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'air charge' is a specific term meaning the air entering the combustion chamber.

So 'supercharge' is a term for 'bigger air charge'.

However, when you deconstruct it, it is a bit silly. I dislike the addition of 'super' to things anyway, it's a very lazy way of coining a term.

Maybe we should all just adopt Kompressor like the Germans. And leave supercharge, supercharger and supercharged for the marketing folk to devalue to oblivion.

Edit : I just thought of a much better name. Who wouldn't want to connect up their Tesla to the ... wait for it..:

Warpcharger

Yeah, Warpcharger stations. Much cooler, and probably able to be trademarked as well.
If it costs you more to not use something than to use something, well, what do you think is going to happen? Sounds like a poor incentive structure to me, one which was almost certainly not put into place by the customer.
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> I could easily see my parents falling for this.

Sometime in the mid '90s, not long after my dad got email, I decided to warn him about Nigerian scams.

Instead, he ended up telling me about how these these kind of scams started popping out of the first fax machine he turned on, back in the early '80s.
In my opinion, the concept of paying per hour is one of the biggest fallacies in software development. I am salaried but I don't get paid based on hours worked, I have deliverables that I meet, its irrelevant how much time is spent on meeting those and is impossible to quantify because often the hardest problems are solved in my head when doing something else, could be when stepping out of the office to go for a walk or while on the commute home, etc. We are paid to use our brains and this does not correlate directly with the traditional concept of billing for time. Also,things I do outside of work often positively benefit me, such as working on a side project or reading a book about new programming styles / concepts, however this would never be considered to be "billable hours".

Its my goal to one day work on a per-project basis, I haven't quite figured out how to make a go of this yet, however I really think this is how most software should be done for anyone with a few years experience under their belt. Working software is valuable and if you can commit to something and deliver, the concept of time should be immaterial (outside of meeting a deadline)... its all about value delivered. By tying ourselves to hourly billing rates, I think software development as a profession is held back and part of the reason it may not be as well respected as it should be by "business" people. It takes standing up and proclaiming the value that you bring every now and then to make people realize this isn't an assembly line type of job and never will be.
Poll: Would you pay for an integrated Internet solution to your laptop?
For some reason the poll option is turned off so I apologize for not having an actual poll.

I am curious if anyone here would pay for an integrated internet solution to your laptop much like a wifi iPad (current laptops) vs 3G iPad (what it could be; replace 3G for 4G or LTE all you want). Basically laptop with internet. Why or why not? Appreciate the responses.

I know that some netbooks and laptops had a prebuilt integration but that never seemed to have taken off but I am curious if that had to do more with the netbook market in general vs a mass market option.

The current options today are:

1. USB Modem or AirCard

2. Mobile Hotspot device

3. Tether from your smartphone

I think each has drawbacks (forgetting to always bring your USB dongle or card, battery life (especially tethering on the go), and wifi is not always available everywhere.

So if there was an option to have it part of your laptop without a big dongle attached or a separate hotspot device to carry around, would you pay for that (assume service is still through carrier as normal)?
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i believe he'd be happier with D, which addresses a lot of the issues he had with go, and which can genuinely be used as a better C++.
Very true and wise. As a "mid-guard" developer, it's a fight between "get off my lawn" and "pay attention, lest you become old and irrelevant". I like noSQL, but I feel that Mongo has made some sacrifices to move to the front. Given that performance, I think plenty of new devs have sold into it, and get upset easily at challenges. Maybe they'd have a different response were they committed to Riak or CouchDB.
My mum got to meet Woz when he came to New Zealand a few months back. He also told her how much he liked NZ/Aussie.

He gave my mum his business card (which is awesome btw, all made of aluminium), and specifically told her if we email her, to include New Zealand in the subject so he would actually open it :p

Another random fact, Woz's son applied to YC in the last Summer term and didn't get in.
I watched the video and immediately thought that this thing was miles ahead. Can't wait to try it :)
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Even in a market like India (which barely registers on Apple’s radar and where one of iOS 6′s tentpole features, Maps, pretty much doesn’t work at all), the adoption curves for iOS releases are hugely impressive.
Even Google maps in Japan way overemphasizes highways and other roads, given that they're less important than transit in places like Tokyo.

You can tone down some of road-overemphasis by selecting the transit option (路線図) in the side-menu, but this really should be turned on by default in Japan. [Using this option is also a little annoying because it highlights subway lines in rather garish colors, while (equally important) surface rail lines keep their ordinary subdued appearance.]

