Massive fraud that was carried out with an audacity that would make Boss Hogg blush. When I initially complained, my boss told me that NASA was "a middle class welfare program" and that I shouldn't take it so seriously.
Eventually, I reached a point where I just couldn't sign off on purchasing equipment for testing an item that simply didn't exist. I was working 60 hours a week for low pay doing the work that had been reported to have been done years beforehand and just couldn't do it any more.
After taking two systems from months/years behind schedule to months ahead, I was fired. No discussion, no debate, no warnings, no notifications.
They lied to the Texas Workforce commission and said that I was warned and got caught. TWC refused to do anything about it.
NASA inspector general found that everything that I said was true, but that me being fired was not something they would handle.
There is no wrongful termination in Texas.
A decade later, the project(s) I was working on at the time was finally moved from the contractor to government funded equipment - meaning the government was going to have to do what the contractors were originally paid to do.
If I am giving you money and your are giving bitcoin to the people I am supporting, then mastercard will not allow you to take money if you facilitate right wing views.
If I am giving you bitcoin and you are giving money to the people I support, then Mastercard will cut you off if those people have right wing views.
If I am giving you bitcoin and you are giving bitcoin to the people I support, then how is it different from just giving bitcoin?
It doesn't really solve the free speech problem as what is needed is a way for all views to be paid with the ease of a credit card, instead of just approved views.
> [...] mastercard will not allow you to take money if you facilitate right wing views
That is clearly not correct. You can subscribe or donate to "The National Review", "The Weekly Standard", "The American Spectator", "The American Conservative", "The New American", and "FrontPage Magazine" all via MasterCard, and these are all right wing publications facilitating right ring views.
You would be giving bitcoin directly to the people you are supported, mediated by their technology. ( my understanding of it without knowing the team and seeing the released project as it's just a preview)
I am a structural engineer of moderate capability. I have developed an engineering platform as a startup. If anyone is serous about doing one of these projects, I would love to speak with you about helping and about using my platform to design anything you need.
I have a 4 yo son and a 9 month old. I am a stay at home dad and I just launched a startup. My kids go to bed a8 and I work and learn from 8pm to either 12 or 2am.
Yes it sucks. Life is a series of choices and I choose to loose sleep instead of time with kids or work time. It took a while, but I learned javascript, angular, AWS, heroku, and several other things. It just takes longer.
Yes, and there are many other libs doing similar things too.
But all I have seen so far could not satisfy my needs. As for the scipy.signal.cwt method, it doesn't support complex output:
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/3793
So you can't separate amplitude and phase, which is often needed.
Structural engineering. I have a startup in the field and I have spoken with a European team in the same field that got an interview to YC as well. However, YC and others seem to have an aversion to this field as it can be slow moving to adopt new technologies. Is this true? Most of us in the field feel that it is ripe for the picking.
I might be working on something that you would be interested in. MVP is at www.cadwolf.com. I am a structural engineer with an MS from UT Austin. Website in written with php using Laravel and angular framework for JS.
The plan is to link CAD to the mathematics and then link the finite element to this as well. The system would also function as a sort of github for engineering where users can find and use functions to do most standard analysis. Email is in my profile if anyone is interested in talking.
I checked out cadwolf and as an engineer myself I find it very interesting. I am curious to understand a few points:
- Why do you center everything around documents? Is it more because people are used to it, or do you believe that they are best fit for design-tasks?
- I saw that to update multiple documents after a requirement changes, you need to open them one by one, in the order of their dependencies. Have you tested that this is still a viable approach, once you have thousands of dependencies and multiple users in a complex design?
I really like the equations and how you only allow to make formally correct equations (including units). Anxious to see how this develops.
(full disclosure: I am co-founder of a Software which tries to achieve the same aims using different concepts: www.valispace.com)
What I call "Document" are not files in the sense of a word file. They look like text files because that is what I thought engineers would be comfortable dealing with. However, they function as programs. Documents can be used as programs within other documents as well. Documents fill both the need to solve the calculations and to document them in one place. It eliminates the need to update documentation, have multiple platforms, etc.
There are places for users to upload and store data as well - datasets.
As of now, the code solves equations in javascript within the browser. This is why documents have to be opened when a requirement changes - because I have no server side of the code to solve them without the browser. It isn't a long term solution, merely a step in the building on the platform. My next step is to add a server side code that is capable of solver more complex and larger equations on the server. When that is done, changes to requirements will update documents without the need to open them manually. I plan on using python and there are several large libraries available.
This will allow me to link documents to CAD. When the math changes, the CAD will change as well. Once that is done, I will add a finite element meshing and solution system to create an engineering platform that essentially does everything.
I like your site. It's nice to see other people addressing these problems. I am also an aerospace guy. I worked on the shuttle for a while and then designed some components for the Orion. Shoot me an email if you want to talk more.
I would love to see that as well. I have a project with similar goals (posted above). I would like for users to be able to simply call built in functions to do the normal tedious stuff like stress in rods, beams, etc.
