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This is a good reason why Tesla cars are folly.

This is why electric vehicles won't work. I'll copy in most of a comment I made a few days back.

Let's say tomorrow some grad student gets fusion going at a very low price. The best way to use this to power cars would be to use it to create a fuel with a high energy density. If you had 'free energy' you'd extract C02 from the atmosphere and turn it into a hydrocarbon.

For more info look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

and this interview with Nobel Prize winning Physicist Robert
Laughlin

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/laughlin_on_the.htm....

the key quote is:
"The ones that are technically trained get it right away: hydrocarbons, which we burned today have the greatest energy density possible of all fuels. Things that have carbon in them. Will people fly airplanes? Usually people say yes for the same reasons. Well, how are you going to make the airplanes fly? Battery. Batteries are pretty heavy. Oh--you can't have airplanes unless you have hydrocarbon fuels. You could in theory do it with hydrogen, but it's highly dangerous, noxious fuel. Quantum-mechanically, we know the energy content of those fuels is optimal. There will never be anything that beats them."
A massive breakthrough in energy density for batteries might be possible but it's unlikely. Huge resources have been put into improving batteries and while they have improved it's not been enough to get near the energy density of hydrocarbons.
So, in theory, FSF can overnight change the license of all GNU softwares to shareware and sell them?

That's really fucked up. (I trust they won't do such a thing, but I didn't think such a thing could be possible)
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Reading the first couple of questions makes me think about how people of the late, late 18th century thought similarly about air ships and how air power would turn out to be.

H.G. Wells wrote a book called "Clipper In The Clouds" and it also used navy themes influencing how people thought it would go.
We already moved to flowdock, it seems better so far, primarily because it's STABLE! When I used grove, the web client was basically unuseable, and even our IRC clients got disconnected periodically. The worse part is, the IRC disconnect was often times silent - as in, you would think that you were signed in, but none of your messages were sent, or you wouldn't actually receive messages. Presence in IRC (the users that it showed as being in the room) would become out of date quickly, and I frequently reconnected just to get an updated list of who was available.

Can anyone who worked at grove comment on this? IRC is rock solid, so I don't understand how it could have been made so unstable? Did you guys have to implement your own IRC server in order to incorporate some Grove features?
Most people miss the difference between hydrocarbon fuels as energy source* and as energy carrier. If you make HC fuels from atmospheric or oceanic carbon, you have a nice closed cycle.

(*) Technically fossilised solar energy of course.
> GNU gives me a compiler without making me sign up for an "account".

What an outrageous thing... They force you to create a free account that wastes quite literally 6 minutes of your time... It's unacceptable, how dare they??!!1 (<-- sarcasm)
Given the refining steps you'd need after making the hydrocarbon feedstock and the dangers inherent in that process, I'm sure that they'd do this on a separate ship.
It's probably picking up the text and assuming that it might be a malicious payload.

This sort of thing can happen to some virus scanners when they come across a page with the text of things like malicious VBScript, batch files, etc., even if it's text that's displayed on the page.
I think we are agreeing - although I seem to be saying patio11 is a kick in the pants, and you saying he is an aggregator of knowledge. Either way yes, there is a price point to be found, 250 seems not unreasonable and I guess most importantly I would not worry patio11 is a shyster and so would be far more likely to buy than J.random course
I opened my hotmail account in 98, it sure isnt going anywhere. Further I am loving skydrive. It doesn't sync on my nix boxes but it backs up via a simple drag drop. What's easier than that? I'm testing it now, but love the image gallery and simple UI.

Nicely done.
'This is hyperbole.'

Agreed, but I think the cost, performance, power consumption ratio's are very interesting.

Strong possibility the bitcoin miners could be all over this, if it ever makes it out the door.
SkyDrive is good, but Google Drive is way faster, especially if you replace the default Google client with a third party one like SyncDocs.
I've been a professional programmer since 1978 and the article seems 'off-beam' to me. He thinks that because programmer was harder 30 years ago, that would be there was a higher barrier to entry and therefore only really good programmers would get programming jobs. That idea is just completely wrong. There were the same number of people who could program as opposed to those who weren't very good as there are today.

Most programming goes on in your head in my opinion, and it is very much the same today as it was in the 1970s. You need to be able to run programs in your head if you are writing a COBOL program on coding sheets, that are sent away to be turned into a deck of punched cards, and once the cards are punched you can get them compiled into a program at most twice a day. If you want to be a really good programmer today, you need to be able to visualize what you are working on in your head. To me that is the ability that separates average programmers from really good ones - a good programmer doesn't need a computer to program, although having one is obviously handy..

