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Luxury is not a bubble.

Actually, in some countries, like Norway, Tesla Model S is actually really cheap compared to similar fuel drinking cars because of the way lower taxes.
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Yes. A powerplant is much more efficient in converting fuel to energy than a car engine. A car engine wastes most of the energy on heat. Powerplants usually include systems to capture excess heat and convert it to energy.

There have been many studies done on the effective MPG of a tesla roadster, and of course they differ based on their assumptions, but all of the ones I have seen show the roadster getting over 100 effective mpg.

The hydrogen technology has one big problem. It does not exist. Well to be fair to them, it does exist but not in a consumer product. You cannot buy an ordinary street legal hydrogen car now. But you can get an electric one.

If hydrogen ever takes off it will still have a similar issue as the electric -- the hydrogen would still have to be generated somewhere (usually by taking it from water) and that would require electric power.

Hydrogen does have some theoretical benefits over electric (such as more high density energy storage), but currently electric technology is advancing much faster. It is widely suspected that some of the proponents of hydrogen support hydrogen only as a way to remove support from electric.
Does the (monetary) value of an MP3 reduce as more copies are sold?
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Who's using Dropbox as a long-term backup strategy? Also, it's just a folder on your machine, switching to a competitor is pointing exactly one folder to the new storage, isn't it?

And it should be possible to use two or more services an the same time, building new revision history while still using Dropbox. Then switching over altogether. Sounds rather simple to me.
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In general, working sucks. Having to work, that is.
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Running the unit tests are done on a regular basis during development, of course. At some point I want to have Jenkins running so I can test after every commit.

I wasn't implying that I would simply run unit tests instead of testing at the end of being code complete. I want to arrive at being code complete a little closer to shippable.
Yes, because clearly the world ended when Microsoft trademarked the common English word "Windows".

You clearly don't understand the concept of "trademark". It isn't going to prevent you from having a rock-and-roll band named "Scrolls." Or writing a book called "Scrolls." Or doing a movie called "Scrolls" (provided it isn't based on Notch's game.)

Getting a trademark for "Scrolls" isn't even going to prevent you from making a computer game with the word "Scrolls" in it.
I'm having trouble understand the value-add here. PHP is so dominant specifically because it's so easy to deploy - it's everywhere, and requires next to nothing to have a working installation up and running. There's no compelling reason to run PHP on Windows over Linux (and a bunch of reasons not to). The one feature that might sell me is a Heroku-style "addons" system, with things like Memcached, Redis, error aggregation and reporting, logging, and the like all ready to deploy at the touch of a button, but there's no mention of anything like that.

So, sell me. Why would I pay a premium for Azure+ when I can roll out my own equivalent infrastructure trivially, or use the existing competitor?
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> spectacular business failures over the next decade as the incumbents who fail to engage the "technical creative class" are eviscerated by nimbler and more tech-savvy operators

Sorry, this is encouraging for us here, but I think it's silly. Clayton Christensen studied why strong incumbents fail. He found again and again that incumbents were the best at adopting new technology, even radical architectural changes, provided that the technology gave an improvement that was valued by their customers.

They failed when the new technology wasn't valuable to their customers. Even when they developed the technology in-house, to a level of excellence, it didn't help them - if their customers didn't want it. The reason it eventually caused them to fail was that other people did want it, and firms grew up to service them. Eventually, the new technology improved enough so that the incumbents' customers also wanted it - but they bought from the new guys, who had by now become the "incumbents" for that technology, and had all aspects of the business worked out (engineering, product design, brand, advertising, channels, distribution, support etc).

It will be the same here: if incumbents can harness new technology to serve their customers, they will do so. If they are fighting for their lives, will put their massive resources into play to secure the necessary technical talent.

And the danger that is hard for them to fight: other firms serving different customers, with technology that one day will be good enough for their customers (but not yet).

e.g. target people who cannot afford the incumbents' product, with a product that's not good enough for the incumbents' customers.

e.g. target people who can't use the incumbents' product in a specific situation, with a product that is not as good as the incumbents' product in the usual situation.

e.g. target people who lack the time, skills or expertise to use the incumbents' product (i.e. not worth the hassle), with a product that is not as good as the incumbents' product for their customers (who do have the time, skill, expertise).

