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The debate over whether mid-engine is superior to rear-engine is not an open and shut case. Although proponents of either camp would have you believe otherwise. The advantages of mid-engine are en vogue, so I won't repeat them here, but here are some advantages to a rear-engine car that are often dismissed:

Under acceleration, a rear-engine car has an almost absurd traction advantage over any other engine packaging configuration. For example, under acceleration, the 911 has a 74% rear bias, where the Cayman has a 67% bias.

Under braking, a rear-engine car has better weight distribution as well. Again, the 911 has a front rear distribution of 58/42 versus 64/36 for the Cayman.

I'm not nearly well versed enough in vehicle handling dynamics to hammer out a full-blown debate, but I have read very compelling arguments from both sides of the debate. I transisioned from the "mid-engine is the only compelling packaging format" camp to the "maybe the rear-engine format isn't completely insane" camp.
Yeah, that occured to me. My thoughts arent terribly clear on this, but where i am is.. Stuff like, this restarant, bugatti veyrons, luxury yachts etc. shouldnt exist. Producing them is massivley wasteful of resources and they require huge inequality to be viable.

Im sure theres a sustainable, fair, socially responsible way to celebrate your anniversary with a nice dinner, but not whats described in the article, that is insane overkill.
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For some of you, this may amount to a sort of secret sauce, but I'm wondering: How can I generate fulfilling leads?

I find that the best jobs either just sort of fall on me when I least expect it or are the result of an incredibly time-consuming (and sometimes fraught with emotional uncertainty) campaign of lead-generation.

I feel confident about my work, excited to help people, and capable of taking on zany, bizarre, opaque challenges on a self-starting basis.

Yet, most of the jobs that I come across are either 1) insufficiently challenging (and thus below a budget that I can comfortably consider) or 2) a logistical mismatch (ie, looking for full-time).

How can I generate leads that are fulfilling and a good match for me? Without spending weeks and weeks doing it?
Kinda puts into perspective the (inaccurate anyway) claims about Marilyn Monroe or whoever's dress size. The "standards of beauty" of the 1950s placed, if anything, an even greater emphasis on being slim than they do today.
Just think of all of the energy that is wasted producing food that becomes excess fat on people.
A big, obvious concern would be having a system that alerted you to drivers previously seen exhibiting bad behavior, and the social justice network taking that as an opportunity to avenge the bad behavior and inadvertently causing danger to themselves, their "adversaries" or other drivers on the road.

On top of that, everybody drives poorly at some point, and for some reason. A roommate of mine wrecked his car once like, one block from our house. I couldn't stop laughing at him long enough for him to explain that while he was driving, a spider was crawling out of his ear, and it justifiably freaked him out enough to hit a telephone pole.

If I was a random passerby that didn't get to stick around for the explanation, I would have flagged him as a clear danger to other motorists, which would have been undeserved. To boot, I think he reacted as well as he could have, and probably better than most, given the circumstance.
Which is basically the definition of entropy: where the [energy] cost of doing anything with something exceeds the value of doing it.

Entropy has overcome this vessel. Cheaper to buy one than to find and fix/recycle it.
Where are you shopping?

Try looking at higher end raw denim. It often comes unhemmed and around a 36" inseam. You'll need to get it hemmed a bit, but otherwise should be OK.
Really? Aren't you missing out on how people are buying iPhones for $1?

Taboola is a billion dollar business with MULTIPLE investment rounds over a hundred million dollars?

I am angry about it.
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http://m.livescience.com/49-decade-study-americans-taller-fa...

Women and men are both only an inch taller on average compared to 1960. And women are 4" shorter on average today than the average 1960s man.
Having 3 sisters, a wife, and three daughters, I have heard the litany all too often that they have to shop at a store because there is no telling what you are going to get from a catalog.

The engineer in me wants to figure out if one could codify hips, bust, waist, and leg length to get a 4! set of combinations but I can't imagine any store that would buy 24 alternates in small, medium, large, and XL, that is 96 copies of the item just to sell one to someone. Not really economical. The thing that really bothers them though is when a supplier has reliably supplied the same size for several years and suddenly changes manufacturers or something and wham it doesn't fit.

It certainly suggests that roboticly made to order clothes would be a winner (Google could try that with their robotics companies) and one of the big obstructions, the sewing machine, is slowly succumbing to automation

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/automated-mini-factories-wi...
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No I dont. Thats one throwaway sentence. Its not an excellent argument for or against anything.
I guess when we talk about dress size we have to adjust for inflation from now on.
There's also a Stan wrapper https://github.com/goedman/Stan.jl
We've come full circle and have just pulled our stack back from a complex framework (Durandal, akin to Angular) to a simple architecture centred around knockout.js, and everyone is happier for it. The code is cleaner and debugging is a world apart.

