Notes.
None.
Wayfinding.
- Stripe is now allowing people to apply for jobs as a team.
- Chobani is giving a large amount of stock to its employees.
- Makerbot/Stratasys is shutting down its NYC manufacturing operation and outsourcing production.
Building.
- The primary mirror of the James Webb Telescope is completely assembled.
- Just a quick shout-out to the O'Reilly Hardware Podcast, which I've *really* been enjoying recently.
- The last (finally!) of that series of articles on grain flow in forgings.
- In SpaceX news: They're planning an (unmanned) trip to Mars as early as 2018, and they became the first company other than ULA to get a US military space launch contract in over a decade.
- A team in Germany got nanotubes to work as light conductors for integrated optical circuits.
Logistics.
- Via Kane, a story about some 19th century scientists who took helium balloons to something like 37,000 feet.
- Containerized shipping is 60 years old.
- A group from Oxford released a dataset of video footage taken from cars commuting over the same roads over and over - to help self driving cars understand the high degree of variation in road conditions.
- shipmap.org (via Dan).
Evaluation.
- The Airbus A380 project incurred something like $6B in unnecessary costs due to delays caused by the fact that part of Airbus upgraded to CATIA 5, and the rest stayed on CATIA 4.
- A good, comprehensive article on how Uber planned and rolled out its London operation.
- A teardown of a new Macbook.
- A good article from the IMF on the actual impact that technology (e.g. ATMs) has on employment (e.g. bank tellers).
Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.
- Withings was acquired by Nokia.
- A CV of failures.
- Meshmixer has a pretty good manual - on a dedicated site.
And.
Boeing's work simulating & measuring how ice buildup affects flight.
(via Brad)
Love, Spencer.
p.s. - We should be better friends. Send me a note - coffee's on me :)
