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>usually the CEO is personally self-effacing and does not have that kind of personal arrogance.

I haven't seen that. Usually I see the whole "my tech team are all the best awesomest rock ninjas" tripe from the CEO, and entirely because it is an extension of their personal arrogance and massive ego. You talk to the CEO and they have the best tech team in the world solving impossible problems nobody else can do, and you talk to that tech team and they are like "We're making a website, there's nothing special about it". The CEO believes the quality of their tech team reflects their ability as a CEO, thus they must have the best team since they are the greatest CEO.

A sidenote you can ignore but I just need to vent: these massive ego CEOs then insist on making their tech team do this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell because they "know people", so they know what people want.
I hear you, and that's how I learned. :-) But I find it much tougher on the topics I'm learning today. Perhaps it's because the old stuff is hard wired because it needs to be, but I keep less of the new topics in long term memory because I can outsource that storage to Google?
The company in Wall-E is a play on this, and then the barge company was a play on the Wall-E company. Or so I thought.
I'm not sure what the original poster had in mind, but what I'm guessing (and what I would want) is making it a web UI so access could be shared easily to other people or devices.
Awesome, much better!
Trial runs are fine if you get paid for that week regardless. I'd never give up a week for free.
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Or: CentOS with EPEL and Nux repos for slightly older but solid packages,and just get work done...

Conservative VS leading edge I suppose.
It was very polite, and props to them for that. But that doesn't mean there were no threats.

to use the Ubuntu trademarks and Ubuntu word in a domain name would require approval from Canonical... Unfortunately, in this instance we cannot give you permission to use Ubuntu trademarks...

This has a big "OR ELSE" implicit in it. Requiring means enforcing.
Reproducibility of results from the canonical data store thanks to having the full history of everything is pretty great.

"Code can never corrupt data again"
Harry, do you pay the prospective employees during the trial run? The blog post implies that it's a week long, ("We’ve been able to spot problems during the week..."). While the information gained by both parties during a week of working together is no doubt very valuable for them both, a week is a long time to work for no pay.

EDIT: Oh, I see your edit, these trials runs typically aren't a full week long. But in any case, if someone is going to give up a substantial amount of time, I hope you pay them for it.
I never even knew the Onion did print. Hell I never even knew they were alive since what, 1988? Damn, I really thought the Onion was just a small little website with funny articles I saw on Reddit once in awhile, but not a widely known website.

Sucks, I'd have loved to read a print version of the Onion.
Sort of like gas tanks?

Petrol is way safer. The tanks are protected behind the second axle, and the fuel lines are either hardened or flexible, and in any event also well protected. That is why data show only 2% of fires are caus by problems relating to the fuel system. Tesla would need to have 200 more fires that did not involve the LiIon to become safer (on an apples to apples comparison). Something tells me that proving that case wouldn't do them any good.
I had no idea either. Crazy.
My thought is that so many are using "fake it 'til you make it" as a marker for their ambition. So, if they want to make it big, they are going to fake it big. This leads to, among other things, all of the job ads we have all seen that say, "Join CompanyX and help us change the world of shopping." Of course, how that world is going to change ("do I still have to use money?") is left unsaid.
I suspect it was selectively enforced. I had a similar usage pattern and did get a notice.
Are you talking about open data in general or are you talking about the data used in the calculation of $5.4 billion?
OP touched on another great remote work idea: the RV. Find a smaller model in good condition and outfit it with a Verizon mobile AP and you're in business. Sadly, I didn't move into remote work until after I got married and started a family but if I was 22 again, this is how I'd do it. I'd spend my winters in South Texas, around San Antonio and Port Aransas. In the springtime, I'd head up to Southern Utah, places like Escalante and Moab where I could mountain bike and go canyoneering. In the summer, I'd head for the mountain towns: Telluride, Colorado...Aspen...Park City, Utah...Idaho...for more mountain biking and hiking. In the fall, I'd head south again and start it all over.

All of these places have easily available wifi, good food, great people, and lots to do after work. If you're smart about it, there are even nice places just outside of these towns where you can camp (< 14 days) for free and still have 4G cell service.
Two JVM processes, far as I'm aware. In practice, a single peer gets you pretty far, especially if you're a Clojure user.
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"Time-based fact" = entity-attribute-value at time. Example: Alex likes nachos at 5 pm.

"Declarative power" = among other things, datalog queries. SQL is also relatively declarative. Datomic has the benefit of declaring queries as data, not as munged strings.

