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I think this is sort of bullshit

first shouldn't you take every discrete chunk of your life seriously?

to the degree to which this is true, its true because we tell ourselves its true, most people don't reinvent themselves past their 20s because they choose not to, not because the obsticles standing in their way are insurmountable
You highlight really good points. I guess at scale the government does exactly what you propose (step in and allocate supply per person), for example rationing in World War 2.
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Same here. I would add that one of the things I'm pretty careful not to sacrifice is interpersonal (and as a corollary emotional) development. These things play a huge part in your ability to raise children that grow up to become well adjusted and successful young people. I try to be mindful of this when weighing whether or not to put in another weekend/evening coding.
That's absolutely true - some things are easier to change than others. I like your sushi example; it's easy for most people to "try something new" when the experience feels disposable and non-threatening to someone's current worldview.

It is much much harder to ask someone to be open to a new way of seeing life, especially in the areas you mentioned. Pick your favorite controversial political topic - a prime example of how difficult it is to get people to open up.
Congrats on the follow-through! It's great to hear about niches that everyone might assume are all locked-up being wide open to good ideas, well-executed.
Okay? Android's experience has been evolving from day one. iOS is basically the same experience except for major features like multitasking menu, notification menu, etc (and where did those come from).

"Features" are a major part of the experience and was the more important part of my post. Your desire to focus on specs and attempt to dismiss my entire post goes to show the value of lumping "people like me" together and trying to pretend like the specs don't affect the experience. Here's an experience, day-in-and-day-out hearing about people complain about how crashy apps are in iOS.

At least you didn't try to claim that people don't notice a difference between $300 and $650.

I'm very happy to talk experience and features. I mean, come on, did you watch the 4.2 announcement video???
Yep, haven't seen such horrible example of logical fallacy in a long time.
I used to be a TA engineer. Their pages are not static; almost everything is dynamic. Moreover, their engineering practices are...just awful.

TA java code (used to at least) store every location in a giant location tree in each server. "Location" includes things like continents and countries and towns and ice cream stores and hotels. Just loading in that much data and creating that many objects took ~10 minutes in part because they insisted on writing their own serialization code but didn't bother to do a good job.
You can get this from most places now:

'Hi, I was just running through the troubleshooting steps with one of your colleagues and I got cut off. He said he was just going to put me on hold to [order new router|arrange engineer|whatever you think is needed after your own troubleshooting]'

This works for me 95% of the time.
Bluetooth would work better than NFC in this instance.
"Deviation from the Apple aesthetic has been risky and mostly unsuccessful (Metro, Zune, etc.)"

I think it's a bit early to call Metro unsuccessful. The fact that Windows Phone has even survived is proof that some people prefer it, since design is all that platform has going for it. Metro's just been attached to fairly weak products until now.
The fact that it has no 4G is a killer. I was about to buy it, but lack of 4G prevented me.
I think he's referring to 8-year lifetime of the battery pack. Current car economics (used market, resale value, TCO) don't work as well when a few years down the road the car turns into a brick.
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We would be glad to talk with you.

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I have been curious as to why there were not more Skylanders type hardware games in existence? Not sure I would choose NFC as the link though it will be interesting to see and hopefully lead to others. NFC table top gaming could be a thing. NFC enabled mech with a little AR sprinkled on top? Please?
Now and then I used to amuse myself by letting them connect and then asking a) what company they represented, and b) in what state it was incorporated. This was usually--maybe always--good for an immediate disconnection.
I've spent a considerable amount of time thinking about this, ever since the topic came up on reddit about why so few people in their 20's seem to "have their shit together."

I think it comes down to two reasons. The first one is huge, but its essentially luck. I think the reason I'm even afforded the opportunity to take my 20's seriously is almost completely happenstantial.

Looking at my friends and (distant) family I sometimes feel guilty because nothing bad has ever really happened to me in my life, whereas they've had to put up with all kinds of weird shit. For many people I know not being able to take their 20's seriously as powerhouse career years is sort-of excusable. They were spending them trying to survive, or raise a family all-too-soon.

But me? I'm young (24), well educated, I live in a huge Victorian-era house near main street nearly for free, programming job, walk to work every day, have a book deal (boring HTML5 book), brag, brag, etc, etc

But somehow I feel I'm just infinitely lucky. Lucky that my parents are two normal, well adjusted people. Lucky that I could be awkward and nerdy as all shit through middle school and high school and nobody was ever unpleasant to me. I was never bullied. No weird drama ever entered my life. I exited college with $0 but debt-free, thanks to Bank of Dad, who carefully engineered my experience to be basically broke but never in-the-hole so long as I worked (got an internship every summer and winter).

