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I actually hate that quote. What's to stop a poor developer who's not in SV from making an awesome, scalable tech startup?

Startup founders are, quite simply, people who found startups. They register a business (maybe) and create something that might turn into a business at some point, or even do turn it into a business successfully.

What's stopping me from trying to change the world from Alabama? What's stopping me from making some really cool stuff that I want to see across the whole world, or at least this country, from the deep south? I can spin up a Heroku instance in 5 minutes, and get an app going in under a day. Another day to make a MVP iOS app (then a week to the App Store), and effectively I have infinite reach. There's a very serious, debilitating mindset a lot of people have on this board about necessary VC funding, and a necessary Silicon Valley geographic base. None of those things are true anymore. And likely, weren't necessarily true in the past. It's grotesque that people think funding is what you should strive for. It's horrifying that people are motivated by a TechCrunch article and an exit. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but that's not WHY I'm an entrepreneur. An exit isn't even a motivation of mine. I want a lot of people to use my creations, and to love them. If I can get paid well to achieve that goal - that would be great. If I can get other people paid well for helping me achieve that goal (ie hiring a team), then that's even better.

Sorry for the rant, but I think that quote is entirely off-base and absolutely repulsive.
Every principle has its price.

EDIT: Thought I'd add a bit more here.

An entrepreneurial religious young man had set up a niche little bakery in my area, which was supposedly filled with pensioners and people nearing retirement. This bakery catered only to conservative Hindu beliefs (fully vegetarian, no egg or meat products or derivatives used in any of the goodies, images/idols gods and goddesses all over the place).

A couple of months later, he put up a sign that said "We don't sell egg puffs here" (a savoury pastry with a boiled egg at the centre). A couple more months later, the sign was gone, a new boy was hired to serve at the counter, and egg puffs were on the menu.
At a $10B valuation, Tesla is worth about 1000 times the average car dealership in Texas.
What's interesting is that the Salesforce.com integration is pretty poor when compared to other tools (including Pardot which they own). So Salesforce bought the tool with the worst integration. In contrast, Marketo has probably one of the deepest. So clearly more about revenue and customers than tech.
All blogs and howtos only describe the change of API Access with new versions, but not how to handle different backend data versions.

One way is to use the newest version in Client and the Server has to convert old Data to new Data, then deliver to Client. But sometimes it not so easy, depend on complexity of your data.

Other way: convert all Data to new Version and change Data-Access in the old Api Version (but here is the Problem with: never change a running system, things that work before could go wrong). And if you have a huge site with many users, it is not possibly to interrupt the service.

To maintain many versions is for a short period ok, but for longer usage not practicable.

Did somebody have experience with that ?
That's exactly my concern about google/yahoo/zoho/whatever.
I don't think your second link is a good example of what you are talking about. They spent a really long time building a framework which, they claim, let them build a replica of Snowfall in an hour.
Thanks for the reply but maybe I didn't make our requirements clear. The history should be kept intact after the revert - a new version should be created that duplicates the reverted version and become the current version. Thoughts?
I think that is the point. Change the law. Ford, Chevy, etc may not want to go the "dealer not required" route and continue to use dealers. But at least there would be options.
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Oh yea, that's a great one, I'll add it to the list!
If the Texas Auto dealers were smart, they would buy some lobbyists to give extra incentives to Tesla to bring them on board with the corrupt system. For example, the dealerships selling the Tesla vehicle at no cost, or maybe even provide an additional $3000-7000 tax credit only for Texans. Or perhaps giving Tesla a bushel of cash for every Tesla sold (temporally) through dealerships.

Then when Musk is on board and massive profits streaming, the credits will revert back to burdens on Texans. The cancerous dealer network remains with us for another few decades until the next chance at a disruptive technology to remove it.

Car Dealerships should go the way of newspapers. Imagine if newspapers used their financial might to squish the Internet when it was just a wire between two research facilities? If newspapers hired lobbyists to create laws making it illegal to route around newspapers, then could they how long could they have delayed the internet?
It's an "Educational Showroom" not a dealership. You can see the car and have questions answered about it but they can't tell you the price or actually sell you a car. You can buy a car online and they will ship it directly to your house (on a massive truck). Because it's not a dealership, you can't go there if you need repairs, instead there is a little repair truck which drives out to your house and repairs the car.
While i agree in part with the idea of spreading R&D cost via locked functionality, i am not sure it's a good idea to legalize it without any regulatory body. And forming these bodies is no trivial matter, So overall am against this idea, simply because i don't want to trust Intel/<other Big Corp(that's close to monopoly)> to pass on meaningful cost savings to the consumer.
My vote, get rid of utility and design patents. Those are usually used for trolling and killing innovation.
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Maybe it's just that in that case the silicon won't support it, we don't really know how the architecture is. It's also possible that it heats too much with both things. Who knows.