I dunno why they do things this way, but I suppose a lot of the tech and know-how came from the car-obsessed U.S., and probably a lot of their Japanese data comes from road-atlas companies (who have a reason to emphasize roads).
Large in that evolution describes how complex systems can exist without a creator. This ties back to how we can explain how the universe functions without needing to invoke a deity keeping the gears turning; in short, evolution means life works based on the same physical laws rocks and stars do.

And that ties back to what science does: Provides explanations with predictive power, as opposed to explanations like "The gods willed it" that provide no predictive power.

If life works on the same laws as all other matter, and we have predictive models for matter in general, then we can better predict what living beings will do and how the world will affect them. That does, in fact, turn out to be the case.
Let's not overreact here. We know the speed of light is constant because it's impossible for it not to be - too much is tied into it.

If you change the speed of light the energy content of matter changes, and where would that energy come from (or go to)?

If you tried to balance out the change by changing other constants you would end up changing even more things in an impossible cascade.

As for the age of the universe, it's not calculated from the speed of light, but from other things which I do not understand well enough to explain to others.
> Based on the trends of demographics, I think this issue is likely going to sort itself out over time.

I am far less certain of that, at least assuming that we're talking about time scales of a few generations. In fact, I don't think I could ever adequately express my gratitude for people like Sagan and Nye and Attenborough and Tyson; I often wonder if they aren't the only people that are meaningfully preventing a massive, long-term swing into anti-intellectualism and religious doctrine in the U.S.
I think most Craigslist sellers want as many people as possible to see their listings. Your criteria exclude Google, which indexes every publicly available user-generated content site and thereby benefits Craigslist sellers.
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Customized homepages, random invites, and homepage theme songs: you basically just outlined the main reasons I stopped using Myspace.
Is there another way of looking at this? Do you need to own the car? I hire a car when I need one, and use feet, push-bike and public transport the rest of the time. I _know_ I save money this way, compared with owning: I used to own a car, kept all the paper work and did the arithmetic.

If you didn't need to own the car, then things like a vehicular equivalent of the old livery stables and post horses might be viable.
This annoyed me a bit as well. I really wish they'd chosen a unique name so people wouldn't get confused.

Just like Ducati with the "Streetfighter", using an existing name from the same industry just leads to confused customers and even more confused readers-of-articles.
If he feels that the primary source of value in an education is its contribution to the GDP, then I feel sorry for him.
I never took Python very seriously because of its shitty documentation.
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Battery swap technology constrains car design. The Model S, I believe, sandwiches the battery packs throughout the car to avoid one big lump of mass sitting somewhere.

While I think the battery swap idea is a good one, it has many problems, not the least of which is getting all the manufacturers to agree to a myriad of standards. And agreeing to many of those standards means delegating part of your design process.
cooling

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The Roadster has a water-cooled battery pack, and I assume the Model S does too.
> exported identifiers in Go, including types, have to be capitalized

Ugh... (notes another Go uglypoint)
There are a fair amount of us > 35 folks at GitHub.
Only people who don't read the instructions for what they're using would get bitten by this.

It's like, literally, right there in the brief manual. Takes an hour to read and understand.
It blows my mind a person wouldn't read the manual.
And some people use IE, keep it up to date, and don't like snarky websites talking down to them.
Little does he know here in Australia is Babylon.
It seems it's much easier for someone who has experienced marginalization to advocate against it.
Looks to me like an advert for Babson College.
Our school district's replacement cycle for hardware is four years. I think that is pretty typical; perhaps even better than many districts.

Two years is a pretty short cycle for replacing an entire district's supply of iPads. I would guess schools that bought sets of iPads were not told that they would likely be obsolete in two years. You can say "buyer beware", but I think salespeople have an ethical responsibility to paint a realistic picture of what they are selling to schools. Salespeople should probably act, in part, as technical advisers to their purchasing contacts in school systems.
I'm not allowed to talk about this kickass technology my company is using, not even to dispute a patent claim my competitor is making.

I'm not allowed to post a question on this site because I can't talk about the technology my company is using.

I'm not allowed to post prior art on this patent because it might reveal how my company is solving problem x, a problem plaguing most of my competition and were they to figure it out, I'd lose some edge in my market.

I can come up with more if you'd like.
Opera is full of nonstandard irritating mishmashes of stupid.

Their market share has been under 1% for years, so it's really not worth any website worrying about.
If you wanted your personally identifiable data protected from public access (being cached by search engines), then presumably you would not submit it to a web site that is open to the public (not password protected).