Lucky lucky lucky. Thanks everyone in my life so far. Really.

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On the flip side I think that such a lifestyle (very career focused 20's) is seen as unattractive to a lot of 20-somethings. At the least, I think most people in my age range would describe people like me as boring (though I am never really bored). I spend most of my days reading, writing, sitting in cafes, programming, or doing art things. Right now and for several more months, its nearly 100% career activities. If I had to put together a dating website profile, it probably wouldn't look particularly attractive to other 20-somethings.

Put another way, most of my hobbies are either career related or solitary acts. Not that people can't appreciate them, just that none of them are exciting, and most of my 20-something friends (none of which IRL are programmers, I lead a lonely career here in NH) that proclaim me to be one of the few who has their shit together would also not want to be me.

None of them want to work desk jobs and then go home and work some more. They want to work in food/bar services or have a whatever-job, drop it at 5pm and go do fun 20-something things. Career development it seems isn't fun to most 20-somethings, socializing at bars is, moving out to Montana to climb things and work for a harvest season is, saving up to hide away in Peru for a year is, writing music with friends while working retail is, but not career development. Not to disparage these things, it just a sampling of their goals.
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Basically yes, I've reported as many issues as I know for my area. They all get put in place in about 1-2 weeks I've noticed.

I don't see why every ones bitching so badly, I have to do the same for google maps too every so often when its wrong. Maps is getting its data from a server, it doesn't really need to be tied to OS updates to improve its backend data.
Poorly, I'm afraid. There's nothing inherently wrong with PHP per se. 99% of the problems with PHP are the result of it being a language that novice programmers can easily learn and become productive in. There's nothing wrong with that and given the alternatives, I encourage it. However, novice programmers tend to write garbage code and attempt to overcome lack of architectural cohesiveness with brute force. This quickly devolves into spaghetti code and soon, Murphy's law raises its head leading to the programmer crawling under his/her desk and considering a life as a llama rancher when the web app craters in spectacular fashion.

The lesson from this is that a bad programmer produces bad code. Nothing can save us from our self and Pogo had it right many years ago when he said "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Unless you are female. There really is such thing as a biological clock.

edit: Before I get downvoted, insert "... and want children"
This. As they say "We had a plan for everything and then life happened"
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Exactly. I read that and said "Well, too late for me, I guess." Good thing I'm happy with how my life turned out, regardless.
The idea that "jacking up prices" has no constructive purpose is strictly incorrect . When you fix prices on gas, and the relative value of gas shoots up, gas gets allocated to the people whose time is least valuable. When you allow gas prices to float in the same situation, gas gets allocated to the people whose time is most valuable.

Neither allocation is optimal; it is indeed unfair for all the gas to go to investment bankers. But that doesn't make it efficient or even fair for all the gas to instead go to the people who can get to the station earliest and wait in lines the longest.

Equally importantly, when you fix prices instead of allowing them to float, you enable hoarding. People get gas who don't need the gas, because they're risk averse and overestimate the likelihood that they'll use up what they already have. So gas quickly runs out everywhere. If you leave the fixed price in place for long, eventually all the value that would have been captured by the station owners instead gets captured by the grey market (and the deadweight losses involved in transferring gas to that grey market).

It's obviously not good social policy to allow gas station owners to charge $100/gallon for gas during a disaster. But it also seems pretty silly for prices to be capped at 10% of the pre-disaster spot price. Gas could easily float up to $10, $15/gallon (ie: the price of gas in Europe), motivate stations to find creative ways to supply that suddenly lucrative market, dampen the consumer urge to fill their tanks to 100%, and not bankrupt anyone (Americans famously overestimate the impact of gas prices on their daily lives).
Thanks.
We will use it to explain better the value next time. ;)
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Interesting post. There is also other school of thought:

- in 20s you party

- in 30s you raise family

- in 40s you build business

And, don't worry: if you are very creative in 20s you will be the same creative person with new ideas in 40s.
This is a delicate subject because one can view it as a call for those in their 20s to make the most of that time, which is a fine message, to something tantamount to ageism.

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 find a lot of these complaints are more about the cultural and lifestyle gap between those in their 20s and those who are older.

I remember the 80s. I'm not particularly interested in going bar-hopping. I find most social media to be an annoying drivel from people who vary between exhibitionists to just liking the sound of their own voices (everybody is talking, nobody is listening). I don't have that same sense of enthusiasm because for me everything isn't new. Most things really are derivative. To paraphrase something Don Draper said, I've reached a point on my life where I think I've basically met every kind of person there is. That's not to say that people can't surprise you. They can. It's just that you realize they're not as different as they once seemed.

