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Every existing shop and many auto enthusiasts can currently handle that without too much of a problem.

I'd see it as similar to a transmission swap, but more likely simpler.

The average person can't change a tire, or the small 40lb battery in their existing car. It's unlikely they'll try to change a full battery in their new electric vehicle.

As long as it can be replaced and upgraded to keep up with the battery tech, then that's all that's really needed.
Interesting. Other sources make it seem like the rate of upgrades has stalled. For instance, this chart has iOS 6 at low 60's percent for all of October: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/
This is perhaps good politics, but it is stupid economics.

Restricting price changes during a crisis (or any time really) is a fantastic way to create shortages, delay the arrival of needed or substitute resources, encourage hording, and so on.
Whoa. That is a crazy assertion. First, not many languages have been designed with the IDE as a concern, and second, all the industrial PL design teams that I know of definitely work closely with their IDE team to ensure harmony between tooling and language. I'm a bit more radical, all of my recent languages have been heavily tied to the IDE, to the point that there is know real boundary between the implementation of the compiler and IDE.
This is rather straw-man-ish. He equates having a fun, care-free life as ... working at Starbucks.

I don't know anyone who's ever said, "Well, why don't you just work at Starbucks for a decade? It'll be fun and you can get a real job when you're 30!"

What's actually said is more like, "Take a few months and a backpack and go travel somewhere" or "start a company with no idea if it'll pan out". Party. Start a band. Chase some girls [or guys]. Read a lot.

It doesn't mean "throw away a decade" -- it means "do the important things that it'll be harder for you to get away with if 10 years from now you have a family and mortgage."

I visited over 30 countries in my 20s. Even if that would have kept me from advancing my career (it didn't), I wouldn't trade that for being a year closer to a promotion in an IT job.
Meh, he's just trotting out warmed-over Searle without bothering to give his ideas any credit. I have to admit to an intense dislike of Noam Chomsky.
I don't think I've read a Mashable article about a startup in a long while. Really interesting company though, Google won't compete with this and it's a huge market. Facebook is the internet to a large percentage of the population.
While it's true that those in their 30s or older can be closed to new idea, that's not because they're "old", it's because they're people and some people are closed-minded.

I feel social pressure plays a big part. Even the so-called open-minded 20 year olds will make fun of people in their 30s and 40s who still try to live an "unsettled" lifestyle. To accept wild and crazy ideas in your 20s just means you still have some growing up to do. To do the same later in life shows an abandonment of your responsibilities, which is frowned upon by society – in North America, at least.
OpenBSD has had FFS2 since 4.2 in Nov 2007. FFS2 doesn't have any functional partition size limitations.
A judge did, but other judges have decided the opposite. I wouldn't like to risk getting the right judge. And even if I did, I wouldn't particularly fancy risking being dragged through the court system simply to give random other people access to the internet.
I agree. Just:

> Learn a second language, learn to cook, learn to play music.

Yes, late is better then never. But please do not wait until your twenties for those.
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Yes, that is why I asked you define what you meant by 'strict'. What characteristic are you trying to identify with that term?
Ask HN: What's going to happen to the not so smart people of our world?
Our world is relying more and more on other tools and technologies to get things done. With this comes the requirement of being smarter to get things done.

What's going to happen to the not so smart people in our society? These are the people who can't learn not because of a lack of educational tools but because they just can't/won't become more smarter.
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> You don't see plumbers and electricians choose their tools based on how cool and fashionable they look.

I'm not sure that's a useful comparison. I would argue that plumbers and electricians have a more clearly defined problem space with a large body of existing solutions and conventions. Programming as a trade, or craft however is considerably less mature and what may look to you like developers choosing tools based on fashion is probably more a reflection of how far we are from settling on a the _right_ way to build software.
Apologies for this oversight - we'll fix it ASAP. In the mean time, here are the articles we were mentioned in:

TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/11/techstars-debuts-11-cloud-s...

Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/cloud/apis-and-data-dominate-techstars-clo...

TNW: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/11/these-eleven-compan...
A bit off-topic, but that was a really nice send. What song was in the video?
What about Caribou ie Dan Snaith? The dude has PhD in Mathematics and an unbelievably talented musician...yeah I don't really know where I was going disproving your example
Light Table goes way beyond "edit and continue," which is small potatoes left over from Smalltalk (and early systems that support hot code swapping). Light Table supports much more feedback (we call it live programming), the code is actually re-evaluated when changed; edit and continue only holds for future, not previous execution, which is why it breaks so easily.
Dropbox offers more of a functional reward, vs. the more intangible, arbitrary rewards that Zynga offers.
The "report a problem" for wrong directions isn't particularly good though. It just has you pick one of your recent routes and then you enter in a comment saying what was wrong from memory. Google's system is better: you can pick which step is wrong and then there are radio buttons for issues like "illegal turn" or "incorrect road name".
The Tesla driver will probably suffer less from range anxiety, too.
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This is great. I so badly want to do this, and I have so little spare time.

