[spitfire]

I'd hire this guy. This, the homemade GPS guy, and the homebuilt apollo computer guy are all the sorts of people you want on your team to teach the young bucks a thing or five.

So I'd hire him.

[lfowles]

The young bucks? Implying this guy isn't young himself? Handheld radar wasn't an uncommon project in the EECE department at my school.[0] :) I'm not entirely sure the students building radars would want to be on teams where they had to teach their peers a thing or five!

[0]: http://ece.k-state.edu/crl/courses-ece764.html

[1]: http://ece.k-state.edu/~wkuhn/

[egeozcan]

I don't get the Young Turks[1] reference. What do you mean?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks

edit: I assume that was a typo as it was edited to "young bucks" later.

[DanBC]

Young turks is idiom to refer to usually young people who rebel against authority. I'm not sure it fits here.

Whippersnappers is perhaps a better fit.

[egeozcan]

Oh, thanks for the clarification. I'm Turkish and didn't know of this usage.

[droithomme]

The news talk show, founded by a Turkish-American, that you are familiar with and link to is actually meant to be a humorous reference to the idiomatic usage. The idiomatic usage used to be well known, but these days people are more familiar with the news show and the idiomatic usage is somewhat archaic now. It's not a negative reference, more a respectful acknowledgement of toughness and persistence - one doesn't want to mess with young turkish warriors unless they are ready to face a competent adversary.

[makeset]

It's actually a reference to the early-20th-century Ottoman political reform movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks

[oofabz]

If you are referring to the Apollo DSKY built by Fran Blanche, she is not a guy.

[spitfire]

I was thinking John Pultorak's AGC. But I'd be thrilled to extend the list if I could still edit my post.

http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/