Indeed it would be stupid not to offer something, just because. Charge $2000 for it and someone will buy it.
Why does Texas not want any sales-tax on Tesla sales and property tax on Tesla locations?
I am not sure how RESTful that looks to me. I would like to route to the action from the url rather than having to read what's in the body. In your solution, I would need that body parser to differentiate this revert action from an update action.
Sure, that's your right as a consumer.
The same idea would be an interesting google glass app, virtually draw on the wall. It would be cheaper and potentially more useful...etc, but would not be decorative to those not tuned in, for good or bad.
True, but that is a cultural item for us. From the article, the clothes color signifies year child was born. I would imagine that would substitute pretty well here if done for years.
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Exactly true. Today's tools* require far too much maintenance & operator involvement to be fully automated like this.

Shapeways.com & Ponoko & others have "upload & print" (by mail) services, & they work well, since they have operators in their facility.

*But, things change fast. It might just be a few months or years before the machines can reliably produce without maintenance & operator steps. Is this it already? I'm curious & signed up & will give it a try.
That's Governor Goodhair to you.
Sure, but peterwwillis was likely making the point that REST sometimes just gets in the way. REST itself is not complicated, but trying to make it work where it shouldn't can complicate what you're trying to do. Not all APIs can be modeled well with the "resource" or "document" concept. A lot of times all you really want is to ping an endpoint and get/post some data.
Before you sharpen that mental image too much, remember that Musk (SpaceX) owns a rocket testing facility there.
The obligatory "you're doing it wrong" comment following virtually all REST articles.
Intel's Haswell lineup takes market segmentation to a pretty extreme level. There's 22 Haswell cpu models on the lineup. They have clearly targeted some chips for gamers and others for server use.

You can't get an "unlocked" cpu with virtualization, but you can get the same chip locked with virtualization extensions. I guess the purpose is to avoid customers buying unlocked chips and overclock them for a diy server setup and get them to buy the more expensive server chips.

Process binning I can understand, it's a way to try to improve the silicon yield. But artificial crippling, when taken to this kind of extremes feels a bit dishonest to me. But that's just the way the semiconductor industry works, I guess.
Tesla currently has a market cap over $10B. That is larger than Fiat's.
I don't live in Austin, and Austin isn't as special as it thinks it is. I will repeat myself - I live in the fourth largest city in the United States, which happens to be in Texas, is not Austin, and has a homosexual mayor, who is (all things considered) a fairly conservative Democrat. Some people are just pragmatic.
OwnLocal Austin TX (YC W10) is hiring a ton of engineers
Good point, raldi. You should really consider working at reddit!
In 2000, Telia got a single IBM G6 mainframe hosting 1500 virtual Linux images. You'll note that's a tiny, "ancient" model.

IBM currently quotes ability to present "thousands" of virtual Linux images on a single current zSeries mainframe. These servers have virtualised storage IO, virtualised network interfaces etc. and management interfaces older than most of the developers on the hipper cloud platforms.

So to claim IBM "can't build a cloud of their own" is quite ridiculous - they can deliver single mainframes with more capabilities than most smaller cloud providers entire infrastructure for many types of workloads, and have decades of experience aggregating workloads on collections of servers like this (and single system image clustering across up to 32 zSeries mainframes - some simple math should indicate you're then in the tens of thousands of VM images managed as one single system - this with software originally introduced in 1990....), as well as decades of experience building super-computing clusters with accompanying orchestration and management. Heck, they have a separate division doing integrated service management software.

Claiming they can't build a consumer level / low end cloud solution would be more believable, and would explain the SoftLayer acquisition. But there's far more to this market than going for startups who order a handful of vm's.

> When all you have is hosting, you can't lose money on hosting.

That might have become an issue for SoftLayer in the long run if they remained independent.

But IBM is a services company. And one that is an expert in extracting money from customers by building very deep and far reaching client relationships when you can afford them. They could lose money on hosting for the next century if they like, and still see it as a cheap foot in the door for their sales team if it helps them reach new customer segments.

> Google and Amazon are playing the ultra-thin margin long game and the result is that they hope to destroy the competition with an aggressive pricing floor.