If Craigslist changes its name or sells its SF apartment listings to some site with a name you do not like, what can you do? Answer: Nothing, because you gave them an exclusive nonrevocable license to your data. If you really wanted control over your personally identifiable data then it would probably be wise not to submit it to a site that gets scraped and cached by Google (from which anyone can make fair use) and certainly not under a license that gave you no control over the data after it's submitted. You would want a site that has some sort of protections like passwords, that allows some degree of pseudo anonymity so your name is not embedded in an evergreen search engine cache; and you would want the right to tell the site to remove/delete the data at your direction, if that became necessary (e.g. in your example scenario).

In short, Craigslist really isn't in the business of protecting your data for you. Its terms are what they are because it's seeking to protect its own business, which relies on your data.
Ummmm..... Whatsapp has had its issues with security and has been on Hacker News fairly recently, but I am not sure what you mean by interoperable IM network. Do you mean that it should be a webapp and that having an app on Android, iPhone etc. is not interoperable enough?

Or was that just supposed to be a jab at Whatsapp for no apparent reason (and a bit out of context)?
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Then perhaps the real contribution to society is having our Starbucks coffee made by a barista with a masters in English literature? Maybe you could explain what you mean because I'm not getting it.
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Do you have any other sources of clients apart from HN? What percentage of work comes via HN vs Other sources?

Also, I took a quick look through your comment history. Perhaps you are being to subtle for me, or perhaps you just post to many comments, but I don't see to many ads for your services there
Couldn't agree more with everything you stated.

I think we're prime for a change, and as the OP's article suggests, it's coming.

Hopefully it's a change for openness, freedom, and the empowered user. The pendulum will swing in our favor as long as we do something about it and not just "expect" Cupertino to release an iPhone 10 that will be the "greatest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone" (seriously?).

It's interesting to see how Apple is becoming very much like Microsoft recently. The closed (and getting more closed) ecosystem, with additions such as Gatekeeper on OS X ML and the Nazi-like regime in the iOS App Store. The lawsuits left and right, the lack of innovation. Quite frankly, I don't really remember Microsoft exhibiting such arrogance - something you see more from Oracle, but let's forget the Enterprise for a minute.

I think Apple's walled garden is getting taller and taller, but there's a bigger problem: consumerism just doesn't care. The people who waited days to get the new iPhone - they don't care. They just go forward, like a heard of sheep, whatever Apple says, they do. They applaud and are deeply caught up entranced in the "magic."

I don't think (hope) the future of computing lies with Apple, iOS, consumerism, the RIAA, shit bills introduced by gov't to limit the web, and etc. I think the INTERNET is still run by hackers, engineers, people who live and breathe code, we built this thing damn it and we're going to pass it on to our kids, beter, more open, more robust than ever before. The freedom of information, the ability to share and communicate, the ability to create better worlds through software, it's all there - the fact that Apple and Jobs added a golden veil of design doesn't mean it's lost - just skewed at the moment. It's business and dollars, and people like their closed iOS, gatekeeper, iPhone and "the New iPad."

I have tons of respect for a company like Google who try to stay open in the hostile, big-business consumerism-dominated technology sector. They encourage innovation, they want the Internet to grow as an ecosystem, open, fast and easily accessible for everyone.

Technology is about choices and while we're getting less and less from Cupertino with their Nazi-like regime (including dwindling innovation), there is a lot of positive innovation left and right. From Shenzhen alleys producing $35 A-Pads, to Linux boxes like the Rasberry Pi, to thousands of different Android devices - we are prime for change and a breakthrough from the sandbox.

We just have to work hard and do it.
Why the free exercises...
I wouldn't bother with the kickstarter project. $400+shipping is relatively cheap, and the exposure/blog material/research potential is worth that cost, for the right person.

(There is of course, the risk that the recipients are wise enough to isolate and wipe it before it has a chance to phone home.)
I would say Elon Musk is the greatest entrepreneur of the past century - even more so than Steve Jobs. He simultaneously created three separate companies, all in extremely complex industries, and combined all of them into one overall strategy.

The precision manufacturing they learned with Space X is incorporated into the Tesla S. Their aim is to make the Model S the most reliable and problem-free vehicle due to this precision.

