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Sure, if you're on "powerful" hardware, if you're talking about FPS in current games, current consoles don't really go past 30 for most games.
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Read the Oregon study. It's a great piece of work. They took two sets of randomly aelected folks. Half got Medicaid coverage, the other remained uninsured. No difference in health outcomes only higher costs. It's a pretty powerful statement about the powers of preventative healthcare.

And life expectancy is a terrible measure of the quality of healthcare. It's been rehashed plenty of times on HN. Too many confounding factors.
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Wow. Seriously? He was blunt but hardly rude or mean. Are people such delicate flowers today they can't have someone disagree with them forcefully without shriveling up and disintegrating?
I feel like you're not getting his point. The coal industry in its steady state reliably kills more people every year than every nuclear accident put together, even when you include imputed civilian cancer fatalities from Chernobyl.

I think you are going to have a difficult time coming up with an evidence-based argument that (a) supplies electricity to everyone in the world currently depending on it, (b) doesn't use nuclear, and (c) kills fewer people as a result of (b). I am ready to be surprised, though.
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"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
See my reply above. It's mine if i have a say as to what happens to it when i die.

The other point is that many left leaning countries have no death tax (Canada). They seem to get along fine.
hey, this was a pretty good try! But here's what else you need to do:

https://rkeithhill.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/powershell-v2-re...

and if that's not hair-raisingly terrifying enough (note the super-intuitive 'set-item wsman://...' call), you'll quickly find that when you start a program (which you left off) using a script remotely, it doesn't show up anywhere on-screen, despite being authenticated as the logged-in user, but it does show up in the process list. Guess why THAT is.

There are some pretty parts to PS; but they fall apart, at the touch, instantly, like fairy buildings made of dew.
I don't see this as having addressed the main point of the PG article which was "The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness."
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And even if I did take my car camping, I probably wouldn't be using its electricity except in extreme circumstances; I'd sooner bring - at the absolute most - a separate generator (preferably one of those quiet Honda ones) if I really feel the need to be plugged in (which is rarely the case; the point of camping for me is to get a breather from tech).
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Taxation is the redistribution of wealth to benefit society as a whole. Self-driving cars is about taking away the task of driving from humans, which is really a privilege, for the benefit of infrastructure optimization. If you believe in retaining personal wealth, you probably believe in retaining your driving privileges as well.

> I also see no reason to expect that it is inevitable that self-driving cars become mandatory globally, but that is a different point entirely and not one I'm interested in pursuing right now.

Your premise is just completely flawed: you see self-driving cars as providing the benefit of freeing humans from the tedium of driving themselves, when in reality they are more about optimizing limited infrastructure. The former is a "nice to have but not necessary" benefit, the latter basically drastically reduces the amount of resources needed to maintain a city, it is a serious economic benefit that will be very hard to ignore. Of course, your city could allow for manual driving, but at great cost in needing more roads and such, it would be a serious tax burden on your residents (and rich countries can afford it now, but will they be able to afford it as populations double, triple, and space becomes much more limited?).

So your premise is flawed, you are attacking the wrong thing.
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This made me try reactjs. Too bad i had to watch bottom right corner to see smooth animations :(
Unfortunately the link is a little longer than I have time to view today, but I will put it on my to-watch list ;-)

As you say, velocity is a poor metric. But before I explain what I mean by that, I should define "metric". The dictionary defines it to be simply a measurement, but in software process engineering, "metric" is often a special term. It means a measurement that you use to modify your process.

The problem with velocity is that it is a measurement that is highly dependent upon your process. It simply divides an amount of work by an amount of time. However, the amount of work is actually a random variable with a certain distribution. When you change your process, the amount of work changes (as does it's distribution). So the end result is that if you have 2 processes, P1 and P2, with velocities, V1 and V2, V1 is almost completely unrelated to V2. This means that you can't use it to measure the success of process changes.

However, velocity is not useless. It is an excellent measure (not metric). Before, I mentioned that you are dividing an amount of work (a random variable with a certain distribution) by an amount of time. You may not know what the distribution is for the amount of work done, but if you take the mean of a sufficient number of these random variables, then that mean is roughly normally distributed (as per the central limit theorem).

In plain terms, this means that if you have enough small stories, the average amount of work for each story will be roughly normally distributed. As long as you don't change your process/programmers/etc the amount of time it takes will also be roughly normally distributed. So by taking some measurements, you can estimate (with error bars!) how long a given set of stories will take -- as long as nothing changes.

