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I grew up in cherokee county, went to UGA for undergrad and GT for grad school. Lived in midtown for a year and East Point for a year (it was cheap!). I came out to CA for a summer in undergrad and fell in love with the parks. Came out again for an internship in grad school and fell in love with a girl. Moved out here in 2007.

Compared to Georgia/Atlanta, the biggest changes I've noticed are:
1) everything is much much more expensive. a house that would be ~$200k-$250k inside the perimeter will cost ~$700k-$800k on the peninsula. houses in the $300-$400k range would probably go for $1-2mm out here. Average restaurant bills are ~$50 for my wife & I for what I would consider pretty "normal" places (we'd probably average $25-30 in comparable Atlanta restaurants). I'm lucky that my wife's job has on-site daycare for only $1500/month. The one exception is veggies--I routinely go to the local farmer's market and walk away with a week's worth of veggies for under $20.
2) at the same time, salaries are a lot higher. even if your housing/expenses take up the same percentage of your paycheck, your disposable income will generally go a lot further (an iPad costs what it costs anywhere in the U.S.) I've bought things since moving West that I probably never would've spent money on living in GA, just because I had that extra disposable income (i.e. flying to the UGA-Arizona State game a few years back). This can be a double-edged sword, though--if you want to do your own thing or start your own company, it will be MUCH harder to do that here than in Atlanta (making $50k in the app store is a hell of a lot cooler in Atlanta than it is in silicon valley)
3) people are generally pretty nice, but not interested at all in getting to know you or chatting randomly. we've been in the same house for 4 years now and barely know the neighbors
4) the amount of stuff within driving distance is really, really incredible--including the excellent state and county parks. people here are MUCH more interested in going outdoors on the weekends (whereas I found in GA people mostly just hang out on the weekends, maybe having a bbq or going to a lake).
5) if you're an engineer and decent at what you do, you'll never want for a job.
6) the work is a lot more high-energy -- i know engineers in ATL who work from 9-5 (or less) and more or less coast through the day... but are smart enough to get all their work done. that sort of attitude does not fly at all in silicon valley. if you feel like you're smarter than everyone around you in Atlanta, move out here and you'll be pleasantly surprised
7) if you're interested in things like hackathons, there's always something going on and it's pretty easy to meet like-minded people
8) the weather's awesome
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking me.
This is very true and it's a well known customer service approach. That's why the guy taking your pizza delivery order tells you it will be 45 minutes even though it only takes 5 minutes for them to make a pizza.
Ah, I think around here it's $10000, but you're right that it looks like $5000 is normal. Good point.
If I were to pick one thing I wish Excel handled better out of the box, it was it's annoying habit of reformatting numbers pasted in.
Certainly, and as Tesla’s logs clearly show, much of my driving was at or well below the 65 m.p.h. speed limit, with only a single momentary spike above 80. Most drivers are aware that cars can speed up, even sometimes when cruise control is engaged, on downhill stretches.

That sounds very very unlikely with the regenerative braking. They call it single pedal driving for a reason - the braking is pretty strong.
Different Linux distributions are more binary compatible than BSD/OSX is.

Besides Steam has been repackaged for other distros but their official support is only for Ubuntu currently.

If they did start supporting other distributions it is difficult to know where that should end. Perhaps there is a case for supporting Fedora and perhaps Debian, but what about Slackware,Gentoo,Mint,Arch etc?

It would be impossible to guarantee it would work on every wacky distro out there.
Well, everyone has to live within the environment they find themselves in; the "artificial" ecosystem is just another kind of ecosystem, and people look for niches within it. And it's true that there are plenty of lifestyles that would have to be different in a different ecosystem. But that's true of a wide range of niches you could inhabit. Someone who's spending their full-time efforts building a social music player is in a way piggy-backing off a whole bunch of other stuff that already exists and is providing their food/shelter/medicine/etc. You can't exactly eat social-music systems, so it's only possible to have the luxury of working on them if someone else is providing your material needs. Is that being a "parasite"? Well, the way the economy is currently set up, they can carve out a niche where they can survive doing it. But then, so can the street kids, just on different terms...
well, assuming that the cruise control / rest of car was aware of the tire change, but the logging system wasn't

you have the motor spinning faster to make up for the smaller tires, while the logging system just sees the motor spinning faster.

however, as counterpoint to this, the read distance would probably change as well (unless the logging system was only partially aware). Then again there was some discrepancies with the travel distance as well, but that discrepancy isn't nearly enough to account for it.
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Well, that's just a time limit and obviously there's nothing wrong with that.