"Facts are never forgotten or overwritten" = as the world changes, add a new record at a new timestamp. Traditional relational dbs modify the old record destroying previous values. The database notion of time (series of transactions) is made explicit and available as part of the query (query the db at a particular point in time or even join databases from different points in time).
Alot are community projects produced by people in their spare time, and a few (openSUSE/SLES/SLED, Fedora/RHEL) are backed by large commercial entities who make money selling services and support. Canonical is the only one giving away their commercial distro for free... (openSUSE and Fedora are slightly different from their SuSE and Red Hat cousins)

Personally I'm partial to openSUSE, but I certainly don't fault Canonical for the way they choose to do business.
I've always had this theory that a company that operates as you say with the examples of SpaceX or Toyota, one that life is never easy for (that can't rest on their laurels) really operates in a way that is much more motivating.

Another example would be the entertainment industry. Or I guess advertising industry or sports team...

Creative or highly competitive. Because you can't hit it so big that the losses don't matter. You are only as good as your last hit film, tv show, or game win.

Google has this tremendous cash cow.

Warren Buffett has plenty of cash. But for him the game is taking that cash and trying to get more cash. (And of course keeping up the image of being Warren Buffett drives him as well). And he has competition for his investment dollars as well.
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I guess another downside would be the connectivity problem, especially if you stream the presentations for remote participants, and anyway conference goers are constantly on their laptops connecting with work or whatever.

I like the floating village concept, though, and I guess everyone would be pretty relaxed overall, maybe bring the family as well, and what a way to combine vacation with work!
And ironically Debian packages are more bleeding edges.
I had the entire oil pan emptied out in a Volvo 850 because of an unfortunate rendezvous with a piece of rebar -- at low speed in a parking garage. The oil pan on that particular Volvo 850 was also aluminum, and from what I remember around the same thickness.

The key is that in both cases, the entire mass and momentum of the vehicle were contributing to the intrusion of a piece of steel into an aluminum vessel. No engineering in the world is going to stop that steel from penetrating in that case. A different material and/or different placement will be needed to improve the situation.
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Trickle down economics would only work if your average rich person were a Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, not an overstuffed communist apparatchik in a business suit.
I guess that's why the link is to another news source; no one would believe it if it was announced by their website.
Would you mind sharing how expensive is to live in the Algarve? (i.e. renting an apartment, food, etc.) I only been there (Faro) as a tourist.
"and we’re not ruling out the occasional consulting gig under the right circumstances"

They're not accepting new projects, except for when they are.
Writing software is hard. To quote Douglas Crockford "Writing software is the hardest thing you can do."

So if as a team you are able to, manage client expectations, deliver on schedule, build a project that works to specifications, has good UI/UX, has a low user learning curve, meets performance requirements (obamacare site), is well received by users, I'd say your team is pretty great.
It isn't an either/or. If you give data to Google, Facebook or other data-accumulating companies, you're giving it to the government.

The reverse is not true, so if only the government is surveilling you, you can still stay out of some of the corporate databases.
You're right, their description should be clearer, or have an elaboration or something. But for onlookers:

> flexible

Minimal, non-tabular schema

> time-based

All historical values are preserved.

> facts

Triple store: Entity / Attribute / Value

with time:

Quad store: Entity / Attribute / Value / TIME

> supporting queries and joins

Datalog query language

> with elastic scalability

Reads are uncoordinated, so they scale horizontally

> ACID transactions.

You can trust the database won't lose stuff you write to it.

> leverage highly-available, distributed storage services

Storage engines are pluggable. You can choose backends such as filesystems, Riak, Dynamo, traditional SQL databases, etc.

> puts declarative power into the hands of application developers.

Reads occur in-process, like an embedded database. Queries, traversal, and other reads occurs locally, without network round trips.
When you have a smaller population the ratio of constituents to elected member goes down, making lobbying more expensive. We have just as many MPs as the US has senators and a tenth of the population.
I wouldn't say it's a change of subject, but I can see your point.
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I'm doing a Neal Stephenson marathon, just started with Quicksilver last night, after finishing Snow Crash and Reamde back to back.
This is a huge bummer. Whenever I don't have anything to read on the subway I grab the latest Onion.
Norovirus.
It's nice to see actual numbers and risk rates. I had dismissed the Tesla fires as insignificant. Your post has made me think I should take a second look.
It's not necessarily the CEO's fault here. If investors, and press would stop asking questions like "Why is your team better than everyone else" the CEO's wouldn't have to make up ridiculous statements.

When dealing with externals, winning isn't important. It's the appearance that you're winning, and having the CEO brag about tech talent is just part of the game.

