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Well regardless of the facts of the NYT article the facts Tesla revealed don't make me want one. I read nearly every article I can on this car and similar. I want to know where the industry is going and what is working and what is not.

I think like motorcycles of yesterday electric vehicles need a reserve, something that does not register in range calculations. Something that lets you heat or cool the cabin, something that gets you by that oops moment, detour, or just bad luck. That and better software for representing range and to top that off, forcing the car's dynamics to always favor range and make people choose otherwise.

The current breed of cars favors the enthusiast, the problem is that they aren't the only ones with money to buy.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and...
This is easier now than ever. Lately I've had a lot of luck writing something once and having it work with IE10, Chrome, and Firefox immediately. That leaves only fixes for IE8 and IE9. By designing things to be responsive from the get go, mobile is 98% supported off the bat too with only small fixes needed thanks to Webkit's majority.

I would suggest starting with a base such as Bootstrap (or another framework of your liking) and getting a Browserstack account. Testing becomes much easier with Browserstack and they were offering three months free with a coupon, so give them a try.
What in Chrome feels like bloat? If you don't install any extensions but adblock plus, Chrome feels kind of minimalistic.

The only problem I have with Chrome is that I need to clear cache and history quite often but my computer sucks...
I swear I'm not trolling you, but you should check out Emacs + Evil mode. Most of the stuff you mention exists in Emacs, and Evil mode does a large chunk of what Vim does, an does it nicely (I'm a long-time Emacs user that has switched over to modal editing recently, and I haven't looked back).

In particular, the multi-cursor mode is there : http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
The stuff you call 'regions' is available for a bunch of languages with org-mode and org-babel (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html).

I strongly encourage you to give it a try...
Unless you clear your cache, in which case, in addition to being more secure, Chrome is faster.
Well said. I like the cooking analogy. Part of the craft is enjoying what you do and pushing the limits, and you do that! Rails, Django, etc. may be practical, but using them takes some of the fun out of it.
facepalm I was writing the comment and originally had another 10 in there. 10 classes a month, along with some more with prep times and comparing it to other jobs. Pared it down before I posted to try and make it more approachable.

I would never teach math or editing obviously.
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A long time Democrat senator in Washington State recently introduced a bill that authorized yearly police inspections inside the home of gun owners - directly in violation of the 4th amendment in the Bill of Right.

That's worse than a 'gun grab' in my opinion.
I remember when I installed trial version of FogBugz many many years ago. Not to use it, but just to see what ideas I can take away from it.

I was shocked at how bad the software actually was in so many aspects. I was shocked because it was Joel who has been constantly talking about how to hire the best developers in NY so naturally my expectations were quite high.

Reflecting back on all of this, I'm sure the software probably wasn't bad, it's just that through Joel's amazing writing he has created very unreasonable expectations.

The lesson I've learned from it was to lower expectations of my users before they use my software, and then exceed them.
Was Wasabi a deliberate attempt at a new language, or did it organically grow out of your ASP to PHP compiler? You used a subset of ASP (and enforced stuff like Hungarian notation) - was the Wasabi language 1.0 just "Wasabi is the subset of ASP that compiles into PHP using Thistle, so stop submitting bugs on unsupported features" kind of thing? And from there, it's a small step to adding syntactic sugar (then it's "a superset of a subset of ASP").
https://plus.google.com/103382935642834907366/posts/XRekvZgd... is a Chrome developer talking about cache metrics within chrome. He claims the cache is capped at 320MB. Now the graphs in the article never show the cache size hitting 320M, so possibly they are both right. ;)

I would prefer it if the article had more information on how to reproduce their tests. For example, they claim a faulty hashmap implementation. This seems like it would be possible to benchmark. Instructions on reproducing the 100ms delay between button click and network traffic would be cool too - as would data on how much worse that makes facebook's latency. Also, is their cache backed by ssds or spinning disk?

I'm also impressed that the speed of context switches matters on websites.

The jump to claiming that chrome caching is tied to ads is interesting. Perhaps the author could fill in more details.
Perhaps Chromium proper would be a good fit for you; it's got the polish of Chrome UI but lacks all of that crap that Google has started bundling with Chrome (sync, etc.).

The hardest part is finding the downloads, since they go to great lengths to prevent anyone from easily obtaining a compiled binary.
That is what I was thinking during this whole affair - if I buy a Tesla I sure hope I will not make the front page of a website like Reddit with a negative opinion of my car. ( I have posted in the past a humoristic picture of my broken down car on my way to an interview )

Tesla goes straight for the jugular, and considering I'm a nobody I don't know what they would do to my reputation online, because of my 5 min of unwanted fame.
My hardest question was "Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered."