But the concept of a time bomb is that it's hidden and can cause harm at some point.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_bomb)
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Thanks for your support. I will keep your contact info, and keep it in mind as I progress down this path. Hopefully I will be in touch soon.
I'm curious as to your explanation for the following links, which were very likely performed by you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google_Chrome_OS&#...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.23.218...

They seem like rather abrupt and well-time for something revisions.

I also haven't come across any Chrome OS engineers, past or present, who even knew of your existence prior to this controversy. How do you explain this?
Sorry, David Michael Ross (apparently you love your name enough to show it using big fonts on your site so I put in in full here), {iOS,Android,Linux,Java,OracleDB,...} is Everywhere.

What is TFA's point by using such a linkbait title? My home router (a "gift" from my ISP in exchange of a subscription) is running Linux. My Internet TV decoder is running Linux + Java. My phone runs iOS and my girlfriend's phone runs iOS. We have two Mac computers here (and a Linux one but that isn't common).

You can hardly make an electronic money payment without having Java involved in the process at some point (including to generate COBOL on the fly!).

Hundreds of millions of people (really ?) are using spreadsheets? So what: there are hundreds of millions of people carrying Java smartcard in their pockets daily. There are hundreds of millions of people using cellphones. There are billions of people using a browser daily.

What is the point about spreadsheet? We get it: people need to fill taxes, compute "stuff", etc.

We also understand that the corporate world (representing less than 50% of a country's GDP but being very "big-mouthed") uses Excel.

Just like the corporate world is totally and utterly dominated by solutions like SAP and its army of consultant writing ABAP and Java code to interface with SAP.

Is Microsoft is still dictating the rules of the entire IT game because Excel is a spreadsheet software?

Is that why such linkbaits are posted? Because we like to know that it's possible that companies like Apple and Google (two places where you're probably not seeing a lot of "Excel" compared to the other stuff you'll see the people there working with) can come tomorrow and change the world?

But, no, we should all be in admiration because spreadsheets are used in the "real corporate world" (and because of course we should bow in front of the corporate world, because the only business is in corporate right!?) and because Excel has a huge market share amongst the various spreadsheets software (I do certainly see Google Docs making inroads that said).

Seriously: what's the point!?

What's next!?: "Sorry, nerds, Microsoft Word is everywhere"

Or "Sorry, hackers, Internet Explorer is everywhere"

Or "Sorry, crackes, Microsoft Windows is still present on hundreds of millions of PCs".

Really? What is the point?

That we should have give up programming because every single programming need out there can be filled by a corporate user knowing how to enter an IF/ELSE in a spreadsheet!?

I'm seriously confused by these articles and the fact that people do still upvote the blatant linkbait.
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I think the biggest mistake he made was accusing Broder of intentionally making the car fail in attempt to discredit the concept of an electric vehicle.

It's one thing to present data that contradicts the article. But to suggest possible dishonest motivations was a step too far.
Thanks for this, I did see this earlier. I will certainly consider this option as I progress.
Surely you have no idea what you're talking about. Pascal is modern, perhaps you are the one that's not up to date. Java? Err.. assuming everybody has a lot of RAM, maybe. JavaScript? Forget about it, unless you can find a compiler producing native executables. Go? Has anything useful ever been written in it?
I don't think what Disqus did was in good taste, but I do think that it's foolish to expect otherwise from a free SaaS provider.
Musks blog post is meant to be technical. It's not directly towards the average Tesla customer. The average customer is probably not going to be following this.

Thousands of newspaper are going to write an article everything that happens. They will make it more reader-friendly.

Repeat: It is not Musks' intent for customer to read his blog.
So there are about 25> of us from Wisconsin. What city are you guys from? I live in Milwaukee.
All publicity is good publicity?
Same thing happened to me when I tried to outsource a slot machine app to a company on Odesk in India. Was ridiculously dumb to try and work with those guys.
well, at our shared tech space downtown Lexington, it was beer and bourbon night so... you lost like 5 Kentucky votes right there.
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Is this getting an HN account or (more likely) a application to ycombinator

Can I suggest you mail info@ycombinator.com as you are more likely to get a proper response.

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This is what Turing_Machine is doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Offering something free doesn't make one immune to criticism and criticizing isn't entitled whining. This is fair criticism.
Saying that he's out of line or amoral implies that you have an intimate understanding of the situation and that you've weighted that he doesn't have the moral grounds for doing this, which you might agree is disputable.

In my opinion, the only reason this tactic is not recommendable is that it's not deemed acceptable practice from a professional standpoint, and I believe that this is mostly a cultural thing. Everybody says it's wrong, so it must be wrong.

