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Thats taken into account in earnings/share.
I agree, but your original comment seemed to portray it as either/or.
Yep, simpler is better. A fancy lifestyle (which means expensive "things" above and beyond their utility function) often end up requiring too big of a time requirement than they're even worth.
"This probably led to a more relaxed attitude about the ultimate result of any problems."

had a former co-worker who used to say as a general rule, the quality of a code drop was inversely proportionally to the ease of updating the code.
Be happy that i have a vehicle that meets any and all needs that i have and ill never have to buy gas.

I hate gas companies with a passion. Having a cargo van based on tesla, id have all the utility i would ever want, and not worry about gas costs if i want to take a week long road trip, slowly crawl through traffic or haul heavy big things.
> "We're paying more for programmers than almost anyone else in the industry!"

I can't speak to development specifically, but I looked into one of Tesla's devops offerings and I make slightly more for a mid-level engineer than they offer for a senior position. I also 'only' work 40-hour weeks and my cost of living is about 20-30% lower than there.
Of course there are, but I wouldn't want to be the one to write them.
The first quote wasn’t really complimenting Browett. It was more of a statement that for someone to take a “demotion” from being a CEO to VP says a lot about the Apple store.
This is exactly what Casey Muratori was ranting about in his "Thirty Million Line Problem" video. My interpretation (or extension) of the point he was making: if the same hardware (CPU + GPU) can boot Mac OSX or Windows, why can't the same game binary run on both? If hardware vendors created a good "ISA" and stuck to it, it should be possible to write one binary that talks to the hardware directly and runs the same anywhere as long as the hardware ISA is compatible.
Do you have a process that updates applicants on the status of the application?

I read your post on hn hiring 2 months ago and sent you an email. Haven't heard back since.
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Let's see you do better ;)
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I guess because I am not using a VT 100 terminal, rather a desktop computer using a GPU to provide a nice modern user experience.

The biggest theme on Linux Security Summit 2018 was taming security exploits on Linux kernel due to C's lack of security.

I count at least 10 talks about this subject.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/videos

So apparently the review process, approvals and current static validation is still not enough.
I think they already have such systems via bots, but they don't block or undo things automatically because I assume it's hard to know programmatically the licence of things that are posted on the Internet.
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I drove a Nissan Leaf recently; it was nice. They used to look dorky, but the second generation released in 2017 looks like a regular car.

Its range is less than the Model 3 though, 243 km vs 350 km (or 500 km if you get the bigger battery). Wikipedia says they're coming out with a 360 km version later this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf#Second_generation_...
To clarify, only in nightly and previously disclosed [0] (results at [1]).

The article is right to be fearful that FF is pondering a default change, but until that is even on the table, I'm not worried. Now if they wanted to make it really really easy for regular users to change from your default ISP DNS to CloudFlare, I'd actually be OK with that, but I'd expect it to be implemented like search engine providers where anyone could just as easily be the DNS provider chosen (ideally without any CloudFlare favoritism). And it would be clear who your DNS provider is maybe via an icon (if there is real estate for it).

0 - https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr...

1 - https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/08/28/firefox-nightly-...
That was once the reason put on a support ticket for a Windows 2000 Server which I reported as running slowly - something like: "Server had been running for over 30 days - needed reboot". I suspect this was down to the bespoke app, and not Win2K.
My standard to-go-to FPGA is an Cyclone II EP2C5T144 development board. On a good day, you can find them for less than $5 on eBay.

You'll need a USB blaster to program them, which adds another $10 or so.

They are small, but they are still large enough to add a little CPU with a little RAM, plenty of hardware multipliers etc.
The guy still buys a lottery ticket, so I just assume that he'd find your original statement, "money definitely does not make people any happier," just as naive as most people would.

A person can be content with what they have and still find value (happiness, even!) in having more, for a variety of reasons that don't involve naked greed or avarice. It's extremely strange that anyone needs to have this explained to them.
That's a good point about most of the home repairs we do being replaced by... not having those parts in the first place.
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Reminds me the effort Douglas Crockford was making (still making?) years ago when he was rethinking web infrastructure [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TwrABEAfTk - 7m30s
Serverless Analytics: Metrics, Collection and Visibility
>I'd say the bias is the other way. Apple is a one trick pony that is only growing through raising prices

For a company that started from computers, moved to media players, added music stores, added smartphones, added app stores, added tablets, add cloud services, added watches, and managed even the smallest of those categories (e.g. watches) to be the size of a Fortune 500 company (4-6 billion) and growing, it's rich calling it an "one trick pony".
"Could financially" doesn't necessarily mean it's socially acceptable.
Can this run a RISC-V core?