Amazon at least is priced ludicrously high compared to providers like Softlayer that can offer hybrid "dedicated + cloud" solutions. If Amazon can compete on price in that market, they've so far not demonstrated any will to do so. Amazon is priced well for the batch "bring up ten servers for two hours" market, though.
Car manufacturers can't sell directly to compete against independent dealers of their cars. Tesla has no independent dealers.
Apple developers can't generate certs... A day's work is lost.
Apple developers can't generate certs... A day's work is lost.

What do you do when Apple can't generate certs for developing and distributing your apps? I had to push a deadline today... What do you guys put in contracts with regards to e.g. Apple causing you grief? It's not exactly "Force Majeure".

Please see:
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This article is misleading - Tesla can and does sell cars in Texas (online), their "physical stores" just can't sell them. Also, Tesla wasn't denied the right, their bill was not voted on (an omission rather than an action). They'll undoubtedly bring it back up next session.
Hum.. it seems your antivirus might react to Skycraft using a lot of memory, which it seems to associate with a certain exploit. What browser are you using?
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What does it mean to "return HATEOAS"? HATEOAS is an architectural contrainst, not a format.
Nobody else here seeing the obvious reason?

Let me take you back a few years. Remember the SCO lawsuit? Their attempts to sell licenses? Well, only one company bought one -- EV1. Who are now part of SoftLayer (via ThePlanet). Clearly IBM is just after said license. :-)
I agree, SoftLayer seems to provide great performance for us at HealthPost.
>they sit you down at a internet terminal and you order over the web

How does this work in light of the law in Texas outlawing this?
Yes

Google should have known better what's a good "googable" name. Golang is a good compromise
Musk is getting along pretty well with the lobbyists here. See bill to close the beach for his launch site.
I suspect a lot of people will (as they do with gems or pips), given the extra trouble forking all your dependencies and keeping track of updates to them causes. Many companies don't have a team to take care of this process, just developers, and the easy route with bundler or with go get is to use the 3rd party code directly, though with bundler you can pin to a major/minor version at least. I'm not even sure there is much to gain security-wise by forking a gem/pkg/pip, save perhaps delays in your process that might save you from deploying an exploit before it is used, unless you have someone do a code audit on all the code. That's practical in a large org but not in many small shops.

I agree there's very little security difference anyway though between go get and bundle install for gems say (don't agree with the OP there), but go get has no clear way to add metadata like out-of-band code signatures as gems or pips do.
What kind of bad SQL? Most forms of bad SQL can be ruled out by a well typed DSL. JS silliness is also a type safety issue. You can use Fay, Elm, GHCJs or Roy to generate Javascript from a type-safe language.

Some NPE's take just 10 minutes (not negligible) but there are also some that are expensive.

Figuring out the reason is sometimes hard, when the code and its assumptions are badly documented.

Fixing NPE's is sometimes hard because of silly reasons such as touching third party or "frozen" code.

Also, NPE's can become extremely difficult when the code is bad in the first place.

Things like rate limiting and queue lengths can be encoded in types. You can use type tagging on connection sources/destinations to make sure you only hook up things that match rates/etc.
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If true, then given the fact that there are about 20,000 car dealerships is Texas (http://txdmv.gov/dealers-portal/motor-vehicle-dealers), that means the dealerships outweigh Tesla by a factor of 20. And that's not even counting the fact that these are all dealers in Texas, whereas Tesla's presence applies to the entire country. If we assume Texas is about 1/10th of the US, that means the local dealers outmatch them by a factor of about 200.
I believe it was last year that we had 100 days straight of 100+ degree weather. It's a beating... Pretty much Juneish - October are unbearable. The rest of the year is lovely.
It's not evil, it's the most effective way to provide a CPU capable of meeting everyone's needs at the cheapest possible prices.

If they had to design and manufacture a chip at every tier it would be far more costly, and they would have to pass those costs on to the consumer.
Nice. I still haven't given Go much time, but I really like this form, where you can switch on multiple blocking calls.

I've definitely wanted this in other languages where I'm using thread safe queues for communication, and had to do manual multiplexing into a new queue whenever I wanted to do a blocking get on multiple queues.

Does anyone know of a convenient way to do this when handling multiple instances of python's Queue or similar with Haskell's Chan?
It seems he was sentenced not for stealing ribs, but because the threatened the store owner that confronted him, which is, in fact, a violent act. It also appears he was somewhat of a habitual offender, having been convincted of various violent and non-violent crimes many times previously.

The sentence is somewhat harsh (eligible for parole in 12.5), but your comparison to the Taliban is absurd.

EDIT:

somewhat harsh in relative comparison to normal American sentencing standards, since the goal is apparently to single out Texas as some horrible place where sentencing is too harsh. I will now point out draconian three-strikes laws in other more progressive states that would have had him in jail for life.

