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Most of the repositioning cruises are in November or April, which probably won't work for any employees with kids in school. I don't think you could make this mandatory if you have any employees with kids.

If it's not mandatory then you're splitting your team up for 1-3 weeks.
I have a product on Amazon currently. What sellers really want IMO is conversion tracking on Amazon's platform. Even the ability to add your own Google Analytics tracking code would be amazing. This way you can know how many visitors your pages are getting, where they are coming from, and if you buy paid traffic, how that is converting and whether it is worth it. Without this, you're shooting in the dark with marketing spend.

App Annie is great, and I've used it for general analysis, but I think what most sellers want is deeper analytics so that they can track marketing spend with conversions. This is something no third party can do. It'd need to come from Amazon.
+1 there is some pretty annoying stuff I'd like to zap (annoying "go pray now", "Jesus 4 the win" etc. stuff mostly)
Well, as most of Tesla's stock performance has been based on rampant speculation, I'd say this has been coming for a while.

I did the math on Tesla when I invested in it early this year, and it should have topped out at around 44-46 a share, calculating in the difficulty of reaching their goals over the next two years with no significant issues. Then, after different stages were reached, it should have risen. This did not happen. Instead, it rocketed up immediately.

That was all flash in the pan investment and not real analysis of the company, so it's no surprise that it's decreasing when there are minor problems.
Yeah, it was free paper in certain cities like nyc.
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Then there's Samsung, I think they're the largest conglomerate in the world.

My mom would affiliate Samsung with TVs. I'd probably put them with computer monitors and phones.

They also build skyscrapers and power plants (Samsung C&T Corporation), and ships (Samsung Heavy Industries). They also sell Life Insurance in South Korea.
"Have you tried flying your cars through the air? There's less junk to run in to up there."
As the article mentions, there is internet, it's just expensive. And big downloads can be done at an internet cafe in port.
Cloud computing is very expensive compared to storing changes in a database. One computer can server hundreds/thousands of simultaneous users if you are not rendering. But once you are rendering, a computer can serve only a small fraction of that.

When in interactive rendering mode Clara.io does constantly render after each batch of changes, but it is more than 20x as expensive as not rendering in terms of server costs.

https://vimeo.com/72194528

We want to make Clara.io as low cost as possible and one way we can do is to not have it rendering all the time. :) But if you have deep pockets go for it!

The same concerns about cost apply to automatically creating the movie on each change. Yes it is possible, but the cost for computing that may not be required is pretty high.
In my experience tech and market success aren't nearly as related as your post suggests. As a 40 year old developer I've worked at a good number of companies (including startups and established ones) over the years including some that were, on average, technically very weak and yet very financially successful and some that were technically extremely strong and failed miserably.

All the tech talent in the world won't help if you are building something nobody wants, and if you are building something many people want you can get away with iffy technology, at least for a while (see: the first years of twitter).
If somebody is blogging about their lifestyle you have to question it. Creative geniuses seem to vary in their response to distractions. Leonhard Euler claimed that he did important work with baby on knee. The inventor of the shape sorter (I forget his name) used to head off to a place of absolute quiet and stillness to conceive his inventions. John von Neumann turned the TV volume up in order to work. Go figure
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Airport trips I like the most for the same reason, but they never take 9+ days. Tynan made a good point.
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> When I went to get going again, the traction control system detected that it was slippery and, as far as I can tell, did throttle limiting to prevent the wheels from slipping. This is one of the most uncomfortable feelings I've ever had driving a car... I pressed the accelerator and there was no response.

Most decent cars let you disable the traction control (which is necessary sometimes)...

But yes, sometimes the newer technology doesn't work as well as the older technology, depending on the conditions and driver skill. I've had ABS kick in a few times and it's really disconcerting, I almost prefer not having it. Traction control is great for tiny patches of ice or rain, but terrible when the roads are covered in fresh snow.

My old Saab 900 Turbo was the best winter car I'd ever had, could basically plow through anything the front bumper could clear (and never failed to start - even when it was minus 40 degrees). My new car is adequate, but not nearly as good when it gets really ugly...

And fly-by wire IS scary, they should never eliminate physical connections for certain functions (accelerator, brakes, steering).
Cue trickle-down economics...
If situations where it makes sense to do a full rebuild come up 6 times in the space of a few years, to me that indicates a deeper problem.
IANAL, but this practice is illegal in many places. If your days off are called something like "vacation days" or "PTO", they're regulated by the government. Generally the company has to pay them out after leave and the company can't make you work them. If they're called "personal days" or something similar the company usually doesn't have to pay you for them when you leave.

