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This article states the obvious.

I'm a little upset that there is no mention about fuel economy per passenger mile as that's where the numbers get interesting.

Concorde got 14 passenger miles per gallon, a 747 gets 91 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft). That's why planes are slower. I'd imagine that a 787 is north of 100(probably 120ish) passenger miles per gallon, but it too is slower than a 747.

Now, with current technology, we could build a plane that is as economical as a 747 and much faster -- this would be the Boeing Sonic Cruiser, but cost still wins.

As far as the whole 2-hours-before-the-airport nonsense, I don't buy that that's an issue. I haven't shown up at an airport more than an hour before my flight time in a long time (and have yet to miss a flight). I walk right onto the plane.

The bigger problem with travel speed is the last mile. It may take me two hours to go from Denver to San Francisco, which is 967 miles, but it takes me an hour to get from SFO to Palo Alto on public transit at the least -- in the same time I could already be in LA.
I looked at OldCoder.org and saw that you do have extensive screenshots of your distro. Very cool!

I don't mean to myopically focus on your distro but since you said you're quite proud of it (and you should be!) ...perhaps mentioning the distro by name on your resume, and also by name on your site, could make it much easier for people to make the leap from your resume to finding out about it on your site.

Best of luck to you!!
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> Would you say in a job interview that you think a problem 30 times larger is just 30 times as hard to solve...?

That depends entirely on whether the problem scales linearly, sublinearly, or superlinearly.

Your response is just another example of the defeatist attitude that most Americans have when it comes to comparisons with Scandinavian countries that have solved many of the social problems that plague the US these days. You can give no concrete reason why it would be so difficult to replicate these solutions in the US, instead repeatedly stating that it won't work because there are 30x as many people.

If we had taken the same attitude when it came to building out the interstate highway system after WW2 just because we have significantly more land area than European nations, we would have never been able to connect the whole country. But instead, we came up with workable solutions and successfully implemented them.
This is a good overview of a config pattern. I'd personally have preferred it without the TDD stuff, seems to get in the way of the explanation.
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unfortunately good leadership isn't always obvious to most people either. I read somewhere that's because people have a hard time telling the difference between competence and confidence.
I personally like them. They are a great service for developer who want something that will just work.

Uptime they are good no noticeable problems and the network speeds are excellent. They are actually built upon amazon cloud.

The downside is the cost. Yes, they get your app up and running with little to no maintenance but you do pay for the privilege.

Personally I use heroku as a development and deployment platform before moving it to a cheaper solution once I have the time.

> Does Heroku offer any value for people who know how to set up servers but are inexperienced with larger setups / load-balancing?

Yes! time is money, so even if you know how to setup a server having it all automated is a massive time saver.

That being said as you scale so will the cost. At some point you will want to move provider and then you will be in the situation of still having to setup and run your platform.
Saying you haven't looked at algorithms for 30 years is an excuse. Like it or not interviewers will down time on the classic CS algorithms and data structures. The things they ask have not changed that much since the 70s. For anyone interviewing I highly recommend taking a refresher course such as Princeton's algorithms on Coursera. At least if you are applying at the larger tech companies.
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Well, we agree that this has been exhausting.

And I suppose that, like you, I have trouble letting your last bit stand. So, I will just summarize and be done with it.

You started by making a blanket statement that was categorically false and misleading. Then, rather than acknowlege that you misspoke, you dug in and defended it to the end. You never even acknowledged that you were now qualifying your initial statement. But, it's me who is being deliberately obtuse? OK.

And, here, you are making still more claims that are simply untrue or misleading, as well as making trite arguments. Comparing wearing clothes, using a toilet, etc. to consuming herbicides? Come on, man.

You are also deliberately taking examples meant to illustrate points to extremes to set up strawmen. Attempting an earnest discussion is frustrating. Perhaps consider that you may be so passionate that you are dismissive of any ideas (and possibly some facts) that contradict your beliefs.

And, if you are truly interested in educating people, then perhaps, at a minimum, you might also consider how you present facts and draw conclusions. For instance, as just one example, you might reconsider how making unqualified statements, such as your initial one here declaring that GMOs are completely independent of the resistance problem might be misleading, especially to laymen. Then, you might consider how making such glaring and apparently apologetic misstatements in a charged environment might lead to questions about your motives (of which you seem to get many) or, at the least, diminish the effectiveness of your efforts to educate.

In short, maybe it's not everyone else. Maybe it's you.

Take care. I'm out.
Recently, I'm failing at finding listings that seem to be a match.

Friends have urged me to simply apply for random jobs even if I'm missing experience in particular frameworks.

