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>The company culture treats any work discussion during team outings as taboo. You won't be punished for it but you'll be told kindly to shut up and have fun - work will be back again next Monday.

Many places are not like this.
I'm coming around slowly but I still have a hard time with css being embedded in JS components. I have used SCSS for so long I am used to style and function being separate concerns and separate files. I like the idea of being able to use 'mixins' for js components.
Unless they clarify their intent and guidance, I read this as "Don't use Amazon drive".
I'd probably wager if they're going through the process of creating a throw away email and resigning up with it, they need the service pretty badly.
generating the data alone

Manus manum lavat.
Maybe they use it so that their customers can get through to their customer support agents whenever they're having one of their outages.
Ok, I obviously read your motive wrong (sorry!). Not sure I'm wrong about the effects on the threads, though.
I believe the technical term for the correspondence between what it is possible to compile and what is valid bytecode/machine code is fully abstract compilation. It's an interesting concept with many interesting implications (e.g. for security). In the past at least there were various examples of Java programs that were illegal in the language but nonetheless could be created directly as bytecode and would be loaded by the JVM. This obviously becomes a security problem if your program loads bytecode dynamically and makes assumptions about its capabilities at the language level as opposed to the bytecode level.
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I know someone who negotiated a 4 day work week as part of a new job. He took less salary but, in the end, the time was far more valuable.

If you're a software engineer, now is the time to start asking for things like that. If you don't think you'll ever get it at your current job, start looking elsewhere.

It's possible, albeit, unlikely.
> R could be just as capable as Python, but I think Python has largely won the race to be the most popular language for data analysis which in turn encourage more developers to commit to it, cementing Python's advantage.

Your comparing Apples and Oranges. R is a domain specific language and will never be a general purpose language.

It is not true that Python won any race in statistics. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/r-vs-python-data-science.ht...

Let alone in industry investment coming from Microsoft and other major players.

R is above Python in Statistics in momentum and numbers. Python is a good choice but Python is still playing catch up to R due to the speed at which R is developing. R with data.table and Hadleyverse (https://www.r-bloggers.com/welcome-to-the-hadleyverse/) and RStudio the momentum has been clearly on the side of R.

R just 5 years ago was a fraction of the users it has today.

Python and R are both good choices with equal speed but the difference is that R is a domain specific language that has a lot of positive ecco system.
>And there aren't enough supercharging/fast charging stations.

For sure.

I live in a place where there are line ups at GAS stations during the busy season. Imagine everyone trying to charge while on a trip? That "half an hour to stretch my legs and eat" becomes a queue of everyone doing the same.
Generously assuming a cashier can check one item a second for an hour, he can check only 3600 items. "Tens of thousands" seems off by at least an order of magnitude.
>This tool seems useful if you buy into the philosophy, but I'm just not sold yet - component based styling leads to a lot of style duplication and makes it very easy for a developer to go "off the playbook" when it comes to enforcing a consistent styleguide throughout an app.

You just handle it the same way you handle any shared code. You can keep files in a file scope, in a package / folder scope, or in the top-level global scope (in a small app that's totally fine). But removing globals-by-default removes a lot of "gotcha's" from working with CSS.
Since you are not spending much time on it anyway, why not leverage the customers that you already acquired and spend time fixing the problem? Even if it requires rebuilding your product. The hardest part of every business endeavor is customer acquisition, don't underestimate all the hard work that went into building something people will pay to use.

Try to interview every user that churns (offer them a Starbucks card for their feedback) and figure out why they are leaving. For some reason, their expectations are not being met. Fixing that is probably easier than starting a new business.
In short: Bias is unavoidable. Selection of facts is itself a bias.
That's probably correct. But it is still an interpretation of a very ambiguous statement. Too often, when lawyers write ambiguous statements it is because they want to exploit the ambiguity.
I think the key distinction is hard costs. Tech companies have server costs. Tesla has manufacturing and contractor expenses.
Twilio seems to be promoting this on their blog[0], so can we assume it's powered by Twilio services?

[0] https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/03/supercharge-your-amazon-...