This case was probably wage theft. If it was within the last few years, the government would probably like to hear about it. Most states have a department of labor or something similar that investigates this sort of thing.
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How much of the failure is related to process or project management vs. the tech teams's skills?
Can't tell if trolling or serious...

Take a train.
"I've bookmarked it for when I upgrade my desktops from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS next year"

Shuttleworth changes his strategy more often than his underpants but I recollect that there was a 'business edition' of 12.04 that cut out all the Web 2.0 integration stuff. Might be worth checking if a similar edition was made for 14.04.

This is all I can find now, no ISOs for 12.04 any more

http://www.ubuntu.com/content/introducing-ubuntu-business-de...
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I don't see how/why the multitude of offerings should confuse users. If I'm looking for mobile analytics and I find Amazon's, what difference does it make to me that they're hand is in a million other things? The only confusion will be if their documentation sucks :)
I mean that I hope you sold recently. It'll be a great time to buy soon, but now it's finally a good day in shortville.
Many ships have auditoriums with projectors/screens. They're used for various kinds of shows during the cruise, but you can often arrange with them (far ahead of time, as part of booking the conference) to have use of the auditorium during certain hours.

The 2009 version of this conference was on a Disney cruise ship, and the keynotes and plenum sessions were in the auditorium/theatre pictured here: http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f8/t006888.html
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All at the same time! How do you manage? I have tired doing that several times but I usually end of reading the one I like the most first which is why now I focus on only one book at a time.
Just a note. Im using a large browser window and your main container width being 1158px is really big for a non responsive site. I opened the window and both ends were cut off.

Other than that, cool concept. I'll install.
clearly should have been just elsif ($origin=~ /^[UC][ba][nu][no][tn][ui]c?a?l?$/)
Whether you consumer beer or alcohol or not it's usually enlightening to attend these events. I've gotten more insight into the companies and dept I work for by socializing after hours than all the "regular" work hours.

I hear people often complain about communication... they rarely attend these functions. It's not their fault I guess... but it's a reality.
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I like G+, nobody told me that I had to jump on the hate bandwagon
Or you could say that Sony has remained relevant for 67 years. Will Twitter manage to match that?
What kind of risks do you have on a cruise ship that you do not have in everyday life traffic, public places and outdoor activities ? Statistically, your cabin in the woods with nobody around is probably an order of magnitude more dangerous than a cruise ship ;)
>> We've all known that the correction was coming for a long time.

Sorry, but NOBODY (much less we all) can predict short term stock movements. If I KNEW a correction was coming, I'd be a billionaire by now.
Is your definition of 'worth' based on market cap? I'd imagine the enterprise value of the two companies tell a different story (though I've heard some dark news about Sony in recent years, aren't they still posting billion-dollar profits?)
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I don't think it shows a lack of competition and greed. As far as I can tell, it illustrates a fundamental attribute of consoles: They are a fixed target. Game developers can hyper-optimize for the specific hardware in a console because 100% of the people using that console will be using that hardware configuration.

With PCs, there's the question of how well your computer will play a game. With consoles, this question is instead binary: Either your Xbox 360 will play the game exactly as well as all the others or it will not play the game.
I don't think that the mediocrity of other tech organizations implies that functioning ones are "badass". It's a sad state of the world that "actually shipping products that work" qualifies for awesome/genius.
> There's something pleasing about that. Google has created what might be the most sophisticated information-gathering apparatus in the history of the Earth ... and the only people with information about them are the pizza delivery drivers.

I vaguely remember something about news channels watching the Whitehouse, and when lots of pizzas were delivered one night they knew the next big step was going to happen in Iraq. That was Bush. Or maybe it's from earlier.
I don't think there needs to be any official guideline about that. It's a community thing, and the community will vote based on whether it's interesting and whether the poster is known. I don't think those veiled SEO announcements get too many upvotes (unless said SEO black hats also commandeer an army of bots around here).