That last bit is important and is why velocity makes a poor metric. In fact, it is such a poor metric that IMHO you should never publish your velocity. Work in story points and leave calculating the overall estimated time of completion to someone who is not doing the work. Otherwise someone will start asking questions like, "How can we get our velocity higher?" (it has happened on every team I've worked on).

Incidentally, I have experimented with modelling requirements discovery during development -- i.e., trying to predict how much extra work will be added to a project from any given point until you ship. It seems to follow a curve that is very similar to Littlewood's defect discovery model (which is probably not so surprising). Again, by estimating the average rate at which requirements are added, one can probably estimate how much extra work will be required in addition to that already planned.
That's also anecdotal.
Its seems http://classroom.ng will work well with this - a unified, uncluttered inbox for educative email subscriptions.
Just out of curiosity- Do you recall the approximate weight of flywheels in referenced "big powerful manuals"?

IIRC the Subaru flywheels for the Impreza weigh in at about 20 lbs - and this is likely similar or identical to what is used in the Foresters.
> Also F150 pickup trucks are about $60K when loaded with options.

If you buy new. The parent commenter specifically mentioned a '98 F150.

Personally, though, I'm interested in one of these for my Blazer for the cold-temperature performance alone. If the lower power capacity is an issue, I could always just carry around my jumpbox.
I wondered too, but it was the first hit on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Not...
This isn't a twitter specific thing. It happens on every form of website that has follow and unfollow features(I do it on alot of my instagram accounts). It is the easiest way to gain a follower base for a very low cost.
> In fact for many, many years with Amazon making huge losses people predicted they would fail.

Amazon has been making huge losses for many years because they were reinvesting in expansion, which is very expensive for them. Amazon's investors understand and support these efforts.

That's different from something like Dropbox, where they can't get the majority of users to pay for the service: http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-grow...

The reason nobody else founded Dropbox was because they didn't have the luxury of running a lossmaking business for years on end.
A solution looking for a problem.

Sorry, it isn't my intention to be less than cordial. I just don't see a problem screaming for a fix. Nobody I know is screaming about the batteries in their cars. I don't even know (or care) what batteries are in our vehicles and I am far more aware of automotive matter than the average person out there.

Longevity isn't an issue.

Weight? People are far more interested in losing 34 lbs of fat from their bodies than 34 lbs of battery from their cars. The former would make them very happy while the latter is completely off their radar.

"It costs more but it's better" (paraphrasing). The world is littered with the carcasses of businesses who thought "better" was equivalent to "sales". I've done that before and lived to learn a few expensive lessons. This might very well be better in objective terms from a certain point of view but people are not going to hand over another $50 for something they truly don't care about. This isn't an iPhone or a Nest type product where "luxury makes me feel good" is part of the mental process.

I do agree the racing community might have interest in something like this. That said, if I were building a race car I would use Lithium Polymer battery packs that deliver tremendous power at a lower volume and weight. Are there rules prohibiting this due to fire hazard issues?

And yet, I could be absolutely wrong in my view.
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Isn't this the whole premise of the much touted "disruptive innovation" theory by Clayton M. Christensen?
Couldn't this also aide in correcting regressions at the same time?
You seem to have hit 1340, but I gave you a downvote in an effort to restore order to the world. :)
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Not necessarily "better", but lower level and without the use of syscalls: on bare-metal x86 protected mode, writing characters to "video memory" (from 0xB8000, normally).

http://wiki.osdev.org/Printing_To_Screen
My impression was that said smarts are possible in the Ohm because of the otherwise-wasted space caused by the smaller internals.

On the other hand, if there's that much more space, I'm curious as to why some more battery or capacitor banks couldn't be added to address the low-capacity concerns.
The author did not address pg's point that lacking a .com has the potential to signal weakness... such as among potential investors, potential employees, press, and other influencers (like pg himself).

(Yes, there are always exceptions - like angel.co - and hacks like getdropbox.com also work).

But perhaps the tradeoff of retaining your "perfect" .io domain is not worth the extra friction of convincing influencers that you are credible company, when an hour creative brainstorming session for a .com might solve the problem?

Sure, if you have a hockey stick growth chart growing revenue 100% month over month, it doesn't matter, but it's rare that most startups have that right out of the gate. So why add to your burden?
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> I'm not sure why my comment got so downvoted

Probably because of the "in the real world they're called 'grams'" remark. I vastly prefer metric over Imperial, too, but that came across as a tad snobbish, eh?