I've been reluctant to do so. Instead, I've been looking for:

(a) Junior positions that I'm clearly qualified for

(b) Positions at firms that are seeking generalists

(c) Positions where I'd be able to use the special skills that I do possess

I'll probably need to build connections over time for this to work out. In the interim, a non-tech position might be the way to go.
And this is a horrifying thought for a 20-something with no kids and what they perceive as limitless freedom, opportunity, and immortality.

Having a family and shifting into an "it's not about me anymore" frame of mind probably sounds worse than death to them. I know it would have at one point in my life.
Yes we also do phone screening even after having a look at the person's github and resume. The phone screening layer is their for a purpose. We don't want to waste time arranging an on-site interview of few hours only to find that you just wasted those hours.
The page as a whole does seem a little like it charts a descent in to a holey, triangular insanity.
Another story on the same page suggests he is autistic. Isn't it possible that all of the factors work against him? Subtle age discrimination, inability to interview and seem "normal" due to his disability, and the fact he's been out of work a while and seems indigent. Trained HR recruiters would see red flags even if they knew to suppress them.

And who claims recruiting as a skill when seeking a coding job?
1. No, I'm not claiming no one would use taxicabs or would ever choose taxicabs over Uber; I refer to a series of hypothetical transactions in which an individual would choose Uber over taxicabs in the absence of the government pressuring the system one way or another.

2. The business activity's externalities (e.g. contributing to congestion) could hypothetically be involved in an answer to my question!! While rhetorical, the question does have good answers from time to time. However, in this case, I don't believe the proposed cap is going to be very effective at mitigating those externalities, and the general concept of a "level playing field" is orthogonal to externality mitigation.
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Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
How do you know if an RNG is working?
Now have this play the 2048 game.
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I don't really care about going any faster. 8 hours to get from Europe to North America is fine with me. The problem I find flying is comfort. Since the 60's it's got a lot worse. It seems every year they cram the seats closer together and make the entire experience worse. As a tall - but not that tall - person (6ft1") flying can literally be painful if I don't get an isle seat. Obviously the issue is people want to fly cheaply. A good solution might be to introduce a new 'mid-tier' class between economy and business. I would happily pay an extra 10-20% for an extra bit of space.
Right, because this surely wasn't meant as criticism:

"MH370 might have entered into a blackhole and come back as a dove.

"What's with all this speculation?!?"

I love the internet tactic of making obvious insults that aren't 100% literal, then turning around and saying "I never said that, prove that I said that." It's hilarious.
You interview them, just like we do for every unknown person. If you don't want to take the time to do that, then you do a quick search for work they've done, and then come back to the 'do I want to interview this person?' question. Ask them what their timeline for having a job is. Tell them that the interview will involve coding on this specific thing, give them weeks or a month to prepare for it.

Help your candidates do the best they can. Don't set them up to fail at a task they weren't expecting.
Perhaps this is why Pandora has the annoying "I'm still listening" button, so they don't have to pay out royalties on things their users aren't listening to.
Doesn't mean that it's makes for a pleasant or useful experience. Viz http://hanselminutes.com/413/im-a-blind-software-technician-... from a sibling comment of yours.

Also, I'm surprised I got downvoted for saying that we should be considering the disabled when making decisions on how to structure a blog. I know accessibility isn't _cool_ but it's the right thing to do, especially for a text-based site, like a blog.

(PS: mendelk, I'm not accusing you of downvoting me)
> our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore

Wait, isn't the premise of your comment that healthcare is too scarce?
The range anxiety is based on not being able to fill up anywhere (electrically) even through there is plenty of alternative energy (gas) at every exit. There aren't any jet fuel stations in the sky, so planes already have this problem.

I don't think we'll see electric planes anytime soon since I see the future being a mix of all types of energy, but range anxiety isn't the problem.
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Sounds like a great way to scam the advertisers. I doubt this will fly if it catches on since advertisers will be coming back at Spotify citing a big decrease in ad interaction.
I definitely agree, an international task force fighting that kind of people would be a nice thing as well, if it doesn't exist yet.
Let me look into it :)
You also have to supply alternatives to && || and not; that still leaves functions (e.g. filter) and constructors with Boolean parameters. Whether you're fighting the language or the standard library is a moot point: you're fighting it instead of working with it.
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Thanks both for the suggestion and the best of luck. I'll do as you suggest at some point.
> I'll Twitter Bootstrap it sometime. :P

You don't have to go that far. Replace the water background and the top pattern with interesting solid colors, with a little white noise pattern if you're feeling froggy, change the menu bar color to fit, find a couple of nice-looking free fonts, and spend a little time on your table styling and your website would look plenty spiffy.
You missed on from the list: Always make sure a recent backup has been tested in a meaningful way.

