captaining

Conning a ship almost certainly means captaining a boat which takes some experience for sure, probably a few months.

Perfectly encapsulates the experience of captaining a starship on a 5 year mission to explore strange new worlds.

He was likely mentally unfit for the task of captaining that day, and the rant was evidence of it.

If you're captaining an ocean liner (Apple) you don't worry too much about 5-10' seas and 10 knots of wind.

Ask HN 1647: How to avoid losing ship captaining skills in the tulip trading era?

Instead of captaining a ship we now have young people starting companies, trading one kind of venture for another.

No, he didn't do all this himself, but he was captaining the ship.

It's like captaining a ship and not being willing to repair the ship.

Maybe that's why I've not been all that facile at Captaining my own destiny in this world.

It does not imply they are mentally unfit for captaining.

I imagine that a fair bit of captaining a ship would be sitting around too, so allocating multiple craft to one captain could work.

It'd be like captaining the SS Swiss Cheese.

In my experience, most developers are already capable captains and most of their job is "captaining." One of their main complaints is managers who treat them like rowers.

There's a reason why the Computer Bowl during the 1980s had "East Coast" and "West Coast" teams, with Bill Gates captaining the latter despite Microsoft not having a regional office until it bought Forethought in 1987 for PowerPoint.

However, travelling at 20 knots (37 km/h) in the shallow channel, Oasis experienced a 30 cm squat, allowing sufficient room to clear the bridge safely." So, you are captaining this brand new billion dollar cruise ship, and the deck of the bridge is too low to pass under it.