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> I also read that as Google will refuse to implement features if it doesn't get it's way in how they are designed.

There's no reason for Google to do this, in general, since there are enough Googlers in enough standards groups (all of which operate by consensus) that they can simply object to changes they don't like (like other members of the committee).
>If you look at their schedules, you had be quite wrong. //

Do you have any evidence to show your affirmation that CEOs work really hard and "often at least 14 hours and many work one weekend days" is true and other's affirmations that they "play golf all day" is absolutely false?
If GM loses $9,000 on a $30,000 sale, that puts production costs at $39,000. The battery costs $9,000, so the car without the battery costs $30,000 to make.

The Sonic starts at $15,000, which seems to be the ICE equivalent of the Bolt.

Are they counting R&D costs? If not, why would Bolt cost $15,000 more (not counting the battery) than the Sonic? Is GM selling the Sonic at a $15,000 loss?
Product Management for well-established products
The regen built into pedals feels strange to people not used to it. As does the regen which activates when you lift your foot off the gas. This was not done because they're incompetent, it was done to create a car which is more intuitive to people not used to electric cars.
To clarify, I was talking about existing tools in the standard library
There's only hypocrisy if one is to assume the author doesn't start his projects with the mentality of "lets check out this guess that probably sucks".
> Do you find that incrementing the waitgroup on every accept tends to become a bottleneck?

The specific thing I was dealing with when I wrote the blog post wasn't high-volume enough for it to make any difference, so I don't really know....

But is there a better option than a WaitGroup here?
This attitude is not uncommon in programming / CS. It's similar to those who pine about learning a half dozen search algorithms when they rarely need to implement them in practice.
> Why do we have to write the backward pass when frameworks in the real world, such as TensorFlow, compute them for you automatically?

Why do you have to learn to calculate integrals and derivatives in school, or how compilers work internally? Same answer. But seriously, the CS231 class is excellent, and Andrej is an excellent teacher. You can follow along at home (which is what I am doing.) The syllabus (at http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html) has the course notes and the assignments. The assignments are self grading, you know when you have it programmed correctly. The lectures are here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlJy-eBtNFt6EuMxFYRiN...
Humans are technically born ahead of time, and finish development after birth.

If you touch a baby's head you will see that the skull is not fully solid yet. They're also more fragile than other species. e.g: Horses are born and quickly start running.

This is because a baby with a fully developed head could not pass the birth canal.
the MSRP is $37500, they are counting the federal grant too !
Depends whether your talking NEDC range (European standard) which is always wildly over optimistic, or EPA range (USA) which is actually pretty accurate. 30kwh Leaf gets about 110 miles which is roughly it's EPA rating (I drive one).

Be very skeptical of European manufacturers talking about their EV range in press releases, they are usually talking NEDC.
Instead of thinking about war, maybe you should think about construction and clearing disaster areas.
I think this is especially true in the Bay Area as lots of companies are looking for unicorns in a herd of cattle. There's nothing wrong with cattle, but places will spend 6 figures trying to recruit that 10x unicorn instead of training people.

Speaking as someone who's hired in the past, most of the CodeAcademy/bootcamp grads we turned away were turned away because they didn't have anything to show us except things they did in the program. Doing CA/completing a bootcamp tells us they know stuff, but the portfolio was an important piece because it told us they could apply what they learned. Just wanted to pass that on to anyone who is doing/considering one of these things. (Bonus points for creating unique apps that interviewers can talk to you about -- I can't even tell you how many Twitter clones I've seen.)
More info: https://electrek.co/2016/09/06/gm-bolt-ev-one-pedal-driving-...

tl;dr - no, the paddle is for an additional regen braking mode that regen brakes harder than letting off the gas without using the physical brakes.
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It's marketing.
I've never heard of an efficiency enhancing feature not being automatic. That would be like overdrive defaulting to off, or having to manually enable cylinder deactivation. People would use it more if it was in the pedal's logic.
I think the remarkable bit is that he did this while being … a parent

(i miss "free time to hack")
It doesn't help that people like to project their personal way of life onto what should be a generally mechanical question. Eat x and y and z, don't eat [meat/grains/something else], complete with extra-pompous "most people in the world eat..." (I assure you the speaker doesn't), when look, if you go to Popeye's, the cashier asks if you want French fries or onion rings or coleslaw or green beans, and you'll almost never see anyone get the last two. Coleslaw might have a bit of mayonnaise on it but it's a damn lot healthier than potatoes which have had their nutrients partially removed by soaking and are drenched in partially oxidized peanut oil. This is relevant because the healthy options are the same price and all you have to do is say the word.