This is the mechanism - avoid threatening incumbents, and you have a chance. Threaten them, and they will kick your ass (you will "provoke a competitive response"). It's not as simple as lacking technical expertise.
At least two differences between software and music:

- no malware

- possible online updates or other interactions

As long as these differences persist, your distribution method can easily add more value than the pirate copy.
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"Who's using Dropbox as a long-term backup strategy".

I am, and I'm guessing plenty of others are too.

Although I don't really use the revisions feature, so technically you're correct, I'd have no problem switching to a competitor. But it'll be really hard to compete with Dropbox, and for something so important to me, price isn't the most important issue.
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Stay assured that people do care, by and large, for the creators, the inventors, the artists, those who truly provide for them with commodities and overall a better life, but the harsh truth is that there just isn't enough money for everyone, and when 99% of the money they pay for a product goes into the pocket of someone that has apparently nothing to do with that exact moment of enjoyment they just experienced, people just don't want to pay a dollar for a cent. There just isn't enough time for everyone either, so they won't spend thirty minutes figuring out how to pay the artist after listening to a 3 minutes song, or figuring out which is which between the legit app and the pirate clone so they can put their money in the right wallet.

We need to figure out fair solutions to these time & money issues in order to void the piracy problem and make devs and artists feel better. In the mean time, well... there are concerts, donations, advertisement, register-only services, drm... crappy stuff(1) compared to the real deal if you want my opinion (that of an independent android app dev), but eh, tough times.

(1)except concerts. Live music is awesome. Horribly expensive and probably really hard to setup, but extremely enjoyable.
That's true to a point. But most companies aren't willing to treat their top talent well enough to keep them. There comes a time when running your own business is less headache than dealing with a bureaucracy, and they go do that.

But again, I said 'most companies'. Some of them have a very clear view of the situation and make sure that talent is happy and unwilling to move to another company, let alone start their own. And I think there are more of those companies all the time.

And to be fair to the rest, they probably can't afford it.
The overall good? The overall good of what? Your right to listen to music for free? That's not good overall for the artists who created that music. Why should they have to make 2nd and 3rd products that you "approve of" in order to be compensated?

People already use lack of easy access as their excuse for piracy. Now you want them to make some hard to crack app just for people to be able to listen to it? How about people just stop taking what's not theirs and treat artists with respect?

And in regard to your last statement, it's not your right to determine whether exposure alone should be the reward of their hard work.
What is a "set built"? Do you mean "seat belt"? If you do, then you should know that seat belts do nothing on vehicles of that size.
Haven't a zillion web hosts already been providing people with php hosting since the 90s?
You may get enterprise (and take-home-enterprise) windows tablets in the iPad price area, but they'll be mostly cheaper, like Android tablets are generally prices similar to the phones.
Whoa that Brain Rot article is a perfect example of the propaganda technique of passing from the reasonable to the ridculous. It started off with a nice discussion of skills and calculators and Mathematics before veering off track to an increasingly bizarre rant about war and video games. They freely admit that the rant was an unexamined reaction to recent school shootings, though.
Dropbox, to me, is a shining example of a startup which invented a whole new field, one that I can't live without. Much like Facebook invented a whole new method of social interaction,

Had you asked me 3 years ago whether I'd need Dropbox, and described it as "file sharing easily", I'd have said "meh". But Dropbox is more than that. It's a backup solution + file sharing among devices, rolled into one, and executed to perfection. It literally changed my computing life. Dropbox is one service I simply could not live without anymore.

So in terms of actual value to me, personally, I'd easily rank Dropbox in the top 5 (along with Facebook).

* Note: I agree with joshu here, Dropbox is really not a "startup" per Steve Blank's definition. Also, since when is Wikipedia a startup?
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Just tried it out and it seems pretty smooth. Anybody know what kind of testing it's gone through?

apparent windows version:
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And it was blocks not bytes.
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>Except that the list split step in Haskell is O(n) in time, while it is constant when using arrays.

Oh, no. You shouldn't split list by calculating length.

Try this instead:

even (x:_:xs) = x : even xs
even xs = xs
odd = even . drop 1

splitList xs = (even xs, odd xs)

Voila! Completely lazy, O(1).

So for merge. See here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/608?from=0&comments_... The solution contains proper merge algorithm.

