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I'd love to jump into this discussion. If you've got specific questions about what I stand for, fire away. Generally, though, my campaign focuses on the issues of job creation and education, because those are the most pressing issues I see here where I grew up in South Jersey. Every family has a story about someone who lost a job, spent too long unemployed, maybe lost healthcare in the process, and had to settle for a less stable job without benefits, less pay, or an hourly schedule. And everyone knows someone saddled with $30k in student loan debt settling for a minimum wage job after a degree, because the entry level jobs are gone or filled by those with more experience.

My district as a whole has not weathered the recession as well as many employed in our profession have. That's my top focus. I'm happy to engage a debate on how we do that or hear your thoughts.

I am not diminishing the work developers do in any way. I think the article's mention of "downplaying" just serves to put that in context of the issues I'm focusing on. Being a developer, having had the chance to work with an incredible team and contribute to growing a new company, give me important experience and a novel perspective compared to those who usually run for office at this level. I've tried to capture that here: https://medium.com/p/ce7c0dc63aaa

As for something unique, I have actually worked on government IT systems, as well as private sector ones. Go watch a Congressional hearing on a tech issue. Tell me you think more of us shouldn't be sitting in that room setting the record straight. Congress should represent all people, and include all professions like engineers and developers, not to mention people under 40.

Also, we're just a few weeks into the campaign, but next week I'll be posting a more detailed policy platform on http://coleforcongress.com, so I hope you'll sign up and stay engaged.

To the cynics, as I said in the comments of the article:

> Yes, the influence of money in elections is corrupting, but I refuse to give up on the idea of representative democracy. I'm willing to fight for it, even if the deck seems stacked. I see no shame in giving it my all.

> And it's a simple formula for how we win: less money from more people vs more money from less people. If people like you and me who recognize the system is broken put our necks on the line, work together, and contribute what we can, we will win. There are more of us who want to fix the system than those who benefit from it.

> So why not join me? http://coleforcongress.com
Although personally satisfying for the writer, that is a pretty good example of something never to write in a letter that you want to positively influence a situation. Referring to a scandal by a politician when lobbying isn't really going to work, and all letters addresses "to the people" are lobbying.
You have to dig deeper on the story than his post. They've been told for a long time that the license shouldn't have been issued and would be revoked and that a change in legislation was needed. Again, Musk knows all this. But it doesn't fit the dialogue.
Thanks, we'll try and integrate that into the website.
Indeed it takes a good sense to learn good things from imperfect teachers. One has to see the forest behind the trees and understand what good US can teach to Russia - even though US is quite susceptible to similar ills itself.
Except at a service center there's presumably the opportunity to replace the firmware chip or board if they brick it during the update whereas a bad OTA update leaves you little option.

OTOH I'd risk a bad OTA update 1% of the time if it meant avoiding the service center the other 99% of the time. And I'm sure a bad update is just a call and a tow away from a fix at a Tesla service center. Unless you're on a road-trip I guess.
Definitely a bug! We use cookies only for GA and for login sessions. It shouldn't affect a pageview that isn't logged in. We'll sort it out :)
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I'm not attacking you. I'm attacking your claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
The "Calculated Risk" blog reports on bank failure, and even in 2010 (11?) when literally hundreds of banks failed there were only a couple cases in which the FDIC had to pay anything out.
That would be fantastic. I'm sure there will be some pendulum swinging as you nail down the balance of enthusiastic solvers & the maximum capacity for cooks in any given kitchen, but I think its a great goal and I'll be following along enthusiastically.
> The law of the land in NJ is that you can't sell in NJ unless through a dealership. That's the current law.

Are you suggesting that Tesla is actively breaking the law in NJ right now? The rule change doesn't take place until April 1st, which is why they have to close their store by then. If they aren't operating illegally right now, then the commission has ended our ability to purchase these cars.

Secondly, if you can only sell through a dealership, why can't Tesla just own some dealerships?
Chris Christie wouldn't have made it through the primaries. His polling numbers among the people who vote in primaries were not that good.
I do not belittle it at all! In fact I think we should have programs in schools so more kids have the opportunity to get into the field. It's a wonderful profession that sadly too few people have access to. See the last Q here: http://www.itworld.com/networking/409027/meet-coder-whos-run...
> I don't exclude myself, we all use these web services that are highly concentrated in SV, what is going to happen to our local economies?