Now they are incorporating SolarCity technology into the entire system. This is absolutely brilliant!
99% of people aren't using Opera. I think they can cope with upsetting a few folks.
There are outliers, but love has contagious qualities in most instances.
Then they fucked up.
Why are you expecting the rest of us to subsidize your internet service?
> I'm a web developer

Me too, and I agree with you. I would be interested to hear from anybody who currently works as a professional web developer and thinks that supporting a well-defined set of browsers is a bad idea. I suspect that a lot of this negative commentary is coming from people who have no idea what kind of workload can be added by supporting an extra browser.
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Here's another stat to look at. Southern Ontario, roughly up to Algonquin Park, has around 12 million people on about 140,000 km^2. Sweden has around 9.5 million people on about 450,000 km^2. Going purely by area or density criteria, southern Ontario should have telecom service miles ahead of Sweden, even in towns that are tiny and remote by southern Ontario standards.
I've started using the builtin "println" function for stdout debugging to get around the Damnable Use Requirement. It works without any packages imported, so that the very low-level stuff can tell it's alive without a full stdio library stack in place.
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>Recognize that the Genesis creation account (traditionally said to be written by Moses, to an audience that lived in Egypt) strongly parallels the Egyptian creation account.

Some pretty strong emphasis needs to be placed on the "traditionally" there. There is absolutely no archaeological evidence for the Exodus. It, and necessarily Moses as he is known as well, are fictions.

The truth is far more interesting though. In fact the evolution of the religion that would come to be what we know today as Judaism is a fascinating topic in general.
The Google for Entrepreneurs, Dublin, Ireland event seems closed to general enquires. Any chance of a more open event?
Of course, this is a cyclical trend like high street fashion. But this time it is because enterprises software-makers are finally grokking 'user experience'.

Social networking applications focussed on delivering a fast and friendly interface to the web. This made them a big hit. All the while enterprise software was form-driven, thick and clunky. As savvy enterprise developers are realising this trend, the user interface is turning sexier and easier to use than ever before.

The real money has always been in "business-oriented tech", but the infusion of social app concepts has given it a new lease of life.
d) You use a non-standards compliant odd-ball browser such as Opera, which is used by around 700 people globally.
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I'm actually not following your logic. We'll never be able to prove everything in this world, but the important distinction here is the quest for knowledge--an answer. Even those scientists who may not fully understand the chemistry behind the creation of life, they are making strides towards it. They are trying to find a justifiable answer.

Unless you count prayer as an attempt to further an understanding of the world through Creationism, I'd say my post was right on the money.

Science is moving forward, creationism is not. Regardless of which is right or which is more justifiable, it's not even debatable, which one promotes the pursuit of knowledge.
Are you mad that the English literature majors basically run the country, on Wall Street and in Washington?
Not a very good article. He's thrown together a bunch of unrelated statistics and left out some pretty important information, like the total cost in the landline example. I remember paying $1/minute to call someone 50 miles away before ATT was broken up.

The question I have is whether or not wireless carriers pay for spectrum in other countries. Verizon paid over $17B for spectrum, and that money is going to have to come from somewhere.
I doubt those stations will store the power locally. My bet is that the solar system pumps power into the grid during the day, generating $$ for tesla. Then in the night, it draws from the grid since power is cheaper then anyway.
there are already a few outthere that are sold with an inbuild WAN card...

ex: dell laptops sold with wan card
http://www.dell.com/us/p/d/campaigns/4g-3g-mobile-broadband-...
They also have on thing that I don't think Facebook has, an awesome leader with a great vision.

That goes a long way in todays world.
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Very well done, sir.
Interesting that they didn't include IDEs
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the sound of emails with "New Zealand" in the subject flooding Woz's inbox
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My Thinkpad also has this: Just put in a SIM card and you are good to go. No need to be tied to any particular provider.

Edit: I did pay a bit extra for that, so I suppose my answer to the question is: "Yes, I would, and I have". But I would never buy it if it is tied to one carrier.
> I suspect that my expectation of non-propagation of material is the default expectation for many or most sites that accept user submitted material.

Do you realize that the entire purpose of this very website is to facilitate the propogation of material found on other websites, many of which contain user-generated content?

It's kind of silly to say something in a public place and then expect it to never be repeated.
The Use requirement is related to Go's refusal to have compiler warnings. It is a well-intentioned step in the wrong direction, overtaking even Bondage and Discipline languages. Haskell's GHC just addded a flag to make type errors warnings!

The closures capturing references thing is a big design bug. If a programmer wants a to share a reference, he has the & operator.
PostPod from Startup Weekend Glasgow are still going - http://www.postpod.co.uk/
Potentially relevant, the new parent (Recruit) intends on going public soon [1]

[1] http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/T120626005277.htm
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law degress seem more prevalent, looking at obama and romney alone.
You need an open source wheelchair.
> It takes character and guts to stand up for something.

What does showing a message "Our superpowers have detected you're using an outdated browser. That must mean: a - You don't use the Internet very often. b - You're at your parents' place on the PC they bought in 1996. c - You work for the government or a big corporation." to users using a browser released in the past month stand up for, other than ignorance?
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