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I looked at that same stove and decided it's not worth the effort -- they claim 2W sustained power, which is a bit less than a standard 500mA USB computer port can provide. At that rate, it would take hours to charge a phone, and I don't want to tend a fire for hours.

So instead I bring along a 5000MaH battery pack (weight is around 5 ounces), and a 15W folding solar panel that generates enough power to charge even on overcast days (though certainly much less than 15W). (the solar panel is not light, it's around 1.5lbs)
That's "manager"-style micromanagement. There's also "lead"-style micromanagement: someone who was in the trenches handling everything, and now is supposed to delegate and manage others, but doesn't necessarily know how—their first instinct is still to do everything themselves, and when they don't have enough time, to micromanage whoever is doing it so that the result will come out the same as if they did it themselves.

I wish there was a single book I could hand to these people, or a training course I could suggest for them, because they frequently know they have a problem "letting go" but don't know what to do about it.

If such a book existed, I could imagine it becoming the standard "gift" a VC gives a founder the day they hire their first salaried employee. ;)
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There's no perpetual motion here. It costs energy to create hydrocarbons. The investors backing this project are interested in combating climate change as well as developing energy storage that is carbon neutral (consumes as much CO2 as it releases into the atmosphere).
>In the interest of making the topic easier to comprehend, we will start with a fairly high-level overview, and then dive into each individual component as we go along. Our journey starts with a user called Alice. Alice owns a laptop, and wants to send e-mail to a person called Bob. ... [wall of text...]

I understand the enthusiasm to spread knowledge but a wall of text like that isn't going to be helpful for novices. When technical people try to impart knowledge, the text they write usually suffers from the Curse of Knowledge[1]. For example, "DHCP" and "UDP" is mentioned several times which is a level of detail that is not necessary for an introductory overview.

Instead, to explain how the internet works would require lots of diagrams, pictures, videos, etc. illustrating different scenarios. E.g., sending SMTP is different from HTTP and both use DNS. All these "mental buckets" (and many others) are difficult to separate for novices. Instead of drilling into a timeline of bytes sent from Alice to Bob, new concepts can be taught as "progressive layers" of detail (with the timeline rewound each time.) Answering the question of "how the internet works" is so open-ended that apparently, some tech interviewers like to use it for evaluating job candidates.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
It was pretty strange seeing AWS written as A.W.S. It took me a second to realize what they were talking about.
Oh believe me, I'm plenty mad at UK politicians :) But since our current government gained a majority while only actually taking around 37% of the vote, I'm pretty sure we're stuck between a rock and a hard place in actually getting the system changed.

Gonna quote a post from reddit:

"Facebook does do things honestly & by the book. It just so happens that they have a presence in multiple countries around the world. Due to this Facebook Uk® must pay massive amounts to lease the licenses for software & intellectual property from Facebooks conveniently placed HQ in the lowest tax capitals in the world. Doing so at a price Facebook themselves chooses perhaps based on quarterly earning estimates runs at an amazing cost almost siphoning off all profit.
So the resulting entity which owns all the IP / leasing then pays tax in the country it is in on its earnings. Now they may be incorperated in a place with minimal corporation tax & simply keep a post office box there, but I assure you that's entirely the focus of their operations & is absolutely not just in place as a tax avoidance tactic.
Now if you dislike this you can absolutely tell them it's unacceptable. I'm sure politicians will be telling them off and using them to get press for .. oh 7-14 days until people move on & forget about it. At which point those same politicians won't change anything which impacts the practices at all."
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The best solution to Gerrymandering is the Alternate Vote. CGP Grey has a great video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

He also has a great "what is gerrymandering" video that illustrated this same idea, but with fun animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY
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This doesn't solve the globalization problem. Say..an American company such as Walmart goes to a country, kill all their local competition with lower price, and make a ton of profit and then distribute them amongst Walmart shareholders in the U.S.

Sure those shareholders will pay cap gain or personal income, but now since you eliminated corporate tax completely, the net tax revenue of the country wal-mart operates in is no diminished.