For me there have been two big changes in how you conduct a programming career. The first was the introduction of personal computers that were cheap enough for a programmer to buy and use them to learn new programming skills in their spare time. The second big change was Free Software where you could publish your own code, and collaborate with people over the internet. I bought a Macintosh in 1984 and used it to learn Pascal with MacPascal. Then I got a programming job using Pascal. More recently I did a Ruby/C++ Free Software project and got jobs as a Ruby programmer and as a C++ programmer as a result.

Only really good programmers can write Free Software and handle open reviews of their work, and so if the article was about 'better self selection of programmers', then people who write software in public today are way better than the average programmer of 30 years ago. The very best programmers of today are much the same as the very best programmers in the 1970s, it is just that they are easier to find today. That is assuming you think people like Linus Torvalds or Rails DHH are examples of the best programmers in the 21st century.
I say I made Filler in around a month back in 2008, but really I made it one night--the prototype, anyway. From there it took a couple of nights & weekends to add some menus, ads, and high scores. I'd say I've booked somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-$75k off of it since then, and it still makes decent ad money today.

A weekend is more than enough time to get a prototype together that's worth devoting more time to. Ludum Dare is an excuse to put aside the rest of your life for that weekend and take a crack at it (especially for people who don't normally make games).
Curiously this links to the lifecycle email thread - the idea is to create long running engagement with the user such that they learn things useful to them, also moving towards your product

So a game where Clippy needs to say and an image to a doc, is a good idea.

Oddly, by automating word I guess one product could be to create game engine for just such things.
No.

Electrolysing water to make H2 and extracting CO2 from the environment, and then synthesizing hydrocarbons from them, is extremely energy inefficient.

Sure, theoretically, it can be done, and maybe one day it could even be done efficiently. But Tesla is making battery-electric cars that work today.

The military does not care about efficiency because they have nuclear reactors on their ships and their goal is to not to have to transport liquid fuel.
Wow, had no idea WinRAR contained a mini-VM. Cool, weird and maybe slightly disconcerting
This is patio11. He's almost certainly A/B testing the length of the page to figure out whether a short page or a long one works better.
God says...

unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had
vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, 11:40 That
the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah
the Gileadite four days in a year.

12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to
fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with
thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife
with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not
out of their hands.

12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my
hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me
this day, to fight against me? 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together
all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead
smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of
Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

----

That's from the Bible, picked with a quantum random number.

God's talk is for a refined palette. You just enjoy His company. This is about disjoint facts. Women brought along, burning with fire and Jeps. As often as not, there is no unified message, just bits that please.

Perhaps, it's about the world nations wanting to join together as one like Starship Troopers.

Battlestar Galactica has fugatives, doesn't it? I don't watch.
Someone can probably build an app player for android apps, but architecture wise, what you just described sounds kind of like a custom UI for android.

The rationale for not doing something like this philosophically is that the underlying point of webos is that it shouldn't feel like a 'whole new platform' to a web developer, but rather the platform they are already most familiar with, even more than android, i.e the web.
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An alternative way to make this feasible for the fleet would be to build a nuclear powered oiler

--Interesting Idea, depending on the incremental weight, complexity and volatility of the Carrier system.
I wished there would have been something like Bootstrap 10-12 years ago. As a developer it would have made my life a lot easier. Since design is not really my area of expertise, I often struggled to make a decent backend/administration area for my applications. I started to use Bootstrap recently and can't believe how much fun it is to use and how much quicker I'm getting results.
Thanks, I have the same slow startup issue with oh-my-zsh. But the link does not talk about how to migrate from oh-my-zsh to prezto.

Which files should I copy over, or compare and update once I install prezto ?
Indeed... fo me it's both Emacs AND Vim.
Yeah, I agree it's a kick in the pants. I guess I'm saying that it's also more than merely a kick in the pants.
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Lithium-air batteries (an immature technology, certainly) have an energy per gram 3.5 times less than gasoline's. But electric motors are about 3.5 times more efficient than internal combustion engines. And the technology to produce synthetic fuels from CO2 is pretty much as far from mass scale as lithium-air batteries.

