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The risk with spending so much of your youth building for a future - in essence, living for the tomorrow you're trying to create - is that you won't want it when you get there.

Well said. Now that I'm 30, I'm pretty much living the dream I had for myself when I was 20, but it hasn't turned out to be exactly what I thought it would be.

I'm not sure there is any way you can win though. If I had lived my life differently in my 20s and not had fulfilled the goals I set for myself, I'd be still dreaming the same dreams wishing I could achieve them. The grass is always greener and all that.
Great Explanation of Renormalization in Quantum Field Theories (2009)
Having just "got my shit together" at 30, I can compare our lives and remark on the great value -- not just emotional, but also economic -- of having well-adjusted, supportive parents. They've helped you, instead of trying to guilt you into supporting them and their poor life decisions.

Career-building is unattractive to most 20-year olds, but it becomes very attractive to these same people once they get into their early 30s.
the point is to give an example how fast the Tesla really is, and it doesnt matter if its only faster in one area than a BMW M5, but the fact that it is even able to keep up with the pinnacle of pertrol performance sedans is very impressive!
That's an interesting observation. Intuitively, I believe it, but do you have a source?
I've been using vim for class projects recently, but then I haven't needed to deal with particularly long package or symbol names. Eclipse users seemed to struggle a lot with getting the Nachos instructional operating system to work in their environment, which used Makefiles and which is not structured like typical Eclipse projects. I also notice that many of them know very little about the command line, and get instructions from the lecturer for how to set command-line arguments in Eclipse.
Agreed. One thing I've noticed about my own life is how hard even 1 year out of your career track hurts you both professionally (skill set) and personally (income/wealth). I was doing financial services programming for a big bank as my first job right out of college before the housing bust. I ended up getting laid off and enjoying the "funemployment" people talk about: 6 month full severance, unemployment at the top rate after that, living at home with the parents, no debt, and doing whatever strikes my fancy.

I set an upper bound of 1 year maximum to be out of the field of programming. When I came back (should have kept programming while unemployed, stupid, I know) not only had my skill set deteriorated but so did my market rate. Out of college my salary was $98,000. By the time I had gotten back into the work force my salary was $65,000. It took about 1.5 years of hard work and a lot of overtime to get back to where I was. And during this time my peers that stayed employed have grown a lot both in terms skill set and market rate. So basically because I took 1 year off, I lost ~2.5-3 years of my career because I had to work back to where I was before.

I think if I were to get a do-over I would have not have taken a year off. But the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, as they say.
Naah, all electric car batteries are replaceable in the sense you are talking about. "Swappable" means you can change them out in a short period of time (10 minutes or less) in lieu of recharging. Completely different concept.
Me too, but I change temperature so rarely that it being on a touch screen would not be an issue either.
Maybe all the hard work they did to disk cache the layouts of list items is not resilient to OS updates and changing metrics (only joking, I have no idea why it would crash and then work, though it could be because someone posted something new and uncached to the listview...).
Could you please elaborate on that? Not sure I follow.

If people use it, get wrong directions, how does it improve? Are users able to make corrections or?
Great to see this. There are exactly three automotive companies that excite me these days: Tesla, Better Place, and Google.

Tesla has done a magnificent job of making electric cool and sexy, and that's almost absurdly important with a purchase as emotional as a car.
I am big electric engines for cars fan, I just thing we should use fuel cells and fill them with something very similar to gasoline just generated from wind, sun, tides, or nuclear sources.
I use Emacs, but in a roundabout way. I've installed the eclim plugin, which turns Eclipse into a headless server; the corresponding emacs-eclim client library then speaks to the server to get the niceties such as project management, autocompletion, import organizing, etc.

The emacs-eclim project could sure use some developers if anyone is interested. My elisp-fu is pretty weak.
Sounds pretty closed-minded, getting "set in the way" like that. ;)
NYC has been allowing black cars to pick people up off the street during the crisis, so there isn't a shortage because of "medallions". There's a shortage because 5 million daily subway riders have to find alternate forms of transportation.
Great post. I also consider myself very lucky, much the same way as you. I've had some setbacks, but nothing that couldn't be handled. I also feel this pull from these two lifestyles, the "boring" stable desk job, or traveling the planet, code whatever I want and live life like there's no tomorrow. My fiancée is two years older than me (27), so that puts some pressure on getting kids and settling down fast. I've managed to save up what I consider a lot of money, but I feel the need to use that towards buying an apartment or house.
No, Not really. What's strictly incorrect are naive assumptions that the standard behavioural assumptions of "economics" hold in a disaster. The basics: truth telling, promise keeping, etc. The purpose of anti-gouging laws is a rational anticipation of Opportunism.

