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The difference is, the money spent on gas infrastructure is already spent, paid for, and profitable. This happened a long time ago. The infrastructure to allow the same number of cars to park for 30 minutes+ to recharge has not been invested in, not been paid for, and not been profitable for decades. If it had been, your argument would make sense. As reality stands, though, you're just furthering the case as to why electric cars are fighting a losing battle.

I have to leave my car parked where? For how long?
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"This is a bit of a delicate topic. Quite often I am the only female person in the team and have to be careful not to take advantage of the perks that come with it. Guys are fascinated and scared by girls who roll up their sleeves and take on a job that society labels as “men’s work”. If you’ve ever drilled a hole, skinned a rabbit, or changed a tyre you know what I mean.

As I mentioned earlier, guys will definitely put you to the test and as a girl it will be hard to get their respect. On the other hand, you can get away with a lot of things just by fluttering your eyelashes and being a bit cheeky, which is a habit that is so easy to get into. I have to confess I’ve done it myself because if you are surrounded by guys all day you quickly feel powerful. However, with great power comes great responsibility so don’t take (too much, hehe) advantage of the nerds treating you like a princess just because they finally get to work with a girl."

Never experienced this. Sounds like an alternate reality. All the so called nerds I worked with had girlfriends or wives and didn't wear pocket protectors and stutter around females when talking to them.
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Out of curiosity, why not have it restart automatically every couple days at like 4am? One less thing to worry about...
All those years you used to make fun of me.
One - that I've been using for 12 years.
Most of Apple's innovations are not publishable as science papers. In contrast, IBMs innovations are routinely of publishable kind. Microsoft, HP, and Google also do a lot of "hard" computer science or engineering work.

Apple's UI and integration innovations not nearly in the same class as those of the others. That's not to say Apple doesn't help society, or that it's not creative. But it's certainly not doing the same type of work as the others. In fact, many of the technologies that Apple has purchased, such as Siri, would not exist without lots of funding into solving the harder problems.
Did your electric bill increased significantly? Have you measure how many Miles/dollar,or some other similar metric, you get?
IMHO your original 'request' was phrased as an indignant demand. Of course, the OP should have just downvoted and moved on. But now there seems to be some confusion, so I hope this clarification from the peanut gallery is useful.
their customers are western governments. that's why being an arms dealer is legal, too. start selling to the wrong side and you'll quickly find out how subjective the legal system is.
Definitely agree that more data would be helpful, like:

- What was churn rate before?
- Is (new churn + snooze) greater or less than original churn?
- What percentage of customers come off of snooze and repurchase?

Without more information, it's impossible to pinpoint whether it really is an effective strategy or just makes a nice headline.
A way for Google to add value would be to distribute transactions efficiently/optimally among my existing accounts. If they know the terms, promotions and limits on my various cards and bank accounts then they can figure out that a particular transaction is most advantageous to me if it goes against Card A since it gets me a lower rate or a cash back or I have more head-room. Looking at transactions over time Google can predict and optimize how my spending gets allocated. I think I'd like that if it was done well.
BUT - If you find the cameras, you get to keep them.
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The truth is you can find superior games on iOs no question about it. And from a developper perspective , the ROI on Apple plateform is usually better if you make paid app. It is hard to sell anything on Android, and in-app purchase doesnt always make sense with all kind of apps. because if beating the game only means purchasing somme goods, the game lose a lot of interest.
>the biggest feature in Android 4.2 that you're so excited about is the AirPlay clone.

what are you talking about? I'm very well aware of AirPlay and I'm not aware of a feature (introduced) in 4.2 that is even similar... I certainly have not mentioned any such feature today.

>when I can now just order the phone to do tasks like Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV: The One with Whales?

Google Now has already leapfrogged it. I just got a card telling me there's traffic to meet up with my friend and a card reminding me my parts are arriving tomorrow in the mail.