I upvoted, though, for what it's worth; weight savings aren't just the purview of racecars.
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I live in Croatia and I feel i wouldn't get any critics from you great people if i post something that's meant for Croatian market (language barriers etc..) hence the question.
Apropos nothing: I'd really like an alternative to Sage for light linear algebra work. In particular, I'm not in love with the way Sage interacts with Python.
You need the ".com" because mere mortals don't think about anything other than ".com". Put another way, for consumers, ".com" is assumed and ".<whatever_the_hell>" is an anti-pattern.
I'm not sure there is much the conference can really do, especially without risking the same backlash against our author that she is trying to avoid by not exposing him.

It’s possible the conference organizers are simply unjust or don’t understand, but we should consider why, in this particular example, the conference may have had to be unjust. What if cancelling this speaker would be so detrimental it would stop the conference? As an organizer, what would you do? In a situation like this, especially if some money has been collected and things like that, the organizers may not be allowed to make such a significant change due to competing obligations from the people who paid.

Even if they could evict him, how would the conference describe his removal? Couldn't this description cause the same backlash that's keeping our author from exposing him herself?

One question that’s on my mind is: is there anything criminal in his conduct? Could our author get a restraining order against the guy? Maybe our author can get the restraining order against the man, and then just go to the conference and call the police to remove him. That's my best attempt at a fair solution, but do keep in mind it would involve blind-siding the conference with the loss of a speaker. This might be necessary, as it seems the conference doesn't have the power to stop this guy without their hand being forced in this way. Also, I don't really know enough about law to say this plan is remotely feasible, but it’s the best I can come up with.
It felt like I was playing Half Life 2 while watching a zombie movie. I guess it's hard to make a recommendation without knowing what this dude likes in games.
Yep, if you say "mydomain.co" they will try "mydomain.co.com"
You are sacrificing your end result every time you don't spend a lifetime designing a custom processor for your application with an instruction set specific to your use case and instead have an easier time living like a normal human being.
These people have come up here before, and I remain incapable of understanding who exactly is (a) going to be interested in using this and (b) is incapable of finding or implementing their own solution.
In a way I think the "being attached" part of the argument is perhaps being misinterpreted.

Who is "attached" to what here? Why should I be attached to having a .com domain name? On the other hand, why should I be attached to the name I gave my business? If neither is critical to the success of the business, which is better? Sticking with a name that doesn't matter even though I can't have the .com domain? Or what if I could have both, but decided not to. It seems frivolous to say you must have .com domain, but also seems frivolous to say I need to stick with the name of my company.

Also if a .com is available probably means you'll be able to get more marketing accomplished by name recognition alone. When you talk about a company you don't say "I heard about this new company Company.com". Generally when I hear people talk about a company they refer to it as the name of the company not by the domain name. So what's the first thing people think when they want to learn more? "Companyname.com". Ok they probably Google it too, but even that small amount of additional hassle you put a user through trying to find your company is probably statistically significant.
IMO, It's totally a fine question to give - I do believe however that the gripe was against the assumed intent of the questioner, but then, is it fair to assume one's intent in a situation like this? The answer was a good one and informative - startups are companies, and to ignore the economics involved would be a huge mistake. History does repeat itself, and so it's important to understand the difference between now and the 90's.
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> I leave my lights on and kill my battery once every few months, so this is easily worth it for me

I compulsively check to make sure my lights are turned off yet my battery still dies at least once a year because I don't regularly use my car, costing around $200 in on-site service and replacement per go. The smart shut-off feature is worth it to me - even if it's just to save time waiting around for someone to perform a replacement. The reduction in weight is a bonus as I have a small car with a fairly humble engine displacement.
Eh, I also don't entirely agree with pg and wrote a bit in reaction to his piece about Change Your Name. But this is super weak. If all you can say is "famous guy's opinion is wrong," you aren't really adding much of value. Your position shouldn't be defined by "I am against x." That leaves x -- in this case pg -- defining your position by default. It isn't very rich.
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Nick's logic (which I'd arrived at independently, though years later) is solid. He's known for some fairly impressive ideas, some of which I disagree with.

Publishing, traditionally, has worked through integrated purchasing rather than dis-integrating purchasing. Magazines, newspapers, books, subscriptions, broadcast advertising (bundled payments through advertisers rather than subscribers). Music syndication. For numerous reasons.

Individually assessing the purchase validity of ever smaller quantities of content simply doesn't pan out. Paying into a kitty and apportioning based on general consumption patterns, rather more so.