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

Opportunism is not dealt with by economics (assumed != existent), except obliquely. It is the providence of political economy, law and economics, and other areas that focus on the political Institutions that allow "rational-choice" econonmics to actually be logically rational. Some of these ideas are variants of: "I've got your back" in a disaster, so you can trust people to do the right thing, to avoid lord-of-the-flies.

While I appreciate your analysis, its important to keep an eye on the sandbox in which the black box sits. With 3m people without power, and with people losing their homes, no electricity, no cell etc, its more valuable to society to avoid over-generalizations of "rich people" are more important than "poor people" when all of the ATMs are broken, the surveilance cameras don't work, and the police stations are flooded, etc.

Thats just common sense and street smarts, really. Its not really a political or economic argument in the traditional sense (especially the partisan sense). Its more of a point about when the shit hits the fan, you preserve the fabric of society first. Sort of like the 80/20 rule. Having a "basically functional" market is better than having a "perfectly functioning" one but especially is better than having the market looted or burned down (etc). That being said, hording and etc are equally anti-social. Often times what you see is that the quantities will be limited (to say, 8-10 gallons of gas, etc). For this very reason. Those are fair and good points to raise.
I think because 20-somethings with ambitions tend to move and live in career centers. Come to SF or NYC and you'll find a lot of ambitious 20-somethings that care about their career. I know of mid-twenties women who've dumped their long term boyfriends because the boyfriends were unambitious and didn't want to get anywhere in their life other than dead end retail jobs.

If you wanted to move to such a career center, I would suggest NYC since it's close to your family and the dating is better for men there.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a social life. Having a social life is independent of career ambitions.

Take advantage of your lack of setbacks and get ahead in life.
Agree on everything, just wanted to point out that Stephen Fry said he wasn't paid: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/264066858225905664
Another app that generates REST code for you (in PHP) as well as a simple web interface is http://phreeze.com/
They're called flyover states for a reason. I wouldn't expect a big push into red states for quite a while.
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> text message (not iMessage)

I think he's talking about cell service.
Why do you say that? Do SMES have better energy density?
Uber is also waiving their fees. 100% of the money is going to the drivers. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728851
We definitely built the product with existing applications (without an API) in mind. We found it much more difficult to add an API after-the-fact than if you design for one in the beginning. In fact, the idea came to us after attempting to build an API for a 10 year old PHP application at Rackspace.
My suspicion is what they're calling "front-end" servers aren't serving static HTTP requests, and their "back-end" servers handle background/offline tasks.

And now that I look again, I realize "they" aren't even connected with TA or Pintrest, just a person who has a somewhat shinier AWS cost calculator.
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Looking for a good industrial design firm for Proto-typing a hardware concept that has to do with 3.mm jack instalation in smartphone's. I don't see any other way in constructing this piece of hardware other then going through an industrial design firm. I want to see if its possible to construct what it is i need, it doesn't matter where they are located as long as its in the U.S. Please recommend any hardware firms if you think it will help, i'm located in the east coast.
In one in particular, there is a fake depth-of-field effect which makes it look like they took a picture of a toy car on the ground.

This is the image: http://image.automobilemag.com/f/features/awards/1301_2013_a...

Edit: Whoops, it is actually the car's key, laying on the ground. See this link for the key shown in someone's hand:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/07/24/a-quick...
When I was 29, I knew someone who was really freaking out about being close to turning 30. To be honest, I wasn't thrilled about it either, but I was a lot more accepting of it.

I thought about why, and my theory is that it's probably a lot scarier if you haven't really accomplished anything yet, however you define accomplishment. Having your youth go away when it's a part of how you identify yourself by is a scary thing. If it's not, it stings less.
Internet based HTML5 has an intrinsic latency due to the connection with the server. Therefore the bottleneck for performance is not cpu but rather network latency., his makes much of the discussion concerning tailed suite moot, because the real issue is data delay and not code generation optimization.