Edit: yep

https://investors.twilio.com/news/all-news/press-release-det...
Thanks for adding your perspective to the discussion though I'd argue that your experience might not have been representative of the larger population.
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I can accept Newton's second law of motion and Einstein's general relativity, but so far I'm less accepting of deep learning for finding some coefficients for fitting some data or neural networks for fitting some sigmoid functions to some data. Apparently the sigmoid functions have some nice theoretical properties and can be useful in approximating some complicated data; e.g., IIRC D. Bertsekas at MIT used such fitting to approxmate the optimal value functions in stochastic optimal control. Or, have some big data and a lot of computing cycles? One way to soak them up is stochastic optimal control, possibly with some sigmoid fitting. To me, that's more promising for the future than what I've seen in the current AI based on Breiman, etc., and I'm a really big fan of Breiman.

What is going on in such cases -- learning, neural -- is at best some applied math, but the learning, neural, and intelligence are trying to suggest, hint, hint, that the math is somehow close to what intelligent humans with biological brains do.

The effects of the hints are strong enough to give lots of newsies another of their favorite means of getting eyeballs and clicks, that is, there are big threats, the sky is falling, nearly all humans will lose their jobs, and the robots might take over as in some movies.

Yes, somewhere in a buried paragraph there maybe an admission that the learning is likely nothing like what humans, kitty cats, puppy dogs, whales, or crows do, but that disclaimter, if want to call it that, is hardly a drop of water on the hype inferno.

At one time some IBM publicity got some housewives to believe that iBM's computers were "gigantic electronic human brains".

I know; I know; such hype is not the worst problem in the world and, really, is affecting me hardly at all. But when I was in an AI group at IBM's Watson lab, still I was embarrassed to say artificial intelligence. I knew, yes, that the meaning was supposed to be just a computer doing something that would require human intelligence if a human did it, e.g., play chess well, but that the approach of the AI chess, a big tree search with alpha-beta pruning, etc., was nothing like what humans did playing chess. But with this definition some 0-1 integer linear programming for scheduling at an airline should be far above merely intelligent since it is far above what an unaided human could do -- although humans invented the applied math that is 0-1 integer linear programming.

I call the crucial core technology for my startup not AI but just some applied math. The world is awash in good applied math -- statistical hypothesis testing, the fast Fourier transform, numerically exact matrix inversion (number theory techniques), Wiener filtering, deterministic optimal control, and hundreds more -- all without a single claim of anything intelligent in any of the books, papers, courses, etc.
> Your "free" tier isn't really free, then. As payment, you're asking for the sacrifice of your users' privacy.

Is that what asking for an email to sign in to create an account to use a service that probably doesn't work well without having an account is now, invasion of privacy?

Where do we put our foots down and stop saying that everything a SaaS does is sacrificing the user's privacy... Soon we're gonna start seeing "Whoa, asking them to pay and input their credit card? You're asking for the sacrifice of your user's privacy."
Their coverage hasn't been increasingly partisan. It has been increasingly infotainment directed. Regardless, the major news media in this country is laughably neglect in serving in any capacity like they should.
What's not correct? I said Java needs to decide the return type, not Rust, or some other language.
The J2EE comparison is an interesting one.

I remember attending NodeJS meetups in the local Engine Yard office buildings around 2012 before there was an extant local NodeJS community, so most of the attendees were coming from non-JS programming backgrounds. There was the odd Ruby and PHP dev, but the vast majority of the initial local NodeJS community here were Java people for some odd reason. I didn't really know much about the Java community, but my general impression of the Java-backgrounded presenters demoing NodeJS apps they'd cobbled together with libraries they didn't care to understand the internals of didn't give me good impressions.

I've never noticed any other strong connections between Java & JS communities online or elsewhere, this was a just general one-off (but strong) impression from local meetups.
The common refrain in recent years has been that Drupal has been going for the enterprise instead of every single blogger like it used to. That could decrease search volume while still even growing in that segment.

Still, having both would obviously be better if somewhat difficult. Drupal hasn't completely given up on that idea but the trend has definitely been towards more about serving developers than a layperson who wants to set up a small website.

That's not to say everything necessarily is fine since Drupal 8's adoption has been slower than for previous versions but it looks like it may be finally picking up. The recent announcement that major Drupal versions will no longer be big backwards-compatibility breaks like they've been up until this point is something that could really help it too.
Vermont gas distributors have the highest profit margins in the nation. The gasoline oligopoly here is committed to creating high barriers to entry. This includes buying their competitors just to remove the tanks on premise.

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/06/22/la...