What does the democratization of Radar do to society? I mean, we're still working through what everyone having a GPS unit in their pocket does for us, right?

Also, how does home made radar combine with other things? Those Quadcopters, or the Amateur rockets? It would seem that anyone willing to devote a garage and 50% of their life to it could make guided missiles that are better than what the US military had in the 1970s.
I think I agree with you. Chomsky is astoundingly intelligent and (I think) I understand what he is getting at (i.e. develop a theory of how something happens and use it to find evidence that supports or refutes that theory, rather than using statistical methods to develop a predictive model that doesn't teach you anything about the underlying system), but you can't but feel a sense of "yeah, but how?"

You can hardly blame the AI researchers for sticking with methods that have been very successful (at least practically speaking) after they had their funding cut out from under them in the 90's for the perceived "failures of AI".

I do like the idea of developing a theory (e.g. vision is processed via algorithm in the brain represented by X) and then attempting to find evidence of that. It can help to avoid the reductionist idea that you need to model everything down to the cellular level in order to understand the brain. It's like trying to disassemble code in memory and then read the algorithm rather than examining every 1 and 0 in memory and trying to make heads or tails of them.

That's enough rambling from me..
Good argument, pal.
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Having children when you're young is a good idea primarily because kids are exhausting, and take up a LOT of time. Have them as young as you're able and wanting to do so: nothing to do with your gender. Men have fertility issues as they age also.
+1 for this. Until recently I had an OpenBSD machine which had an initial install date some time in 1997. I rarely had to change any configs when upgrading. Virtually painless. It was my home mail and db server and was running on an ancient Compaq Pentium Pro 200 with 128Mb of RAM.

It got replaced with Debian due to a complete hardware failure and I already had a Debian CD lying around and couldn't be bothered to download an OpenBSD ISO.
Don't you still have to fsck those FFS2 partitions though? That becomes a real problem with very large filesystems. I have been out of the loop for like 7 years now, but I didn't think openbsd offered background fsck or journalling?
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> the great education push of the 90s, where we saw a new found hyper-focus on training to specialize to almost the micro level before being worthy of doing any job

This is off-topic, but I'd like to know more about this. Could you give me some keywords to search off, or some links to read, to see what you're talking about?
I'm a 29-year old male who spent his 20s building a career I love and now has a 6-month old daughter, so this quote:

> Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that. Don't be in a rush to have kids too soon.

Doesn't really make sense to me. If you don't build a career and finances in your 20s, you either can't afford to have a kid in your early 30s or you have one and can't provide the life and opportunities they should have. And it seems you skipped over the part about women having extreme difficulties having children later than their mid-30s, or the children they have are at a higher risk of birth defects and miscarriages. Typically, a guy by himself cannot create a child without a woman, so if you're going to party in your 20s and not think about finances and a career until your 30s, and kids later than that, you should know going in that your partner will be need to be much younger than you to accomplish this.

I don't mean to ask personal questions here, but it seems apropos considering your guidance: how old are you? do you have a spouse? a son or daughter? Does your guidance match up with how you've lived your life, and are you now successfully balancing a budding career and family in your older years after living your 20s in various countries like China, France, Brazil and others?
C++ templates and generics are relatively advanced features though. I wouldn't be expecting to teach them in lesson 2 of the langauge.

And what you would call a parameter in a production app is not necessarily the same you'd call it in a tutorial.
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It seems to me that humans, as a group, act compassionately during crisis. So compassion, or good marketing if you are a cold blooded corp. type, is a good reason to truck more in. FEMA can also, I'm sure, force a commercial concern to do it. They have lots of that scary tinfoil hat power.

Many comments in here seem to look at this problem so coldly and rationally. Anti-gouging has a deep moral component. If some of us are not trying to get one over on others of us then you can maintain a stronger community during a crisis.

If Bob's gas starts charging $15 for a gallon of gas in a crisis it will cause friction in the community between those who can afford vs. those you cannot and with the employees and owner of the gauging station.

We have also, well enough of us that laws were passed, decided as a society that its just immoral/unacceptable behavior.

Capitalism is great. It doesn't need to deal with this corner condition well to be a successful system.
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I don't see how the current situation can be called "disgusting" since Uber isn't making any money off of the current situation. (I'm assuming that you mean it's disgusting that they are using an emergency to make lots of money)
"Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that."

It's hard to try to pivot in your 30s if you don't have a resume with at least some points to match your future career.

If you haven't used anything from your post-secondary degree 8 years after getting it... employers are going to notice that and assume that your degree is worthless.

I say this having seen far too many friends get stuck in the waitress/bartending life only to find out that you plateau in your 30s unless you go into the high end fine dining, sommelier, running your own place, etc.

Same thing has happened to friends in retail after they reached manager or assistant manager at a store that was supposed to be their part time job.
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More generally, aphorisms and allegory are specifically created to prove a point. They can never constitute evidence, only persuasion.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese, and all that.
I assume it's a reference to the cost of hiring engineers to make the code more efficient, versus just throwing hardware at the problem.
Chomsky is damn sharp at 83. I sure hope I hold up that well.
Building something is certainly better than nothing. But a successful startup founder has an uncanny ability to fix problems.