Personally, I've done a bunch of "Show HN" posts. A few of them did great (one went to #1 with over a hundred upvotes), while others only got one or two votes. That's how it should be, I guess.
I'll shed a single tear because I have nostalgia for the print version, but this isn't really such bad news. The Onion has evolved, not died. They grew quite successfully into digital (especially with video & social media), and they're now completing that transition by cutting off what has by now become a vestigial distribution channel.
a low-pass filter? it attenuates high frequencies from the candidate pool?
On the upside, most problems startups are working on aren't necessarily extremely technically difficult.
There is already a fairly useful tool https://www.charitynavigator.org/ to ascertain the validity of a charity. You can also type in a keyword and attempt to filter by category to narrow down the options.
I agree completely on the internet access. Very hard to work through issues without online resources nowadays. How did we do it before there was such great online help like StackExchange?
I'm no graphics guy (not even by a long shot), but my understanding of this is that it's generating the same maps that you'd otherwise have to generate through some other process. The images used to generate them have a single point source, but I have to assume that, once generated, the maps would work just as well for multiple or different types of light sources. As for performance, that's entirely up to whatever engine you're using to render the damn thing; once you have the maps, you're done with SpriteKit.
If someone could make this into an Android app with wifi hotspot functionality that would be awesome.
That's the fun with C, it would be quite unlikely the malloc call in a unit test for this didn't happen to zero initialize the struct.
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> I have a right not to be murdered .... But I base that statement on my theology, not my economics ....

Glad you recognize that. Pragmatically, a "right" exists only to the extent that others accept it, voluntarily or otherwise. I can also claim the right not to be murdered. But if I, an American, were to find myself in the hands of certain factions of the Taliban, then that so-called right might be of little efficacy.

There's a legal maxim -- OK, technically it's an equitable maxim -- ubi jus ibi remedium: Where there is a right, there must be a remedy. That is, once the courts recognize that a right exists, they will somehow fashion a remedy to vindicate a breach of that right. But there's a corollary: If there simply is no remedy that can be enforced, then neither is there a right.
This was my first time going to the Amazon SDK site and I am blown away by the difference in site design between it and Amazon's AWS site.

The SDK site is cleanly designed, has less clutter, and so on. The services link to other services and I feel like I'm being sold a value proposition - sign up and reap rewards.

The AWS site is amazon.com turned into place a storefront for cloud services. And that storefront is cluttered and seems eager to have me buy things without selling me on the value.
As far as lighting goes, I think it would be as performant as it gets. It's the same idea as deferred shading; you only have to shade the pixels that the light affects.

As for types of lights and colors, yes, I think that would all be possible.
I've done tech at a hedge fund. I'm an engineer at big tech company. I'm friends with many startup engineers. The whole lot is a mixed bag. You can't imply anything from their place of employment. Some really brilliant engineers stay in finance because they like the problems they work on and they get paid a ton. At some point, it's really a life style and values question.

The best engineers I know are usually quite humble. They don't lose their sense of wonder and are always hungry. Everything they see is shit, including work they've done. They have a relentless drive to improve.
i.e. people that are desperate enough to submit to it aren't going to be your "rockstars".
Isn't it pretty standard for a vehicle to catch on fire when significantly damaged?

I've personally witnessed a few that were the result of wrecks, and just the other weekend I drove by a couple guys trying to put out a flaming engine on a beat up old truck.

How exactly do these compare to gasoline/diesel powered vehicles?
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I wouldn't be able to make a definitive judgement on that. But what I can say is that at my previous place of employment, we had a number of projects that never saw the light of day because the other organization couldn't meet their milestones. We were in direct contact with their dev team.
This could be somewhat bad for the cruise industry. I think cruises sell at a loss and hope to make there money back through alcohol spas, gambling or things someone working folks will not do.
Over the last week I moved http://www.thebigeat.com/uk from PHP to Rails. That uses Geocoder, Carrierwave, Stripe, gmaps4rails, FriendlyId and Rakismet. I use Gems because they do what I need to be done. When they don't then I roll my own - I used to use Devise, but hacking around it just became inflexible and more work than my own.
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As a French expat, congratulations. There are a lot of things I'm not happy about France, but the role of open source in the public IT policy is definitely something to be proud of. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Now, if Danish lawmakers would only take a hint...
> What happened to "don't be evil"?

That died long ago. In 2008 or even earlier, Google was capturing data from your WiFi router with their street view cars.
This is spot on and my company is exactly like this. We get the rockstar team label slapped on us all the time when we're really just a bunch of mediocre programmers.

I don't think there are that many truly talented teams out there even though you get impression every other hip startup has one.
I have a pretty unusual spoiler avoidance routine for which this would be great. I live outside the US and have an account for NFL Gamepass and love football. There's essentially no spoilers here at all which is great but my US bound friends on Facebook tend to spoil stuff.

