#.s5si561ir

BTW, Jeremy Kun is not only a math, but a poet as well. Consider :  If you want your career to grow beyond shuffling data around to meet arbitrary business goals, you should learn the tools that enable you to write programs that captivate and delight you. Mathematics is one of those tools.

The simplest and broadest truth about mathematics is that it revolves around proofs. Proofs

are both the primary vehicle of insight and the fundamental measure of judgment. 'Ihey

are the law, the currency, and the f‌ine art of mathematics.

An Indian Who's Really French - How Cool Is That?

https://www.birs.ca/events/2019/5-day-workshops/19w5062/videos/watch/201911201032-Ramassamy.html

How to Tell Your Story - Ethan Rasiel

From the author of "The McKinsey Way" :

How to tell your story
1) Articulate the problem you are solving
2) Focus on benefits, not speeds and feeds
3) Minimize jargon and calibrate to a mainstream audience
4) Have a point of view — not just a product
5) Know your competition and be very different
6) Have a firepole pitch

What is PR : It's not the ads - it's a way to influence a target audience - to take action - like go to your website - customers, employees, government policy makers - sounds like advertising, but it's not - ads - whether in print or TV - are what you're usually trying to flip through - PR is getting into the editorial content - working with editors and reporters, etc.

FYI, Spin City is a whole show about a PR team. 

Croatian Genius Puts Real Power at Your Excel Fingertips

http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800soft/software/OfficeScroll.html

Man!

Now, in Excel, just do SHIFT+SCROLLWHEEL to pan/scroll horizontally. Works Super!
ALT+SCROLLWHEEL to fast-scroll vertically - similar to CTRL+SCROLLWHEEL in NEdit.

https://github.com/T800G/OfficeScroll
Hvala vam!!

Google searches that got nowhere :

excel keyboard shortcuts horizontall scrolling
excel keyboard shortcuts horizontall pan

the one that worked  -rresult #4

excel macro horizontal scroll

thank you for posting the solution link :

Stanislav Pitsul
Tomasz Truszczynski

What if you wanted to use CTRL-ALT-Wheel to move between worksheets? Wouldn't that be nice? Some clown has actually requested that on the github, and been rebuffed probably. Scouring the AHK world provides a workaround at a higher level - trap your bindkey and send the shortcut that the app already responds to (CTRL-PgUp) :

#IfWinActive ahk_class XLMAIN
   ^!WheelUp::Send ^{PgUp}
   ^!WheelDown::Send ^{PgDn}
#IfWinActive

Update - this is exactly why Croatia will never be Israel. Think about it - such a *heavy* solution. We want lite!! Get it? As you guessed, this worked for a few months till the idiots in Redmond did an upgrade. Screw the Croatian creation - it's crap!

What's the lite solution then? Autohotkey to the rescue. Did you even know about this? If you enable Scroll Lock, then the arrow keys in Excel no longer navigate cells but scroll the worksheet. Exactly! You just Lock, Send Arrow, Unlock and you're done!! This genius has the answer :

#IfWinActive ahk_class XLMAIN
 +WheelDown::SendInput {ScrollLock}{Right}{ScrollLock}
 +WheelUp::SendInput {ScrollLock}{Left}{ScrollLock}
#IfWinActive

From : https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10726656-scroll-horizontally-by-pressing-shift-wheel-scroll

Try it! I dare you! :)
First published 3/23/18

Lessons Aus DHH - Der Ruby Mensch

That's right, David Heinemeier Hansson - creator of the Ruby on Rails framework that has created billions of dollars of economic value.

https://superhumanacademy.com/podcast/david-heinemeier-hansson-interview-real-life-superlearner/

1. Don't think you can accomplish something major (or work towards a major goal - something that requires deep work) in the 40 minutes between now and that meeting you have coming up. Rather - fill it with fillers - get through mail, etc..
2. Learn from the best - that means hard work - as a software guy - what are the code examples everyone depends on? That's right - it's probably the standard library. DHH took apart the Ruby standard library to learn from it.
3. Negative visualization - yep - imagining the worst case scenario and how you're going to deal with it will actually help you deal with anxiety proactively - because you've already prepared (note, not planned - you expect the best, but are prepared to handle the worst) to deal with the worst-case scenario.
4. Identify and eliminate non-flow activities - these are your drains.
5. Don't be afraid of being a beginner. Seek out teachers and ask questions, work hard, etc. Everything is difficult at the beginning.

Books :

• William Irvine, Guide to the Good Life
• Ken Beck, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
• Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards

Dino Dai Zovi : Aha

https://youtu.be/8armE3Wz0jk?t=1417

"I learned a valuable lesson that day - automation and software can be a force multiplier"

1. Work backwards from the "job"
2. Seek and apply leverage
3. Culture >>> Strategy >>> Tactics  --- ">>>" = "way more powerful than.

Most successful software product in history? Unix

Apple No Match for Israeli Genius

Don't take my word for it. Here's the Ralph Langner of the smartphone world telling you about it :

https://speakerdeck.com/mbazaliy/pegasus-internals?slide=6

https://youtu.be/riRcYwOvamY

There's Sliced Bread and There's.. (Vim - Coding Productivity)

Did you know you could just do "gg=G" (without the quotes of course) (hit 'g' twice, then '=', and then 'G') and get your entire file properly indented?

Man! K is P!

Perl : Highlight Matches in String

That is, you have a string, and now, you have a bunch of patterns to match and, you now want to print the string with the matches highlighted. How/why?

Start with why so Simon don't cuss : You can use this to build your own personal search engine. Who needs to contend with the crappiness of Evernote?

How :

use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
have your patterns in @regexes = ( 'string1', '\bword1\b', 'etc')

Then, (this one assumes all the items in @regexses will match. If that's not your data, put in an if :)

foreach $word ( @regexes ){
  $string =~ /^(.*?)($word)(.*?)$/;

  $string = $1 . UNDERLINE . $2 . RESET . $3;

}


Seem amateurish? :)