And yes, I never read Okasaki in full. But, I use Haskell semi-professionally from 1999 and professionally from 2006.
My experience has been that top technical talent doesn't want to focus on non-technical things, like finding a new job, or even maximizing their income as an employee, so I think keeping them happy has more to do with how you feed them technical challenges and how much freedom you give them (and how you give them that freedom) and how valued they feel than with how much you pay them. I mean, if you pay them so little that it's a problem, they will deal with that problem, but after that? yeah, I don't think that compensation is as important as you say.

My experience has been that the people who really focus on maximizing the money are folks like me; I mean, I'm no idiot, but I'm certainly nowhere near the best of the best technically. And even me, I'll choose freedom over maximizing my short-run income.
There are three things I find annoying by this game.

I shouldn't be driving a car if I don't have money for it. I should sell the car and always take bus, since later in the game it says I have that option.

I had to choose if I should stay with an hourly paycheck or work by the piece. I choose piece because then I thought I could put in some more work, but then it just said I couldn't work that much. Well if I had known that I would have stuck with an hourly check, that's math you can actually work out in real life before making that decision.

It says I have a college degree but that wont help me, and then it says I'm probably too uneducated to help out my children with math homework.

All in all some interesting facts about the american low-income society, but the choices and different aspects of it are very strange. You could do a lot more to save money as well as make more money than is presented here. Well basically, kind of annoyingly simplified.
And indeed the market has spoken, and most android developers have listened: Apps Should Be Free(mium). That's the difference between startups and Big Music. Startups figure out how to make money out of free apps.
Music can also provide "online updates or other interactions": think fanclubs, exclusive gigs etc.
Say that, when you buy a M.I.A. song, you also get access to an exclusive website/forum for a month, where M.I.A. is going to blog or discuss with fans -- there you go, SaaS. The artist is not forced to do more than she used to, she's just reallocating time from "dealing with the increasingly irrelevant mainstream press" to "dealing with online fans".

The malware point is about quality. You might get the same quality from pirates, but then again you might get malware or simply a crappy rip. If you "buy legit", you are guaranteed good quality: high bitrate / lossless formats, no clicks etc.

The more I think about it, the more I see the two markets are fundamentally identical... which makes the music industry look even more stupid: with all their might and cash, they seem unable to be as profitable as some kid in California with a couple of computers.
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Take it easy, man.
The 10,000 hours meme (if it is that, it seems more of an observation to me) is not to be taken literal.

If you take it literal, then yes, it is nonsense, it is not that until the 9999th hour you are going to be bad at something and then suddenly, boom magic.

What it means - and what I've found to be very true - is that to get better at something you need to put in time and you need to practice your trade.

Nobody is born a 'great programmer', sure there are some differences in talent but I've seen guys go from bad to mediocre to good to excellent just by applying their trade and learning their lessons. Some of the kids I taught a decade ago that were struggling with basic concepts now run circles around me. That's proof enough to me that there is some truth in the 10,000 hour rule.

You can disagree with the writer all you want but in practice he does seem to have a point.

And for all your aggressive use of language you so far do not seem to have one. If you want to show that something is not true you have to provide counterexamples, not simply jump up and down using foul language telling people to stop.
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Really? What a clever and original distinction. It makes all the difference to the guy that wanted people to PAY HIM to use his work, but instead they just use it and don't give him a dime.
"but better" Can you expand on that? I get http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d...
Ask HN: Site to sell IP (i.e. mobile apps)?
I've developed a couple mobile applications, but don't want to go through the trouble and expense of submitting to the app store and advertising and maintaining, etc. Is there a website where I can sell the app itself to another buyer who wants a ready made app for an app store?

I know I could do this on ebay, but since there isn't a focussed community it will be tough to attract bidders. I'll have to advertise and essentially much of what I want to avoid in the first place.
"I could buy or import CDs, but I don't like waiting"

So, anyone spoiled enough to "not like waiting" can come and steal the fruits of someone else's labour, right?
Life isn't that depressive even with a 9$/hr job.
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Also I wouldn't be surprised if Satoshi was staying away from cryptography conferences.
I like the concept a lot but the game is just too rigid to be realistic. It's essentially a propaganda piece and the choices it gives you are no-win by design (so that the game has opportunity to lecture you on the plight of low-wage workers). Real life is not so restrictive.

It seems a bit involved to get across what could have been an infographic.