This is a great idea to increase the wealth gap between U.S. and the rest of the world, for good or bad. Considering how many international conglomerates are U.S. based.
> That's a significantly different situation, because Google doesn't really give you ads for things you didn't ask for ads for.

Well, not really. Google will present ads that are relevant to me, but that doesn't mean that I asked for them.

They're still forced on me unless I start using Google Contributor.
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This doesn't solve the globalization problem. Say..an American company such as Walmart goes to a country, kill all their local competition with lower price, and make a ton of profit and then distribute them amongst Walmart shareholders in the U.S.

Sure those shareholders will pay cap gain or personal income, but now since you eliminated corporate tax completely, the net tax revenue of the country wal-mart operates in is no diminished.

This is a great idea to increase the wealth gap between developed countries and the rest of the world, for good or bad. Considering how many international conglomerates are American, European or Japanese.

Developing countries wouldn't stand a chance this way.
I'd also recommend "How the world was one" ( http://www.amazon.com/How-World-Was-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0553074... )

It does an astonishingly good job of describing how networks evolved and why the function as they do today (as of mid-90's - not much has changed AFAICT).
I disagree there pretty heavily. There are a lot of C implementations out there -- gcc, clang, msc, icc, keil, cscript, tcc, pcc, etcetc. The big reason C hasn't turned into a similar Tower of Babel is that the various stakeholders in C recognize that it's a living language, and get together regularly to help work out methods that aren't useful anymore and add features to the specification to reflect what modern programmers want. If C had stopped standardization when ANSI C was released, you'd see a similar number of variants.
Would such HR changes also apply to subsidiaries like RSA and VMware?
Even so, I don't see how this could replace the foam in a conventional helmet. It seems like it has its strength in its elasticity, but not much else. The video did a poor job at explaining good applications.
Certainly, a good part of A.W.S. software is open source,
which means it could be used elsewhere, and companies
like Microsoft and Google also have big clouds. But
neither of them, nor IBM, which also wants the cloud
business, created more than 500 new features and services
last year, as A.W.S. did.

Not sure about the precision of that number, but the speed and agility of AWS compared to MSFT/GOOG/IBM is astonishing. I still don't quite understand how they do it.
This is a good thing to raise awareness of, but the solution is poor advice.

Asking developers to remember the "gotcha" of 600 characters is not really viable. Instead, if this is important to you, consider the addition of minification or comment stripping to your production deployment process. Minification will also make the variable names and syntax use shorter, saving you further precious characters.

Learn the problem, but automate the solution.
Japanese and USA plugs are similar but in actual application they are somewhat different. 3 prong plugs (for example the kind on every desktop computer and monitor in the USA) are not very common. My computers and monitors, fridge, oven, didn't have 3 prong plugs. The computers and monitors instead the came with a 3rd cable you can optionally attach for ground.

http://www.aim-ele.co.jp/products/power-cable/images/powerca...

Most extension cords and power strips only have 2 slots (not 3).

http://www.yodobashi.com/%E3%83%91%E3%82%BD%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B...

Some of them lock the plug in. You insert the plug about 30 degrees off and then twist and the plug gets locked in which solves the fall out problem people complain about in the USA.

http://www.askul.co.jp/p/8430652/

I like the UK ones best
Well, yeah. Like, if your company is headquartered in Cupertino, maybe then act like it when tax time comes and pay your US and California taxes.

Setting up a nesting doll stack of shell corporations to dodge all that is, right now, legal, but is that the world I'd want to have a hand in building? Nope.
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Thanks. That's what I figured. Probably should be more focused on not bombing the interview :)
You still didn't refute that his students are doing better in their later classes. If your complaint is lack of foundation what is causing his students to do better?
No group literally starts that way, but their behaviors exhibit as such and oftener there is a reason why terms like Oppression Olympics exist in the social media lexicon. It's not out of humor but that there's a core truth to it.

