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This is pretty much exactly the way I do it. Best places are usually the big chains with low wage workers who do not care the slightest how many hours you are hanging around there. I have about 4-5 shops within walking distance and rotate them around. In half of them they already discount my drinks and greet me like an old friend.
The culture of Cisco M&A is unlike anything seen in Silicon Valley.

Cisco actively encourages senior engineering employees to leave the company, start new ventures and return as leaders in the M&A process. It's not fair to compare Yahoo to Cisco when Cisco invests tremendous amounts of effort, time and money into these ventures to grow and nurture them (recent example: Meraki) until they can be reabsorbed into the Mothership.

Yahoo on the other hand is buying a bunch of companies that it knows only by reputation. Yahoo might be successful, but not for the same reasons that Cisco is successful. It's just a very different culture.
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Why aren't you teaching your marketing team SQL?
I support patents, just not software patents. You can spend billions developing a new drug, and companies need to get reimbursed somehow for that, or everybody loses.

How much you think was been spent "inventing" two-factor authentication?

Can you give an example of software that you'd argue wouldn't have been developed if there were no software patents?
If they won't try to double the transistor count, then somebody else will come and eat their lunch. Trying to make better products is the only viable strategy for them.

Moore's law is about their success in doing so. Your car's horse power doesn't increase twofold every 1,5 years neither its gas consumption decreases, but with transistors it actually happens.
Here in snow country, the last thing I would want is for my wheels to be covered like that.
"Their distro" is the Internet.

A Chromebook without the Internet is ludicrous, because no user operates like that.

They might have been better off to not have the local picture and video player. They're the embarrassing "Notepad," if I want to make the analogy to Windows, again.
Kind of.. I actually spouted it off as a joke, but several people didn't like it apparently, or didn't see it as so.

The Hollywood part is spot on... the bank part was me confusing some bits of the actions against wikileaks with kimdotcom/megaupload.
Good call. Admittedly, I put this together very quickly yesterday when we ran into the issue of wanting to share a link. Would be nice if you could somehow avoid rendering a whole page, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow you to do that.
Actually, the R18 is available as a diesel/electric hybrid! It's know as the R18 e-tron quattro and the electric motor separately powers the front wheels, converting the R18 to a quattro (4-wheel drive system). Because of the race rules and regs though, the electric is only allowed to kick in past 120km/h.
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Yeah I was happy to see a nicely priced Jetta Hybrid; but for some reason it's a gas/electric.

I would have thought they'd do diesel/electric since they already do a a Jetta TDI.
In addition to counting vistors rather than hits, Net Applications has a global number of 6.22% for Internet Explorer 6. No, that is not a typo, that is the number pulled today, because Net Applications performs geographic weighting of their data, and China has 24% usage. That inflates the global Internet Explorer numbers and is higher than IE7. Last time I looked at ie6countdown.com, the US and European numbers were 0.2%.

Sources:
http://www.netapplications.com/newsletter2/20090803/nanl.htm...
http://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&...
http://www.ie6countdown.com/
Why Andreessen Horowitz gave a $60 million Lyft
Sears also runs (and used to run many more that have since shut down) an auto repair shop -- Sears Auto Center. Auto shops will have some pretty hefty power requirements.
Ask HN: Medium.com style commenting?
I really like the way Medium.com has comments attached to paragraphs. I've liked it since djangobook.com first did this in 2005-2006.

Is there any open source library (or even blogging platform) that supports this? Or writeups of how to make the comments 'stick', even if a new paragraph/sentence is inserted?
Actually unless you're trying to drive on TOP of feet of snow, narrow is better than wide for normal driving as you cut through the snow and get to the road. Typically people will run snow tires that are 10mm narrower than their summer tires on the same rims.
So, post singularity, people with no wealth or ability to work will be prevented from starving? There are many people that are dying from starvation today. Why would this change?
Yes, they had 4-core CPUs in 2006, and still have 4-core CPUs in 2013 (with a few rare xeon 6-cores).
Yes it is a single codepoint. Normalization is a whole other issue, and a much less trivial one.
I don't know why people resort to calling it jealousy, but there does seem to be some tension between SV culture and the media/general public/economy at large.

People who work in SV are just like people anywhere else, yet how many times a week is there an article published railing on the culture for not focusing on more important problems like cancer, poverty or something similar? Its almost like SV is the child and everyone else is the "Tiger Mom" triggering the rebellion and resentment.
Exactly - some companies can pull off this kind of acquisition. It's entirely a corporate culture thing.
Having columns too wide hurts readability though: the eye has difficulty tracking which line is next when it flicks from the extreme right of the screen back to the left (or vice-versa for RTL writing systems).
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If it doesn't scale that it was a waste of money.
A couple of Matt's complaints might apply to the design of your blog: tiny fonts and long lines. Long lines are a readability problem because the eye tends to get lost when jumping from the end of a line to the start of a new one. Small fonts are a problem for obvious reasons.