Think about it, if tomorrow all service providers developed a mindset where this kind of shaming in an attempt to collect from deadbeat clients became standard practice, nobody would be advising against it anymore. This is consistent with a lot of everyday nonsense that pass for acceptable, just because that's just the way things have always gone.

I'm not convinced that there aren't places in the world where this is seen as perfectly ok and maybe even expected.
Musk and Broder should have got together and nutted out their differences in person instead of having this public bun fight.

When I first read Musk's piece yesterday, I thought Broder must be some sort of malicious a-hole, but after reading Broders first response and now this, his second response, I'm thinking its just a case of Musk being overly optimistic as to the capabilities of his product, and Broder being overly pessimistic.
To be fair, battery "conservation" is different than a battery "recharge".
"I want to know because anyone who would vote money on an anecdotal experience like this is an idiot"

Can't tell if serious? This happens all over the valley all the time. You show investors something they would use many of them would invest.

I have heard "oh, that's cool I would use that," many times for a lot of bad ideas. VCs have egos that cloud their judgement all the time.
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You posted this at the end of the day on the East Coast on Valentine's day? Skew results much?
He called early that morning complaining about the drop in mileage overnight. He was told the mileage drop was a glitch and to recondition the battery. When he called again, he was told to recondition the battery again--this time though a quick charge at Norwich. How many times should he call Tesla about the same problem, when he was told twice that the mileage was erroneously low? He had already attempted to recondition the battery--twice, which should be sufficient. In his mind, he now he has even more juice in his tank. He has even more of a buffer than he did pre-charge. So he gets on with the review. Of course, he does call again when it is clear that the conditioning + driving has not restored the needed juice--but by that time it is too late.
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Nope, it will require porting. Only the pure Pascal part is portable. The Assembly and MacApp parts are not, and MacApp no longer exists in OS X AFAIK.
It's important to note that unlike the NYT, Consumer Reports wouldn't review a car they didn't pay for. They will, however, preview/first-look cars they didn't buy.

AFAIK, car reporters for the big media conglomerates usually get expenses paid review junkets from the automakers. Those reporters tend to never post negative reviews for fear that they wouldn't get invited again. I think the same applies to movie and video game reviewers from major publications.

CR does have its hands on a Tesla, and they jumped through some hoops to ensure that Tesla didn't know who bought it or cherry pick a review unit for them.

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/01/our-own-tesla-m...
So you can be richer than Jeff Beezo, Mark Zapperberg, Pierre Omigosh and Craig Newman combined, of course. It's a big-picture idea, real entrepreneurial stuff; you're probably too mundane to "get it", which is why you're only worth $750 to the project.
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: For many people, past a certain level of understanding, technology = magic.
If I were to speculate, and I am, I would guess that the variable here is the temperature of the battery packs. Batteries are chemical power sources, and the chemical reaction which frees up electrons has temperatures where it works, and temperatures where it doesn't. (Hence "cold weather amps" as a selling point on car batteries).

Anyway, I'd speculate that the Tesla person was thinking that if the battery got up to temperature it would go back to what it thought was the current capacity (as measured by open circuit voltage level).

I suspect something drained power from the car over night. In my case I've experienced power drain (non Tesla) from leaving an MP3 player plugged into the 'aux' jack of the center console. But we may never know for sure without better instrumentation.
I think "Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway" is actually a defendable claim, if we see the entire thing as a test of the current state of Tesla's recharging network. But claiming that their current recharging station network is not a drop in replacement for gas stations and gasoline fueled cars is of course a hugely unfair spin of a story about Tesla and electric cars in general.
Maybe Tesla need to add an unobtrusive permanent display somewhere on the touch screen, showing the distance and direction to the nearest charging station? Touching the display would bring up detailed driving directions and start GPS navigation to the nearest station.
Heh, that blog post is funny. After step 6 the difficult work is done. Writing code is really not hard if you can define your goals clearly. If you're able to complete the first steps take a week off to learn programming and then build the software yourself. Much cheaper and easier.
Ask and you shall receive

https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines
Can you elaborate on that? I mean, how exactly does it bias people's response?

The "privacy" of a service can affect people's answer if it is that, private. But Quora is not a super exclusive club: anyone who's willing to spend some time signing up, and who's willing to risk having his posts revealed to his facebook friends because of a new "feature" can get into this club...

So I ask again, what peace of mind does it bring you to know that your answers are behind Quora's walls?
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Thirty years back I worked with farmers working with engineers to make sheep shearing robots, they made a couple of generations of actual working robots which are in the agricultural museum not far away from where I am now.