Costco decided they were going to distribute gasoline at its Colchester, VT location. They spent years in court battles with Skip Vallee, owner of R.L. Vallee, Inc., eventually went up to the Vermont Supreme Court, which handed out a decision last year that Costco is permitted to build a gas station.

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/08/05/ve...
I only need Twocent to know this is a bad idea.
With put option you pay a big premium for the right for someone else to take that risk. If the company has a high volatility like Tesla you will pay a big premium to buy that option.
Vice wrote a piece on him in 2014: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-progr...

He drinks a lot of caffeine and lives mostly on a 48-hour schedule: "I stay awake 16 * 2 and sleep 8 * 2."
> when they seriously start releasing electric vehicles

They've been "serious" for a long time. Chevy has been selling the Volt since 2010. If they were going to muscle out Tesla they would have done it by now. And it's not just about technology. Tesla has the customer reputation that companies like GM will never have again.
We've made tremendous progress in that direction since 1960. What's your point?

That it's easy to imagine things being better...
That's the scary part. Didn't your president just declare he wants to invest in new coal? 2067, here we come!
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Every company these days is a tech company in some respects, but I don't think Tesla fits the bill in the general sense. Tesla is a green energy manufacturing company.

The only reason I think this matters is their finances are a lot different than a tech company. You are correct that Tesla is currently priced like a tech company though, so maybe I'm way off!
>Who says the capital raise is a 'wide open positive'?

The guy at the top of this thread who said "Shorts can't buy a break".

It's at least arguable that these sorts of capital raises are exactly what the shorts are looking for.
that's true but it limits the growth potential and reach. Let Snapchat take a good portion of the teen market, while FB goes after everyone else.
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It could be allowed. Consider the case of var-args method called with a null value. Say you call the method ambiguousNull(String ...args) like so:

ambiguousNull(null);

Should args be null? Or should args be new String[]{null}? In the absence of any more information the compiler chooses the first, but may still issue a warning. But you can clearly disambiguate by casting:

ambiguousNull((String)null); // args is null
ambiguousNull((String[])null); // args is a 1-element array
I'm curious if the Tesla supercharging has the same problems that rapid charging a hobby lipo battery does - it only charges around 80% of the battery, and reduces the lifespan of the battery overall.
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Coal has now been overtaken by natural gas in total power production. As it stands now, 1/3rd of US power production is natural gas, 1/3rd is clean, emissions-free power (i.e. mostly nuclear, then hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar), and 1/3rd is coal.

Natural gas is incredibly cheap. And it's also fairly common to convert coal power plants to natural gas, so you don't need to shut down the plant. And a lot of coal plants are already plenty old enough to shut down.

To summarize here:
Just 30.5% of US utility scale electricity for the last 12 months (rolling) have come from coal. This is down from over 50% in the early 2000s. 33.5% is natural gas. 34.9% is emissions-free (nuclear or renewables... but it increases to about 35.3% if you include non-utility-scale solar). So now the plurality of power is emissions free, with most of the rest being (relatively) clean-burning natural gas.

This is a HUGE difference in a short amount of time, and the story keeps changing. The old story that most electricity is coal (about 51% of electricity was coal in 2003) is now definitely obsolete. But people keep recycling the same talking points.

I like to occasionally check up on this table, which is where most of my data comes from:
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...
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I believe a large part of the issue is that newspapers' neutrality has been part of their downfall, not their partisanship. Now it's easy to read something you always agree with. Local newspapers no longer have the captive audience of "this is the only paper that will deliver to your front door daily"
I see. Good answer.
While the service mentions blocking them, this API can be used just for that. All it does is take an email and tell you if it's a temp email. What you do with that info after is up to you.
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I meant there is no chance your existing IC vehicle will get cleaner. If you buy a EV and your local coal power plant gets replaced with a natural gas fired plant, your car suddenly got cleaner.
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The compiler would tell you that it can't disambiguate that and fail. It's a type error.
Why was this removed from Show HN? Looks like a really good project to me.

Edit: Never mind seems like its still there, it dropped all the way down to the bottom for no reason though.
North Carolina and South Carolina just resolved their border as of this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carolinas#Boundary_between...

The new border goes through the middle of at least one home:

http://www.wral.com/home-divided-between-nc-sc-after-law-red...
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Phuck App(Beta) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phuck

Ever found yourself begging people for photos from your birthday/wedding?

What about the photos from the road trip you took. They didn’t make their way to you, did they?

