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With a diesel-electric hybrid, the jump in fuel economy is just as dramatic: for example, the upcoming VW XL1 will get 235 mpg: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/reviews/hybrid-electric...
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I am glad to hear you left, especially when you have a signal that your health is at risk. Nothing is worth that, in my opinion. I even had a friend that got to suicide because of work. And there are a lot of companies that do not simply care much about the employee, especially when it comes to operational load and on-call rotation.

In order to make the best decision, one must try to understand oneself. I've been reading a book called "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live", which has been quite helpful in this regard. There are some career coaches that seem to be very effective for some people as well.
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My compromise: I'll by a used fuel-efficient car plus a driverless-conversion kit when they become commercially available, should be cheaper that way.
I think what he actually wanted was http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=May+14+1984+plus+9999+d...

Which would be 10000 days inclusive of May 14. (Wolfram says in this case that it was Sept. 29, which is correct. (ie Mark is celebrating the wrong day. But kudos to him for being aware of it in the first place. I celebrated mine July 23.))
If raising taxes to the level of Germany would cause such a massive outflow of capital (which could be taxed at the exit point) then why does Germany have so much capital?

You're missing the fact that there are significant cultural differences between Germans and Americans. Germans seem to consider this tax rate a reasonable price to pay in order to maintain their desired social contract. Americans (especially the wealthier ones) would decide that they are getting screwed by a corrupt system and would start looking for a way to get out of paying. Funny thing is that the Germans are starting to act like Americans when it comes to paying to bail out Greeks, Italians, etc. so I suspect it boils down to Germans trusting other Germans more than Americans trust other Americans.
Hey, Harold! Damn, that's too bad .. it's definitely picking up here. Nice to hear from you. You should head back into town for the hackathon, though. Hit me up on twitter, @yodasan.
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I made this choice just recently. It came down to the civic hybrid vs the standard civic. The hybrid was about $10,000 more. A quick calculation showed that I'd have to drive the hybrid 584,795 miles to break even on the extra cost at today's fuel cost.

Put another way, I only plan to keep the car to around 100,000 miles. If the hybrid cost more than $1717 above the standard, I'm losing out.

Put me in the hybrids are hype column.
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"Where are the affordable, small, city-oriented all electric commuting cars that would actually make a difference?"

Two things: Batteries, and regulations. Battery technology remains obstinate, and regulations put a lower bound on how light you can make the car before it starts failing a variety of tests in exciting ways, especially collision tests.

I've seen a "car" that gets 100mpg, even at reasonable speeds (~55 mph), on straight-up gasoline. But you would not want to ride that thing into a wall at 55 mph. There was wood where you'd expect metal, for instance...
Or maybe governments should just not take on ludicrous amounts of debt.
I think I've got to a point that I just can't take anymore. Ideally I would find what to do before quitting a job, but at the same I think I will have a better chance of trying out different things if I leave my job.

About consulting, that something that came to mind and it could be a good option. Let's see what I end up doing. Thanks for the advice and bringing this up.
This is directed towards advertisers, but as an end user, I can say yes, they work very well. Facebook and ads from the deck are the only ads I will willingly click on, ever. And I do click on them willingly. Sometimes I even browse through the ads listing on the deck, and "more ads" on Facebook. This is because almost all of them are quality products and relivent to me. I wish more ads were as good.
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I considered that, but after experience at other big companies and each and every one of them saying that these things don't happen there, Facebook would need to be a big exception (and maybe it is, it just seems too good to be true :-). Let me give some thought to that. Thanks!
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"Put me in the hybrids are hype column."

In some ways, hybrids are large-scale social/economic insurance. If gas prices really spike, consumers will have a (relatively) rapid substitution for conventional cars.

Plus, a lot of people claim to care about the environment. At least cars offer a modestly tangible way normal people in normal circumstances can show whether they actually do enough to spend modestly more to do some minor good for said environment.

Plus (part two) a lot of jingoistic America-first types can decide whether they really want to help stick it to those people who jingoistic types don't like but who are selling lots of oil or whether those jingoistic types are all hat and no cattle. I find the number of people who favor or favored U.S. intervention in Iraq but who drive pickup trucks to be somewhat puzzling.
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The lower rotating 10 bits should give them a reasonable safety margin. If they're creating less than 128 entries in a particular shard per second (right now they're doing that across their entire datastore), their clocks would need to be out by 8 seconds to cause a problem.

They should definitely be monitoring their clocks though :)
I stand by the comments I wrote a year ago (http://blog.foundrs.com/2011/04/01/sell-your-google-stock-li...): compared to Google, Facebook ads are a godsend. I probably spend ~ $5,000/year on Facebook ads.

You can tell Google AdWords is designed by a committee of engineers. It's amazingly complex. I challenge you to make sense of the scoring that supposedly explains why your ads are showing or not. I don't think your average user has any clue why or how their campaigns work or don't work.