Backend wise I've taken a liking to Express because it hides nothing. I prefer it over Rails or ASP.NET MVC, where there is so much magic. I would switch if I could but we have too much legacy code.
Does that make twitter, amazon, and tesla still startups? I swear I'm not cherrypicking data. Those, plus google and facebook, are the first big companies I thought to look up P/E on. Public startup seems like a contradiction.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/pe-ratio

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/pe-ratio

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/pe-ratio

I agree company size is a bad metric, but there's something weird about calling some of these huge companies with thousands of employees startups (the unicorns, I mean, not amazon and twitter).
> the average American woman

Well I'm glad they clarified American women.
"US law allows restaurants to pay waiters and waitresses well below minimum wage, under the assumption that their tips will make up the difference."

Except on the West Coast... Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota and Montana all have the same minimum wage for tipped and non-tipped employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
"I think a useful layman's definition of "realtime" might be able to be extracted: "fast enough that, given the speed of the task the client is trying to accomplish, the client is never blocked waiting on the computation in such a way that it then performs suboptinally against its deadlines.""

That's actually a reasonable definition that could lead to re-interpretation and new usage by lay people. VR is a good example. Matter of fact, we did use that in game design because we had to differentiate between what had no delay and the pre-rendered graphics used in cut-scenes. We normally just said gameplay footage but some said "rendered in real-time." Those using VRML (the "VWWW") on dial-up knew what the opposite of real-time was. ;)
Gay men are often stereotyped to have a lot of changing sexual partners, which increases the risks for STIs. There are quite a few countries that forbid gay men from donating blood because of this.
The Soviet Nuclear Disaster the West Covered Up.
Zoom into the ocean with Google Maps/Earth. You'll see that away from land, the resolution plummets. Too much water surface, not enough reason for high detail.
Thank you for the reply!

I am creating it in a third world country for mainly rural folks. I see in OpenTok they have the following bandwidth requirement:

Video: 300 kbps per stream (recommended lowest level)

Audio: 50 kbps per stream (recommended lowest level)

I guess it's in bytes. Here, average speed is around 64kbps/512Kbps. Is there anything else which have further low requirement? For hangout it's pretty low:

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2979333?hl=en

Something in this range would be best.
Yup. It seems better than inhaling smoke particles though.

For people that use weed, vaping is probably safer than inhaling unfiltered joints. http://www.theweedblog.com/smoking-marijuana-vs-vaporizing-m...
The third slide says, "... the US is consuming the least oil per dollar of GDP in more than 40 years...".

That is intriguing. If I am thinking correctly, it means:

A. The US has become more efficient, and/or,

B. The US 'product mix' has shifted away from goods/services that consume oil.

Given the loss of manufacturing in the 70s & 80s, perhaps it is more of B. We are flying a lot more and having goods purchased online delivered to us, so that would point away from A. Hmm....
Sorry, but this is wrong. An air-cooled (technically oil cooled) car has no problem with the transfer of heat. Porsche themselves ran the 917/10k with a flat-12 air cooled twin turbo engine that could make 1000hp reliably.

The transition to water cooling in the 911 was done for noise and emissions purposes primarily. A side benefit for them was the ability to buy off-the-shelf HVAC componentry and not have to engineer a heating system based on exhaust heat exchange.

It's very easy to get equivalent horsepower out of an air-cooled engine than the current water cooled models. There are plenty of air-cooled turbos pushing 600hp, and the Singer Vehicle Design 911 engines are producing 400 hp based on the original air-cooled 911 engine.
Those are not recipes. Also, the second example is measuring the coffee in tablespoons.
There was a SPITBOL/SNOBOL thread recently. I thought: no need to use the language as we could probably do it in Python, LISP, or something similarly flexible. Just steal the good parts of the past language while having all the good parts of the current one. And BOOM. :)
Yeah, I've seen it on the questionnaires. That's just wrong and an obvious form of pervasive hate. I think the determination should be strictly related to risky behaviors like not using condoms or sharing needles.

Also, the testing of the blood should be better (more frequent and comprehensive, esp. HIV and hepatitis families) and not simply arbitrarily throw the few people out that actually take the time to donate blood.

EDIT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/12...
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Also we design out societies incrementally all the time, in all sorts of ways. Introducing new legislation and repealing old ones being one small example. Also some societies work markedly better than others and theres huge amounts of data to support that. As a very crude indication you could compare countries quality of life vs GDP. Countries with a higher quality of life / GDP are using their resources more efficiently to improve their citizena quality of life.
The blood donation ban isn't because of the stereotype of changing partners. It's because men who have sex with men are much more likely to have HIV. [1] (81% of all newly diagnosed HIV cases are from men who have sex with men)

Now whether the ban is effective or necessary is another debate, but it's a legitimate public health debate. Not just an attack on homosexuals driven by ignorance.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/ataglance.html
That's the most totalitarian/fascist thing I've read all day, congratulations I suppose.