I think you're dead wrong to characterize Android as being at "parity" with the iPhone, in fact that's absolutely down right absurd. Android can feature for feature match iOS and then go on for half a dozen more. Please let me know how that is inaccurate if you think it is.
Money spent (rather than invested) in one's 20s offers greater opportunity for enjoyment than when in your 60s, when your choices are more limited

Would you care to elaborate on this? I don't (yet) have first-hand experience with being in my 60's, but I did watch my parents spend money to their great enjoyment after they retired in their 60's.
This move genuinely surprised me. One can certainly argue that Apple's previous focus on the PowerPC was very detrimental in the long run. As you point out, they could not even keep up with IBM let alone Intel. I can't help but wonder if we'll see a repeat performance this time around with ARM and others outpacing the Ax chip line's development speed.
The fact that you can't leave negative feedback as a seller caught me off guard too. I understand that there are scammers on Ebay, that's just the way it is. But Ebay cares so little bit about its sellers, that it takes away their only defense. This just makes me just mad, especially since you have to pay all kinds of fees to list an auction.

Story time: I sold some eletronics to a guy in Italy. After it arrived, he accused me (in a Google Translate-based English message since he didn't speak German, despite bidding on an article with German description) that I sent a defective item and requested part of his money back. I explained to him that I tested it before sending, and that I would (despite not being required to) offer a full refund, but only if he sent the item back. If it turned out to be really defective, I even offered to pay all shipping costs.

The buyer then messaged me again, saying that it miracously worked after he "repaired" it, and since I did not send him a refund, he left me negative feedback. I tried to contact him twice, asking why he decided to keep the item but still give negative feedback, but he never responded. Only then I tried to give him negative feedback too, but to my surprise Ebay does not allow that. Had I known that before, I would have never ever even used Ebay.

Anyway, I contacted Ebay support, but they said that they do not want to remove the feedback, even though their FAQ states they can remove feedback in situations like this.
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It's a lot easier to get public sentiment behind a law that benefits these altruistic people who save lives for a living, and shouldn't have to deal with such crass commercialism (I know, I know. Run with it though.)

It's tougher to make the same sale when you're talking about a bunch of computer programmers and startup founders.
Who cares? Maybe we have better things to do than play games on phones.

I'm onto my second high-end Android phone and I've bought lots of apps and games. At the end of the day I couldn't give a fuck about playing games on my phone. I use the phone and the apps all the time though.
Offering my opinion on the situation as a consumer != proposing a solution.

Gaming on Android doesn't "stink" for me as I've found a way to play vintage games using emulators. Which I would certainly pay for if the Nintendo/copyright owners offered it as an option on Android.
I hate ebay/paypal just as much as most people but:

http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CustomerSupport&...

Solved, done. Your $2 will return to you.

If your buyer agreed to cancel your transaction or didn't respond, you'll receive a credit to your seller's account for the final value fee within 7-10 business days of closing the case.

If you want a refund for your credit, see Requesting a refund of your eBay credit balance.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/refunds.html

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/cancel-transaction-process.h...

Granted it's buried in their help system, but it's there.
Only one thing is certain: if Congress passes a law like this, they will absolutely fuck up the definition in ways that will create billions of dollars of unforeseen consequences.
There was some drama about China possibly obtaining US stealth technology during Yugoslavia. There is an even more crazy conspiracy theory going on that this is why we bombed their embassy.
Not really a viable strategy.
ah ... sorry I misread. That's valid.
A petty injustice is still an injustice.

Good heavens on some scale every injustice is petty. You imply that the OP's problem is petty compared to more serious eBay dispute - but what stops someone from descrying the pettiness of those thousand-dollar disputes, because someone got screwed on a mortgage, worth tens or hundreds of thousands? What's to stop someone attacking you for bring up an injustice that just involves money when women are being systematically raped and murdered in sub Saharan Africa?

You need to get off your high horse and stop attacking someone for expressing disgust over a small amount of money.