The culture of dieting is seriously broken. One of the only things worse than being fat is being openly trying to lose weight, because everyone knows how to help you (lol). The typical way a person responds in the above situation is "well, I'm already eating fried chicken" because we're either "being good" or "bad" and as we keep making it harder to be good we get a worse overall balance. People are unable to put one foot in front of the other because we always make it about running the whole race at once. A myopic and frankly wrong obsession with reducing the quantity of meat (irrespective of its preparation and toppings) doesn't help, because it ensures that "approved" diets are guaranteed to be unpleasant.

So that's what they pay for: a certificate that says "your food is healthy", because either it's Mark's Daily Apple, or it's Popeye's. And this entire discussion is like that: many ways to 'reinvent' the way you cook food at home (yes, I can make a shitty curry with a can of coconut milk too), little recognition of the many small changes that can be made without reorganizing your entire life.
Taxi drivers have been assaulting their customers since forever. Same applies to passengers assaulting or cheating their drivers.

Now there is a global brand to anchor to and make this news. If it were Acme Cabs in Middle of Nowhere this story wouldn't run.

On the other hand it is useful to consider how a company with Uber's scale could/should do a better job of reducing the frequency that these events occur. They'll unfortunately never be fully eradicated but you'd expect there's an opportunity for continual improvement.
Yeah, but think how more competitive they are without a pesky EPA holding them back. /s
Slave inventors - 5 high-profile counterpoints:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/11/5-inventions-by-ensla...

I'd say the only reason they were "missed out" is because of the politics of slavery.

The entire basis that efficiency of human effort is competitively dominant relies on a definition of human as only the "humans benefiting from automation" leaving out those who don't benefit out of the equation.
maybe if prayer required some coding ability
So, if antimatter has the same light spectrum as matter, what makes us theorize that there is currently more matter than antimatter in the universe?
It'll be online tomorrow. Keep an eye on http://www.fast.ai for details. There's lots of info there on the original in-person course that it's based on ( https://www.usfca.edu/data-institute/certificates/deep-learn... )
Honestly I'd probably rent a car if I need to drive far enough that I have to use the super charger network.
I tried to set up a system like this for catching differences between browsers but eventually gave up. I used selenium which didn't work well at all as the browsers constantly lost connection ur hung. I think testcafe [1] looks like a promising alternative. Image diffing is the simplest part but getting consistent images to compare can be tricky. Automatically finding regressions with few false positives ain't easy.
[1]: https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe
My old ford areostar, very much the accepted minivan, was rwd, as are many safari, etc. That argument doesn't stand up to data. The fwd swich came primarily to reuse drivetrains cheaply from fwd sedans as they became popular and efficient.
If you've ever driven a manual car it's totally intuitive.

Also incredibly easy to put behind a toggle(including creep) which Tesla does.
The problem with zeo was it fell off all the time, and tightening it too much made your sleep uncomfortable.
I didn't read the part about Nest to be fair but with some basic network design you can easily segregate networks and reduce your attack surface massively, even if you're using internet connected devices (seperate vlans, use http proxies with ACLs, no inter device communication where not needed).

The difference between a switch and a laptop is that your switch isn't running browsers with 0days found regularly, no malicious JS payloads, no phishing emails.

To exploit a switch you generally need access to the management interface, something anyone who has any experience with networking does not put on the same network (virtual or physical) as laptops, iPads, televisions, or internet connected cameras.
Should I have log files if I host a static (very high traffic) site? Everything is static. I've turned off the logging, no idea what performance gain it has, if any, but is there a reason I should write then in file? I don't see any need.
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This is a good read, but I'm a bit concerned by his product Tamboo[1], which lets site owners track exactly what their users do on their sites. I was looking at competitors and found Smartlook[2], whose website asks "Is this super-awesome service even legal?" A better question might be, "is it ethical?" and generally when you're asking is it legal the answer to that question is no.

[1]: https://gettamboo.com/
[2]: https://www.smartlook.com/
I wish I'd explained this as clearly as you just did in my post... Thanks!
This is false. My family and I got to experience dysentery for the first time because of undercooked meat from the supermarket.

Similarly, e. coli, listeria etc outbreaks happen with produce all the time.

Always wash produce, cook meat properly and clean hands, utensils and surfaces after preparing meat. This doesn't mean be afraid of your kitchen at all, just be aware that things can be dirty until they're cleaned and cooked.
Could you explain your comment for us? I'd guess that maybe Canadians are known for leaving their homes unlocked??
+1 happy user of Dell precision 5510, ping me if you have specific questions
I can't understand the chain of events that happened in BMW to arrive at the i3 design.
Standards committees work best when standardizing something that already exists. That's why the IETF has a policy that any standards track technology has to have two interoperable implementations (although that policy isn't always followed all that closely in recent years).