It would be very nice to bring the cost of experimentation in CPU cores down to something easily accessible to even students. In the same way that RPI brought computing and hardware interfacing down to basically anyone who can afford a cup of coffee.
Is this for someone who has no experience with any of this or is there prior knowledge required?
So if commercial services can add something -- on top of full, open disclosure of research findings -- they're going to make that unlawful? That seems strange: what does the public gain from that?
When Tesla was raising the funds for the Gigafactory, they did try to frame the discussion about company's core competence being sourcing, production and recycling lithium-ion batteries.

Whether those batteries were attached to a set of wheels or packed inside a box for a residential/utility install was secondary.
I always recommend the DE0-Nano. It's getting a little old, but it's basically all right there, open for use. I'm a fan of the Arrow DECA which has a complete assortment of neat odds and ends. Lastly Digilent's Arty and CMOD series are awesome depending on what you need.

I know this makes a few assumptions on what you mean by "Cheap", but I find sub $200 for FPGA boards to be pretty affordable when compared to the gamut.
It it is hard, that they should not run wikipedia.
But wasn't that a book-cooking surge that they couldn't sustain?
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I measure Tesla's success by how many major auto makers they force to adopt electric vehicles. Even if Tesla is not the leader in the segment in a couple decades, if the majority of cars on the road are electric, this is a big win for everyone.
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Great data, but I'm pretty disappointed with many of the other conclusions.

In the opening line the article states that the 5 largest tech companies were founded by those age 30 and lower. Why? The article isn't very helpful here. It seems to say that they are anomalies, which is a little unsatisfying.

> "one may reconcile the existence of great young entrepreneurs with the advantages of middle age by noting that extremely talented people are also extremely talented when they are young."

So they destroy the myth of the young founder, by perpetuating the myth that these founders were superhuman (extremely talented is the word they used). As evidenced by valuations of their companies continuing to rise as they got older.

I find Malcom Gladwell's conclusion more satisfying: When the internet was born, these people were closest to it in - in part because they were young.

I'd extend Gladwell to argue: In once in a lifetime technology revolutions, the young may be advantaged in creating a handful of super valuable companies. And those companies are so central and their small head start is so so powerful, that those companies succeed, at times in spite of their founders.

My conclusion: If you happen to be in college during a technological revolution, you won the lottery and should start a company. Otherwise, you are better off learning, accumulate resources, and founding late in your career.
That are already happening
Word of warning: my UPDuino v2 (these have a USB connector so you don't need a separate programmer) worked, but it heats up a lot immediately. I suspect a short circuit somewhere due to bad soldering. Requests to have it replaced were never answered.
Serverless Performance and Coldstarts
That statement makes no sense to me but neither does the popular idea that species evolve to compete with each other limited only by immediate material resources.

I imagine some mechanism of foresight or conservatism must develope in a diverse population for the population to survive in total. Such a mechanism may have had to be present in the earliest lifeforms or else long periods of accumulating complexity and diversity, seem open to frequent and potentially unrecoverable upheaval, by the temporary competitiveness of mutations fit only for immediate material demands.
I sincerely hope there will be a standard charging system that gets deployed everywhere. Can you imagine if every car company had its own gas stations?

If that happens then Tesla's network will quickly look like CompuServe or AOL.
I'm not sure about that.

People are still going to crash, and they'll need parts. EV parts are more expensive.

EVs use more tires because of instant torque.

If everything else fails, dealers can just raise their margin at point of sale.
It's just how they ask the question, I think. The categories are meant to be broad, and I think the question is much more useful for saying which ethnic groups are not represented, not for which groups are. We can't say that many Asian countries are represented properly, but we can definitely say that people from African and South American countries aren't represented properly at Google.
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> In fact I'm pretty sure this was an example from the language developers for why you can have unexported interface methods in Go.

Indeed. It's used in the standard library for describing Go's AST if I recall correctly.
This is absolutely false.
Microsoft Just Tweaked Skype and Removed the Highlights Feature
>I'll often give a few toots before approaching an intersection to increase the chance that I am seen. And it has probably saved me from some major crashes when I lay down the horn on someone.

When are you doing this? When you go through a green light?

Or is this when there's a chance for cross-traffic, say going through a yellow or red light?

The only reason I ask is because whenever I'm in SF, at least half the bicyclists I see, if not more, run all the lights and stop signs.
Before I even do any real-world validation I like to score my idea based on four criteria -

1. how much time is needed to get this idea off the ground,
2. how much money is needed to get this idea off the ground,
3. how many new skills are needed to get this idea off the ground,
4. How much will I still enjoy building this a year from now?

Sometimes an idea is just too big or ambitious at first and this helps me sanity check it.

After that I like to validate my idea - for that I need to learn if people are:

1. interested in the idea
2. willing to pay/use it

I always recommend keeping it simple, fast, and cheap - customer interviews, landing pages, mock ups, etc.

This example from buffer - https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-wee... has been around for a while but I still like to point it out as a good way to test a concept and see if people are willing to pay for it.

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>>Some drivers unfortunately see horn use as hostility. I have dealt with a few road raging drivers who were very angry that I honked at them.

