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I need to use Java soon, so I will probably try to support this effort somewhat. My elisp isn't great though, but learning when you really need a feature to work properly is typically the most effective way to learn (for me at least).
That's cool for replacement, but the weight of these things is in the X00 kilos range. This is not swappable like a laptop battery. It may weigh up to a quarter ton. =/
I can see the pros and cons of the idea.

Pros

1. Expose your data through an API without writing much (any ?) code.

2. Time saving.

3. Since the API itself is fed by the framework, the opportunity for bugs is limited.

4. I can think of some people / businesses that would pay for this service.

Cons

1. I cant quite get why a service like this would limit its requests / month [1]. My take on it was that you are selling the transformation of the data into a service - as a service. I guess the calls / month is to also benefit from the value that your service adds to the data ? Number of calls made might not directly translate to value.

2. You are limited to relational models.

3. There are tricky conditional requests / data munging / orchestration etc that REST services are expected to take care of sometimes. It can quickly become messy if a client wants this. Is there a translation / conversion layer that can be inserted between the API and its caller ?

Some feedback...

1. Is there some way a developer can try this out before pitching it to a product manager or a higher-up ? There seems to be no direct way to do that. All plans under pricing are tied to money so some folks might be averse to signing up. Most devs just want to download and hack something out to show someone what a product is capable of. The dev can be your marketer within a company.

2. The layout of your site is neat. The call to actions are very specific and targeted.

3. I think your product has the potential to be awesome. Good luck.

[1] - http://www.emergentone.com/pricing/
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Academically: Get all my undergraduate coursework complete on time.

Personally: Get everything (apart from the meal) paid off for our wedding in December.
I'd rather still have the ability to call anonymously if I choose.. no reason to toss an entire tool out on it's ass because it's misused.
Thanks! There are a couple of more techniques we used. Will follow up with a separate post sometime later this month. Also would be interesting to see what approaches simonsarris uses.
So here's the thing. Someone can easily set up a robocall campaign with Twillio, Tropo or any number of other services. I would like to see anti-robocall measures strictly enforced. With that being said I wonder what percentage of these providers business is coming from these robo-calls and/or what they are doing to prevent them.
that is unnecessarily dismissive of an entire class of programmers (who were, let me add, around long before the web startup explosion). focusing on solving the user's problem is a valuable mindset, and is after all what keeps the industry alive, but focusing on solving the programmer's problem is equally valuable, and helps keep the industry productive.

at the end of the day, yes, you can take a deep breath or several and crank out tens of thousands of lines of java which do the job perfectly well. but you can also notice that bits of it are far more easily done in jruby or clojure, and publish an article outlining your observations that lets the next person who has the same problem get it done with a lot less work and a lower error-rate, and surely that is worth something too.
Can't they both be shocking?
You should take all of your life serious, but not so serious you do not enjoy it.
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?

Because the batteries wouldn't have to be tested while you wait. Like laptop batteries, they could have their own embedded controllers that would keep track of each individual unit's charge state and condition. (Actually it's almost certain that they already do.)

The analogy I like to use is swapping out propane cylinders for a gas grill. It should take less time to refuel an EV than a gasoline-powered vehicle, not more.

This is also important for power management, if Musk's prediction comes true and half of all cars sold by 2025 are indeed electric. Swappable batteries can be charged when/where the power is available, using industrial rates and infrastructure. Instead of seeing gasoline tankers driving around, you would see trucks delivering and picking up batteries from service stations.

People will understand why hardwired batteries are a bad idea as soon as half their neighborhood tries to charge their EVs every night the way we currently charge our smartphones.
Thinking on this more, kinect-style cameras looking down the plane of the desk could probably do 'posture' analysis to sort out (un)intentional touches pretty easily.

That might be easier than even trying to develop pressure sensors and heuristics.
Glad you enjoyed your experience with Fiestah Frank!
Tom Lehrer is a brilliant satirist and song writer, but he was never a "concert pianist" in the sense that that phrase is typically used, and I understand he essentially stopped being active as a research mathematician ~50 years ago.