I would add an important fact, one which I've never heard expressed but which I have not seen an exception to: the net sum of petty injustice in this world is far, far greater than the great injustices done in this world. The reason? Because people like you shut down those who would spend the time to fight it. Meanwhile, eBay takes $2 here, $2 there and laughs all the way to the bank with millions.
And could run it under an angel, auto rebooting when mem leak above a certain threshold and traffic below a certain level, allowing a couple days' window to look for a low impact time.

This is more or less what Apache and IIS do with child processes or long running threads. It's a production proven approach.
All the more reason to end the drug war and stop giving Mexico money to fight it too.
>I need to develop as many of the skills I need to lead such a company now, because in a few years it may be difficult or almost impossible to grow in the ways necessary to handle the role.

This neurological development is completely misinterpreted. I already posted on this exact topic not that long ago, but I'll reiterate.

The poster is correct in noting neurological development does come with age in your 20s when one's frontal cortex (or lobes) of the brain fully develop.

This has nothing to do with "developing new skills", but rather its your ability to control higher-order functioning. This could range from long term planning, motivation, and inhibition towards behavior.

When you're young you're somewhat crazy and brash. This allows one to take chances, push the envelope, and reach breakthroughs. If anything this counters the poster's logic, and they should be creating a start-up in their teens instead.

With that said it works both ways. The youth lack the ability fully reason, plan, and in SOME cases think logically through a problem (in the sense of understanding the repercussions of their actions).
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Maybe you should offer to pay him something to get these things fixed, if you care about it so much.
"there is no mention of paid app encryption nor the increasing payment options (carrier billing, gift cards)."

Probably because neither of those things really have to do with the selection of games available.

"the author's points boil down to "there are more exclusive games on iOS","

Or rather, 'many of the best mobile titles are exclusive to iOS or first on iOS'. Which was exactly what his title indicated.

"ranting stereotype-enforcing blather piece"

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i dont understand why having C/C++ would stop the "wasteland" - i don't believe java to be an inferior language, and as you have claimed, the debugging/IDE support for java is much better than NDK.

The only possible reason having better support for C/C++ development is so that ports are easier (assuming the original is written in C++).
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Is it just me or has the world moved on from Ruby? I'm seeing more companies and projects moving away from it than adopting it. It feels like Ruby had a nice shot at becoming a mainstream language thanks to Rails but it just ended up blowing up like a bubble.
In this scenario. You leave all your cards at home and carry the Google Wallet card. Every retailer does not have NFC.
That script could be a one-liner in and of itself.
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I wonder by how much their lawyer budget increased over the past years.
This "ugly hack" is a hole you can drive a truck through, and one can be pretty sure the patent lawyers will find an aircraft carrier, load it up with trucks, and drive through it collectively.

It's silly to assume no change in behavior, any legal counsel from that point on will advise in favor of patenting the hardware implementation, and instead of patented software running on commodity hardware we'll end up with patented "appliances" and "reference hardware implementations" with broad claims extending to other types of hardware implementations.
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I'm also curious. I think there's a lot that I wouldn't intuitively think about now with CS courses but other than advanced algorithms and time complexity analysis, I've been entirely self taught and anytime I learn a new language or concept I struggle with it by trial-and-error.

I could read a whole book about C and not be able to regurgitate any of it, or struggle with a sample application in C and learn the mechanics as I go, so that I get an actual working knowledge of it rather than something intangible.

For example, I'm in a class that is covering concurrency primitives. People understand them, kind of. They can trace a program, but they can't use them or explain where they'd use them. On the other hand I have a project making extensive use of them so I have an idea of how they're used and why they're useful and what they do... AND I also understand HOW they work.