In my opinion, AdWords is ready for disruption, and Google will not know what hit them until it's too late. They are the legacy system now. It feels like using an IBM 3270 terminal when all the cool kids moved on to the VT100 :-)
The US government is able to borrow at a low rate because there are few good alternatives: the Euro and the Yen are both terrible choices, the Pound is not particularly good either, the Australian market is too small to absorb significant inflows, and the Chinese market is not open to foreign investment. As the Chinese open their currency over the next few years and present it as an alternative reserve currency to the dollar, the free ride will start coming to an end and the US will need a significant devaluation in order to keep from choking on the higher rates. It would be better to have the debt under control when that happens.
> A society with so many ppl that rely so much on alcohol is just a symptom of even bigger problem.

It's common for people who don't drink to assume alcohol is a big problem - it's not.

> Give people a sense of purpose, or better community ties, and the need for "drugs" decreases

People with sense of purpose, and better community ties, indulge in social drinking all too often. Never been to an entrepreneur's meetup which is in a bar? Never seen a family and friends getting drunk?
More likely a propagation/aggregation issue.
We love Redis at Instagram (it powers a lot of our systems...more write-ups on these soon), and considered it for our ID generation, but it would have introduced a single point of failure, unless we split the load between several Redis instances, at which point it would be hard to make the IDs time-sortable. Also, most of our Redis systems are durable within a minute (we write to disk on a slave every minute), but if we were to lose the master and slave simultaneously (imagine an EC2 network issue or such), then it would be hard to know what the last known 'good' ID was--not an insurmountable problem, but one more moving part to worry about. That said, using Redis with something like the upcoming Redis Cluster could be a good choice, though.
Daniel Okrent's book (mentioned in the article) is also worth reading; I wrote a little about it here: http://jseliger.com/2010/07/18/hypocrisy-as-enabled-by-wealt... . One upshot of the book: Prohibition required an unusual confluence of political factors, including racism and class fear, in order for it to pass.

On a separate note, I wouldn't be surprised if drug prohibition eventually comes to look as silly as alcohol prohibition. From an intellectual standpoint, it already does.
Must be referring to the manufacture of the hybrids batteries. I think there was concern a while back they caused a lot of pollution. I never heard anything definitive one way or the other.
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Here's an example showing how a human user does not require a local unix user of each server:

Jack starts Apache on one of the web servers:

$ ssh jack@web4.example.com
Password: secret123
[_x_@web4] $ sudo /usr/bin/apachectl start # or similar
[_x_@web4] $ logout

Now, there are 2 possible values for '_x_':

A) 'jack' - because there's a unix user 'jack' (what we have today)

B) 'sysadmin' - because there's no unix user 'jack' - only an entry in /etc/sshpasswd

B is the same as A as long as you update auditing to trace the Apache start to the jack/secret123 combo.

Sidenote: wow this thread blew up!
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Here are some places to start. You really need to research to come to a solid conclusion (your own conclusion).

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090419130916AA...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071028204335AA...

http://www.hybridcars.com/battery-toxicity.html
hey.. I haven't done extensive research, but I have read several articles claiming that saying that mining the materials that go into batteries is a very very dirty process and pollutes the entire area around the mining operation, and the energy cost of producing a battery is very high.

I have a feeling that once the technology has been around for awhile it will get cleaner, but who knows...

I would love to know more if anyone else has done more research.
Back then people understood that it was outside the power of federal government to ban a drug and that it would require a constitutional amendment. Today, marijuana and a whole host of drugs are banned at the whim of bureaucrats.
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If you need something like Flask for GAE, you will probably find this[1] interesting. It convinced me to use webapp2 over Flask. Webapp2 is actually replacing Google's implementation with the upcoming Python 2.7 release[2].

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It already looks sillier, alcohol prohibition didn't lead to the loss of thousands of lives and breakdown of civil order in Mexico, didn't fuel a sustained rebellion in Colombia, and didn't handicap the prosecution of a war in Afghanistan the way the drug war has.
orly? Alcohol is a very large problem, not least keeping people isolated and stuck in their lower self, see Timothy Learys writings on drugs and Chakras.
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I used a $50 coupon I had lying around to direct people to a landing page for a product targeted towards gamers. Being able to be super specific in the people I wanted to show the ad too was nice and in return for the $50 I got 89 people interested enough in the product to leave their email addresses. I still don't know if this qualifies as successful or not.
It works incredibly well for my wife's necktie/bowtie biz (http://wickhamhousebrand.com) but has sucked any sort of nerdy thing (eBooks, apps, etc.) I've tried to promote. I'm guessing nerds don't take well to that sort of ad?
This is a nice overview.
The article mentions database pairs for the MSSQL servers. What high availability mode is used, database mirroring or cluster?
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The power of the Federal government was much lower before the Supreme Court allowed the abuse of the commerce clause to get so far out of hand.
You might want to check the credits at the end of the post ahupp linked to. :)
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I never claimed otherwise. pg may deem it interesting to answer in such a fashion. However, the post specifically requests personal information.
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Nope.

It's the same operation as in:

for (a = 0, b = 1; ... ; ...)
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Anyone else find it awkward that the post is by a user with no other posts? Releasing your own easter eggs is kind of lame :)
> I'd ask this to any interviewees claiming to be javascript experts but I'd never want to see it in production

That's a curious way to find programmers that are going to write code that you plan to use in production
My math said the opposite, actually. Factoring in the $50 (minimum) a month saved in gas, and my payment was about the same for a Prius or a Corolla/Civic. Plus, fluctuations in the price of gas effect me far less and in the end, my car is still worth more than a non-hybrid car, if I were to sell it.