I typically watch the early games on Redzone live and then all the late games on Monday (as 30 Minute cuts) and the SNF+MNF game on Tuesday (+Thursday game on Friday)..basically I avoid FB on Mondays (and sometimes Tuesdays)
They've actually been around since 1988, initially only in print. I have personally never seen a print copy, either.
Now imagine how much undistracted work you could get done on a six-month trip to Mars.
They made the leap from books to other items seamlessly. I think that their branding as Amazon rather than something else was behind this. They mildly redirected their brand with AWS, but still pulled it off. I think the analytic offering doesn't change much of the branding.

My assumption on Bezos is that half is he's an obsessive genius, and half is he hires very well. You need the right people to keep the parts moving without detailed guidance.

You can tell that Google is aware of this challenge by the simplicity of their Search screen. They keep a lot of their offerings hived away from the top screen.
And how many planes come down per year ? The probability of something like that is extremely low. Life is risky, you also have a theoretical risk of dying of a heart attack every second.
>the web wouldn't exist then

This statement is ridiculous. The web was not originally designed to be an application platform, it moved that way because business pushed it in that direction. I know the vast majority of sites I visit don't use cookies or javascript for anything important, because I have both of those turned off by default anyway. It seems very obvious that the majority of cookies and javascript these days are being used for tracking purposes, i.e. things that don't benefit the user in any way and should probably be blocked for practical purposes.

>Being overly paranoid hurts innovation and limits what we can do.

This statement is also ridiculous. Being concerned about your own privacy isn't paranoia, it's self-preservation. We have all the reason to expect these companies to think twice before going forward with some innovation that could be potentially harmful, but it appears you want to encourage them not to do that. What you're actually saying is "companies having to worry about ethical issues limits what we can do," which is absolutely true, and this is not a negative thing.

To me the reality of this technology is more Idiocracy than anything. The marketing hype is that it's somehow a futuristic sci-fi fantasy device. It's just another way to sit on the couch watching TV and playing games.
Which is a problem for a company that uses them extensively in large consumer products that tend to get mangled with some frequency.
I sort of see that, but I don't understand why baseline (purple) needs to be set that much apart from slightly above (pink but almost white) or slightly below (blue but almost white), which are on completely different scales of color.

Or maybe I just don't understand how cartography works, but something about that still seems off.
I now find a lot of better answers through Github issues and personal blogs. I should remember to search Github code when I'm stuck trying to figure something out.
Can anybody explain how the 2-peer restriction works with web-apps? It's my biggest fear in making the jump.
Wouldn't that still require 4x the amount of work though? (Assuming four lighting profiles.)

I could see this getting prohibitive when creating animations for example.
Wait, this isn't a fake Onion headline?
"I don't know. If you have a team that is able to consistently ship products that work and are well received by your existing client base, you probably do have some badass tech guys."

From my experience, a good manager can ship with bad enginners but good engineers cannot ship with a bad manager. This is from the perspective from an engineer.

We engineers need to stop kidding ourselves. We are good at certain problems but getting something out the door and running a company requires much more than what we are expected to be good at. This is why blogs like PG's and Joel Spolsky have such a following. They explain difficult concepts to engineers in a way engineers will understand. Not everything they write about are revelations to the whole world but they are to many engineers. Human-centric design? Other industries have done it for decades, etc. We need to know our own limitations if we want to go beyond them or make the conscious decision to not get better at it and let someone else handle it.
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With how much the Onion appears on Facebook feeds, it has successfully evolved.

I do have to admit I was wistfully looking for this hint as a spoof, but I believe it's true. I miss grabbing the hardcopy in lieu of a watered down mini-newspaper on the way to the subway.
Please Please Please include "show the shortest path between points A and B".
awesome, I clicked the purchase button and.... only for mac :(
With all the SDKs and APIs these days, I don't think a rewrite is what it used to be.
Running over a tow hitch seems to be a pretty low standard for significantly damaged.
Upvoted. I love absolutely terrible things.
I picked it up in Boulder a number of times.

Print was nice for all the reasons that any printed newspaper is nice--browsability, crosstalk between stories, portability, no power/screen required. Bummer that they had to cease print.

But if it wasn't sustainable, it wasn't sustainable.
The problem with other distros is the lack of a design. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I used that did not look like a donkey's ass (back in 2008~). Even today's Gnome Shell does not look as good as Unity... it also does not scale well for my display's 1600x900 resolution (top bar icons are way too small).

The other distros might work well technically, but imho they don't look as good and they require more tweaking, which is a hassle for me.
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Many ads pay per pageview, so if you never load the image in the page, the website doesn't get credit for that person's pageview.
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