That said, there are a number of active research mathematicians who are outstanding musicians, though they tend to not have the time to play enough concerts to be known for it (being busy with math).
I would guess a mix of the positive jobs report and short covering from margin calls is at fault. Right-leaning investors have seemed to want the company to fail for months, but Tesla is looking resilient with their good backlog and a strong economy. They're paying back their DOE loan early.
I know how you feel, but my response to this guy was to want to take him, put my arm around his shoulder, congratulate him on finding a way to motivate himself as he is right now, and warn him that he's got five, maybe six decades ahead of him, every one filled with possibilities that aren't going to depend on what he does right NOW NOW NOW. There's time. Everyone always has the wherewithal to change things, to start things, to build things, and to make things better, no matter how the past went.
It sounds more like a porn site, of which any kind is frowned upon in many workplaces.
That clears it up :)
You guys at Buffer get more HN front page action than Techcrunch and Codinghorror combined. What's up with that?

P.S. Buffer is a great app, but that's beside the point.
Just as an FYI, although this post did do well here on HN and get quite a few tweets, it had a negligible effect on my daily book sales. It's dangerous to generalize from n=1, but my conjecture (that needs some validation) is that posts need to be strongly related to the subject of the book to pull sales.
I'm not sure there is actual elasticity here, despite Uber's claims. This is simply anecdotal, as a New Yorker on the UWS, getting downtown took upwards of 2 hours (instead of the usual 20) and the traffic was filled with numerous black cars. The real problem here is not the cars on the street, but more the capacity of the city. Great report on this here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157477611/does-new...
> Are programmers becoming so dumb they can't create an API on their own?

No, they're becoming so smart they don't want to reinvent the wheel for the nth time.
As I recall, authorities turned away anyone trying to make a quick buck by selling essential supplies.

Even with fixed prices, there was a limited number of goods. Driving a truck there to unload your wares still made economic sense, if you could do it at a large enough scale.
Thanks a lot Frank!
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As someone who works on a deep and far away application I would have a hard to seeing how connecting to our datasource (which has been abstracted to hell by ORM layers) would be a better option for developing a rest interface than using existing infrastructure. That being said, I like the path they are taking and think it's a valid approach... just not sure how many people actually need it.
The font you have on the menus is hard to read. I know it matches the title element well, but at a smaller size, I had to stop and think about each menu item. That will probably reduce interaction if thought has to go into each item's label. FYI.
I imagine you'd see small forklifts at service stations for that purpose. It would require a standardization effort that I don't believe is happening, though.
I would think Russia, China or Iran would be better candidates. How steadfast is a little telecom branch in Gabon going to hold out against US pressure?

I can definitely understand not going for a com/org/net but beyond that it seems more like Gabon fit the name and the grandiose explanation came afterwards.
I completely agree with what cletus says. I'm 43 years old today. Some things just feel uninteresting because I started doing them too young. Interestingly programming is not one of them, I have been doing it for 30 years. On the other hand, I have been rock climbing for 7 years and I'm better than ever [in case you care: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEgfe4cYuU ]. It still feels pretty new to me. I know 25-year-olds who started climbing as kids, reached their potential and lost interest.

Everyone is different, every decade in a person's life is different. In my personal case, my work between 30 and 40 was far better than what I did between 20 and 30. I feel pretty inspired right now.

This type of post is the stuff that you want to say to yourself at every point in your life (you can only make the best of the present, after all). It doesn't really work as advice to others.
It doesn't seem like a software issue to me, so I'd guess no fix will come aside from LTE coverage improving in your area.

It's just the cold hard facts of where the state of cellular radio technology is today. It's pretty amazing as is that the iPhone 5 can be so much thinner, lighter, support a larger hi-res screen, be twice as fast, and support LTE. The spotty LTE issue is just one of those compromises that I don't think much can be done about.
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Proximity mines on temple, that almost never happened. Thankfully that one developer stood for what's right and made our childhoods that much better.
When driving, tactile response is a key safety feature, so you're eyes don't have to leave the road to make sure your button was pushed. However, I totally agree that the voice command is the next step, it is the only time I use Siri!
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We're talking $100 000 a day. That's quite a marketing budget!
Well this is painful, but fair.