Lastly performance comparisons between Java and javascript hint that portability of code is not the bottleneck: because Java is much faster than javascript while still being portable.
I don't doubt your anecdotes - I waited until last weekend to update my own - but my Google Analytics data for multiple sites shows iOS 6 with more traffic than all the other iOS versions combined for the entire month of October, and on an upward pace. Clearly a large number of people are not so hesitant.
Most startup advice is also good advice for 20-somethings.

Get to an MVP quickly: Find a way to practice your target profession as soon as possible. (Don't spend hundreds of thousands getting a law degree just to discover you hate the actual work.) This is easy for programmers: just start building stuff before applying to the CS program.

After MVP, iterate quickly: So you know Ruby? Time to learn another language, or about compilers, or about web typography, or about finance. Don't stand still.

Be ready to pivot: If you discover you find your work unfulfilling, the time to change is now. Don't wait to switch careers until your 40s.

Don't prematurely optimize: Your 20s should be about gaining skills and experience, not about getting big paychecks. The best paying job a 20 year old can get might be in construction or the military, but this may limit your upside down the road.
Enterprise applications are usually so deep and far away from the database that building an API by hand, per se, would be nearly impossible. This product is targeted at those companies, not small, agile ones.
Yes, that's what "Report a problem" is for.
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Yes, users can submit corrections using the 'Report a Problem' option in Maps. Apple will also be able to correct certain types of data, such as roads, by collecting and aggregating info from iPhones.
most popular != best
Also http://developer.yahoo.com/rss/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ to some extend.
Unfortunately the bluetooth protocol got a lot easier to integrate into our app in iOS 5, but we may release on other platforms in the future! Thanks for the +1 for iOS4.
Yes you as the user hit the report button when you see something wrong and it gets updated behind the scenes.
I'm a beta tester for the product and I USE IT EVERY DAY.

I'll let @blader talk about the product specifics, but if I were to describe it in a few words -> "It just works like magic"
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I wholeheartedly disagree and I might add that this is bullshit. Do whatever the hell you want to do with your twenties. If your idea of a perfect life is a flawless career, then go for it. Go where your interests take you. As long as you get bread on the table and don't bury yourself in debt, there is no reason why you should feel you are wasting some grandiose opportunity. Life isn't only about work and money.
Nice piece of software, I used the trial for a bit and was able to get an API up faster than I could program out one myself. As a consultant I have a few clients with rather bad old websites who could use something like this for new mobile apps they are wanting to develop. This makes it a bit easier to scale out to that.
Do you have a link to utilities offering money for those batteries?
Looks like the cost of complete replacement is around $30,000 on Roadster and $50,000 on Model S (discussion here http://www.teslamotors.com/en_EU/forum/forums/replacing-mode..., the poster does assume retail pricing for batteries), so wondering what's the range of "plenty".
It sounds to me like you're conflating "the trouble with touch" with "the trouble with too-small-screens" and deciding the problem is touch.

But I'm guessing you don't edit waves with a keyboard/mouse on a 3, 4 or 9.7" screen either. So maybe "touch" isn't the obstacle you're really battling in the situation described.

Also, haven't people long had solutions where a 'work area' is zoomed for precision selection/editing while one-or-more 'larger context' views are maintained (or operates on its own zoom level) in another chunk of the screen?

Do wave-editing tools not behave like that?
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but your first sentence seems completely illogical.

If there is a fixed supply of water, what better mechanism than price exists to efficiently determine the best use of that water? Not allowing people to raise prices means you end up with wildly inefficient allocation of resources (i.e. first guy in line says, "Man, there's a remote chance this flooding lasts for 2 weeks. Water is the same price it was pre-hurricane? I'll take all you've got.")

Similarly, not allowing people to raise prices actually decreases supply. If you remember post-Katrina, there were numerous "anti-price gouging" orders enacted. The result? All the people who were willing to drive a truck full of generators (and plywood, and water, etc. etc.) 1000 miles to make a few bucks/hundred bucks profit per unit now had no incentive to do so. And so they didn't. And the people of New Orleans suffered needlessly.
The irony of life is that you don't truly understand what is important in your 20's (or any age) until you are much older. Not only do we fail to understand things until we get some outside perspective - but also our priorities change.