You'll fit right at home biking in NYC since constant car honking is par for the course, although pedestrians will probably be pretty shocked when you let loose the Zound from the bike lane.
Thanks for reporting the broken links, they have been fixed. And, as we're trying to port more standard libraries, help is very welcome.
The experience of owning an 8 (or 18) year old car has a big impact on how I view quality and there are as many people in my shoes as there are in new car buyers'. But.... us old car drivers opinion isn't that commercially important. Resale-ability impacts new car sales to an extent, but a lot of manufacturers (looking at you peugot & renault!) are willing to make cars that have no value by year 8-10.

Mercedes & Tesla trade at the higher end, where just the impact on perceived quality (in addition to the quantifiable financial benefits of buying a car that will maintain value) is important. OTOH, EV are already knowingly buying a car that ranks poorly on that front. Who wants to buy a 2015 model EV in 2018? Range improvements alone would kill the price.

So... not sure it matters too much yet. Going forward.. who knows. I think tesla may already be "in for a penny, in for a pound."
So I'd imagine that the Escalade repairs are being charged back to the manufacturer under warranty, or to you, so I'd imagine the dealership is happy to fix those doors 5 , 6 , 10 times or whatever.
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It's a headline about sexism.

Sometimes, erring in the direction of political correctness interferes with speaking the truth about the world as it currently exists.
A simple "mechanical bike horn" (no idea if that's the right term, but Google image seems to find the right thing when searching for that) might be what you want for pedestrians. I've never seen an air horn that looked usable before, so thanks for that. Looks nice for cycling in traffic.
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I don't know where you get the idea that electric cars are not profitable. The higher end models are obviously profitable. As for mid-range, the Munro teardown shows the model 3 as not only profitable but highly profitable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY
> If you happen to be in college during a technological revolution, you won the lottery and should start a company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCL6OYbSTw
Mass production? What are the number?

I'd have said just "production". How much can they even build with their current battery procurement contracts? As far as I know, Audi doesn't make batteries and their Chinese suppliers still prefer to keep their battery for the domestic market (or will only export them at high margin).
Fair point. Having not gone to college, I can only speculate as to whether it's an experience worth having. Having traveled around the world and meeting people more diverse than I could've ever hoped for within my home state, I can say it's an experience worth replicating.

There are many paths to teaching young adults self-sufficiency, resilience, and how to adapt and overcome. I have a hunch the college track is a bit more expensive and inefficient vs other tracks; it's still a viable path, but suboptimal IMHO.
Fair point about the terminology, but the comment I was replying to mentioned "battery production" as a moat, not "battery technology." I just assume the hard part about battery production is not designing the silicon but cranking out the necessary number of high-quality cells, with all due respect to Tesla's excellent electronics and design.
Here's a nice nugget towards the beginning:

Consistent with theory, the results suggest that when spending limits are raised by £100,000, on average the mean cost of a campaign increases by £43,000, 0.3 fewer can-didates run for office, the percent of candidates with an upper-class background increases by 10 percentage points, and the percent of money and votes that flow to incumbents surge by approximately 10-15 percentage points. In summation, high levels of permitted spending diminish electoral competition.
There's an excellent podcast by Kalki - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jv110. The only part that irked me was how Kalki mispronounced the lady's name. I would hope that there would be some basic research to get the name of the protagonist right.
Yeah, agreed. It's definitely true that going down the Webpack/compilation road sort of automatically sends you down a path of heavy, complicated solutions. Maybe what you describe could be something I could finally decide to blog about :).
>This seems well-intentioned but incredibly dangerous.

Like many of the things the Mozilla Corporation has been doing these last years.
Are the freelance projects open to remote work?
Respectfully, I think analyses like this (there are many going back to the 90's at least) miss the -1st and 0th assets offered by elite universities: signaling power of the institution itself, and the opportunity to live among---and interact nearly continuously with--other full-time learners of diverse backgrounds but of generally similar ability. Elite universities do not exist to impart technical knowledge and skills (both can be obtained via many other routes), but to propagate and modulate the class system by 1) sorting individuals, 2) putting them in a warm fuzzy place where they can acculturate, form new relationships, and figure out how they (and w/e domain they choose to specialize in) relates to the broader array of institutions, and 3) providing a succinct, society-wide signaling mechanism (not that it's good/fair/accurate, just that it is widely accepted).

So far as I am aware, these deeper assets of universities are not under threat. In my experience, people with strong technical skills from non-elite educational routes end up working for people with weak technical skills from elite universities, for a broad variety of reasons (esp. access to capital, comfort in managerial positions). That said, I think we are at risk of seeing the higher education system become increasingly bifurcated: winner-takes-all dynamics gradually centralize power in a tiny number of elite universities (there's a lot of work on this, that 2nd and 3rd tier colleges are under the most financial stress) and a larger 'commodity' higher education system focused on imparting skills (basically extended job training).