Just like when CEO's brag about having former MSFT, GOOG, FB, engineers on staff, or having someone who went to MIT, Caltech, and yada yada yada.

In the end, what really matters is building a great product that helps your customers scratch an itch.
I find Las Vegas is a great place to get work done, assuming you don't have a gambling addiction and don't mind working from hotel rooms. Hotels are super cheap, food is reasonable (if you're careful where you eat), and you can usually find cheap flights.

Downsides: You'll need a wireless hotspot since hotels charge too much for internet access (ones without resort fees). Starbucks is overpriced and there aren't many other coffee shops on the strip.
Yup. I've picked up a few. I want to say I've seen them in San Francisco, in their own newspaper boxes.
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When someone uses a box marked "search online sources", they probably don't need to be asked "Are you sure you want to search online sources?"
And yet, they still cannot invest in foreign stocks.
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You'll also need to pay any titling, fees, insurance, and taxes in USD.
Honestly, the world doesn't owe Canonical a business model. They don't get to do whatever they like and not suffer criticism.
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This sounds very promising. If we add different inks that are semi conducting and resistive, we could actually print out whole circuits with components.
Probably still a few years before this becomes reality.
I made a Bookmarklet implementation: http://www.buyog.com/code/post/i-made-a-thing-news-fixr
> According to the U.S. Fire Administration, there are around 194,000 vehicle fires on U.S. roads each year.

So 194,000 vehicle fires per year, or 18,602 within any given five week period.

Toyota's market share is 14.2%, so if the fires are evenly distributed, there would've been 2,641 vehicles of that brand catching fire. That's pretty close to 3,000.
1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously).

The Unity Dash search box is placed where every user would normally expect a local-only search to happen. There is no reason whatsoever for me to expect the Unity Dash search to return results from the Internet, just like I wouldn't expect the search box in Windows 7 Start Menu to do so.

This kind of behavior that plays with users' expectations is common in UI dark patterns.

2) It's plainly obvious the first time you use it that results are coming back from the Internet. No real user is going to be misled into believing that searches are local. This makes it no more a privacy violation than the default Google search box in Firefox.

Your example with Firefox is misleading, because Firefox is a browser, which automatically creates different expectation of privacy: it is quite normal for a search box in a Web browser to search the Web.

Also, note that you're essentially saying that there is no privacy violation past the first time it happens. This is more or less the equivalent of saying that once you've fallen for an advance fee fraud the first time, it's not a scam anymore.

2b) There is a prominent notice saying so. If you don't think it's prominent enough, see point 2.

I disagree that it's prominent enough. So do many other users and you know it, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to write that second sentence.

3) It's a search box that didn't exist previously. Canonical invented it. I think it's reasonable for Canonical to create a "search the universe" mechanism on the desktop. Fair enough if you don't like it, or don't want to use it. It's trivial to turn it off (there's even a global Privacy Settings dialog) or to use other searches. But that doesn't suddenly make it a privacy violation; nor the results of your search "ads".

None of the dark patterns or privacy violations seen elsewhere existed before they were invented. The fact that they didn't exist before has nothing to do with the intentions behind them or the effects they have. It might be new, you might like it and it might be trivial to turn off, but none of that makes it any less of a privacy violation.

In short, you're using misleading and circular arguments: there's no privacy violation because Canonical changed the behavior of the search box and you should learn to expect it. No wonder you state that the downvoters are "unable" to respond.
Right, but Linux won't bind any physical memory page until you actually read or write in it. So if you malloc() and mlock() 1GB of memory without reading/writing in it, that will not use any bit of physical memory.
I've wondered about exactly the same. Are generalists appreciated at all in the startup world?
Yeah but they are limiting the ways in which you can use your tools. It sounds like what you really want is just a way to persist your tools & files between OS installations & dead laptops...

Imagine having a build script that initialized all your software licenses, and that the tools all auto-upgraded in the background. Isn't that way better? I think this is kindof the GNU Tools & apt-get dream.

I'm sure the lines between software & cloudware will blur, so shouldn't the goal should just be freedom & control. Offloading tools (as the above poster mentions) is, I agree, just a scam to get you to pay... It's like paying for iTunes just to have it auto-update without asking for your permission. And if you hate the new version, sucks for you because using a new media player involves using proprietary tools to transfer your data & account, rather than just installing a new player & pointing to the same media folder.
> So when you read statistics on car fires you should try to exclude those if you can.