Twenty years back I worked with farmers that were tracking sex with horse sex (race horse stud farms, agistment, et al) - it was a million dollar business with bloodlines, top dollar vets, field certified portable top range medical gear, etc.

At about that time I worked with farmers developing advanced laser systems for micron scale measurements of wool fibres.

And yet, all these farmers were and still are very conservative in very particular ways - the questions they would be asking are what does Farm Logs do that we aren't already doing? (answer: not much, they already track field usage and markets) and (more importantly to them) does it work when the internet isn't working? (answer: it seems to be cloud based so I guess if the signal drops out then so does the software).

Who owns the Farm Logs data? Who has access to the cumulative total data across all farms? How are the profits from granting third parties access to pooled data redistributed?

Just For Reference:

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Robots-Shearing-Sheep-Science-Publicat...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAh2zv7TMM
Hope there are some Boeing battery engineers out there getting a kick out of this!
>which is why you're only worth $750 to the project.

Pffttt... if only. I can only dream of being the lucky devil who wins that prize and ends up making that kind of cash.
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That sounds like an extraordinarily small amount of degradation. Sufficiently small, in fact, that I suspect that your capacity measurements may be off.

Capacity should decrease 5-10% per annum, from what I've read.
I'm really glad that more game tools are starting to crop up, and its nice to see something from Game Closure who seem to fall off my radar for months at a time.

Looking around at this though, some of these licensing terms are very awkward. ImpactJS costs money but the licensing seems much less strict.

What's more awkward though is the focus on mobile-specific platforms, including an awful lot of native stuff, while lauding HTML5 :/

I don't plan on competing with Game Closure but I hope to contribute a lot canvas game-related tools of my own once I get free time again. UI-inspector style tools like the one they've created would be really helpful, especially for making point-and-click adventure games.
I'm a pragmatist. I find the philosophical 'discussion' on the metaphysical "purpose" of private property to be uninteresting and mostly worthless.

I am, however, perfectly willing to entertain many possible critiques, if they are shown to be practical and better than the alternatives. Feudal property law, for example, I don't find to be nearly as flexible or efficient (which was around for quite a while, as well). It's no accident that our notions of property came into greater strength with the industrial revolution. If you look at the states with both strong public and private property systems, like the Scandinavians, you'll find that our system has also been far from static.

Speaking as someone with a minor in philosophy, I have to agree with Paul Graham[1] that unfocused philosophy based on general principles (like "what is 'property?'") is terribly useless. If you want to make a difference, innovate.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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What mistakes? I work with data for a living, and I agreed with The Atlantic's points (having reached the same conclusions last night when the story broke).

The particular mistake you cite results from a lack of domain knowledge, not analysis skills. The chart says "rated range remaining." If you're not familiar with EVs, you'd think that means the car will not move anymore. That assumption has zero to do with chart-reading abilities.
"sitting in the shade" is not the crime; trespass is the crime.

The concept of private property is useful enough on the whole that governments are willing to enforce it, and leave discretion for right-of-access to the owner of said property. This allows the property owner to assess people in terms of risk they pose to said property and either grant or deny access.

If said farmer has had problems with transients damaging his property in the past, he will certainly appreciate the right to deny access, with the power of the government backing the decision.
I think here the case is simple. Broder did not record his speed accurately, he just drove "around 45 mph", which very well might be actually 55 mph, on a good road with a good car 10 mph difference in speed doesn't feel at all. However, he can't just say "I didn't really collect the data accurately" since it'd hurt his credibility, so he mentions completely unrelated discrepancy in hope that most of the readers would say "ok, it's plausible, maybe he's right, maybe he's not, we're not engineers, we don't know whose fault it is". Thus both Tesla's point would be neutralized and Broder's credibility won't be hurt.
I could do that, please specify where you are going to click and what you'd expect to see. It will work every time but only for those exact steps! Scalability could be done but will cost you extra!
Maybe. It's an electric car. I don't have a lot of experience with electric cars and I already know that the range estimate can be off by a lot. I'd probably call up Tesla and ask them, which is exactly what Broder says he did.

"Tesla’s experts said that pumping in a little energy would help restore the power lost overnight as a result of the cold weather, and after an hour they cleared me to resume the trip to Milford."
Exactly. The bottom line is that if there's no good reason to leave a gas station with 32 more miles to go in the tank if you intend to go another 65 miles. The fact that the car is electric or a Model S is irrelevant.

It's just a dumb choice and if you make such a mistake, I am of the opinion that it disqualifies from saying anything about said car. Especially if you usually specialize in mostly hagiographic articles about oil companies in the NYT.
Wow. So it works for me and I'm using Opera. This reversal has to be some kind of first for me...