For example, there's a segment of gender critical feminists that believe that transgender activists are uniformly assaulting them on all fronts when in reality transgender activists have been focused on issues of non-discrimination in law (public accommodation, employment, and healthcare as big issues where activists seek redress). Neither side assumes one is special or better/worse than the other but both attempt grand standing on who is more oppressed/harmed by society. And how unique their position is in terms of said oppression. I've rarely seen either side (being trans myself here) extend a hand in regards to trying to understand the other. It seems the most vocal members of this fracas are doomed to bury each other in terrible memes and virtual shouting matches. Some have gone further like Cathy Brennan who has doxxed a transgender teenager (who had no quarrel with her or other gender critical feminists) for the Pacific Justice Institute (a right wing think tank out of California). So, I hope you can see where I'm coming from here.
You're of course free to make that choice, thanks to the USA.
No idea. My personal experience with a Dell merger was with a company that had no subsidiaries.
Amazon.com is more than 20 years old. It’s not surprising they are in markets for the long haul.
It's an apathetic exposé/critique of various roles in, approaches to and/or views of software development. "In the end though, it is only when you solve problems with a human face that you can feel truly right; What is essential is invisible to the computer."
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European car makers has been selling a lie to the public.
That Diesel cars are cleaner because they emit lower Co2
but instead in practise they exhaust a lot of Nox particles.

It should also be noted that European car makers like Fiat Alfa Romeo invented the common rail fuel injection system that makes modern Diesel engines so effective.

In light of the recent Nox scandal. One can question if diesel cars make sense in big urbanised cities.

Would it not be better to have Electric, Gas hybrid cars in the cities?
I thought after 911 the FAA enforced registered flight plans for all flights cross country, no? At least that's what the general news reported at the time.
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I don't think it's fair to blame something like this on Javascript per se, but that doesn't mean it isn't fundamentally badly designed ;) However, people actually appear to have started to notice this, and the latest result, ECMAScript 6, looks actually like it might be OK. At last, when people tell you JS isn't that bad, you can actually believe them - though if they told you that before, maybe do your own research too.

With the latest version, you have block scope, you have a shorthand function syntax, the "this" nonsense is teeny bit less awful, there's help at hand for the inevitable callback chains, and strict mode is still there. There's also a new class syntax (though actually - aside from "this"! - I thought the old-style classes were the least of its problems).

I won't apologise for rolling my eyes a bit at how it's taken until ver 6 to get block scope, but better late than never.
Lisp is not a language like C (Common Lisp is, but Lisp is broader).

Lisp is a language family, sort of like you might have a family of languages with Algol-derived syntax.

And, you know, we see new members of the latter family all the time; they're just so dominant among programming languages that we don't even talk about them as a related group.
I agree with both of you but let's not lump the anger of the gamer gaters with the anger of the truly opprossed, exploited and abused.
I think you missed the part of parent comment about "realism".
Some of us initially poor but nouveau-rich would like to retire before we're old, you know. A wealth tax makes that much harder than it already is. You would also kill property ownership by all but the ultra-rich who have enough assets elsewhere to make up the continuous drainage because home appreciation does not grow that fast.
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It's nothing fancy. We just alter an internal timestamp.

Yes: job ads have their own time decay algorithm that starts them out at #6 or so and steadily lowers them over about 3 hours. There are other switches that cause some posts (e.g. stories without URLs) to decline faster, but I think they all work on other variables than time.
This article is rather thin on numbers or tangible benefits that actually developed because of joining YC as a "later stage" company. I'm not saying there isn't an argument to be made that joining YC late is a good thing, I just don't think this essay does that.

Descriptions of how YC is more pleasant as a late-stage company are not surprising. Of course it would be, but did YOU derive that much benefit that you couldn't have achieved on your own?

Could the team not have derived the same benefit by simply holding up for 3 months on their own, and getting their investors/board to be actively involved during that time as a sounding board?

The only real benefit I see being expounded is the connections YC offers for securing a series A. However, I'm skeptical that a solid business with pre-existing good connections (via their current investors and board) couldn't secure a reasonable series A without sacrificing 7% of their company. Simple arithmetic dictates that YC's value-prop needs to be amazing to justify sacrificing 7% in exchange for a more optimal series A.
It is already possible. Doing this doesn't make it more or less likely to be abused.
The "Tier" system is out-dated at best and shouldn't be regurgitated in this day and age.
If the whole chain of production and sales would be relieved from paying accountants and being charge stupid tax, then the overall prices would fall. You give me an example of Amazon. Would 3%* of overall cost added to the end product be higher than 3 companies sustaining their accounting teams going over taxes etc. + you required to pay sales tax? Revenue tax = no sales tax. Still think it would be more expensive?