Make no mistake, I think American criminal courts and sentencing are too harsh in general and our prisons are horrible travesties of justice. But the singling out of this state is what I'm calling absurd - all of American criminal sentencing is broken.
Indeed. Creating a new version of your post should be a POST to /posts/X/versions. This would create something like /posts/X/versions/U-U-I-D.

Since REST is all about mapping to the underlying semantics of HTTP you'd then want to make /posts/X redirect to /posts/X/versions/U-U-I-D

Since there's nothing wrong with updating your resource under the hood (think of e.g. http://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/) posts/X would simply always redirect to the latest version.

If you don't always use the latest version by definition, then you'd probably do a PATCH with the new version id to /posts/X, or a PATCH with 'active: true' to /posts/X/version/O-L-D.
Paxman had no interest in Google's little gimmick, used the segment for some amusement, prodding the giddy enthusiast.
It's a bigger deal for VC backed companies that need to grow faster.

I know of a few small, profitable companies that acquire talent by luring them away from major metro areas. Also, lots of big companies are attracting talent from people who are not in an urban cluster like SF, NYC, etc. IBM is a great example of that.
Actually, Jeremy Paxman is usually a lot more obnoxious ... and a lot more effective at discomfiting, unbalancing, and pushing his guests on to the defensive. I was looking forward to him really dig the knife in and wiggle it around a bit, instead, all we got was a couple of half-hearted insults. Almost a wet and sloppy love-in by the normal Paxman standards.
I remember (maybe a year ago) people complaining about XMBC on RaspberryPI. Things like the menus being sluggish / having slight delays, maybe some issues with 1080p videos streaming over a network, etc. Have those been resolved?
I’ve been with a few different banks (ING, Rabobank, Bizner, HSBC) and they all use two step verification. Some send texts, others use a card reader or such.
If you just want to get/post some data, why are you modeling the system using functions (computations)? If anything, a document oriented approach is much more suited for that use case.
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I'm not the author, and I don't know much Perl either, but I imagine something like this:

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Getting an MRI without a medical reason has an extra risk. If you and your radiologist/doctor aren't focused on a "problem area", you might just find one anyway. Here's story in the New York Times about a person who went in for a CT Scan for stomach pains, but ended up "discovering" a harmless lump in her adrenal mass. Of course, it cost more than a thousand dollars of further testing to declare it "benign". Surely I have some artery that “looks constricted” or an “abscess” to fret about. I'd say this is the biggest risk for me getting an MRI "just for the data".

Because of this, I'm considering skipping the analysis after the scan. Just save the file to Google Drive and get another scan to compare to in 5 or 10 years.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/the-fallout-of-a-ch...

Updated the post to include this section
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I thought the same. I have unlimited data so I knew I hadn't hit any limit but thought maybe something was up with my phone. Rebooted several times. Reset network settings. etc. and nothing. I went to call them this morning but when I checked with a few colleagues also on Three and they had no data either I figured it was an outage. Annoyingly they didn't put anything on their site until after I saw this post.
There's a retail development here in Barrow County (Georgia) where the Facebook page for it has been the center of discussion and the main source of feedback for the developers: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gateway-at-University-Parkway...

And who can blame them? Most of the 70k residents are already on Facebook. Anything else would have to be built from the ground up.
But the insidious thing is they'll be inlined all over the place and may not show up on callgrind. The atomic operations will contribute to cache lock contention inside the processor. Of course it all depends on often you perform operations on the shared_ptrs. Use them only as handles to large components and keep them out of inner loops and you'll be fine.
there's an M in MRI (for "Magnetic") just because "Nuclear" didn't have the same harmless ring to it.

This is not something to do for fun.
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Doh, typo. Fixing that. :)
Yikes, it looks like the author silently updated her/his post . I guess the message got through:)
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Intel can afford to do this simply because they don't face enough competition. Otherwise they would have to give you their very best at competitive prices, or lose clients to the competition. But for several years already this hasn't been the case for the mid-high home range.

It's a worrisome situation.
It's failed model. If the hardware is there people will find a way to unlock it without paying. Haven't license key proven that by now?
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Well, then at least you'll have it.
To prevent parents from aborting children of the "wrong" gender. It has sadly happened, apparently.
1) The large corporate interests don't own that infrastructure. The actual owners can choose whoever they want to represent.

2) What's stopping Tesla from partnering with Toyota dealers?

3) With its $10B valuation, Tesla could build 10 very nice dealerships for 1% of its valuation.
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