At least have an automated restore scheduled, and have it report to you any error. Have that process run what-ever verification tools your DB supports to as this will catch some corruption that won't be seen in a simple restore.

Better still (though this is very app dependent so difficult to create general rules for) do some actual data verification. If you app keeps an audit trail, keep a copy of the last backup around and compare anything that should not have changed between them (as there are no relevant audit entries) still identical.

All this serves to increase the confidence that your backup will save you if/when disaster strikes.
In my honest opinion, my fist impression is - overpriced. Good luck with the project!
Hmm, I think you're underestimating legacy code. I can name two very large projects in my company that do use jQuery as the main client-side library, as well as numerous other smaller ones (granted, these projects are not SPAs).

Back to the point, jQuery and Mithril are more similar than your analogy tries to make it sound. jQuery does AJAX/CORS and Deferreds and .data() and a whole lot of non-DOM stuff that people use when building their apps. There's some stuff that doesn't map like jQuery animations not having a Mithril counterpart or Mithril routing not having a jQuery-core counterpart, but that's cherrypicking the stuff that is different and saying "look, they're different!", while ignoring the similar, comparable aspects.

Also, I'm not sure how familiar you are w/ underscore or Angular, but both have a templating system and utilities to work with lists of data, so there are definitely points that can be compared. These comparisons are really not at all like comparing something like restangular to hoverIntent, so implying that they're equally imcomparable seems like the dishonest and non-productive argument to me, imho.
At some point you will want to move provider

What's the reason for that? The price?
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That'd be a destructive attitude for universities to take.
Sococo is nice :)

People use Hangouts + Docs usually for this type of work. Hence, our interests in making this tool.
Building a social network takes time, yes, but it's not actually a lot of time. Parallelize your networking strategy. Yes, you're dealing with random scenarios, but each has a non-zero probability of turning into work. The faster you can get through scenarios, the faster the aggregate probability of 1 of them converting out of all of them converges to 1.

It is also helpfully self-limiting in regards to going overboard in one particular group. You just won't have time to overstay your welcome at any one place.

You also get to test the waters on many places at once and whittle down the candidate set for ones that don't strike your fancy very quickly.

Also, stretch outside of your comfort zone. If you strictly go to meetups that you think you will like, then you are likely to meet people who think like you. Finding work as a consultant takes putting yourself into environments where you are the odd duck, where everyone has the same problem and nobody within the group knows how to solve the problem.

This could mean something as simple as taking ballroom dancing classes, or attending film enthusiast discussion groups. These sorts of places tend to be populated by people who know each other from other places, such as work. Jobs at which they might have problems you can solve.
You have any browser extensions that might be misbehaving? (I work for Stack Exchange). Nothing on our side could be sending that to you.
At 6'3" the isle seat scares me to. when that cart comes rumbling down the isle, if I'm not on my game I'm looking at a very serious injury. I think the goal though is to make flying cheaper and more profitable and I can't really blame the airlines for that.
Pretty much. Once a bill has been approved by the House of Commons they can only reject a bill, but it can be reintroduced later once modified. In this case it serves as a measure for delaying quickly rushed through bills that weren't clearly understood, and bringing them into public light.

Although the Lords aren't elected, their power is more of an advisory role. They can't introduce or kill bills on their own. Also unlike politicians they don't have to worry about keeping their respective parties happy.
If you're passing over qualified candidates because you fail at sorting the wheat from the chaff, then the 'shortage' is not due to the market...
I once wrote a tetrahedron sierpinski gasket... Was very fun, but always made my then GeForce 3 graphics card overheat at about 10 or 11 sub divisions.
conspiracy theory

If you have something to actually point towards parallel construction rather than "it could be", please provide those. Otherwise, term wars define that conspiracy theory always beats parallel construction.
Have you used a smartwatch before?

I got a Pebble recently and although you bring up good points, real world usage isn't quite the same.

>Firstly: you can't fit all those notifications on a watch sized display. So you'd have to interact with the display.

Watch defaults to a "watchface". Usually is time and/or date with maybe weather info. If a notification hits my phone, my watch pops that open on the display automatically. I hit one button to dismiss it. Quite faster than first realizing I have a notification (felt the vibration? Saw the flashing LED?) and then turning on the screen, unlocking the phone, and then checking the notification.

For music, it's two button presses to get into the music app and and one more to change songs. Can be improved here (buttons should have shortcuts enabled), but still a bit faster than pulling phone out of pocket to change songs.

>To interact with your phone requires 1 hand.

True, but I only use my watch to do quick, simple tasks that would take longer to do if I had to get my phone from my pocket.