I'd really like to see someone take a more serious and/or interesting approach to this concept. This game plays like an old "choose your own adventure"; you have "choices", but everything is pre-determined and there are only a handful of available story routes, which in this case are designed to make it difficult to complete the game while selecting any of the presented moral options and then to show that you'll only have a few dollars left in exchange for abandonment of all principles.
No, what I'm saying is that we're not compensating them for being great musicians, we're compensating their corporate sponsors for being great producers and marketeers.

So I'd rather compensate them for being great t-shirt sellers, it doesn't really make any difference and it will probably guarantee them more cash.
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I disagree that the barrier to compete is not very high.

There have been "alternatives" for years - see FolderShare/SkyDrive. There are plenty of alternatives now, but the reality is that their implementation sucks. We tried using JungleDisk but it is just too inefficient. Others were just too fiddly.

Dropbox is so easy that my wife and I use it to share files between computers at home rather than do local file shares. Seriously. And it was her idea.

Dropbox is so far ahead of the competition it is crazy. They just need to keep that advantage.
This term means that a proprietary game has been rewritten completely from scratch as a Free Software project.

Usually, the game principle stays the same, but has its own codebase, and different graphics and music. Sometimes names are changed, too, if the original names were trademarked. After some time, the Free Software clones usually surpass the original game in almost every aspect.

This is a great way for a fan community to push forward their favorite game long after the producers lost their (commercial) interest in it.

This is also some kind of sustainability, as it ensures the game won't die with the hardware it was produced for.
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Yeah, if you choose hourly (I did) then your boss just cuts your hours in half. But then later I lost a whole day of pay when I called in sick, but I don't really see how I couldn't make up that time seeing as I was only working 20 hours a week.

And what state are we living in in this game? Is there a state where a single parent making $9/hour doesn't get subsidized health insurance? If so maybe this fictive character (in pretty poor health it seems) needs to move. Apparently, all of your friends and family (at least your dead grandpa and friend getting married) lived out of state, so what are doing staying put.

Fun game, great info, but I agree with the over simplification. IRL, I can't pick an apartment without building an elaborate cost-benefit spreadsheet, so the slider bar abstracted away too much for my enjoyment.
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Fine. So you pick your tool (Java, Python, Node.js, presumably with an Nginx or Apache front end, though I'm not sure you want to put Node behind Apache), and use it.

I don't see how Node.js isn't a valid tool. Async can be a bit of an over-optimization, but you don't have to use it (even in Node), as Ted's naive Fib server shows. And Javascript is ugly as sin. But so's PHP, the language behind Wikipedia, and you have to use JS (or something like Coffee-script) anyway.

I don't know enough about Node to really judge it, but there's nothing I've heard in this whole flame-war that really rules it out.
You're comparing a shop owner who doesn't want to protect their investment because they're lazy to an artist who cannot prevent their product from being taken without being paid for, unless they want to make it unavailable in the format that all of their customers want it in.

It's just sad that asking people to pay for things they take is being an idealist. I'm not angry. I just prefer to speak out against it than act like there's nothing wrong with it.
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The reason is that the question title is used when the reporter is unsure of the facts. If they knew the answer they would make a declarative statement in the headline "Bitcoin Author Discovered by Reporter".
Tesla is not luxury. It's an expensive car that does not look good and needs many hours to recharge. It's not faster or better than other cars, it's just needs longer to recharge.

If you are paying $80k for a car, you don't care about fuel taxes.
Great idea. Let's start inserting commercials into our songs. Now you're onto something.
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I have tried to use @font-face on a large website where all the users don't have up to date. All was just getting emails about old versions of safari crashing, ipads crashing chrome crashing etc.
I agree with you TypeKit wont be useful forever but for now it's the best solution I have found.
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It's archaic English, like the quotes outside punctuation rule.
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True, but a minor head overhaul would have been about 1/2 an hour with 'roadside tools' (say to replace a valve spring) possibly during your trip to grandma.

Today that same repair would be a couple of days in the shop, requiring tens of thousands of dollars of specialty tools. Of course those springs don't fail as often as they did back then (a combination of improved materials science and engineering) but when they do the fix is out of reach, even for a trained mechanic without access to a shop with all the required specialty tools.
so it looks like right now you have nothing, just the idea of a PHP cloud platform built on the MS cloud. What exactly makes this better than say PHPFog who have a Heroku Style solution for PHP that is already solid and proven ?