How on earth would that make a better comparison?!
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While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the stone age", the amount of knowledge we would lose from losing the internet is unimaginable.
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I'd say that the Tesla model S is a bit fragile, but still quite safe

What's fragile about 6mm armour plate? And what's safe about 100% of the fires having a single source? It sounds like TSLA needs to put the battery somewhere more protected. They have it exposed right now (presumably for lower CoG and better handling). That might just be a design flaw. I think we can still keep an open mind on LiIon untill the designs are iterated upon more.
He isn't suggesting Debian can't use Canonical's trademark, he's future-proofing/drawing attention to Canonical's newest fall from grace.
So yes please: what are those tricks for getting cruises cheaply?
As a short term fix, raise the car 1/4", reinforce the front battery section with kevlar, and include a system that can flood at least one of the packs with some kind of fire retardant foam.

As a longer term fix, move the battery pack rearward and design in a little more protection.
That happened to my parents' ford. They were at a stoplight and it caught fire, and were able to put it out in a nearby parking lot. At the time Ford was denying there were any fire problems with their model (an F150), but it seems like they eventually admitted there was an issue with their cruise control wiring.
>Star Trek, bad sci-fi writing, unbelievable monsters, magic science, red-shirts, ridiculous sets with no purpose and humanoid aliens-of-the-week

as they say, can't see a forest for the trees :)

Relax, man, you don't like it, obviously. Tastes are different. Galaxy Quest is a nice funny movie, Starship Troopers is a brilliant masterpiece. Kandinsky's black square is just a square a child can paint (i think i drew a lot of black squares among everything else while dreaming at classes in school).
Thanks for the Jenkins info. If you have an iOS Developer account, OS X Mavericks Server is available at no additional cost.
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Javascript required for the information light webpage.

Privacy policy looks pretty good after you fix the URL in the terms of service. www.indicative.com/privacy

"FEES

At any time, Indicative retains the right, upon any notice required by applicable law, to impose or alter the fees for the Service. Such changes will be effective immediately upon posting on our Website."

This is the killer for me at the moment, don't want to integrate with something and then find out the price and have to stop without warning or have to test client behaviour if the server goes away.

Free for startups is stated but I can't see anything visible explaining who qualifies or what paid might look like.
Facebook app is in "sandbox" mode, so unfortunately I can't use it right now. Nice concept, though!
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Petrol is way safer.

Yes, but with petrol cars, we're benefitting from over 100 years of experience and engineering -- with many, many horrific fatalities included in the "experience." Considering how recently the Tesla engineers started off, I'd say they're doing a stellar job. (For heavens sakes, the system tells you what's up and warns you to pull over and get out!)
I took it to mean "put it on your phone and let the phone serve it"
The real question is when they start selling real estate to use bitcoin to move their assets outside China where there is greater ROI.
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Does this guy just have some sort of compulsive urge to destroy platforms?
Author here. This is a side project I've been working on for a little while. Would really appreciate any feedback / suggestions, whether on the landing page or the product itself!
This is one of the so called 22 immutable of laws of branding, i.e. the law of expansion: the power of a brand is inversely proportional to it's scope.

Vis-à-vis Amazon, I'm not sure it's a problem yet, I think of them as a retailer, AWS and Kindle, etc as separate brands. I don't see the problem at this juncture.
I'm 100 percent on board with your last sentence. But I didn't mean to imply that all you need is a good tech team to be successful. I was simply making an argument that maybe the OP is undervaluing his own / his tech team's technical abilities because he is comparing himself to an elite subset of devs/engineers.

Maybe these CEOs bragging about their rockstars is not so unreasonable when compared against the nation as a whole.
Sure it's reasonable in one instance. But what if every company started instituting these trial week scenarios? Then it quickly becomes untenable. There's just no rational basis for an applicant to "feel confident" in anything that isn't in writing. This scenario is designed specifically to give the employer even more power and leverage in a hiring transaction. The only people who would be willing to jump through such hoops are kids fresh out of college or otherwise desperate folks. It certainly isn't going to bias your hiring process towards "rockstars".
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Categorically Unequal by Douglas Massey, great book on stratification and inequality in America.
Also reading A Farewell to Arms.
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Just finished East of Eden and then started up a goodreads account. Without trying, I now have 37 in queue. Pretty excited to find out about goodreads and get solid recommendations/reviews.

If anyone wants to friend up there: https://www.goodreads.com/rockymadden
First ever? Moo + FB did this back in 2006? 07? A while back at least. It's nice, clean though. Any plans to branch out to IG/G+/others?
It might be useful to see some data on how many Tesla cars have had front-end accidents and not had fires. To ask it another way, do 100% of accidents result in a huge fire? Or 0.01%?