Micropayments are the media payment plan of the future, and always will be.
Let me preface this by saying that I am a full-time Linux user and have been for several years.
I run Debian on my laptop and Arch Linux on my home machine. Both use i3 (no DE), and I do all my work at the command line or in applications that I launch from the command line[0]. I love the Linux terminal. I don't even own a non-Linux machine, not counting the various OS X devices I've used at work when one is required.

> I think it's a myth that Linux users aren't interested in GUI tools.

It's definitely a myth, and a very dangerous and self-fulfilling one. I would strongly appreciate a GUI option for many common command-line tools. I like the command-line, and do most of my work there. But sometimes GUI tools are nice to have. The problem is that most GUI tools on Linux really suck, and most Linux tools don't even have a GUI at all[1]. Contrary to popular belief, it's not due to the inadequacy of GUI toolkits on Linux, but simply due to a lack of time actually spent developing these tools.

This ends up being self-fulfilling, because it raises the barrier to getting started on Linux, which keeps out people who would be otherwise very comfortable on Linux as an OS, but simply dislike being forced to use the command-line exclusively.

[0] Never bothered with dmenu, never really felt the need to set it up.

[1] I'm not counting ncurses-based interfaces as GUIs for these purposes.
Well, yes, but that wasn't my argument.

It also doesn't address any unstated biases The Economist Group might have.
IMO, bootloader/video memory is quite a distance from the traditional model of what "Hello World" is meant to be about, no? If anyone's interested, there are lots of very simple bootloader Hello World goods around:

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=17130
You need a magnet for regenerative braking, not a permanent magnet. An induction motor cannot regenerate without a source of electricity, but you can get a lot more out than you put in to generate the magnetic field.
You can still fast track an update if you ask nicely. I think you get a limited number of fast tracks.
I strongly agree with you. After Paul Graham's 'Change your name' essay lots of startups have been having sleepless thoughts about naming. Dude just offer an amazing service! When you hit product market fit, then maybe u can change your name! then, ur users will follow u. Product market fit is the key. I recently decided to stop being bothered about my http://classroom.ng (unified and uncluttered inbox for educative email subs you care about and can't miss), because no one will see a .com fro less than $10k ... Focus on users. look at Yahoo! Who knew?
The problem with this is not if Apple will allow it or not, but the uncertainty, which is deadly for a platform. No developer who take themselves seriously will want to depend on a platform that may go away. Good for you if Apple lets you get away with it, but that doesn't mean it will be like that forever, nor does it mean all apps using this approach will be accepted. It's case by case, and it's already shitty as is when it comes to approval process, most developers would just decide to follow the directions.
Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with your employer?
Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with an employer? I have a good job, generous benefits, stock options, lots of PTO. I have 5 years experience in open source technologies. I believe in the company I work for, its management team and its product. That being said, many engineers have been leaving. I have been at the company for 7 months and am happy, but it's clear that right now they need senior developers and I'm not sure there could be a better time to ask for a raise. If they denied me a raise I would stay there (dont tell them). What I'm concerned about is the small???? chance that it ruins my relationship with my employer. I have a newborn and my partner quit her job to stay at home. I earn 80k and am Extremely grateful to have such a good job, but at the same time I believe with a small amount of work I could earn more.

I would feel like a complete idiot if I tried to capitalize on lack of ability to retain people at my current position.

Has anyone had negative experiences from asking for a raise??
This is confusing to me. Why is it "GitHub Desktop is now available" rather "GitHub Desktop App Updated"?

What is actually new here? I know the native GitHub GUI app has been available for a number of years before now.
I read that as well. It seems that location based business (ie: restaurants) seem to have an easier time getting one but unfortunately my client is not.

Just a bit annoying because as algorithmic it may be, I feel like I've provided all the resources to get one.
Apparently the N namespace was already reserved on the alphabet.
Hmmm.... does this mean totally independent or part of Alphabet?
What a tense x minutes that would have been...
I would feel like a complete idiot if I tried to capitalize on lack of ability to retain people at my current position AND it backfired
Don't bother. Just redirect, carry on. Food for thought: micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-aflac-got-its-name.html

Keep in mind, they are a multi billion dollar company and did not bother.

Best of luck.
I don't care at all about whether or not a business as a .com domain name. I care about usefulness and utility. As long as the business shows up when I google them, I'm good.
I haven't seen Ingress get to the front page since I joined, so I needto take this opportunity to shout out to my fellow resistance crew!
This was the first tool I thought of when I saw this. They actually look similar, too.
I don't chuckle when I see that. I just enjoy the exhaust notes.