Is there any implementation of this, or any, proposal? Or do the proponents bring a paper spec to the committee to discuss theoretically, evaluate, compromise, and accept; only then implemented with no particular guarantee that it can be done usefully?
Theory literlly means observation in ancient greek, look it up
The LEAF looks way better than the Juke.
Same problem with NeuroOn - I woke up with electrode marks on my forehead to get decent signal quality ;)

https://alxd.org/images/14_neuroon_signals/examination/elect...
Is this a sponsored article by GM? I'm honestly curious.
Parallelism using message passing. Writing with shared memory is so easy to
mess up. Been in both worlds, one is sensible, the other is atrocious.
Let's hope they didn't get first to market at this level by cutting corners on battery quality and use batteries that degrade quickly. Time will tell, I suppose. At least we know that Tesla's batteries degrade very little even after 100,000 miles used.
Tesla also includes the tax credit in their price. And at present they don't even have a car.

Why are people so bitter that GM is competing? Is this not a good thing?
I don't doubt you're correct in summarising why many current Tesla owners buy Tesla cars. But if they want to be hugely, mass market successful they need to expand their client base beyond customers who "need" luxury options in a car. It's Tesla that would need to match GM's market proposition, not vice versa.

> I want a nice car, not just an electric one, and Tesla's got that in spades.

And I suspect many Bolt owners want an economical car, not a luxury one, and the Bolt's got that in spades.
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Plus if you have a million skills on the platform, the namespace for reasonable things will fill up pretty quick, consider you evoke each skill by the app name
> it's awesome to be around when creating an natural language, speech controlled, available anywhere system with face recognition to automate your own home is something that can be done in 100 hours

It's not creating. It's just copy+pasting and glueing.

The actual creation of these systems took decades of research.
No, implement a proposal, demonstrate that it is worthwhile, and then standardize it.
Solar_Fields and Bigger_Cheese, my apologies for not specifying the db. In this case I'm talking about a production level data warehouse specifically designed to perform complex queries and not a prod app db. Yes, I agree- best practice is to separate the two. Glad you found the article interesting.
There's a LEAF available with 125 mile range, and next year's model is said to have a 60kWh battery (meaning 200+ miles).
EBS snapshots are incremental already....
Do the champions provide an implementation of the proposal for the committee to review?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

It seems like the battery packs on cars are engineered to manipulate people, and this would be an easy way of making two very different cars seem the same.

Lithium batteries degrade. With heat, with time, with charge cycles. Article after article writes about how Tesla's battery packs barely degrade! 8% capacity loss over 100,000 miles.

This has to be a lie. Unless they've come up with a new magical battery chemistry.

Lithium batteries degrade. 15-20% capacity loss per year. 2-5% per hundred cycles.

There are ways to cheat though, design your battery electronics to pretend to have a lower capacity at first and then gradually allow them to discharge more and more as the battery ages. It's true that there's a small boost to capacity retention if you don't fully discharge.

A new Tesla might well have an actual 400 mile range the day it comes off the lot, but they figure consumers would be really disappointed if that 400 mile range went to 350 after a year and so on... instead I'm guessing they pretend the battery capacity starts lower so that it's more consistent. In the end when they run out of spare room they'd initially left themselves the battery would fail fast.

What's to prevent a competitor to cut just a few corners on this strategy – don't give yourself as much future wiggle room so that you can say your capacity is higher?

I would actually love to be wrong, but what you see from the battery performance metrics just doesn't match up with any of my existing knowledge about how battery cells work.
Tesla also has the worst interior of any premium car company. It has the unique combination of feeling cheap: unappealing leather, plastic finishes as well as tacky: the giant computer screen.

It's all fine if Tesla is competing with Mazda but they aren't. And frankly they need to do much better in the future to go against the likes of Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover etc.
>https://www.google.com/#q=snapchat+swipe+left

Just consult the nearest "X things you need to know/didn't know about Snapchat" article /s
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Then all the wealthy people will leave.
I don't know that Alexa is in any better of a position than anyone else even given their market share.

All you need is a microphone and access to any of many voice-recognition APIs to build similar functionality. You can build something similar on any phone, laptop, or desktop computer without asking your potential customers to spend a dime.

I think the big question is really how big of a market exists for voice control. I don't personally see much of one. Everybody thought it was neat to open netflix up on their xbox/ps4 with voice commands for a day or two, but then most people primarily shifted to using the more reliable controllers. Any question I want answered, I can simply "OK Google..." and have the option of correcting with a keystroke.

I can see the potential for a market to be made, but I also see the history. Remember dragon naturally speaking? When you finally got it working great it wasn't actually an improvement in workflow for most people. How many people prefer navigating phone menus via IVR consistently?

Voice control is a solvable problem and that makes it attractive for development, but solutions haven't historically been particularly marketable beyond the novelty stage.
They were referring to the lineage of the prototypical "family" car of its generation.