"Paternal education" has been seen before on a horrifying worldwide scale, for the most recently famous examples we have Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, The Kim's, etc.

Really now, that's how you think we should fix the problem of unhealthy Americans?
> One idea others have proposed would be clearly-and-emphatically warn of future denial of certain healthcare expenses

A uncertain punishment in the distant future doesn't motivate anyone to do anything. That is human nature. Charging per kilo for airline tickets though may be a motivator though, because by losing weight you immediately save money.
All 'air cooled' engines are 'oil cooled' technically, including the Beetle.

The 911 has two oil coolers (well, from the mid '70s, anyway) - one in the right front fender, and one mounted to the engine itself.
A patternmaker's blog/commentary on this subject, that I came across recently: http://www.vanitysizing.com/
What really counts is happiness over time, with things like time dealing with diabetic loved ones factored in. Did anyone measure that one? At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how fat you are if you had a good time and it didn't cost too much.
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This is really interesting, thanks for responding. It seems, though, like the vast majority of these problems aren't coming from the necessary evils brought about by outdated technologies -- it just seems like inexperienced (or just...bad) coders trying to shove stuff out the door on the cheap. If the people who made the original project had been "using" React, I'd imagine you'd just be dealing with the busted CSS and mangled JSX everywhere.

This raises an interest point that I think I was missing before -- "imposing structure on your developers via solid frameworks and tools." The idea that even if you don't need the functionality of a particular framework, a framework's prescriptive way of doing things might reduce enough of the variance in styles to make a big project more coherent.
Well, you don't do any of those things with unicorns, either
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The thing you have to remember about LMGTE is that, like most modern GT series, it is heavily governed by Balance of Performance regulations. Cars are handicapped so that there is relative parity between all of the models competing. This means a car being competitive doesn't necessarily prove the design's superiority.

The situation with rear engined Porsches is similar to the one with FWD touring cars. Sure with enough work you can make it perform admirably, but if you were starting from a clean slate you would never deliberately design a race car that way because you'd just be making things harder on yourself than you need to.
High risk lifestyle choices:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/yet-another-study-confirms...

(Didn't read the article, just googled life expectancy gay vs. straight).
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Microsoft did get called out for using a mini-mainframe, the AS/400, back when they were pushing Windows Server. Reportedly they ran their entire business on one AS/400. Embarrassed, they got off the AS/400. Took about 20-23 Windows servers to match its performance and reliability. Told me what I needed to know. ;)

But, yeah, they don't use it any more. Most mainframe users are legacy users. However, there's occasional conversions especially for consolidation. IBM's competitor, Group Bull, posted some case studies on that such as consolidating hundreds of desktops and servers onto 2 easily-managed mainframes with cost savings.
I moved from Europe to North America and my shoe size went from 9.5 to 11.5. Amazing!
What Itanium team? They haven't released a new chip since Poulson, which came out in 2012. Kittson was supposed to be released this year (and last year, and the year before), on the same process as Poulson, in a package that's supposedly more compatible with the Xeon line.
Unisys, Fujitsu, and Group Bull that I recall. Too bad Unisys bought Convergent's CTOS. Was the only thing close to Plan 9 that had big take-up in business. I'm not counting Inferno because we're talking mainframes and big business.
> If we take Venezuela we need to make sure that we don't isolate the rest of the continent.

So you don't see a problem with "you" "taking" Venezuela, as long as the consequences aren't too bad for "you"?

Nevermind that other countries are not supposed to be your colonies and nevermind that you, as in, ordinary citizens, won't even benefit from the US "taking" Venezuela.
Looks like an uphill, learning experience.
What year/miles was your 911?

Bit of hyperbole to say any common problem is a $10k fix.
Terms of Service never stops a unicorn.
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There's an Israeli company called Windward that tracks ships, you may be interested in it (I read a profile of it recently that was intriguing.)

See e.g. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ship-tracking-startup-windward-v... and https://pando.com/2015/04/27/the-last-great-analog-frontier-...
That's not true: there is a push here. There's been previous articles, college partnerships, and so on. I'm not going to pretend they'll put more effort here than on cheap labor. However, there's been colleges teaching COBOL, mainframe, etc, even community colleges, with almost nobody trying to get into those jobs outside people already working one. This is one of few times where there might be a real labor shortage as one generation retires or dies off without another to take the reins.
Have you tried Cabelas, Duluth Trading, or Filsons? They do a good job for me, and it sounds like we have similar pants sizes. I bet you also have the same problem as I have with non-tall shirts: they're always too short in the torso and sleeves when they're the "right size" instead of baggy.
> Scandinavia has very free market open economies coupled with extensive welfare states financed by high taxes.