This is exacerbated in the startup world since so many are cut from the same cloth: valedictorians in high school, magna cum laude, graduates of Stanford/MIT/CMU/Columbia, interned at Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft/Google, now working for one of those or some hot startup. It's a whittled down group of the technocratic elite who often-times don't really know how privileged and lucky they are.

At Google there tends to be two kinds of people: those who have worked in the outside world, particularly in Corporate America, and know how lucky they are and how different this is. And those that haven't and think this is just how the world is.

I don't begrudge them their successes and accomplishments but it is a form of cultural isolation--even inbreeding.

All of this means there tends to be a smaller set of common social norms with the "20s set".

At the same time, I pick up new technologies, languages and frameworks as much as I ever did. Possibly more so. Just now I've been doing a lot of AngularJS. That certainly didn't exist in my 20s. While I may not have the same youthful exuberance, I have experience and can draw lessons and parallels from programming in every stage of the Web's development (from CGI scripts on).

I will say this to those planning to have children: do it while you're young and it has nothing do with fertility. Children simply take an enormous amount of energy and commitment and this is far easier to bounce back from the younger you are.

As for the rest of it? Take another comment on this thread:

> Once somebody is fully set in their ways it's almost impossible to change their mind without divine intervention

That's fairly blatant ageism but, more than that, it's from someone who only knows people like him- or herself that wants to surround themselves with the same. Like I said: commonality and shared social norms are really what's in play there.
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http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-...
these are the world's most recognized awards for production cars, so they are the ones that could affect the stock price, if any. they are not a single national magazine's editors recognition.
Strict capitalism is heartless, and ruins society. If the only way to share is through dollars, the majority of the burden is placed on the poor. We pretend that capitalism is foundational because it is an easy way to control the vast complexity of resource sharing, but it isn't sufficient for a healthy civilization. Strict capitalism is a third world country, with all security and resources devoted to those with personal wealth.
As an electric car owner, I haven't found a need for swapping batteries. Consider this: if a refueling station offered battery swapping they would also need to exhaustively test your batteries to determine that they were not abused and to determine how much credit to offer for their current capacity. How does that save much time from just using a quick-charge station?

Today, I have plenty of range to get to and from work and most activities driving a car with 1/3rd the EPA range of a Tesla Model S. Consider that you can still do long road trips simply by stopping at a quick charge station for a meal and a fillup or you can use some small part of the money you're saving on fuel to rent a car. Given how few road trips I take, I could probably take a limo every time if I wanted.
I do agree that he is one of the great storytellers of our time. As was Jerzy Kosiński. (Who was a plagerist and didn't actually write his own books.)

The problem to me is more one of leading an audience to where the conclusions sound nice, but are either dubious, or, as in the case of Tipping Point, far short of the beauty of more informed explanation.
To put in a nutshell "the idea is more to be an IFTTT/Zapier for developers but without limited inputs and outputs by Graphical User Interface" ;)
Well-presented, nice work. See also: http://apify.heroku.com/
IMO 20-something is THE time to go for it. You'll only get more encumbered by personal expense overhead and non-monetary time commitments as you get older.

Yes, our bodies haven't kept pace with society and technology. If you ever want to have kids, ladies need to be finished having children by 35. Start before 30 but if you know you have potential fertility issues start as early as possible after getting an education. You'll only miss out on happy hour where people get fat and dissolve their their faces with alcohol anyway.

One downside is you may not feel as credible as someone older when trying to make a sale in-person. However, some older people will give you the sale because they like you because you're a younger version of them.

Another downside is establishing appropriate relationships with employees that are about your same age. Attila doesn't drink with the huns. You can't tell if they actually like you because you're paying them so you're probably not as funny as they make you feel. If you get rich they're going to hate you anyway; even if they get some of the loot too it won't be enough. That doesn't go for real partners - you need a small senior team of complementary people that live and die with the company - that's hard to find but critical.

Luck favors the prepared. You can be almost completely invisible to the world and still make enough money that it changes the course of the rest of your life. Time will pass regardless and you're probably going to be working anyway so why not place your big bets when they only affect you?
Good! Living in NYC boroughs there are little/no taxis, so we have to rely on car services. Since Sandy they are all consistently booked solid (provided you can even get them on the phone: most are "busy" forever).

