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Please, how much time have you spent working on cars? Most cars are quite straightforward to service. It takes a while to get to the timing belt, to be sure, but that's the nature of the timing belt.

Cars made in the last 5 years are getting nasty, but that's because of how damn complicated & compact they are anymore. Things get stuffed in funny corners because they are running out of space. (Trucks, which don't try to be "city-sized", still have room aplenty in the engine bay)

Cars made in the 70's had dumb design decisions sometimes because they were still learning how to design a car to be servicable. (Like some old domestic, I forget which, whose V-6 had to be removed to access three of the spark plugs. I'm pretty sure heads rolled when they put everything together and discovered that little oversight!)

I've worked on Hondas, Toyotas, Subarus, Volvos, Nissans, and Chevys, from the mid-70's to the late 90's, and I do not believe for a moment any of them were designed to be hard to service on purpose.

P.S. The main service I do on my cars these days is brakes, tires, light bulbs... There are other items for sure, but modern engines are very reliable. Tesla is not immune to any of these.
I've heard the car insurance analogies which don't work very well. Perhaps a life insurance analogy would work better... Now everyone can apply and get life insurance regardless of preexisting/current conditions. To make it affordable the young and healthy will pay more than the statistical probabilities that they will die tomorrow. The elder will pay less. How is this sustainable except through ever drastically increasing premiums?
Downvoted for asking a legitimate question. Who does that? I could care less about the karma but in light of the pending comments change this is very troublesome.
"Research shows our routes are up to 20% shorter" shorter than what? Which research?

You're lacking a lot of copy, but the idea is pretty good. Niche, but good. I'm interested to see if people will pay for it.
Startups are cash-poor, prone to bankruptcy, and full of insane deadlines requiring people to pull small miracles just to make payroll.

Would love to hear more about what makes them ideal freelance clients. As a former contractor/freelancer, I specifically made a point of staying far, far away from these kinds of clients.
Have you checked out the surface pro 2?

I'm a sucker for being able to write notes by hand, and when I tried out the surface pro 2 I was pretty blown away by how nice the handwriting felt. Also seems to be in the same price range, and you end up with a full blown PC (which may not be what you're shooting for). One more thing that I liked is how natural it was to use one note to make notes, cut a part out, and move it around. When I'm sketching ideas out, or learning math stuff, it's always nice to be able to move a snippet over really quickly.

I also used to review and edit a lot of training materials that were being designed, and I was using an ipad 2 with PDFExpert, which was pretty great for that, but I always hated how crap the ipad was for writing things with a stylus or a finger. If I could go back and do it again with a surface pro 2, I would in a heartbeat.

I tried other larger form factor e-ink devices like the Kindle DX and such, but if the screen wasn't big enough to fit the entire page on the screen at once, it didn't matter how big the screen was. The device just ended up being too slow. I liked the ipad because I could swipe around, highlight, circle things, make notes, etc.

Obviously the battery life on the surface pro 2 wouldn't be in the same universe as this thing, and it's bulkier, but just thought I'd throw it out there. Kind of rambly, heh, YMMV
Anyone have a summary of how this fork differs from upstream? Is it mostly performance improvements? Bug fixes?
That's certainly why they would dislike Tesla in particular, and perhaps why they might spitefully lobby against Tesla selling direct to the consumer, but otherwise I don't think that independent shops should really care about the dealership situation one way or the other.
One thing: Different countries view college degrees differently. In some, if you do not have a college degree, you will not even get considered for the job, no matter what you've done.

It might affect work visas as well (some countries give a lot of weight to a college degree when assigning a priority to your application).

Of course, to get stuff done you do not need a degree and examples abound about people who "made it" without a college degree. Granted, they learned everything on their own, so if you have a low motivation to learn stuff that's important in your field but boring to you (for example, algorithms and data structures), you might want to get through the degree just to force you to learn stuff.

For me, I'm in the US, where college degrees matter relatively little, specially in tech. Still, I can say without a doubt my CS degree has opened many doors for me, even a couple decades after having gotten it. Also I have had to fight far less to get good salary offers. Once people know I have a CS degree, we move onto the advanced stuff instead of them trying to see if I'm an idiot or not.

That's my $0.02, your mileage may vary.
I am amazed that you can get by on 10 hours of work per week.
Titanium has good anticorrosion properties. You see it often, for example, in stuff like heat exchangers that run in seawater for long duration. Considerably more stable than aluminum in most environments.
That sounds so odd. If franchisees were worried about that, then the manufacturer could sign a contract agreeing not to operate. Why does it need to be coded into law?
Really, it's actually quite simple, I clicked "Test Drive" button on their website, week later they called me, I showed up at show room and test-driven it for 30 min. Try it.
Doesn't just pressing Cmd+S / Ctrls+S in browser do the job? ;)
Here's my thesis paper for reference [1]

[1] http://thesis.eur.nl/pub/6427/6427-Kuo.pdf
I've never heard of Routific. Linking to your API, I was immediately intrigued and went to go visit the home page[1] of your product.