In my 40's I wish I had done certain career things differently. But I can imagine myself in my 80's wishing I had goofed off more, traveled the world and not taken anything too seriously. As the old joke goes, not too many people are on their death bed wishing they had worked harder.
Well of course this is true if you don't have an OS designed with touch in mind, and you don't have hardware that supports these interactions. I wasn't a believer in this interaction model until I went to the Microsoft Store last week and played with all of the Win8 devices. Now I want all of my screens to have touch on them.
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Okay. I give. You've managed to flip my cynicism and imagine this into an article I would up-vote. If someone decides to do this though, they should at least use @jasonkolb's garage! Last thing the poor guy needs is that waved in his face.
An easier way to think about this is that life, like money, compounds.

Good decisions you make early in life compound and pay dividends for the rest of your life.
That's an interesting contention. Any chance you could share some examples?

I don't doubt you, but I do wonder at your benchmarks for success and influence.

FWIW, I use Emacs, which is an editor with a programming language embedded. So does that make me a language maven (as I like emacs lisp and playing with it) or a tool maven, because I am learning about the tool I use to edit code (and almost everything else textual)?
You're right, somebody above pointed out that on IS it's designed to be hot-swappable.
It also does something that always pisses me off when I see it in HTML5 boosterism, which is claim that HTML and Javascript are plenty performant, and hey look at this demo as proof!

The problem is that the demo is always of a game that would have been impressive over a decade ago! I mean look at the wipeout clone they show a video of! The demo consists of a clone of a game that ran on a PS1 with 33mhz MIPS processor! And the PS1 version appears to have great complexity in its scenery! The only difference is the increased resolution of the Mozilla demo. Now all it takes is a quad-core I7 with 8GB of RAM and the latest Nvidia card to get the exact same experience with a higher-resolution. Take that people who are unimpressed by HTML5!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRSVrkzDyuA

Javascript and the web are technologies that are popular by virtue of their incredible reach, and not because of the skill and care that have gone into their design. I would really like to Mozilla and other concerned parties spend a lot more time dealing with the glaring deficiencies of the web than trying to convince me they don't exist.
It is a very large assumption that the packs found in all cars will be the choice of utility companies. Electric car manufacturers (full EV or PHEV) cannot even agree on chargers.

To me this idea that utility companies step up is like the age old promise, the check is in the mail. Until a full life cycle plan is shown and incorporated as part of each sale its simply a sales gimmick.

Plus we haven't hit the tip of the iceberg when it comes to new regulations governing these cars. They are new and they are very PC now but laws will come along to deal with them, the first being, how do you tax them since they won't be caught at the pump? Politicians won't let that go easily. Plus we haven't seen how response crews will handle these cars in accidents. Testing is one thing but people tend to wreck cars very differently from how tests are performed.

There is also the incredible cascade effect of electric only cars. (disclosure I work for a major parts distributor) The majority of what automotive stores sell and repair shops fix simply don't exist in these cars. How many years before battery technology pushes more than your corner fuel store out? Jay Leno on his Jay Leno's Garage series recently remarked on how little his nearly hundred year old electric car needs. This will be true for the current and new generations.

Still back to your point, until I see it regulated or guaranteed in contract I don't subscribe to the idea the utilities will step up. There will vastly easier solutions for them, like taking up all those batteries that end up in government vehicles from fleets of buses to cars.
Zeus: preload Rails for sub-second startup times
We totally understand the hesitation there. We're launching with the hosted direct-connection form, but we have tons of plans to specifically address this concern.

First, we're actively working on a database agent (like chart.io using reverse-SSH tunneling) for increased security and control.

Second, we have longer term plans to offer this platform as an appliance, so everything stays within your infrastructure. That's obviously a much larger project.

In the mean time, we have the advantage of being able to make constant improvements to your API while being hosted.
I hate seeing logos from publications apparently praising/reviewing a product (if you could call TechCrunch a publication) without a link to their article. It just seems fishy to me... It's a "Show HN" and a new product, so I'm sure it wasn't intentional - But just wanted to let you know that I personally close such tabs immediately (unless I've heard about the product from someone else, and it wasn't just a random Google search result) :)