The very first thing I did when your URL loaded was to increase the browser text size. A good rule of thumb when it comes to typography on the web these days is to be very cautious about setting a font-size smaller than the usual 16px browser default.
It's great to hear that you're teaching 3d modeling. This is going to be a valuable skill for your students.
How did you manage to sync 150GB+ of photos into Flickr?
I was told that every time an item is scanned at the register at any Walmart store, it updates an inventory database in near real-time (I assume there is some sort of message queue with that kind of volume and distribution). Then their system automatically places replenishment orders with their vendors when the inventory of that item goes below a certain level. They are a well-oiled machine, focused on making sure that they almost never lose any sales due to being out-of-stock, nor waste money on carrying excess inventory in their warehouses. Mismatching inventory to sales will drive a retailer out of business very quickly.

This is also part of the reason why they are able to push "everyday low prices" instead of discounts. Discounting is what you do with the excess inventory when you messed up and ordered too much of something.
Besides mudding the issue by confusing data with function, the Chromebook does have these features, and there is nothing about it that even indicates these features are deliberately second class citizens.

In this analogy your VCR has the ability to write an input source to a cassette, all you've got to do is hit the record button on the front of it but is incapable of writing to the first or last 10 minutes of the tape. VCR company considers cassette consumption to be the primary VCR use-case and is the use-case they are concerned with. Is it reasonable to complain about the substandard record functionality that they shipped? Is it reasonable to question the market viability of a VCR so needlessly crippled?
thanks for the post. this was a good read. I'm about to start work on a medium sized Angular project and this kind of thing is very helpful.

I didn't see any mention of your backend for the project, but I did get the impression it was something Java (why else would you be using Maven?). I'm looking to be writing angular templates on top of a django backend (supplying a RESTful api for data access). I'd love to read more about integrating Angular with RESTful backends.
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I already know JavaScript, but is it worth learning it on the server side and what are the best frameworks to learn.
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You may hate "fixed-width narrow columns" but I find Matt's blog FAR easier to read than yours. Your line length really is too long.
With completely different abstractions, "similar performance" makes much more sense than "similar hardware". Thanks
As always, the fun part is the interface between the rules engine and the real world. How good is AI at gathering requirements from people who don't quite know what they want?

The other fun part is what happens when AI is good enough to replace the gophers who do most of the grunt work, but not yet good enough to replace the experts who figure out what the customers really want. If this stage lasts long enough for the experts to retire, where do new experts come from?
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wow. That, is a beautiful car.
I drive a diesel, and I love it. I'm so surprised that all of these hybrids are "revolutionary" yet they offer almost no improvement over something similar with a diesel engine.

My 1.9L diesel engine gets 40+ MPG everyday for the past few years. I'm excited by what Mercedes is doing with their GLK250... a 2.1L diesel in the GLK is almost perfect for that car.
The neuromorphic bug eye cam: A 180-degree visual system for drones
I disagree with two points:

1. Comments are still necessary. Tweeting a link and a short comment doesn't cut it; not everyone has a blog (or wants to make a public post to a different audience about another blogger's post) just to respond - to assume people will blog about you is sheer arrogance. Maybe Matt doesn't care what others think, or want a discussion and discourse, but I certainly do.

2. Opening links in new windows or tabs is OK if your blog has a very non-technical audience. Most people don't know the keyboard shortcuts for opening in a new tab, and even though they can right click... don't. It's always fun to see people's enthusiasm when I show them the shortcuts, and to watch them start opening links in multiple tabs!
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"A Chromebook without the Internet is ludicrous, because no user operates like that."

I don't believe that anybody doesn't. Even android phones have better offline capabilities (Way better, and generally with less offline storage to boot) and people expect their phones to always be online.
I wished the "column" layout extension would get more love.

Column layout with horizontal scrolling is somewhat unintuitive for newcomers, but It's really much more readable. And, after you actually get used to it, horizontal scrolling is so much better than reading through a PDF article with multiple-column layout.

I was actually trying to make use of the column layout to layout text, but it seems that the column layout is aimed to replace div layouts, not really at formatting text. I cannot set a column limit height, which makes it totally useless to format text. I wished I could have "pagination" (ie: break the column height to the browser height), so that pressing page-down would bring me to the next screen-full of two-column text. THAT would be good.