Well, that’s why we created Phuck! Because seriously, phuck photo sharing apps.

The process is simple
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Would love your feedback guys.

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The rule is simple: you never assert() things that can happen, you assert ones that can not.
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Exactly. Tesla is a tech company like GE is a tech company. It's modern manufacturing.

(This only matters for valuation sake, a classic tech play can achieve profit margins far higher than a manufacturing firm.)
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I'm curious about what you would consider a tech company.

For me a tech company is any company that uses the development of technology as a competitive advantage. Solar is not, major solar companies are not developing innovative technology. Tesla is, they do not have an advantage in scale or low prices, but have advantage in how their vehicles function.
Already a solved problem: anyone remember the video of the battery-changing station? Imagine racks of batteries charging via solar during the day time, and using off-peak electric grid power at night. Then it's just an abritraged amount based on the age/fitness of your current battery versus the 'new' battery.

In and out in a couple of minutes.
One of the nice things about Red is the low barrier of entry, for experimenting and getting a taste. If you can drop an EXE somewhere, you can run it and try things. If you can run "red -c ..." you can compile and include Red/System code.
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That's a lot more excusable when your car is priced at 35k than 75k.
If you live in suburb. If you live in an apartment and park on the street, no charging for you.
Ansible is specifically geared for that boss like feel.
Outside urban areas, there are still plenty of small local country clubs that provide "unlimited" golf facilities for Members & their kids for affordable rates. $100-300/month depending on area, quality, etc...

GolfNow and other TeeTime booking sites allow for discounted rounds in your area.

Its not as cheap as Tennis & Basketball, but its not a game for the Rich and Famous only.
I've been a huge Rollins fan since I was a kid in the 80s/90s. Some unsolicited recommendations:

Favorite spoken word album: Human Butt

Favorite Rollins Band album: Turned On (live)

Favorite book: Black Coffee Blues

Favorite flag with henry singing: My War

All his spoken word albums released on Quarterstick records in the early 90s were great, and I regret losing them.

The great thing about Rollins and Mackaye is that they have always cared deeply about fans. When Fugazi played my hometown, it was 5 bucks, compared to 15-20 for other shows. When I saw Rollins do a spoken word concert at UNC chapel hill, he hung out in the lobby afterwards and talked to every single fan and signed my copy of black coffee blues. When I wrote to dischord to ask them about a dag nasty reissue, they wrote me a letter back. Looking back, how many kids like me were there? must have been a ton. and yet.

Sorry this is kinda rambly but I'm obviously a huge fan still.
Humans aren't good for much. Why expend energy controlling and sustaining what you can replace and outperform.
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The Haskell solution is to require a type annotation if the type is ambiguous.

Of course, Java provides no way to do that.
Yes, that's basically the idea, a phone number that doesn't belong to a physical device but can be reassigned as needed/ on a schedule.
this article pretty closely expounds the setup to the movie , day after tomorrow starring dennis quaid and jake gyllenhaal
Having sold to CostCo before, I can attest that it forces inefficiencies out of the process very quickly. And they will not accept an inferior product, either. Also they have efficiency built into every aspect of their business, down to the specific layout of the shipping crates to be sent, to minimize worker labor for setup and display of product.

I don't see where the other (bad) edge of the sword is.
You inspired me to pick up that book again for this week. Thanks!
The problem is the assumption that I, as a tester, want to be talked at by sales. I don't. I want to test the product and yea or nay, that's it. Unless you're in a specialized industry, there are probably competitors out there and I can judge the applicability and function without the help of a salesperson.
I would wonder how stuff like this would work when combined with other techniques and drugs, e.g intermittent fasting/ calorie restriction , NAD+ .

The gains from each alone might be small but together could be greater than the sum of their parts.
Agreed.

Also, a lot of those fossil fuels are now natural gas, which is much less polluting than gasoline. Also, centralizing power generation means it will be much easier to regulate moving forward (power companies are already heavily regulated, so they are accustom to dealing with federal and state initiatives to reduce pollution, cost, etc...)
I own a Volt. Best car I've ever driven. GM doesn't care much for it. The only advertising they really do for it basically is trying to steal EV customers from Nissan's Leaf. Really dumb. And the dealers don't like it because 1) they don't know how to service them and especially 2) they almost never need servicing. If you run almost exclusively on electric, you only need like 4-5 oil changes in the entire life of the car. And the brakes last forever, too.