The station wagon once ruled the driveways of families but as the next generation grew up viewing wagons as "something my boring/lame/uncool parents drove" they were primed to buy whatever alternative arose. The minivan was that alternative an inherited the throne, ruling over the family market for another generation. Then the SUV, a slightly more refined take on the traditional body-on-frame 4x4 burst onto the scene in the form of the Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee. It's plainly obvious that the SUV was handed the "family" crown somewhere around 2000-2003 by comparing the sales charts of minivans and SUVs. The dowager queen called the station wagon was effectively dead by that time.

Now we're reaching the point in time when the children of the 90's, those raised in the backseat of a Ford Explorer or Honda Pilot. SUVs have softened over time as they've gone unibody and ditched any pretense of off-roading prowess but they are still a distinct category, one that is about to be ousted by the rise of the "crossover". While it's easy to argue that crossovers are still SUVs, especially when companies like Ford have relabeled SUV stalwarts as "crossovers", there are distinct differences between the SUV and the modern crossover. The crossover takes the best qualities of the SUV, the high seating position and the 5 door hatchback bodystyle and merges it with the best traits of the compact sedan. The prototypical crossovers, the Mazda CX-5, Honda CR-V, and Ford Escape are about the same size as the Ford Explorer of the 90's and early 00's. However, they share more in common with the Mazda 3, Honda Civic, and Ford Focus than they do with any larger SUV. THey bring the wise use of interior space (a CX-5 feels roomier in the backseat than a damn Tahoe), 30mpg+ efficiency, and pure FWD layout (with hacked on AWD systems hardly do anything at all, see: CR-V) which represents a sea change from the SUV in terms of design and marketing intentions.

The minivan was the first "new" form factor to overthrow a design that traces its way back to vehicles like your 1935 Chevrolet Suburban. While the Suburban may have held the same market niche for 64 years, even it changed significantly in the face of the growing demand for "family" focused SUVs with the release of the GMT800 generation.
There is a world of difference between a home automation system that requires an internet connection (processing on their servers) and one that has a "cloud" function (processed locally with remote access).

The latter is extremely easy to find because that's what's been in use for the last 30 years.
>JS with JIT kicks the pants off of almost everything --- because it is compiled down to native machine code. Go look them up for yourself.

>JIT is the new fad, and it's a huge deal.

The term "Just-in-time compilation" was borrowed from the manufacturing term "Just in time" and popularized by Java, with James Gosling using the term from 1993.[16] Currently JITing is used by most implementations of the Java Virtual Machine, as HotSpot builds on, and extensively uses, this research base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

Java definitely has room for improvement but claiming that JS is better or faster is hilarious and makes me wonder what you are trying to sell.

JS seems fast if you only compare it to Python and PHP.

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/javascript.htm...
Why are diesel cars hated in the US? You can get a range of diesel car sin Europe which give you 50-60mpg, have all kinds of comforts and can be cheap, without the trickery of tax credits.
Routers are mostly built into broadband modems now, or provided as part of the service. They are dumb; the value is moving toward WiFi-enabled smart devices like the set-top box or Echo or heck the smartphone itself.

The big selling points of Apple WiFi routers were the ease of use and the integrated Time Machine backups. Now they are hard to use (since there is already an ISP-supplied router to work around) and people backup online instead of locally.
They deliberately wanted something to look different from any of their other cars.
The 200mi Leaf isn't out until 2018, and even then, the bigger 60kWh battery won't come standard. The fact that there's a 238mi EV available today for less then 30 grand is a huge achievement.
Newsflash: Tesla fans willing to give Tesla an interest free loan prefer Tesla to GM.
So, no citation
> There's a fine line between a manager being understandably frustrated with poor estimates, and a manager being less understandably frustrated they can't pressure you into crunch - but I do draw that line. I find the former completely understandable, the latter completely unreasonable.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Why isn't this taught in the MBA courses? Why isn't this common sense?

As for the rest of your comment, my personal observations have followed Occam's Razor effect -- it's not that people are in denial or are blind or they can't serve the business well per se; they're simply vengeful immature people put in positions of power. They want to RULE and they hate the idea that their subordinates can dictate the pace and the format of the work, and they want "to get back at the nerds" <-- and this is actual overheard conversation between two managers in one of my former jobs.

Being a manager requires a lot of emotional intelligence. Most of them don't have it and never will. That's one of the core problems with who to put in a position of power.

Apologies for going on a tangent and generalizing a bit. But these views of mine are intertwined with the OP (and your comment of it).
Many people are Tesla fanboys, many other people are cheering on Tesla to fail. When the failure-cheerleaders exaggerate or make false claims the Tesla fanboys are overzealous in defense.