I have to say: well executed. This is a really good representation of how well Bootstrap can be implemented. From Retina display to mobile, the layout was clearly well thought-out and considered.

Interesting product and well-done design. Stuck this in the file for not only routing issues, but design and implementation inspiration.

[1] - https://www.routific.com
If you're in it for the money, early stage startups are not the way to go as far as clients go. As I mentioned in the post I do it because I love startups and working on MVPs specifically. It also lets me get my mind off my own startup and see how others do things differently.
There is a website where I can put a website and watch people's reactions?

....well, I have an idea what kind of websites I will try to submit...
Well, my own startup is also making a little money, and I resort to a couple of life hacks to get extra income and reduce costs. I'll write another post about that soon.
Tesla Motors isn't a person.
When people who claim to promote tolerance end up acting in an intolerant manner, it hurts their credibility. It really doesn't matter what their cause may be. Contradiction and hypocrisy generally don't make situations better.
It uses LevelDB as the storage engine and lets you configure the cache parameters from the configuration file.

leveldb:
# in MB
cache_size: 500
# in KB
block_size: 32
# in MB
write_buffer_size: 64
# in MB
compaction_speed: 1000
# yes|no
compression: no
Can you provide a cite for serifed letters being easier for children to learn or recognize?
This. The initial funding is by no means the reason to participate in YC - it should have zero impact on any company's decision making process. It is a bonus that takes some pressure off in the short term to allow you to focus on absolute execution.

Build something awesome and you'll have a good shot at getting funding with or without YC. There are many other benefits to the program beyond the up front money.
Nice to see them come back so quickly admit and correct. Microsoft is making some good moves these days.
For what it's worth, I watched every episode over the course of the last year, so I've got a real good perspective on this.

Here's proof that IMDb is bullshit: Simpson Tide is very highly rated. That episode is one of the absolute worst.

Here's a rough overview:

S1: terrible!

S2: promise!

S3: very good!

S3-S8: the absolute best!

S9-S10: still very good—but not as good

S11: definite decline

S12: yep.

S13-17: ok wow this is pretty bad.

S18-19: a little better

S20-21: definitely better

S22-25: actually pretty good!

The series has been extremely underrated since Season 20 or so when it came out of the slump that began with Season 11. It's not the
Maybe this appeals to the younger gamer community, but having been involved back in the 90s with Renderware (which got eaten up by EA), a competitor to Rendermorphics that became (sort of) DirectX I would expect graphics engines to be much further along. This still looks like things we were playing with in the 90s. I'm sure its not, and I'm sure these voxels are clever, but when will rendering engines stop looking like Sonic The Hedgehog. Having switched to other areas of software development I haven't paid any attention to these engines.
A giant basket that uses condensation to gather drinking wather
This is the worst thing about Go, in my opinion. I have one directory for my Go projects, and another for everything else. Go takes too much control away from the programmer.

"UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things." — Doug Gwyn
You want better programming? Get better requirements and less complexity. Programming languages and IDE's are part of the problem, but a lot of the problems come from the actual program requirements.

In many cases, it's the edge cases and feature creep that makes software genuinely terrible and by the time you layer in all that knowledge, it is a mess.

I don't care if you use VIM, EMACS, Visual Studio, or even some fancy graphical programming system. Complexity is complexity and managing and implementing that complexity is a complex thing.

Until we have tools to better manage complexity, we will have messes and the best tool to manage complexity are communication related, not software related.
nonsense, any software dev that can't follow a lambda that adds 1 should be taken outside and shot.

When Norvig says talks of regular folks, he means people with 1/10th his IQ, which is still the top 1%. Norvig is so far out there on the IQ scale that I find it funny when some noob says he's found a bug!
If people don't choose their sex partners, why is rape a crime?
I am in the exact same line of work as the author. I can't imagine working the way he describes.

It's great that he's made this lifestyle work for him, but I'm not convinced I'd like to be one of his clients. A technology company with a developer on staff one day per week? Coordinating a project is difficult enough when everybody is full-time. ("Sure thing, I'll tackle that bug in six days" is not a recipe for a functional sprint.)

My solution has been to charge hard at whatever milestone I've committed to, working as a de facto team member, and then taking the next month off. This works well with my lifestyle, since I try to take each project in a new city and I live cheaply.