1 very low tax to replace all the taxes from the producer to customer seems like much better option than being "not strangled" by current tax laws.

*3% assuming there is producer, distributor/owner and Amazon in the chain.
I asked the same question; I got downvoted.
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Also, being a former forum goer of Graveyard of the Gods, I know for a fact Francois Trembley pulls the whole special group atheist attitude all the time. Dude never seems to admit that maybe he's wrong on something, but then again he was a Randian much like myself. I guess some people never shake off that part of the Randian delirium.
> It can certainly be internalized to the point of being "normal" and "comfortable", but still requires that focus

I would argue that there's a feedback loop in this particular case between the requirement of such effort, and the ability to generate it. The same sort of flow-state you get from e.g. playing Minecraft, also exists in the real-world equivalent of survivalist bootstrapping. Our brains were evolved to be stimulated by the survival tasks of our ancestral environments: moreso foraging and hunting than farming, but even farming still comes with very natural-to-us acts like crafting tools, clearing land, building shelter, herding animals, etc.

I think a lot of the dissonance between the modern values of convenience and efficiency/laziness, and the agricultural-era idea of a "work ethic", was simply that certain kinds of things that are "a LOT of work" just feel natural to humans, in ways where they're still work (and drudgery, at that, sometimes), but not nearly as draining to one's long-term motivation as modern "abstract" work is. Nobody ever got suffered from "burn-out" making nails to build their own house—which is amazing when you think about the level of toil involved. The sheer direct intuitiveness of the goal being pursued—make exactly enough nails to get a roof over one's head and keep out the cold—overrides a lot of the the feeling of repetitiveness of the base-level action.

(A dystopia belonging in an SMBC comic: a nail factory that used to be staffed with robots, but which is now staffed with humans wearing VR goggles having the times of their lives making nails because they believe they're doing it for direct survival reasons. Then the nails are used to build the crappy box-like apartments they pay for with their wages and go home to.)
"Standardized" does not equate "good" though. ECMAScript is a very confused language that keeps borrowing from other languages and turns itself into a mess. Not to mention that "Universal JavaScript" is an oxymoron as most real-world JavaScript (well, ECMAScript) is not supported by major browsers and developers need to use things like Babel and the likes. And I don't see an end to it.
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I recently read "The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development"[1] that was recommended to me.

Some of it was familiar. Some of it was new. The language used and how the book articulates the reasoning behind various strategies has been invaluable to me in expressing to others why something is a tractable problem as opposed to an unavoidable one that is just the cost of doing business.

To date I have not succeeded in getting anyone to read it though.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Principles-Product-Development-Flo...
This discussion of Amazon's agility meshes well with Steve Yegge's famous rant on Google and Amazon. He attributes Amazon's success to their focus on designing all their software as a service, and actually credits this strategy as the very reason that AWS came to be in the first place.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
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Smells like knee-jerk adblock-fan response to me.

When was it claimed that there are only two monetization methods? They were discussing the print industry and periodicals.

> "since the dawn of publishing periodicals there have really been only two business models: Subscriptions and advertising."

And then they go on to say:

> "Of course, there are dozens of additional ways to monetize web content from affiliate marketing to native ads. But few websites are able to incorporate these methods across as wide a range of articles as they are with banner ads."

What was claimed is the versatility of the standard ad to a wide variety of content sites. Almost 90% of the top-100 websites run ads. So that's not much of a stretch.

Native ads are something we should all be very scared of. And if you are (to use your words) doing a "whit of research" or paying "attention to the industry" then you'll already know that the near-future is pretty much all about native ads. At ad-tech that's what everyone was on about. And that's no bueno from a journalism perspective.

And if you think that the alternatives roundly pay better than advertising, then you must think that the entire industry has somehow missed the boat. Sounds like you should show them how it's done.