>There's also a mild security element - notifications and information are essentially constantly being displayed to anyone looking at you, projected outwards from the body.

No arguments here! I was also thinking the other day how bad it would be to for someone to see a text they weren't meant to, haha.

>Add in all the other unsolved issues - i.e. no improvement in battery energy density for a couple of years now, and the whole thing is a non-starter. It can only provide less information, less conveniently.

Can't speak for the Moto 360, but my Pebble lasts for about 3 days on average (I've had it for a week only).

If the price isn't too high (has to be < $200 IMO), the battery lasts at least a day on HEAVY usage, and the UI is designed well, smartwatches can have a place in the world. For me, it's a bit about freedom from my phone. I used to obsessively pull my phone out to check if the LED was flashing and even feel "phantom vibrations" while in my pocket. Now, I leave it on silent and pull my phone out much less.

It feels good, it really does. This is one of those cases where more technology actually liberates us from tech.
That's a relatively large jump to conclusion you made. I doubt there's anyone in the US government (where, exactly, in the hierarchy do you suppose) that would have the skill to get that past congress (congress sets the budget for all of DHS btw).

As for the missions, from both your links:

"The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. It performs these responsibilities in a way that is responsive to the needs of the public and faithful to the Constitution of the United States."

"HSI conducts criminal investigations against terrorist and other criminal organizations who threaten national security. HSI combats worldwide criminal enterprises who seek to exploit America's legitimate trade, travel and financial systems and enforces America's customs and immigration laws at and beyond our nation's borders."

Yes there's quite a bit of overlap there. Maybe the key difference is that ICE's mission talks about customs and immigration laws specifically.
Yeah plenty of room in the product space right now. Not sure which will win - purpose-built apps for situations, or general-purpose integrated apps.
The site _just_ came out of private beta, so tags are a bit of a mess. We're cleaning them up now, and working on conventions for location / country tags, which do make narrowing questions much simpler.
Yep. This won't last for long.
Well, I think things will get more focused. Like Google's watch UI announced the other day, it only does a few things. Also, as voice commands start really taking off, visual UIs will fade in importance. Sure, we'll always have visuals, but it won't be so abused as described. Lastly, good UX is happening now, you see really smart people like Alan Cooper who design for goals, not just a single task. This way of thinking about an interface even before its made will cut down on some of the UI foolishness.
That's premium economy, although actual value for extra money depends on an airline. In fact, the whole experience depends massively on the airline of your choice, with US airlines, in my opinion, being well towards the bottom of the pile.
I agree, also, as a programmer I don't usually like someone looking at my code over my shoulder.
And presumably they wouldn't need to charge anything like that to make it more comfortable, even taking out a few rows would make a big difference.

Having done a couple of 12 hour stretches while holding a small child in my lap, I'd definitely agree with you on making it more comfortable :)
What are some other similar lists to follow?
If I'm going to become a specialist, this is entirely correct. But is this the right path? Or is there a way to salvage a generalist career?
As someone with an R290 and 4670K that's hard to believe.

Plus I probably spent $2500 on this setup. Started out as a miner. Went through three cases (NZXT -> Corsair 300R -> Bitfenix Prodigy), three motherboards (Asus MA97-2 -> Asrock Fatal1ty Killer -> Asrock Z87E-ITX), three CPUs (Sempron 145 -> FX-4130 -> Intel 4670), replaced the 2x2GB of RAM with 2x4GB, added a 1TB SSHD, sold reference R290's, got an XFX R290-DD, several USB WiFi adapters (all junk, bought an Airport Express and extended the ethernet reach instead), Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad, Corsair fans (loud, low flow), NZXT fans (ok-ish, high flow), Phantek fans (high flow, really loud), Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO...

The list goes on. It's a hobby. And I like some things about it. But it's not a cheap one, and while you might have more sense than me in knowing what you ultimately want, more PC gamers than not have the upgrade bug IME. A valid Windows license alone is 25% of the price of a PS4. Just my current CPU is over half the price. All together I could've bought a PS4 for what I've spent on CPUs.
You don't go through customs at all for an outbound flight. If you're a non-citizen/permanent resident, you just get an immigration officer to stamp your passport.

If you're leaving the US, things probably aren't much more involved at the destination. It's when you come back that you have to deal with pissy immigration and customs officers.
Somewhat related: It's also probably why services like Netflix have the same thing built in ("I'm still watching" button after watching like 3 episodes of a show without clicking buttons), so some bot computer doesn't just stream and record everything.
looking forward to a demo. This could be a nice way of getting Unity3d games to platforms unity doesn't support yet (Firefox OS devices, Ubuntu Touch etc) if the performance will be good enough.