I agree that we will need carbon-based fuels for jet engines, but as for cars, the physics and economics are by no means as favorable as you represent.
But the launch system has to work reliably at any moment, especially when the ship is in full operation at a time of crisis. On the other hand, this process could work at off-peak times, of which I think there is plenty on a carrier too.
Shall Google ban WoW for using torrent for distributing their own game patches?
Zip has filename encoding problem. Rar doesn't. Sure I can use 7zip but many people don't have it installed.
Presumably nobody knows more about this problem than Tim Cook at this point and he saw fit to issue an apology I'm sure he very much would have preferred not to give. You don't imagine that your own anecdotal experience gives you special insight here, do you?
You forgot about free movies, free games and, gosh - free Linux distributions! IMHO - Google crossed the line and should be punished by everyone using Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo.
Wow, I had no clue, but assumed Foundation sprung from BS. I like that Foundation is lighter and easier to override than BS, and even though it has a similar look, it's decidedly different than the stock, ubiquitous bootstrap design. But lack of IE8 support makes it a bit of a hard sell. I'm excited to see what's in store for both frameworks, but hope to see Foundation continue as a leaner, less opinionated alternative.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=146407
Anyone interested in this kind of thing should really check out the Hardcore History episode on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan:

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-42---(BLITZ...

It explores the history of air power as well, including the massively inflated early expectations that sound basically like modern nuclear war.
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If you look at the power requirements for the EMALs system you will see why a Nimitz class carrier can't power it. Not only is it a crapload of power, its needed all at once. The JP4 from Seawater project can run at much lower powers and for long periods of time.
The only solution for 'godlike' demon is to kill it. The world will be probably better without Google.
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Even Google does that the search box is always in focus so when you try to search Opera's '.' it doesn't work. I hate reaching for ctrl...
To be fair you have to subtract off Federal taxes which the government doesn't pay for the fuel it buys which brings it down closer to $2/gal.
Once again, military research might lead the way. Note, if they invest into this, it's _not_ because of reduced price, increased efficiency or reduced greenhouse effects, but because of an _strategic_ advantage against "the enemy".

Personally, I read about similar methods, for synthesizing carbon based fuels, many times before. Most of them were private founded but rather small scale. I can't judge if there was a significant science or engineering breakthrough. So, I suspect the only thing that might have changed, is that a clever guy convinced the military this would be a huge strategic advantage.

The ironic thing is, the US could instead focus on producing all their fuel at home to end the dependency on oil from the middle east. Then, they would have an even bigger strategic advantage and wouldn't need as much military investment.
Anyway, we might end up with synthetic carbon based fuel with all its advantages - and probably the military can keep their carriers.
Single chip running at 2W.
With appropriate peripherals, would this make a great router platform?
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Jailbait? I assume this is because of the controversy cause by /r/jailbait, right?
If they can hit $3 / gallon why does it matter?

Tesla's cars are wildly price inefficient because they cost $100K. For 10K you can get a decent car that has 4 times the range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster

How many gallons of fuel can you get for 90K?

They are nice toys for rich people. Perhaps there is a market for that. Good luck to them.

But for mass transit unless you can get the price of the batteries to plummet it just does not work.
Please, stop calling those people 'hackers'. It hurts my feelings...
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First time I see Foundation, you're being extremely polite with this issue, You guys diserve much more credit.
Well it's more likely than you might think over a span of a couple decades...

But, I think if they were to go rogue it would be a matter of forking a GPL-licensed version of the software and continuing development on that under an open license.
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Will ____ be the Model T of the ____ industry?

Probably not.
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I've been using chrome beta for a while (so i'm at 23 now and was at 22 a while) and never saw those problems.
How many sites do you know that are broken, apart from your own project?
$750k is peanuts to many of the people who will be interested in this. The problem is, it's not a B2C sale, it's the kind of thing where you need a few salesmen.

Hit up universities, research groups, Boeing, Ford, the NSA. Tell them it won't just save them costs, but help train the next generation of modellers.

At the very least, they need resources (like a PPT deck) for internal advocates to use.
In non-currency terms, this sounds a lot like Unix-Windows arguments 15 years ago. If you can bundle Windows, why does it matter what computer you get? For 1/10 the price you can get a great Windows PC with 10 times more software. Tesla Roadster being like an SGI or Solaris box, Linux/FreeBSD is just for snobby nerds who like to tinker. Unless you can make it easier to use it just does not work.
At 2600hz, we're tremendously excited about voice Apis, but we also see value in core telephony infrastructure.