What I would say to the author: you want fulfilling? Participate in the optimistic urgency of a new tech venture fully - then take your time off when you've finished. If you can't afford to spend that much time away from developing your startup, then how can you expect your clients to wait while you take time off from theirs?
Snappy 1.0 (open source media player + clutter ui) released
That's why joining an early-stage startup as an employee is often not attractive. But building MVPs for "startups" isn't necessarily unattractive. Obviously, you want to stay away from broke "seeking co-founder" types, but there are plenty of people out there capable and willing to invest $xx,xxx in their new businesses.

As an example, I believe Kevin Rose took his savings ($10,000 if I remember correctly) and paid a freelancer he found on Elance to build the first version of Digg.
s/LGBT-friendly/orthodox/
s/hateful/heretical/

And we thought we were over the sloppy thinking habits that lead to forceful suppression of unpopular viewpoints...
Also, shorter distance or shorter time?
Don't know about the screen or cover, but it does have a Micro USB port and transferring files is done through file explorer. Simple drag and drop stuff.
I think MS Paint was just the standard shitty software that everyone was comfortable and used when they were kids or whenever. Also the fact that it wasn't updated until Windows Vista says something.
I'm glad at the very least Valve is adopting not only Linux programming practices, but Linux culture practices as well. Why are they doing this? I haven't the foggiest, but I like this!
ok that makes more sense - I had better get back to my 10 hour a day job :)
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> The US is, to some degree, subsidizing medical research for the rest of the world.

First, that is true to only a small degree, second, it is irrelevant to the companies' revenue. Some may miss income in some countries due to generics and lower copyright protections but even solving this issue wouldn't decrease prices in the US.
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With a non-answer like that, he's going to make a great public company CEO :)
Ask HN: What kind of online jobs can my mom find online?
She's a housewife and looking to do some extra work online, what are some sites that she can visit and make some coins on the side? I suggested crowdflower or some type of data entry work but honestly, I don't even know if they do accept Canadians (as MTurk does not) so if you got anything, please share it!

Thank you.
Can you tell me some story about the "seeking co-founder" types?
I work with a non profit that would benefit from this so much.

They employ 600+ staff serving over a thousand persons with disabilities and are currently starting their own transit arm to support the agency. They operate something like 2 dozen buses and large vans across 50+ recurring destinations.
What is Mesa here? There's no readme on the github.
Yeah, no problem. If you guys are planning on targeting games feel free to ping me privately to bounce ideas off of. I'm also a 30 something founder with kids in Seattle :). Our company currently uses a variety of services related to what you are doing. My email is my username at gmail.
I picture 'self' as a surfer riding a wave. If you could suddenly and instantaneously replace every molecule in the wave without getting the velocity exactly right, the experience changes. History is altered, a fork of you.
You're making some big claims with no evidence. Citation needed.
I'm a third generation atheist, no religious upbringing or beliefs whatsoever and I found AA to be quite effective. YMMV, but if you want to quit drinking there's no harm in attending a few meetings and giving it a try.
I really only meant to refer to the -fsyntax-only portion which is all that matters when it comes to C preprocessor performance. I know GCCs codegen has steadily improved but I'm not aware of any work to speed up the parser.
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An implementation of OpenGL, very important for the open source graphics drivers. http://mesa3d.org/intro.html
I don't think the motive is "trying to make your profession as a developer obsolete" or that these actions are effective in doing so.
I don't know if there's a good answer for this. Or rather, there are many good answers, but they depend on your personality, field of interest, motivation, etc. Personally I'm not a big fan of school because I'm really motivated to learn on my own, and in school I have to redo a lot of stuff I've done several years ago. A lot of people I've met in school don't learn anything that isn't presented to them in class, so it's a valuable resource for them. Ideally, that divide would answer the question for you (shouldn't it be enough to just show you know what you need to know?), but the world isn't ideal.

I live in the US already, so this might not be as easy for you, but my impression is that as a programmer with good jobs and a portfolio (GitHub), I could probably get a job in silicon valley pretty easily. I might be able to get a higher paying job with a degree, but if I find something and work for a couple years, I'd probably be fine.

If you're looking to move here, my impression is you have to have a company sponsor you, and that is probably harder without a degree, but not impossible. Since you're in a college program, you might want to intern at a company here, and prove you're someone they want to bring back.

But finally, there's this: as a programmer, are you going to be homeless if you don't have a degree? I really doubt it. So I may have lied a little when I said I wasn't a big fan of school. I hate it. I wish I didn't, but I do. I thought I could go back to school for a year to finish up, and just deal with the unhappiness. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't. So maybe I'm making more obstacles for myself in the future, but the trade off is that I'm a lot happier right now.

So I guess I haven't really answered your question for you, but hopefully my thought process helps you come to a conclusion for yourself. Also, why not find out right now? Look up some bay area companies you'd like to work for, and apply. If you get in, then no, you don't need a degree. And if you don't, then maybe you do, but you can always keep trying.
I agree that the way I work is definitely not for everyone, and I only accept projects where I am confident that the client sees eye to eye with me. It wouldn't work if I was the only developer working on the project. There are several other, more junior developers on the team who work more hours than I do.