Since I like mostly stupid and flat humour, which would not be an appropriate answer on this question, it took me a while to write something more sophisticated lol
This was speculated in the following article. Compared to announcing a round of layoffs, reigning in remote workers is probably much less damaging to morale, and they can always ease the restriction or set up a more rationale policy down the road.

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Why...
You can also integrate with a third-party shopping cart then load a small iframe to show "2 Items in the Cart." Not my favorite way to build a site, but it is very inexpensive to build, and for small vendors the site becomes entirely static. Even if you build it in Rails, you can use page-level caching so after the first hit it's served as a static html file.
Well, much like apple, many people are willing to pay more for a pleasant experience.

I've used several of the cheap Chinese glasses sites and the product quality all seems uniform but some of them have a better curated selection of designs than others. Warby also lets you do the 5 pair try on at home thing which I'd say is worth paying a bit more over the rock bottom price.

As far as the funding, I'd guess it's because they've been quite successful, and also because they're apparently in talks with Google regarding Glass.
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Are you guys worried about what will happen when Travis becomes publicly available for private repositories? Do you think the familiarity with Travis of many developers will hurt you? (Or, to rephrase: have you considered doing a free service for open source repositories?

Also, why did you opt for building your own thing instead of running basically properly hosted Jenkis + plugins? (I know your FAQ mentions Jenkins, but it only explains why I'd want a hosted service, not not-Jenkins.)

Oh, and minor nitpick, after a particular entry your FAQ entries become mis-indented: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38476311/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-25...
coastal.com... they have a deal where if you're a first time customer, you can get a frame for free.
I think that's great then and am super excited to hear how it turns out. The kickstarter-eque up front market validation strategies fascinate me - under the right set of circumstances I could see it becoming almost a revolutionary step in capitalism.
If its being used for competitive price analysis, I wonder if any retail sites will simply block their crawler? I am assuming that they are (correctly) announcing their crawler by its user agent, so could be blocked via robots.txt.
because Paypal has a history of shutting down accounts for no apparent reasons. Then it takes months to get your money out.
Clear winner for Canadians: Rdio.

Why? It's available.
And this is the unstated meta problem implied (but usually ignored) in that Einstein quote.

Sure, you don't need to remember anything you can look up in a book (or Google), but you do need to know how to get to the right book again.

Beginners aren't characterised by not knowing how to type queries into Google's search box, it's that they don't know _what_ to type. Being an expert isn't about being able to solve problems without outside knowledge, but it is very much about having enough awareness of a large body of outside knowledge that you've got the right terminology in your head to know what words to start typing into that search box. A beginner trying to format a number as currency is going to spend a lot more time looking than the programmer who knows they just need to type "perldoc -f sprintf" at the command line.
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Musk has a convenient scapegoat here. The reality is that we haven't seen really cold weather in a long while here in the NYC metro area, and the NYT article revealed a major issue. Many people believed we wouldn't see such weather in the future, so that risk wasn't on their minds (and as mentioned ad nauseum elsewhere, tesla didn't mention this in any marketing material except for saying that you can leave the car unplugged at the airport). Now having seen cold weather, people are asking what happens, and Musk's response installs little confidence in the Layman's view
I haven't tested their data, but 1 reason why this is hard is due to the SKUs at Walmart and Best Buy. There may be a Samsung 42-inch TV that exists at Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy but have slightly modified specs for each of those mega retailers... and with this, Best Buy has a lot of SKUs that simply die. So once semantics3 has "reconciled" that samsung 42-inch TV across retailers, they'll have to continuously check whether any of the retailers have changed the SKU and/or URL on them.

source: I do this at dealzon.com for a very limited set of data where it's practical
The flip side of this is that deep understanding of fundamentals helps dramatically when it comes to asking the right questions and filtering results.

In my experience, google is often secondary to first-class reference materials (language documentation, man pages, etc.)
The "core collections" - a term you're defining yourself right now however you like, for the record - aren't threadsafe for a reason. They have different performance characteristics in Java! You need two versions of the collections in these languages because of their concurrency and memory models.