But having two-column reflow of text is totally useless for text. I don't want to go up/down the text like I have to do with PDFs.
You can switch the template engine in Ember, but you'll lose the databinding hotness unless you implement it in your own engine.
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I've used both Angular and Backbone pretty extensively and I think client side MVC in general makes you less productive. I've been starting to use PJAX with a splash of jQuery for most pages. Only using Backbone / Angular for pages that really require it. Have seen a big productivity boost and apps are as responsive. Too many people are seeing client side mvc as solution to everything. I did at first as well.
The car may be expensive, but covered rear wheels are not expensive.
disclaimer: I have never used Lyft

I honestly do not get the appeal of Lyft. What seperates it from Sidecar (another rideshare) or the cheaper instances of Uber (i.e. UberX and TAXI).

The whole pink mustache thing kind of turns me off as well..
Why you shouldn't build that app:
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I really think AngularJS with Firebase is the future. Using Firebase makes you app real-time, with no additional development.

When you don't have to write any server side code at all, it can really speed things up.
It is for variables, but that's just because Angular has such an elegant way of iterating through loops:

<li ng-repeat="friend in friends">
{{friend.name}} who is {{friend.age}} years old.
</li>

It's the ng-directive, and it's just one example of why directives are so awesome and powerful:

http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive
Yeah, still waiting for jade support but haven't looked at how to implement one yet.
Google+ and Marketing
Interesting article by a person I used to work with on how Google+ changes will effect marketing.
Do you live alone? That would never work in my household, between my wife and daughter, the livingroom is the last place I could ever get any work done. I've tried, it's impossible to focus with all the distractions.
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Seeing as I have no choice to learning Ruby if I become apart of this dev team, this is great to know. One of the greatest strengths that I absolutely utilize all the time in PHP is the libraries (curl, gd2, xml parsing, mysql, ect)...I couldn't imagine doing effective programming without it now.

Oh well, another challenge, another achievement. Thanks Vec!
40MPG vs 260MPG is not exactly "similar" though.

Something like a Prius vs a modern diesel though is very similar, I don't see the Prius as revolutionary.
I'm not quite as stripped down as you, but clicking through to the story on mine gets you to mostly text on a white background. http://odonnellweb.com/anchor/
Well written Haskell code pushes as much of the business rules as possible into the type system. It uses the type system as a tool to keep you from forgetting to check corner cases or prevent you from creating states that make no sense in the context of business rules.

The canonical example here is using a distinct type that can only be produced by conversion functions to ensure that user input is always escaped correctly on it's way to the database or a web page. Code that fails to perform this escaping won't just send dangerous data somewhere, it will fail to compile. With care, the same can be done for ensuring business rules are also observed. In many ways the distinct-types-with-conversion-functions pattern is the tip of the iceberg here.

It's obviously possible to not do this, but that's a bit like using a database by shoving all of your data into one giant string then complaining that the database doesn't help you with anything.
Google: "Please tell us about the spammy sites that Penguin missed."
Why Are You So Smart, Aaron Shapiro?
It doesn't sound like you are the target audience of this article.
This is from 2001/2003:

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/avoid-pdf-for-on-screen-read...

Still true? Or are users okay with PDFs now? When browsing the web on my iPad, PDFs seem quite acceptable.
I went back to remote last year after not doing it for quite a while and it turned into a bit of a disaster. I won't deny that my being out of practice with it and not doing some of the things this guy and others talk about contributed massively to it not working out, but I want to add one piece of advice since I don't think this talked enough about external factors:

Be careful who you do it for. When he talks about all the communication tools you need to use in order to be successful at it, make sure they already have a bunch of those already set up, unless you're in a position to make sure they set them up and use them.

In particular, the company I was working for had no company-wide chat system at all, and clearly didn't feel they needed it since most of their employees were in-office or only temporarily remote. Various attempts at getting one going were hampered by lack of support from above. They'd get maybe 5 random people using them off the bat and it'd dwindle from there. At various times there were competing solutions active.

In the end I gave up, they gave up, and it just didn't work out and was frustrating for everyone involved.
It's not vacuous nor "spiritual", just pragmatic -- but I respect your opinion that killing animals is wrong on principle. I'm not trying to persuade you otherwise! I just disagree that gelatin is worthless (it's put in food for a reason), and I don't like unnecessary waste. Given that the animals are being killed anyway (which they are), what would you suggest is done with the hooves?

And for the record, as radio4fan said, greek yoghurt doesn't contain gelatin anyway, at least in the UK (where I am).
Fascinating... it seems easy enough, basically in that address space is abundant enough to not have to be concerned with much of anything in a local space.