Recruiting while trying to stay stealth is like voluntarily punching yourself in the face. We're always happy to give demos to anyone who's interested in talking to us - we're just not ready to have it all down in a public forum yet.

I can understand where you're coming from and I agree, but we're going to just have to live with this until we're closer to launch.
This practice screws up attempts to instill good online security habits in people, too. For example, Citibank's normal domains are citi.com and citibank.com, but then it sends email links to the super-fake-sounding accountonline.com, which is apparently where its actual ebanking services run (you get redirected there even if you login at citi.com).

Even worse is when banks send out "cloaked" links, where the anchor text in the email shows their actual domain name, but the HREF target is n23uiahsf8das9fda.somethingelse.com.
Did you go back to the same field and responsibilities? I'm taking almost 2.5 years off but I don't really think I'll suffer a set-back.
There are lines miles long for gas. People do hoard in disasters. Gas in NY metro simply is more valuable now; for instance, as a substitute for the electric grid. Your reply is nonresponsive.
I "agree", but draw the exact opposite conclusions.

You should take your 20's seriously... because it's the only time in your life that you aren't encumbered by building a career, having kids, etc.

So you should take your 20's to do the things that you won't be able to do later. Work as a bartender, play in a band, travel the world on the cheap, teach English abroad, date the kind of people you wouldn't marry. You don't have serious responsibilities, so take advantage of that while you can.

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.

Obviously, don't throw your 20's away. But spend them doing life-experience-focused things, not career- or family-focused.

And this gets at the author's third point: "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s". If that's even true (although I doubt it), then you'd better get in all those varied life experiences sooner rather than later. Learn a second language, learn to cook, learn to play music.

Don't waste your 20's on grinding away at traditionally career-oriented stuff. That part of your brain is probably already fine. Your 20's is the time to look for diversity in your life, not to focus narrowly on any particular part. You've got all the decades afterward to work on narrow refinement and career progression...
So yes was the answer.

PS: Err it looked like ALL the editors of the magazine had only good things to say about the car. I digress though seeing as to how it's a popularity contest in any case.
The correct response to a fixed supply of water is rationing, not either fixed or floating prices. Because without water you die, or catch diseases from poor substitutes.

With a fixed price, whoever comes in first gets the most water; laggards die. With a floating price, whoever has the most money gets the most water; poor people die. Neither of these is morally superior. IMO.
Ugh. I've been having this conversation a lot lately.

> Your 20′s lay the groundwork for success in the rest of your career.

Can also be said as: While in your 20's, you should start living like you're in your 30's, 40's and 50's, so you can do that and only that for your entire life.

I completely reject that way of thinking.

There are many things we all want to do in our 20's we will not want to do later in life, which is all the more reason to do them in your 20's, lest you never get to do them at all.

As anecdotal evidence, I spent 2 years of my life from 27-29 driving from Alaska to Argentina, because I wanted to. Will I want to sleep in a tent for >500 nights when I'm 50? doubtful. Am I extremely happy that I did? You bet, best experience of my life. Did it "harm" my career? No, I'm working right now as a Software Engineer.
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I'd note that completely inelastic supply almost never occurs, even in a disaster. For example, if prices for water are high, it raises the likelihood that some entrepreneur will fill up a truck with water bottles and drive into a disaster zone to sell them. Or that a shopkeeper will stay open past his normal hours, or not set aside a bunch of water bottles for himself.

And of course there are dynamic effects of anti-gouging laws, too. Even if supply were unchangeable during a disaster, the knowledge that prices will--or will not--be allowed to rise when a disaster occurs change how shopkeepers will prepare when a storm is approaching.
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Building electricity generators underwater is challenging. If a big storm comes through, the storm surge will destroy almost everything in its path. You design a hydropower station so that it will have resistance when the water passes over it, if you don't have the ability to disengage (wind turbines have locks and newer ones have adjustable blades) it will get destroyed when large waves come in (sometimes, all that power is a bad thing).

It's great that we're still attempting these though, the power of the sea is too tempting to stay away from. Whether or not it works, it will give us another data point on what to try, or what not to try.
Somewhat more info can be found at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/11/robocalls.shtm
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Forgot to mention that I am an electric car owner as well (Roadster).