In Java, using Concurrent/Atomic classes is how you write idiomatic threadsafe code, and it has been for a decade. Bitching because the main list types aren't threadsafe only demonstrates deep, deep ignorance.
in this day and age the notion that remote work hinders communication or scalability is absolutely absurd. Sure, it may hinder certain types of social interaction and communication, but in terms of collaborative engineering, it does not. Open source projects have managed tens, hundreds and even thousands of developers on single projects using rather primitive mailing lists, irc channels and source control. These days we have hangout and facetime, skype, hipchat... endless lists of intuitive textual, audible, and visual communication tools, project management tools, team management tools, code management tools...
Using the right tools and practices, remote working is FAR MORE scalable than in-office working, because you can leverage a mass of employees from all over the world without the need to build out office space, infrastructure and other overhead to facilitate physical colocation.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-i...
How does the loss of a few "hundred" orders translate to a net loss of $100 million? Assuming that all of the orders are the top-end Model S or Roadsters, a few hundred loss sales would translate to lost revenue in the low tens of millions of dollars.
How would something track (to use your example) cramping? Short of having a device where you press an "I have cramps" button then press it again when they go away, I'm not sure how any type of software could support your specific example.

That being said, personal health tracking is definitely a area of interest, and Fitbit and others have proven that there's money to be had and good to be done.
The point is, if good management comes in to take over, the first thing they'll do is bring everyone into the office to sort shit out. Especially since in a dysfunctional team, the most obviously dysfunctional members may not necessarily be the root cause of the dysfunction.

New management cannot simply take the incumbent on-site team members' word for it that it's all the fault of the remote guys. Which is probably part of what's happening at Yahoo.

Also, the words "the entire team knew" are a big red flag. Any team of responsible adults would have confronted the issue already. The fact that they haven't indicates that there is much more going on than just a two rogue remote workers.
How does it not reflect well on NPR? I'm reading an employee's frank and open (both appreciated) blog post, am I supposed to feel put off because it says "shitty" in it?
Actually, he's been introducing that bill for years. This is the first time anyone's paid attention to it, because it has a real potential for passing. Or did before this discovery....

This is the only thing that can get "the ACLU" (the national HQ and most but not all state units of it) against "gun grabbing", the realization that it can't be accomplished without gross 4th Amendment violations.
I use rdio over spotify for one reason: music discovery.

It is much easier to find new releases and new artists on radio because they have a large dedicated new releases section which is updated weekly and ranked by popularity.

The radio option isn't something I use much but I find rdio works okay and spotify only works well for very popular music and bases itself completely off of artists so if you get some slow songs from rather not slow artists and start a radio you won't get any better an experience than rdio.

Rdio search also is much much faster on my phone than spotify which tends to hang forever.

I switch back and forth every few months to see if spotify has improved but it seems that rdio improves at a rate of 10x more than spotify because in the month that I try spotify rdio has already updated apps and web player to something that works better (see the ability to control rdio from any rdio app to the one that is playing).
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> since they go to great lengths to prevent anyone from easily obtaining a compiled binary.

1. Googled "Download Chromium"

2. Clicked on http://download-chromium.appspot.com/

3. Unzip and Install.
Firefox uses a sandbox process for plugins like Flash. Mozilla implemented per-tab processes, a project called Electrolysis, but it would break many popular add-ons. Firefox OS is able to use process isolation, through, because it doesn't need to support legacy add-ons.
The amount in the tank is entirely different from the range it represents, which is also modified by environmental conditions such as altitude and temperature.

The difference between the two situations is the number of places that you can refill the tank. Diesel drivers (in the US), have similar concerns to the electric car driver.
It is actually exceedingly rare for someone who is "profoundly deaf" (cannot hear at all) to learn to read. Most of the deaf people with high levels of schooling completion are people who began life hearing, or who had moderate deafness and considerable support from a family who were capable in sign language.
They've gone overboard with their value-adds, and there's a non-trivial amount of features that are not required for simple web surfing: sync, apps (& background apps), cloud print, themes, phishing/malware detection, omnibox stuff, etc.
And it highlights the issue that thread safe collections and thread safe objects are very different things. ConcurrentHashMap may be thread safe but putting non atomic Integers in there still leaves you vulnerable to threading problems
The main issue I have with the paleo example and banning of processed foods is that it neglects to explain people who can eat processed foods in moderate quantities without getting fat.
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This is a fantastic blog post, and I am thankful Alex took the time to write about it. There is no question someone over at the Chrome team is starting a conversation about these findings.