They adapt, as all economies must to the changing winds.
What? Why is this posted here? (maybe for people hoping to promote their business on tv news? As a former reporter, i'd advise anybody hoping to do so against hoping to do so. it's a real shot in the dark as to whether youd get tv -- or newsprint -- time for your business. some news outlets have business segments or sections, but they can be really hard to get into too, especially for technology companies)
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There was a lot less dithering over proper database design; I just created objects in code and stored them wholesale. Aside from some administrative details/learning (zero knowledge going in), I spent far less time worrying about Mongo and more about my code, none of which has to do any manipulation of the database.

On the code side, I already know JS pretty well, though mostly from a UI-manipulation side. It was more like extending knowledge I already had, than having to learn something completely new. The slowest part was trying to determine which modules met my needs, then sorting through the myriad of somewhat confusingly- (or just plain badly-) written documentation.

The best part was being able to use the same language end-to-end. When I deal with PHP, there is always some context-switching between it and the other parts. This project flowed much more naturally and left me quite enthusiastic about whatever the next one is (I get a lot of latitude in devising solutions).

Some of the code is probably badly-written and I'll spend some time cleaning that up (first project in Node) for an update and there are still a couple of parts to write (shell scripts, mainly). There's also one key part that no-one seems to be able to solve (MD5 in Mono won't match the MD5 from JS), but we'll figure that out as we can ignore it, for now.

Really, given all the interruptions I faced during the process, going from zero to finished in two weeks of eight-hour days (including having to learn some things) feels pretty good.

The same project in PHP would have taken about the same amount of time, without having to learn new things. Admittedly, I'm a slow coder because I want to make it right the first time so I don't have to f* with it later, not just have a running solution. I'm not as thrilled with PHP as I used to be and half the time, I feel like I should reinvent the wheel, rather than just using a lib.

That's my informal review of the experience. Take it for what it's worth.
Whoops, didn't realise the organisation room was private. Thanks for the heads up. The repo room is public: https://gitter.im/solvers/solvers, I'll update the original link.
I didn't really need to discuss it with the CxOs, because they'd insisted on a hierarchal company structure, while I wanted something more valve-like.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciated my time there and the people there are all really nice, in fact the company I founded recently is with two former FreshBookers, but I just want more freedom than people are usually willing to give me.
It seems it was the calling out that was bullshit. :)
So, I'm sure you're aware there's not a magic "jobs" lever when you get to Capitol Hill that's just set in the wrong position. What kinds of proposals do you support that you hope might help solve the problem (or lessen the pain of it)?
Well, this is disappointing. It seemed like a nicely designed application, with an enthusiastic development team behind it. And now, within days, it's gone.

If they wanted to avoid piracy, I think it might have had some potential going the legal route as well. It would be a nice interface to browse legal movies, documentaries, web series, etc.

Strange decision, I could see a company like Netflix buying them out for a rather large sum of money, within a short period of time.

As far as using it as a stepping stone to future jobs, why wouldn't they run the application longer? They pulled the plug before it became a widespread success. It they waited longer, the name Popcorn Time would actually be recognizable, which would be great for their résumé, kind of like saying you developed Napster. Now, they'll mention they worked on Popcorn Time, and have to explain to everyone it was an app to stream torrents, that had a brief shelf life.

They really should have road this out longer. Even the name was catchy. Someone else is going to fork the project and achieve the success they would have earned.
"An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service, but electric cars require much less service than gasoline cars. There are no oil, spark plug or fuel filter changes, no tune-ups and no smog checks needed for an electric car."

Well then what about BMW with bumper to bumper service as only one example. That's a high end car that you don't pay for service for (iirc) 3 years. They cover everything. Wiper blades you name it. I think last I checked the same was true for Subaru and I think even Jeep Chrysler is doing this (may be wrong about that one).

And that's not a conflict of interest but rather a business model. In the case of cars which do make money from service they therefore in theory have a lower price for the vehicle.

This argument is like saying that you are a better airline because you don't charge for luggage. Presumably that extra revenue allows you to offer lower ticket prices. And surprise that is what happens. Back when airlines were regulated (and had less competition) and they charged way higher prices they didn't have to nickle and dime you to make a profit.
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I simply mean that they aren't running and winning at the rate lawyers and those with long political careers are. I'd rather have them elected than only represented through lobbying groups!
I am amazed at a child painting 25,000 works.
I am angered at a rural child dying of fucking kidney failure
at seven.

He was younger than me, and damn it I am angry that we still have this shit going down.

Stuff it - lets do this (What can possibly go wrong)

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_metcalfe_we_need_money_for...
>"I have yet to see a resume with no degree cross my desk."
>"If only I could get back all the time I've wasted interviewing people who couldn't even write a for... loop properly I'd probably be adding years to my life!"