Task management apps are, like you said, a dime a dozen. So a good project for a founder would be to download a bunch of those apps, see what they are all doing right and more importantly what they are all doing wrong. Then build one based on what you learned. That way you get technical experience but more importantly you are solving a problem.
Unless we invent new battery technology, that prediction won't come true. There is simply not enough easily obtainable lithium in the world for the batteries. Lithium production in 2011 was 34 kilotonnes. For 50 million cars you already need ~2500 kilotonnes. So unless we can somehow increase production 70x while keeping prices low, we're going to need something else. Not to mention that at that with the total lithium reserves, we can build just 250 million cars.
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I think your passive vs active distinction is a good one but I don't think that was the direction taken in the post, the distinction drawn here is how solutions to problems are chosen. Roughly: pop culture will chose a solution based on fashion while a craft will chose a solution based on the perceived quality of both the solution itself and the result. Obviously these two aspects are mixed in reality but the point that it's more fashion than craft is one I find convincing.

What I don't find convincing is the defence of fashion driven programming techniques. Too much of an ode to mediocrity for my taste. Pop culture will be mediocre and fashion driven on it's own, the only thing pushing it to be better is the craftspeople complaining about it.

As more and more of our infrastructure runs on software we need people pushing for more engineering discipline, not less.
Faster is always better. Seems like a no-brainer for this type of need and application!
The PL designer can always customize an editor off the shelf (e.g., Eclipse), and this is what happens mostly. However, I find myself implementing an editor now simply because the idea I want to show off requires many features current editors don't support, like projecting code onto program execution rather than have separate windows for code and inspecting run-time state.
Less again when you include taxes.

The rule of thumb in the UK, at least, is to double an employee's salary to get the total cost of employing them.
There's only one thing about your age that definitively affects your life: Your body. Past concerns of the flesh, stop trying to box your experiences into meaningless numbers and just do things you want to do as you feel like it, at any age.
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Just to chime in here, I personally know two 34+ year old moms who had children in the past 2 years with Down Syndrome, after having numerous miscarriages. It seems a lot of young geeky guys commenting here forget that it's not just men who have a child so if you want to have a kid in your 30s and 40s after building a career, it's going to be difficult to find a partner at that same age who has the same goals.
Ha, a couple of years ago I got one of those calls every day - finally I told them it was illegal, I was on the don't-call list at both the state and federal levels, and they should stop immediately.

The manager I talked to actually told me to get fucked, they'd keep calling if they wanted - and they did, too, sometimes three times a day. This went on for weeks; I'd dial 1 to connect to a person and lay the phone down, and finally they stopped (probably that particular guy got fired or something - I guarantee they have massive turnover).

This goes beyond just milking strangers for lots of money. This kind of racket attracts sociopaths who literally enjoy breaking the rules and knowing there's nothing you can do about it. I often have a hard time believing in the existence of actual scum, but then I just recall this episode. There are people in the world who do not buy into the narrative of working together for the common good.

It is music to my ears that the FTC has nailed some of them down enough to make them hurt. It has made me very happy.
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I don't know how I feel about a blog that drives you to click an Amazon affiliate link. Nevertheless, the points seem valid and thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing.
Isn't this what Google is trying to attempt with Google Voice and using SPAM filtration on those calls? It would seem that a company could greatly benefit by somehow acting as an intermediary and allowing users to rate a call as spam.

The issue is that like SPAM in the e-mail days, the technology isn't the problem, but rather the adoption of a filtration method. Adoption will happen when this problem becomes a big enough issue for consumers to switch to another provider (which is already difficult already).
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Immediately prior to reading this, I was writing about how non-game developers can indeed bring a unique perspective to the table when developing games. This is definitely an inspirational story and helpful in reaffirming my thoughts. Thanks for sharing.
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This is very strange and foreign reasoning to me. I competitively raced cars in an amateur series.

You are claiming that the Tesla's superior throttle response makes it faster 0-60. The car needs to move the weight, so measuring it from when it starts moving to when it hits the desired speed seems like a perfectly reasonable metric.

Throttle response needs to be measured separately.

The M5 comparison is more than enough to get an idea for the car's capabilities. I've never driven a Model S. I've driven several cars in the area of the M5. If the Model S is in that class, it's a beast!
Where I am (not SF) there's definitely a large showing of programmer/climbers at the local gym. I think a large part of it does have to with the problem solving aspect (hell, we call them problems even), but for me it has more to do with it fitting in with my life a lot more cleanly then any other sport does. I don't have to change into a uniform or put on a whole mess of gear or anything of that sort (when I'm going to the gym anyway). I just walk in, put on my shoes, and go. There's no inertia to climbing. There's not many sports that give this; "pumping iron" can but personally I enjoy climbing and solving problems to counting to thirty while sitting in a chair.