Yet, with Uber dynamic pricing, I have been able to get a car when needed. Yes, I paid more - but at least I got a car that I wasn't going to get otherwise. Awesome!
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Everybody should get to choose what to make their life "about"; life is so varied, it's hard for me to take seriously any pronouncements about what a certain specific segment should be about.
Is there any long-term fix for this? Or do I just have to wait for improved LTE coverage (or keep LTE turned off in those areas)?
It took me a while to realize that the resizing was the whole point -- the scene animates as it gets wider.

There's nothing ground-breaking here, but neither is there in many of the XKCD stunts that we fawn over here. I think if you just describe it that way we'd all know what's going on.
The M5 may beat the Tesla at 0-60 on paper (3.7 seconds vs 3.9), but in practice the Tesla will beat the M5.

A 0-60 is measured from the time the car starts to move. If you measure from when the accelerator is depressed, the Tesla gains a huge advantage and will beat the M5.

EDIT:

Here's a 0-100 video:

http://ca.autoblog.com/2012/10/09/sport-sedan-shootout-tesla...

Now unless there's some tricks in the video, it's quite obvious that the M5 does much better at the latter half of the drag than the first half. So if a Tesla can beat an M5 at 0-100, it will destroy it at 0-60.
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Me.

I write Android apps in Emacs.
Another one!? How hard is it to write a few lines of Sinatra, Express, Flask ... code, then deploy with Heroku? This is getting ridicilous. Are programmers becoming so dumb they can't create an API on their own?
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This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone starting out, it seems like a bad idea to use this because it is sort of encouraging bad habits, right?

For example if you making a new sandwich, why would you make a device that takes the peanut butter from the jar, puts it in a bigger jar, then you use a knife to get the peanut butter from the bigger jar to put on your PB&J? It just seems like a bad middle man, if you are starting a new project.

Maybe I'm wrong, but again, it looks neat for people maybe in old companies where they have no choice but I just hope this doesn't encourage people to start with MySQL just for this app or with a purpose to only turn it into an API.

Or maybe another application of this is turning an existing blog with WordPress (MySQL) into an API? Not sure...
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Neither the car nor the battery turn into a brick. That's why utilities will offer plenty of money for used batteries once the range is too low for your comfort. Selling batteries to utilities helps to offset the cost of replacement batteries.

70% range on a Leaf or a Tesla battery after eight or ten years is still very valuable for offpeak energy storage applications.
I'm not really arguing that. I'm only attempting to explain why price controls are put in place.
Cool tattoo, but I'm quite sure the claims about the golden ratio being “all over” arts and nature are overblown. It's still a cool geometric concept, but as far as I know many of these “truths” are simply factoids stemming from confirmation bias.

Wikipedia has a brief list of some disputed observations here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Disputed_observati...
This exact product cost about 200$ when it came out and a friend of mine and me bought. I left it alone for some time. Then, I went through the program, which was very simple, but gave specific steps to do things I applied. It made me 3000$ so far.

There you go. That isn't tons of money, but it is fun.

And no one pirates info products? Seriously? Let us just say that this statement alone demonstrates you have no idea what you are talking about. Not only are info products pirated like crazy, there are even invite only societies that tend to throw money in pools to buy and then rip this kind of stuff. Don't believe me? Research it for yourself.
Even the co-founder relocated himself to ATX on his own nickel a couple months ago.
Wait, tell me again why I should trust you with database credentials? Whitelist you in my infrastructure? Allow you to define an entry point to my app?

I would honestly rather pay for a product like this and get the source than what is in this offering.

It's interesting nonetheless.
Very good point. I would say that younger developers are taught to behave in hipster way as a means to get a good standing with their peers.
This one? http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1567614639
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I'd really hate to have to have to say "increase driver side temperature by 2 degrees" when I could much more easily just turn a knob without looking, thanks to muscle memory & tactile feedback.
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If I were them, I would sink some of that massive VC into paying the difference as marketing. Keep prices stable, but ration rides based on how often people have used uber. ie, attract as many possible new customers.
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Ask HN: Overdone "apps" are in abdundace, is that necessarily a bad thing? 
For example: Task management apps. They are a dime a dozen, sure the app doesn't have much chance of taking off, but it gets you off your ass to CREATE something. Does having something like that under your belt help your credibility? Is it a good jumping off point to becoming a "founder" of many things?
Sorry to drive this off topic. I run The Brief, and to date I've published every week day by 10am, with the exception of two days where I had to delay it to later in the day due to a hurricane doing its best to destroy my city. What is it about that schedule you find irregular? I welcome any feedback. Feel free to email me (the address is listed on the site).