I don't know if I'm in a position to prescribe anything to you, but my first suggestion is to figure out what your goal is. Long term general learning? Learning specific topics? Research? Staying up to date culturally?
Personally I focus on long term learning and highly recommend textbooks for every topic you find that interests you. Textbooks tend to be well-written, highly educational, relatively neutral, and well sourced. They also usually provide incredible context (such as in the form of margin notes) for what is being learned, as opposed to getting stuck in a blog rabbit hole.
I'll point out that if you find yourself with a RDBMS-like situation in Excel I highly recommend using Excel 2013+ 'tables' feature which adds foreign keys and better pseudo-joins (in pivot tables) inside of Excel. Better than anything hacked together with VLOOKUP. (heck, I've even seen some people hack it together with only SUMIF)
I don't know, I have no experience with 2010 so I went with the lower bound I can guarantee as opposed to potentially giving harmful wrong information. Can't edit my comment now.
It looks to me like it was a mistake to have the url embedded into the finished product. I don't know if it possible to exploit browser page printing as a means to convert the result without this happening. Having that plus the page count/date on every page does ruin the entire utility of the product, unfortunately.
I would suggest that considering that he already has an html based generator, he could use that and then pandoc [0] on the backend to convert to pdf and (optionally) print.
Hi Mitchas. I've not used the service yet - I'll be using it tomorrow - but as a prospective user the big thing that is missing is the example! I know you have one, but it is hidden away in a block of text. Show that visually with a thumbnail and a heading so I can spot it immediately. I don't know about other people, and it's not exactly rational, but I generally don't take the time to read even the tiniest bit of marketing copy (if it isn't a single sentence-fragment in very large letters) if I don't first see something graphical demonstrating the product (such as a thumbnail of an example generated resume).
Thanks for putting this out there, I otherwise like the presentation of the form.
I have to wonder if there is anything like this available in the US aside from MOOCs? I haven't explored far, but even the ostensibly bare bones community colleges I've looked at were trying to emulate the typical inclusive social experience model.
You'll need radiation hardening, a more precise inertial measurement unit (six axis gyro), and extreme reliability and lifetime that no consumer electronics device provides. The labor and materials cost, plus electronics mentioned above, is a lot more than $300. I also doubt you'll find a single engineer with the required aerospace and electrical engineering skills - you don't build an flight control surface control system with some 'ninjas' working on node.js in SF in a year.
I also haven't gotten into the business and logistics costs of pulling this off, but consider the fact that there is not even a RFP for such a device in existence.
Radiation hardening is a requirement to protect the arsenal from EMP attacks in a large scale conflict with a nuclear component. This will hopefully be a rare or nonexistent occurrence, and hardening should not be considered a requirement for bombs used on Al Qaeda and IS (and nearly all other expected enemies). There is a place for radiation hardened munitions in the arsenal for deterrance, and there is also a place for some that are not, and these should be the ones we drop in "low intensity" conflicts, with the occasional release of a hardened munition to act as a quality control test.
Reliability is obviously a concern, but the procurement process should force contractors to open their designs to qualified competitors after a certain period of monopoly profits to recoup their research expenses, sort of like the same way that brand name drugs are eventually forced to compete with generics. Just because these designs are generally national security secrets doesn't mean that the original developer should own the equivalent of an infinite patent on the technology.
Even if you do that and build one. You'll need to spend many many times over that budget lobbying, making friends, getting noticed and networking, formalizing through red tape and so.
Imagine today you have that device in your table. Ok. What is your next step. Just show up at the Pentagon with it in your bag?
A lot of that costs money (unfairly probably) and that is one of the reasons soldiers sometimes end with crappy hardware that costs some astronomical amounts.
Sigh. I should have pointed out that I used to be an Air Force engineer. Although my post was a massive oversimplification, it was not for any of the reasons you pointed out. No, dev time would not be more than 1 engineer, at least not for the bomb guidance part. Most bombs that are dropped do not need massive accuracy - anywhere in a 10m radius will do the job nicely. There ate a few targets where you want 1m accuracy, but that's the exception. A phone 'a sensors should be able to do the job sufficiently well.
No, where you're really going to get burned in dev is hooking the bomb up to the aircraft's targeting system. That's a world of pain right there. The best solution might probably involve making a Bluetooth widget that hooks up to the aircraft and then talks to the bomb via radio. They could be pre-paired in the factory. Not ideal though. You're also going to need to spend a ridiculous sum of money on sales, just to get your foot in the door.
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