I don't really like the idea of battery swapping. It seems like a big hassle. The current Supercharger seems totally fine. I guess it remains to be seen how well it works in practice, once a lot of people have the cars, but right now things look really good.

One of the most common pieces of anti-EV rhetoric is "the infrastructure doesn't exist". This is actually FUD. The infrastructure is everywhere: we have electricity pretty much everywhere. (Consider: all these gas stations have electricity, so the penetration of electricity is a superset of the penetration of gasoline). What we don't often have is the right plug, but that is a relatively small problem.

But if you start talking about installing a widespread battery swapping paradigm, then that is a huge infrastructure problem, because you need to have stocks of all these physical things all over the place.

On the other hand, with Supercharger, you don't need that. You just need some electricity. It is much simpler.
They wouldn't turn, (sort of) like an aircraft wing flying sideways, it is not designed to create lift in that direction. These blades have big paddles that catch the force of the water and push it (like a waterwheel).
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> some tradeoff has to be made to increase some of the stats but not the price

I disagree. According to Wikipedia, it's been six years since EC2 launched. Since 2006-equivalent hardware is much cheaper in 2012 due to Moore's Law, (or alternatively the specs you can buy with a given number of dollars in 2012 is much better than it was in 2006), and since the original EC2 machines have probably been in service long enough to generate sufficient revenue to recover their upfront investment and make a profit, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Amazon to start retiring those old machines and use the better price/performance point of new hardware as a business justification to give customers some combination of price breaks and spec upgrades.
Self driving, electric car that goes and finds a charging station, re-charges and returns while I eat some pancakes? Yes please!
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I used to work at TripAdvisor, and I don't think he's wrong. TA is a fun company with a lot of really sharp engineers on the payroll--it was a privilege to work with the folks I worked with. But the business focus is on time-to-market, and 10+ years of that can lead to technical debt, which can often present in ways like "requires enough AWS instances to calculate every digit of pi to not fall over." That focus is a conscious decision on their part, though, and their success speaks for itself.
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Bank of America's Cardmember Services sounds very remarkably like "Rachel" or "Ann" in their approach on the phone. They won't (they say they can't) give out even the last 4 digits of the credit card number you're in trouble about.

I too have dodged cards that I'm 49% certain were legitimate.
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Using IntelliJ IDEA for Java has been a real productivity boost compared to C++ in Emacs, mostly for the navigation support (a lot of programming is navigating the existing code base), but also for auto-complete and refactoring.

I wrote about it here: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/17/programmer-productivity-em...
I probably don't understand the tool maven. My personal intention is to get the tools out of the way as much as possible so that I can focus on programming. Crafting and learning new IDE features and that sort of stuff seems counter-productive to me.
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No, substantive marketing campaigns are orders of magnitude more. And, it depends on how many new customers they get and how long drivers will cost extra. The just raised $50 mil, and the subways will be back in a week, two tops... do the math. It isn't every day you can buy happy new customers and good press, and on the days you can it usually costs more.
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How about charging based on the geodesic distance between the start point and end point? That seems to get around the proposed regulation, which prohibits charging based on distance travelled.
That's a pretty sexy car, I'd take one in a second if I had $60k+ to drop, and I'm not even in the market for ANY car (bike commuting ftw). That said, I'm holding out for a Model X. The falcon wing doors are just SO badass.
Expected behavior with the iPhone 5: ~10-15% better battery life.

You've ruled-out the known spotty LTE switching/searching issue, I'd perform these additional experiments:

1) Disable iCloud sync entirely for a day. In iOS5 there used to be a bunch of battery life problems caused by devices getting caught in an endless loop of pointless background syncing. Maybe you're still hitting something like that.

2) Turn of location services for a day. Maybe you've got something like Find My Friends taking up too much juice?

3) Turn of email "push" for a day. Maybe you've got too many email accounts?

Failing that, maybe you've got a dud? Take it to the Apple store and they can look at your device energy usage logs. They'll most likely tell you to do a fresh iOS install suspecting a software issue.. but in the end they might just switch you to a new device.
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