But it reads juuuuust slightly more complex than IPv4 does... it's just that side of difficult to comprehend. I think this is the true human factor behind the lack of adoption.

It's huge, like looking at all the stars in the sky, but bigger. Just the switch from numbers between 1-255 to hex codes and the more of them... it's that much more of a barrier to use and adoption.

Any ideas to simplify my own understanding of IPv6? I took the HE.net certification courses, which are excellent, but it's hard to make it stick. How do we make this intelligible so that everyone can be comfortable using it—and ideally, more comfortable than IPv4, so that it becomes preferable? That's the challenge.
Culture separates Lyft from the rest. The pink mustache to me serves two functions: 1) it represents that culture that runs very deep and 2) it helps you ID a Lyft car in a fun, non-threatening way.

I use Lyft quite a bit, all of the drivers are great, friendly and people I don't mind spending 5-15 minutes with. It feels like getting into a car with a friend and is completely safe.
I love that these types of comments are at the top of Hacker News. They add valuable information to the discussion. I don't understand how you expressing your admiration for Tesla is at odds with the interesting factual background of the comment you responded to.
Do they provide some kind of spec/API for other engines to support it? That would be a killer feature.
It's unlikely that solar panels on the roof with power the whole DC so I concede the point. Moving the power is probably a moot point.
I've never used lyft, but everyone I know that has tried it really loves it. Whatever they're doing, keep doing it!
BBC shows off 'perceptive radio' that can alter scripts
Dit mag je wel en niet eten voor een strakke en platte buik
You might want to give Emblem a shot. It's similar to HAML or Jade but compiles to Ember/Handlebars-compatible templates: http://emblemjs.com/
This does seem to be price fixing on Apple's part. Also, this seem to be an anti-competitive deal.
Insurance underwriting probably will become more and more automated, the exceptions are the cases with large values involved, in the short run, definitely this will be automated some day as well, or insurance in which only a small part of the population pay for insurance and the sample is small too do any meaningful statistics.

Anyway there'll probably always be people behind the algorithms doing the modeling or programming at least.
I couldn't agree more with his claim that comments are an unnecessary feature for a modern blog. Back in Web 2.0 times comments were an absolute must-have. I think the web in 2013 has largely moved on from the notion that "everything must have a comment form below it".

People generally don't put as much work into their comments as you did into your blog post, so the comment section is a tangible dive in written quality. And they tend to be quite "fire and forget", because although somebody might disagree with something in the five seconds after reading a post, they are unlikely to remember that disagreement two days later and return to see if anyone responded.

Personally, if somebody felt strongly enough about something I wrote to want to say something to me something about it, I'd prefer an email anyway.
Agreed. The second thing I would be forced to do it shrink my window so the lines aren't so long.
> 1 file to 1 url does not scale to even small blogs,

I suspect you are aware of this, but using URL parameters it is quite easy to make multiple urls map to the same file (i.e. `/foo/?abc=123` and `/foo/?abc=234`).
Most angular diehards really try to use as little jQuery as possible, since most the times it's not needed to do what you want to do
Mega-Trend, Ride-Sharing At Scale Could Be Crazy Massive
Normally I'm very patient with new people posting on HackerNews, but this is almost ridiculous.

1) Your "PLEASE SIGN UP" full page flashover is so annoying. I don't know what to say other than I hate this :(.

2) The Infographic at the bottom is like a list of numbers with no real rhyme or reason (relative to the kinds of content we've come to expect from companies like priceonomics).

3) This is just a kind of lavish puff piece about how great Monaco is; there's not a lot of meat.

In short, I was actually hoping to learn a lot more about Monaco, but your harassing signup page and the content didn't work for me. Better luck next time, but please do try again because it seems like you want to produce good content. This kind of long-form stuff is exactly what you should be doing, just try to produce new insight instead of regurgitation and turn off the spam signup thingy when you post to HN.
50 hours is common in _startups_, not the industry as a whole.
Is that kind of job viable when constantly moving? I want to travel in the next two years, and I was thinking about keeping only stuff that fits in a bag and just going away with my wife, but doing that without a decent amount of cash or a job you can have on the road would be hard. Is it viable to have a remote job while travelling, in the event that I might stay for several days in each city and do most of the travelling on weekends?

I believe that not having a place would help in keeping the blood pumping and staying proactive, yet it would probably be hard during crunch times if the correct workspace cannot be found. Would it be worth giving a shot?
Square announces availability in Japan
"The result is a car that weighs just over 1,900 pounds, or about one-third less than the new 911."

And 10% more than a 1963 Beetle of fifty years ago.

http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2007/04/01/hmn_feature23...
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