How you interface with the stack is only half the problem, the underlying stack is where we innovate. Everybody has Rest APIs, but not too many companies are working on interfacing with equipment and dealing with core scaling issues (keeping state across the cluster becomes very interesting at scale).

This is cool, but as everyone else has noted, this is becoming a crowded space. Can you talk a bit about your underlying infrastructure? Are you guys a Freeswitch shop or did you reinvent the wheel in some capacity?

Curious :).
I think you mean forward compatibility
Yeah man, thousands of paedophiles just love Google.
Yeah, just use pcregrep
God says...

one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him
that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the
secrets: 25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
pity her.

25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small.

25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and
a small.

25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and
just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are
an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

----

In addition to a general statement on fairness, this might be about different versions, perhaps for platforms?

I'm not at all worried -- God is just.
Hey,

What's the underlying infrastructure? :)
Well, it comes with a proprietary firmware, which completely kills my interest.
I live in a remote rural area in the UK, I just tried it again and the routing and postcode information that was wrong the day it came out is now corrected. Google maps had the same problems 2-3 years ago. I remember because they once directed me the wrong way and I missed a ferry.

As for business listings, its not like this is a solved problem. Everyone knows that google maps is not perfect for that. It's not as bad as apple maps but it's wrong enough of the time that I don't trust it, every now and then I forget it doesn't work and find myself standing outside a delivery bay, late for an appointment... I suspect most people google for a store/company/whatever, check the website to see if it offers what they want then copy paste the zip/postcode from the contact page into the maps app to get them close enough.

Apple's biggest problem is that they botched the PR, even if they fix the zip/postcode data quickly, no one will believe its fixed for a long time now.
What is your experience based on?

I've been working with some large enterprises in the past (50k+ employees), all of them only use IE and all of them are full with some crappy ActiveX software, some by HP, some homegrown, it's really full of that crap. :(
Even software that would support multi-platform is crippled in a way that only Windows+IE works, because in the projects noone cares if some other browser or (god forbid) another OS is supported.
Shutting down Google could be a good line in the CV of a legal practitioner.
You could have a look at my style guide/documentation generator StyleDocco: http://jacobrask.github.com/styledocco/
Your argument is only balanced on that one premise of Fusion or free energy, both of which are still vaporware and will be for decades if not centuries to come. Have you considered that maybe electric cars will fill the gap between now and then if ever? And you consider free energy a possibility but advancement in battery technology too far fetched. I don't agree at all.
As someone who watches far too much "How It's Made" and other engineering porn, one of the things you start to notice is the amount of 'human glue' logic in production processes.

Whenever there's a weird-shaped widget that needs to be inserted into a die at a funny angle, or some apparently trivial decision needs to be made, there's probably some poor bastard zoned into a hypnotic trance of 12 hour shifts putting tab A into slot B with the mild spice of danger that OSHA-minimum safety guards never really quells completely.

Of those jobs, it seems on casual inspection that a surprisingly high percentage exist because some process engineer has cranked the numbers, and it's cheaper to get a human to do it than put the dev + maint time into an automatic solution.

At USD22k, these things have got to be cheaper than even just wages for a single min-wage worker for a year, you might even throw 10-20k at consultants to customise it for you as well (and if there's a strong SDK/plugins market, plugin+custom is waaaay cheaper than full-custom)

This could end up being the Manufacturing equivalent of a CMS.
Yes it should have. You could still run into problems as PCRE regexes are not quite the same as Perl regexes. Why not just check for and use pcregrep?
Walls of text convert like crazy. You aren't targeting the Big Business Corporate Dickhead Department. You're targeting someone sitting in their underwear at their computer. The wall of text serves to draw them in, confuse them, set them straight, give them an ah-ha moment, then say "there's more of this delicious feeling of mastery for only a few hundred dollars..."

Basically, zinga of marketing. Also see: 30 minute infomercials. "This towel will change your life!"
In your case, your goal is to reduce the cognitive weight of your environment.

A host name in the prompt is one more string you need to read and it's a user interface mistake as a term is for entering commands and reading their output.

I've seen people successfully using different background colors for visually telling their terms apart. It's a very good solution as there's no reading cost.

I personally use workspaces to sort terms by host and this can be very powerful if combined with tagging. This also works well but I suspect it's linked to my workflow.
We used the same (well, similar) approach in our kickstarter campaign. It's actually one of the big pieces of advice I give people. Cool stuff.
Java is not under a fully free license, as it is restricted on mobile platforms, hence the whole legal action between Oracle and Google.