A car is an investment. A lousy one, but you still can't think of it only based total price vs features. You have to consider depreciation and operating costs more than upfront price.
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The symptoms are usually lying or betraying people. The underlying causes vary.

I can't say we've learned general rules for avoiding bad apples. The best we can do is to avoid funding people who remind us of bad apples we've funded in the past.

There have been surprisingly few though. We spend a lot more time during interviews worrying about which people will succeed or fail. Out of 170 interviews last batch, there were probably only 2 or 3 cases where we worried about a founder's character.
Your formula doesn't work. There have been 7 leap days including 1984. The date of the leap day is relevant to your formula because if he were born on Jan 1 there would be a difference in your result. Also, May 14 plus 138 days would have been September 29, not Sept 30.
This article from a respectable economist is pretty convincing on why drugs should be legalized. He compares it to prohibition - http://www.overdrome.com/index.php?id=1816

Audio version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbHndilYsI
Tell that to the women who started the prohibition movement because they and their children were being beaten while their husbands drank their earnings away.

Alcohol (like all drugs) has a very dark side (but it is just one side). To sweep it away so blithely is, IMO, exceedingly naive.

Unfortunately, the conversations on these topics are too often "Your view is myopic. And my view is the only view that matters." We need more of the former and less of the latter.
Yeah. It blows me away that people are so propagandized that they can't see we are in prohibition now.

"How, in the United States of America, the land of the free, could Prohibition ever have come to be?"
Unless you have enough capital to sustain Facebook ads for a long period, they're never going to work.

We'll see how the Facebook Timeline and the new F8 solutions react to advertisers and businesses. But, unless you're an event-centric business, you're not going to benefit tremendously on Facebook.

Instead, the best methods are to drive traffic towards mediums like Twitter, where you can have conversations with customers without appearing like you're "on show" in front of an audience. You're a customer for someone else, and you're savvy enough to read into social media advertisements with skepticism. You can't tell me that that's unique to just you.
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No, you don't have to drive half a million miles, the car just has to have an overall lifetime of at least that. Otherwise, you're saying that all your investment would be used up by the time you sell it after 100,000 miles, which will hardly be the case; the used hybrid will still be worth considerably more than a used non-hybrid.
Is your phone a Windows Phone by any chance?

I've been using WP7 for a few months now, and it has a similar interface to the new Windows 8 UI. Though your concerns may be valid for power-users, the average user has and uses much less apps than you probably think. The most important thing is the browser, maybe an e-mail client and then a media player, and a few other apps. 10 buttons would likely be a lot for the average user.

At the same time, I somewhat agree that having a list is important. I suspect that hiding in Win8 somewhere is an alphabetical list of apps with search, just like in WP7.5
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* My grandfather was an alcoholic and caused lots of damage to my dad's infancy.

* Teenagers are amazingly stupid already. They are stupid and dangerous when driving under the influence of alcohol. A very dear friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver.

* Drunk girls are raped by drunk stupid men all the time. My cousin got pregnant at 14 because of this.

When you don't drink is when you can really see how big of a problem alcohol really is. Starting with social drinking, which means that some people are absolutely incapable of have social bonding or plain fun without any alcohol. Pathetic.
> Tell that to the women who started the prohibition movement because they and their children were being beaten while their husbands drank their earnings away.

And how prevalent is that "wife beating" today? Alcohol exists, and "wife beating" has come down significantly. There are variables other than alcohol, and alcohol plays a very small part.

> Alcohol (like all drugs) has a very dark side (but it is just one side). To sweep it away so blithely is, IMO, exceedingly naive.

And to take it too seriously is ridiculous.

> "Your view is myopic. And my view is the only view that matters."

Like yours? Your view is the only one that matters, and other viewpoints in your opinion are exceedingly naive?
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> orly?

Oh, really? Yes.

> Alcohol is a very large problem, not least keeping people isolated and stuck in their lower self, see Timothy Learys writings on drugs and Chakras. http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm

Alcohol is not a problem, being an alcoholic is. Breaking news, excess of anything is generally bad.

By your reasoning, tv is bad since excess tv is bad, food is bad since excess food is bad...The list goes on and on.
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Diesel is about 20% more energy dense (and corrospondingly more expensive) than petrol, so it's no great surprise that diesel cars get 20% better mileage. Besides, matching a hybrid on the freeway is not nearly as difficult as in the city. Those numbers you quoted are both highway, but both those cars get under 30 in the city.
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The more "consumer" your app the more likely it needs to be mobile. But I think there is probably a large class of apps where PhoneGap/Titanium make sense. Definitely in the internal business category where the audience is finite and the look-and-feel is secondary to the functionality and cost/ease of development and maintenance.
The difference is that your Amazon content can be used on virtually any device, whereas Apple has little interest in bringing iX to any additional non-Apple devices.
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