That's a contradictory statement. High taxes represent a high level of intervention in the economy/market, which is the opposite of a free market.

It's not "working" in Scandinavia either, by the way.

There's a limit to how much you can intervene in your economy before it collapses. We're just not as far along the path as Venezuela.
You eliminate weight and complexity by using air cooling. No water pumps, radiators, expansion tanks and ~6-10 L of coolant. The water pumps use power from the engine, the casting of the water jackets results in a heavier engine, and the radiator and coolant all add weight.

In the case of a rear engined car, eliminating water cooling helps even more because of the need to transport the coolant all the way to the front and back again. Mind you, Porsche eventually accepted this compromise, and to be fair, they were already doing it for oil lines.
Direct pointer to referenced article to avoid parsing it from BI clickbait: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141208045206-6976444--the-w...

This is definitely about Microsoft - the "HiPo" reference gives it away and I think worth reading. I knew someone in that same period who was killing himself there, sleeping in his office for one dubious effort after another.
Men who have sex with men account for 81% of new HIV cases diagnosed each year. You basically eliminate half of possible HIV cases by eliminating only a few percent of the population. It's a legitimate public health issue, the same as banning people from countries with high HIV rates from donating blood.

Whether an individual's rights to donate blood outweigh the risks to public health is open to debate, or whether the ban is effective is open to debate. However, the ban is driven by numbers not hate.

I tend to think the ban isn't effective simply because it relies on self reporting.
T-shirts, yes. Dress shirts are generally collar size / sleeve length, with a handful of companies (Brooks Bros. and Charles Tyrwhitt, off the top of my head) offering 3-4 different body cuts as well.
And how would Twitter know which API key somesitewithtweets.com is using? There are ways, but if the API key user is careful and doesn't allow arbitrary searches (so Twitter can't try searching #someguid and then kill that account) it'd be pretty hard for them to figure it out. They could try adding fake deleted tweets on a per-account basis, then seeing who publishes those. A simple two-account double check or manual intervention would prevent that from leaking info.
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Toptal does take time and spend money on reviewing candidates: there are no round-manhole-cover questions, there are algorithms for which one can prepare, there is a live coding session and a project that is evaluated by an experienced developer, together with the candidate. As you say, there are badass developers evaluating other developers reviewing their work and seeing them work :)

Disclaimer: I work as a Director of Engineering at Toptal and I've held a few hundreds of those live interviews myself.
Lmao. I would've been to. Like with person you replied to, retail companies in my area still use mainframes, AS/400, and even IBM's DOS variant. Few people even understand fully how it works and they're not young people wanting a ton of change to happen. Improvements are incremental and stay within the terminal.

However, they do use newer technologies on GUI's etc that integrate with their mainframe solutions. People often have to keep working with two, inconsistent systems at once, though.
Because the 80/20 rule.
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So I'm a "member" there. I'm on the Devops side and my hourly price is half what I charge clients normally (I live in the SF Bay area)

I generally apply for jobs there when I have some spare time but the devops jobs are few and far between. Most of the time my rate is too high.

From the slack channels I'm in, there's mostly non-US members that can undercut my price.

I've always been paid on time for the few jobs I did for them . The one thing I like about them is they deal with getting the money and from what I know if the client doesn't pay them, they still pay the worker.

I don't do it full time so I have a different view on things.
Until very recently I wrote firmware for SSD controllers. In addition to the error correction mentioned in the article, we also used RAIN (Redundant Array of Independant NAND) as yet another data protection measure. You can read more about it here: https://www.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/technical-...
The entire blood donation routine lifestyle/behaviors questionnaire of self-reporting is of little value because people can make mistakes or intentionally misrepresent their status. A far better approach is to test all donated blood, all the time for significant communicable, incurable diseases. If it's "too expensive," then newer/cheaper tests need to be developed.
Best time to get in it. Learn mainframe, CICS, RPG, and COBOL. Among these are many jobs that work steady hours with pay that stays the same or increases over time due to lack of labor. Boring, predictable work. Pretty much the opposite of IT in general. And remember that you can always do consulting or FOSS in modern tech after hours for fun. ;)
So what? How do you connect that API key to some anonymous web site that saves deleted tweets?

The only way I can think of is for Twitter to publish different deleted tweets to different API keys and then see which one the web site surfaces. Not very hard but not trivial either.
50!

If you're going to go listicle, go large.
There are a few brands I buy where (garment size = waist size + 2) ex: "size 32" means "34-inch waist".
> But he sure plans more centralization, statism, higher taxation, nationalization of education and health and redistribution of wealth.

Leaving aside the centralization part, you'll be amazed to hear how many countries can have the rest of these things without arresting anybody at 4 in the morning or building another Berlin wall.
It would be nice to see a list like this from 4 years ago.
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