The best thing about Chrome is that they move fast. So I suppose the first step is to get an official response by someone over there....
That's kind of the point. Tesla is pushing this as the "ready for general use" version. The Roadster was the early adopter special.
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We started out in Singapore and the only payment processor we could use there was Paypal. If started now we would have used something more easier and better like Stripe :) That being said, we should be switching over to them soon.
It's like the village bicycle. Everyone is taking it for a ride. The idea behind WebOS and some of it's UI held were pretty awesome. Unfortunately it's got way too much baggage now. I think Firefox OS has the best chance to do what WebOS could have done.
Chromium includes sync. Basically the biggest parts you'll be missing are a pdf reader and flash. pdf.js has a chromium extension to make it easy to use there (though depending on the document, it won't necessarily feel faster and more minimal), but if you need flash for something, Chrome is one of the better ways to keep it updated these days. You can always run Chromium and open up Chrome for Flash, though.
Congratulations guys! A genuinely deserved win - well done!
Well, App.Net was launched with two Freemium services (GitHub and Dropbox) as their model for a successful service. I have no reason to disbelieve Dalton when he says Freemium was always the plan, especially since ADN users have been clamoring for a free tier pretty much since day 1.
Spotify solves this two ways:

1. notifications for new releases (not sure what criteria solidifies future notifications, but works well for me)

2. apps. there are a ton of Spotify apps, and i believe all of them revolve around discovery. many of which alone are dedicated to ranked new releases (the Billboard app probably being the largest).

both of these methods work well for me... obviously, ymmv.
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Maybe he thinks it will affect future sales as well
But not them either. A US Citizen can be declared an Enemy Combatant, solely by the Executive, and summarily assassinated.

See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/22/obama-br...
So, you actually mean functions instead of programs?
It's marketing bullshit. He probably wrote a statement in C++ and measured the time it takes to execute, I have no idea (also impossible to know what sort of statement). numbers suggest around 2% accuracy (7.1), that's pretty impressive given that we measure "code responsible for rendering a typical web page" per "function" over "effective C++ statement". All of those well defined in his textbook I bet.
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In praise of "boring" technology
http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-technology/
I'm a female developer, and I fought this my whole career. It is real. I even bought several books on it, which are mostly outdated. It used to happen more in fields like law/medicine.

I don't think I ever experienced outright sexism, but the group dynamic of all males often had to try adapt to be less abrupt/rude/direct, which was difficult for me to manage. And if you're going to post that I should have been the one adapting (and I was, in every way) - you don't get this post. It frustrates me to see many males posting here that this "doesn't exist". It's something you can't see or experience until you've been through it.
> electric vehicles need a reserve, something that does not register in range calculations. Something that lets you heat or cool the cabin, something that gets you by that oops moment, detour, or just bad luck.

They do have a reserve. The reserve doesn't figure into range calculations. You can heat or cool the cabin. You can have an oops moment, you can have a detour.

What you can't do is allow the car to discharge, then give it much less charge than is needed for your journey, and then ignore the obvious warnings ("You want to drive over 60 miles. You only have enough charge for 30 miles. A good idea to keep charging.") and drive away knowing that you don't have enough energy to get to your destination.
> ConcurrentHashMap may be thread safe but putting non atomic Integers in there still leaves you vulnerable to threading problems

Yes, thread-safety is hard in these languages. You have to think about code when you write it.
User interface is huge for me, especially from a mobile app standpoint. In my opinion, Spotify's mobile app is pretty terrible when compared to Rdio's.

Also, I love the "Collection" feature of Rdio which puts the music I like right at my finger tips rather than creating playlists for every artist with Spotify.

Radio is also available with Rdio for an artist, collection, etc.
Fab.com built their initial user base almost exclusively through Facebook ads and Facebook shares. They are still one of facebook's biggest advertisers, and even use demographic and interest data from their Facebook users to determine when and where to run tv ads.
EDIT: Apparently it is official / sanctioned, thanks for the correction.

PREVIOUS: Yeah I saw that, but that's not an official or sanctioned site or binary, and thus didn't feel comfortable openly suggesting it. There's no way to guarantee that the contents haven't been modified or that they're even kept updated.
The only real wtf here is the history issue. The rest of the stuff -- especially the "antiquated" process isolation -- seem like reasonable trade offs. Switching to a better hash implementation should solve 90% of the performance problems.
Rdio does #1, and has the ability for #2, although I'm not sure if there are many apps consuming Rdio's API.
Huffman encoding should be a mandatory topic you can explain before you are allowed to write a web api.

I hate when people output json that's not self documenting enough because they don't understand that aReallyNiceLongNameThatDescribesTheAttribute and nam1 compress to functionally the same size once you turn on compression.

One API recently I saw had a few single letter names. I could still figure it out, but it was figuring it out instead of just reading the name.