Now which is more pracitcal? Exclusively self-taught? Exclusively book-taught? A mixture? The problem has probably more to do with CS curriculums in my opinion.
> Never, make breaking changes to your API. Unless you must.

remove the comma from the sentence.
I think by default you'll find a disproportionate number of critics of Chomsky here. Some who understand what this about are more like to be engineers and like the engineering approach. Others who don't, saw Norvig's name and by default jumped to that side of the argument.
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> Why don't you just copy your post before you hit the 'submit' button?

Three simple (pragmatic) reasons:

1. Most of the time I forget.

2. Sometimes I'm writing multiple comments in HN and elsewhere simultaneously. And, sometimes I write quite long, carefully thought out comment on a forum I visit frequently, complete with images and all that (the forum runs phpBB and doesn't have a 'save draft' button). We need to change the web server before we can move to a better forum engine (vanilla, perhaps) and it's a small forum and doesn't worth the effort until we move the forum to another server later this year.

3. I usually use Safari betas (on OS X), and they're not famous for being stable and while the whole app rarely crashes, after they've moved to WebKit 2.0, occasionally something goes wrong and it has to refresh all open tabs and flush anything that's been in the text fields. So, even if I do #1, the danger is still there.

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Trust me I feel like a tool for being such a fanboy.
He dominated the field of linguistics for decades with anti-empiricist theories. You could argue that the popularity of his ideas held back alternative approaches; hence his contributions could be considered detrimental.
That's actually a really, really long comment. A blog post is definitely due about it, because I feel like a hacker again. Before I was in this fog of not enjoying what I was doing and always being up against some mountain/molehill problem.
Why is it that people group IT and software development together? To me, they are two completely different fields.

For example, I see an IT person as a mail server administrator in a large company, and a developer as the person who would write the mail server software.

I'm not saying that an IT professional never writes code, or a developer won't ever touch a Nginx config file. I just mean they are two different types of work.

It's something I have noticed for a while now, not only with your article.
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I had exactly the same experience. Long time Python developer, and then got into Rails and haven't looked back. Really love the readability of the language.
Plenty of people still use it, but like anything "being cool" doesn't last for that long. Lots of people still use Perl, but it's not necessarily talked about as being "cool" for example.
But electric cars are not just about batteries, they need a whole new kind of electric and mechanism. Although it is not so convent to recharge today, when other kind batteries get mature(like Fuel Cell Battery), nearly all Tesla develop today can be used.
I've bought the Qi book and have been enlighted by the language it describes. I'm looking forward to play a bit with Shen and see how it compares to other lisps.
It looks like it's a Lisp or Lisp-like, but with some features I haven't seen in other Lisps: pattern matching; currying-by-default; a built-in type system; and so on. IOW it seems like if Lisp and Haskell had a baby.

There's some talk about the motivation here: http://www.shenlanguage.org/motivation.html.

I'll admit that, having studied Haskell before Lisp, I really, really like pattern matching. But I don't think this would be enough for me to pick up Shen; I'd probably go with Clojure if I wanted a Lisp.
Some counter points: $9M in pledges towards the Ouya console. 3 different humble bundles for Android, each pulling in around $1M. A 4th bundle is going to start in a few days. Over 100,000 different games are available from the Android Market. The current top paid game on the Android Market is a $5 game.

I game on my Android phone and haven't noticed a lack of quality games. I certainly haven't spent much on games, though. I've got several dozen games that I've paid for, all of which I've purchased through Google's 10 cent and 25 cent sales. I've spent more to get games through the Android Humble Bundles.
While I'm sure they had good intentions, that's an absolutely toxic language that's wide open to interpretation.

I would advise anyone to stay far, far away from that sort of licensing.

It seems impossible to combine most software components with it if you were trying to build something on top of Shen (as an example).
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> The N64 was a peculiar sweet spot for games and I'm not sure why.

That's arguably age-related nostalgia. I feel the same way about the Super Nintendo instead of the N64.

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yes, that's one of the things people forget about battery power - it decouples the generation of the energy from the storage. This means that you can switch from burning coal to solar, hydro or wind as an energy source with no changes at all to the car