Putting these 2 together tells me that your company is hiring CS or Engineering grads who don't know the basic foundations of programming?

Something doesn't add up there.
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Yes, second that. It's still the best place to find contemporary classical music, for example.
Don't forget that Musk is completely biased here, and his representation of the history of those laws are likely to be tainted by that bias. I don't know the full history of why these laws were put into place, but I wouldn't trust Musk to tell me the full story when he's clearly trying to paint a very specific picture.
I did some Googling. "back pressure" in the Node context is basically what most people refer to as "flow control" or "overload behavior". Node programs work by enqueueing a bunch of work items for the event loop to handle, and then going on and doing a bunch more stuff until all the work items have been handled and their callbacks have been called. In the process, those callbacks may themselves enqueue further work items.

The problem is that all these callbacks themselves take up memory and hold onto references in the V8 heap. And so if callbacks are being enqueued faster than they can be processed, the heap will get more full. V8's GC takes time proportional to the amount of live data, and so GCs will become more frequent and take longer. This further reduces the amount of available CPU time to process callbacks, which increases the amount of live data, until the system thrashes to a halt.

Haskell programmers (who use a similar scheduling mechanism for lazy evaluation) call this a "space leak", and it's a big problem in Haskell as well. The solution is for the runtime to let the calling code know that it's overloaded, and then either temporarily block the calling code from creating more callbacks until existing ones have run, or let the calling code gracefully degrade and choose to handle things in a simpler fashion.
Could you not run an analysis of a user's password on account creation or password reset that determines if it is likely to be autogenerated and managed by a password manager. Then armed with this flag enable or disable autocomplete on a user by user basis with javascript?
That is an optimistic take, the evidence so far with the move of manufacturing to low-wage countries suggests otherwise.
Funny enough, quite a few programmers who have become burned out with the mainstream tech industry move into automotive related industries as cars are becoming more and more computer driven.
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The auto manufacturers can afford to eat into their normal profit margins and sell the cars at a much lower price (after deals) than the franchisees can, so it would be difficult to craft legislation that protects franchisees without allowing the manufacturers to massively undercut. The only real way to avoid abuse is to prevent auto manufacturers from selling in the first place
I hope that emerging manufacturing technologies will allow what has happened to software over the last 25 years to happen to hardware over the next 25 years.

It is possible to run a completely open software stack, and very easy to run an almost-completely open software stack.

My hope is that open-source hardware (both electronic and mechanical) will be abundant enough in the future that I could feasibly fabricate a new ECU from scratch, or 3D print a new evaporator for my AC.
I don't know, I've had my fair share of bosses that were smarter than me. If that's the case, being a good boss really comes down to triage and roadblock removal, along with a bit of back and forth communication.

The skillset required to be a good manager doesn't require exceptional intelligence, just basic common sense.
No, that's one of several features of git. It's not "the point"
Not yet, but the Clojure->Scheme and Clojure->native(LLVM) do look appealing.

However I tend not to like having layers between language and final execution target, as it increases debugging headaches.
I respect the balance of federal vs state policy and don't seek to tip it. As others have pointed out, these are issues that the federal government regulates. I'd be happy to see states take on more of the burden on job creation, but national infrastructure projects are often some of the most cost-effective ways to create jobs and open up new economic opportunities. These are public goods that are not able to be privatized. Would love to hear your specific suggestions on ways this can be more balanced.
Certain Magic SysRq sequences are now disabled by default in Ubuntu. You can re-enable them by editing /etc/sysctl.d/10-magic-sysrq.conf. Alternately, you can enable them temporarily by
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
(Or substitute "1" by the number described in magic-sysrq.conf, above)
Well, most dealerships are probably used car dealerships that almost certainly qualify as small businesses. Of course, that has little to do with our current conversation. I'm just feeling extra pedantic today.
Here's another view worth reading: http://mashable.com/2014/03/12/new-jersey-tesla-dealers/
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I haven't encountered this issue in Windows with a 3rd party password manager, but I copypasta anyway because I don't like auto-entry.
If a dealership middle man is providing so much value to the customer, why then does it need any legislative protection? Real estate agents are a bad example, as that industry is also dug in with legislative protections against more competitive business models.
I wonder when FaceBook will be doing this?
That's a really neat idea - match up new projects with older projects to learn from their experience. Thanks :)
Anyone interested in the app can still build it from their repo.

https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app
To resolve different opinions, we have to agree on some basic relevant facts and some criteria to judge. Apparently it's tough for subjects like this.