The client is very happy with the arrangement because it ends up costing much less than if I was on the team full-time and he is sure that every day I work is a day where things actually move forward significantly. He rather gets frustrated when freelancers charge several days of work and little progress seems to occur. There is at least a perception of lesser waste of time/money when work is concentrated over a small period of time, and I would argue that there is less actual waste.
Offhand, I would say maybe one difference is that your model is trying to predict where the belt will be in the future while the Mill is looking backwards to find where the belt was in the past.

Another issue is that you would have to process the entire instruction in order to know where each operation gets its input. (How many operations in the instruction are taking things off the belt before I get my data?) In the Mill the operations are parsed in parallel and they have all the information they need to start processing as soon as the the instruction (block) is loaded in the buffer.

The size of the belt is a very finely tuned constraint (using simulations) that basically depends on how many cycles you have to save a value to the scratchpad memory (if needed) before it "drops off" the belt. There is a lecture that describes why it takes the number of cycles it does and if you watch it you will probably understand better why the Mill is not about what is easy or hard for the compiler but all about getting the silicon to jump through hoops fast and efficiently.
What's stopping Elon Musk from becoming Tesla's largest franchisee?
I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but I haven't been able to find it. What's stopping Elon from opening up another company that happens to become Tesla's largest franchisee. Opening dealerships across the US and selling to consumers in states where laws forbid Tesla as a company from selling directly to the customer?
A Space Pen + Field Notes notebooks. Pen is great for all those times you need to write; Field Notes notebooks slip into any pocket and are good for any freehand note taking.
> if hardware vendors won't produce Linux drivers nobody can force them.

Not true. The market can vote with their wallets. If you're buying a computer, try to look for models that have good Linux support.
Sounds awesome! Would love to talk about doing this pro-bono -- shoot me an email marc@routific.com
It's in Valve's interest to see gaming on Linux succeed so more developers can support their Steambox platform. Nice move on their part to give back to the community.
I still can't believe that that's real-time from just a webcam.

This won't work as-is without cameras inside the VR goggles, of course, but details, details...
Do your research.

There is no such thing as a "transfer degree". You either transfer or you do not.

Get an associates, the paper looks good, it's an ego boost, and it will make your family proud of you. After you get your bachelor's, the associate's will not matter for anything.

A community college is a great way to get into a far better school than you could have anyway, I'm living proof. This is because your GPA resets when you start junior college, and a 3.0 GPA on a junior college will get you into a much better school than a 3.7 would have in high school.

Just get in there, and don't screw up your grades. If you are not going to get a high grade in the class, drop it and then re-take it. It's a weasel thing to do, but it's better than getting a shitty grade in your record.

It's no big deal the situation you are in. Just work at it intelligently. You will actually save a ton of money than if you had gone to a 4-year college for all 4 (or 5 or 6) years from the beginning.
I was like what's so special about another vocal engine. after watching the video I see now that if you can have a super super detailed voxel engine all other engines corps be rendered irrelevant.
I wasn't sure what it specifically did and this helped: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Linux_ker...
Ditto, was/is a beautifully designed application.
I worked at a Nissan dealership during college. We would occasionally sell a car at cost if a manager had been driving it around and had racked up too many miles on it. But we never lost money on a deal.
Japanese (and Chinese) features intricate ideograms with up to (I think) 22 strokes per character. It's not the language itself, so much as the fact that the display and touch-sensor resolution is good enough to be competitive with paper. Other handwriting platforms I've looked at in the past required writing on a larger-than-natural scale or comparatively slowly (often because of OCR requirements, which are not relevant here, but also because at the time display resolutions were comparatively low). What I saw in the video was natural handwriting speed and good registration with good resolution, which to me passes a threshold of usability that only paper has met up to now.
When More or Less is Not Good Enough
i'm in the states and have gotten pretty far pretty quickly without one but i think it really depends on the person. most/ all of the people i work with have one.
I gave you an extra upvote. I hate it when that happens and thought your question was entirely legitimate - my original comment was a bit vague.
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That would be an interesting sim game. Not to make light of a lot of peoples misfortune, but it would give some people the opportunity to walk in others shoes. To mimic wanting a child, in order to get a new life you need to have a baby.
Same with Eminem. He and Dre are obsessive in their work. "In 2006, Snoop Dogg told the website Dubcnn.com that Dr. Dre had made new artist Bishop Lamont re-record a single bar of vocals 107 times." [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Work_ethic
because Tesla is a battery company... which is far more lucrative than building an electric car only rich people can drive..