Even common sense becomes not so common for people with different views. Then there is the question of facts - which sources would you trust? Factual bias can effectively shape opinions.
Given that everyone in the US, starting at least a level below State Governor, is basically required to play political hardball just to survive, why does anyone in the US believe anyone's "non-politician" or "non-insider" political marketing?

Even Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi knew how these things worked.

The best one can hope for are high functioning sociopaths who are somehow invested in the betterment of society -- basically Sherlock with better packaging. That's not to say there aren't real heroes and statesmen out there. Just good luck with distinguishing them from the hordes of sociopaths.
I think Facebook is already out of the 'cool' factor and has been for a long-time. It has become, as Zuckerberg also likes to point out, a utility. Cool things and fads die out (a la MySpace).
Hype = Money seems to be the take-away lesson to be learned.
Nobody has a god damn spine in the tech world. These guys could've stood up & been different - the fact they shut down shortly after being featured on here, Reddit & other large websites shows that they weren't passionate at all & weren't willing to standup for their users at all. Ridiculous.
It's a beautifully designed app with tons of attention of detail to tiny little things.

How the hell you monetize it to turn $8.6m in to an even bigger pile of cash is beyond me though.

I guess that's why i'm not an entrepreneur.
I literally gasped when I read that line. I can't speak to it's political effectiveness, but it's good writing.
Thus the 's' in reisub?
> It appears that most of these attacks relied on exploiting the unfortunate design of C, which makes manual memory management the default and safe, managed memory the special case. It should be the reverse. Speed will always matter, but you don't have to use risky, manual memory mgt everywhere to get speed; you just need it in the few spots where it makes a difference.

That's true, but I would claim something even stronger. Getting safety doesn't mean giving up manual memory management, as Rust shows (disclaimer: I work on Rust). You just have to need to have a language or system that enforces that you use safe manually-managed idioms. The idea that safety requires giving up performance (e.g. opting into a garbage collector, or even a runtime) is not true in most cases. In a properly designed system, safety doesn't even require opting into a runtime.
Musk's sales around the country are probably going up thanks to this event, and his taking the opportunity to tout Teslas using facts :)
Ok that distinction makes sense.
You need cops: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/gervais-macle...
First of all thx for your reply! You got a point. I think in the next version I won't force players to start from the beginning when they failed. But also I like your description of the overhang riddle - it's intended that a player is a little bit puzzled and has to try a few times.
Look beyond this local issue, and you'll see how we're in the middle of a huge power shift. It used to be that businessmen like Musk had to lobby, pressure and bribe, now they just need to appeal directly to the public, completely bypassing the political system in the process.

It hasn't started with Musk, of course. The most obvious display of such power was the website blackout that led to the SOPA repeal. That showed politicians who really holds the power. These companies barely flex their muscles either; just imagine what would happen if Google decided to get into public shaming in its homepage for entities trying to block its Fiber initiative.

The public no longer believes politicians, but they all believe Zuckerberg, Page and Musk. That makes for an interesting future.
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Oh no! I might take a slight hit to my standard of living while the developing world massively increases theirs!
Got anything for PHP?
Chat is definitely a great way to reduce meetings.

It's also good at backgrounding JIT conversations. If my mind is on something I can not have to think of an answer immediately. If the question is simple, it may not take much thought or distraction.
> This strategy won't work if the questioner is persistent, but usually they aren't.

I think it may only seem to work to the person answering the question. Having sat in on many talks, it's often noticeable when a person answers a different question vs genuinely misunderstanding.

In astronomy, at least, I'd rather admit I didn't know the answer than try to fake it by answering a different question.
You make a valid point. In Musk's defense, I can't think of any car manufacturers that have used direct sales on this scale, so while the correlation does not prove causation here, it doesn't disprove it either. He seems to simply be stating that this aspect of their business model (direct sales) is a key part of Tesla's business and one that he believes is essential to its survival.
Did anyone believe that Popcorn Time was going to end any other way than this?

Either they were going to be shut down by their own choice, or their hand would be forced by outside litigation. Just because something is legal doesn't mean companies won't spend millions of dollars to make your life miserable because of what you built.
I would say that the easier it is to update software, the more likely it is to be bug free.

It's easier to test one change in isolation than to try to figure out which of these 20/200/2000 commits broke things.
I think it does a good job of reminding everyone that there's a trend of corruption in his opponent's administration, which is a pretty useful political trick.