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If you spent two years hyping vaporware and then do a major Apple-esque launch with all the fanfair while claiming to the next evolution of technology...

... you should at least attempt to make the scrollbar on your own website work correctly.

Seriously. You don't have to be Steve Jobs to realize that your scrollbar needs fixing. It's not just unpolished, it fundamentally doesn't work.
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You said:

* No carry-on suit cases

And then you said:

* Trying to smash your carry on into an already full overhead bin

Are you sure this isn't just a list of your air travel pet peeves? :)
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This is a great idea that might be useful on free hosts that only allow static pages but I don't think that I would use it otherwise.
I use FreeBSD. Runs on my desktop and my Macbook Air. I still have Windows on my desktop for video games, but it doesn't get used much.
>>Govt does not need taxes to pay for the aforementioned things you mentioned, it can simply generate the required money.

I'm going to need some kind of 1st-world example society, or even a hypothetical construct, where all the things mentioned in the comment you replied to is somehow taken care of without taxes. If Obama decided to pass a law that nobody needs to do taxes anymore... what would he need to do to keep things running?
Something like: http://www.surfair.com/
They are not new. but they have been growing over the last 10 years, in part because of the X Games.
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Eos tried business class only from JFK to London. It didn't work.
Hey, where is the Facebook Paper demo? These news demos pale (to say the least) when comparing to the ones that made us interested on your company in the first place!
What's going on here?
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_Airlines
Brand spanking new MotoX with Android 4.4 and Chrome. Homepage runs like a dog and scrolling is so erratic it's unusable.
Engineers often fail to understand that sometimes the cheapest solution is to throw minimum wage workers at the problem.
I think more common than you can believe. low/mid level management is incredibly stressful and hard to build a proper support framework around and hard to do if that framework isn't there.

After you asked, I spent a bit of time thinking of similar situations (high low/mid turnover) and I can think of 2 or 3 other instances I know of personally. Anecdotal I know, but there it is.
After a heartfelt letter to the public, and layoff decisions final, you are willing to pitch in some donation? How nice.

But would have even clicked the donation link prior, even if it were a prominent "Please donate. We need it!" button?

That's the real question folks.
With the exorbitant costs of maintenance and fuel, plus the prorated cost of the plane itself, I'm wondering how much impact those small-ish changes could have.
Came here to post this. I think this is the key bit:

It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.

There was another article (which I can't find now) that summarized this even further to state that "I'm so busy" is actually code for "I'm a self-important asshole"... and there's a grain of truth to do this. "Can you help me with X? Can you do Y?" "Oh, I'd love to help, but I'm sooo busy doing other stuff that's more important than you!"
There's a healthy market for used planes.

Allegiant is a great example. They fly slightly less fuel efficient MD-80s which can be bought at bargain prices from the legacy carriers (MD-80's are those narrow body jets with the engines in the back and the 3-2 seating arrangement). They make it work by flying nonstop flights from smaller airports (without competing carriers on those routes), with low frequency. The low frequency also gives them longer until they have to do a heavy maintenance check -- which, for an older MD-80, usually costs more than the plane is worth. http://www.fastcompany.com/1325762/heard-allegiant-air-why-i... .
Budget airlines like Allegiant [1] streamline thing to save money.

* Very few ground staff - say 4 at a small-to-mid-sized destination. They do all tasks: Ticket agent, baggage handler, gate agent.

* No connecting flights - direct only.

* All the same type of equipment (MD-80s) to streamline maintenance.

etc.

[1]
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Thing is, the parents comment makes no sense because it's implying that your wifi drivers would stop working if you connected to different wifi.

OS X has plenty of problems, see: http://www.imore.com/os-x-mavericks-problems-drive-me-nuts-h...

I've personally experienced many of these my self. OS X is cool, but I wish the fan base would stop acting like it never has any bugs or issues. OS X does get bugs, OS X does crash, OS X can break, OS X does not always 'just work'. Just go to discussion.apple.com and look at all the issues everyone is having. OS X is a great OS though, but it's not infallible.
Outside business travel? Bahahhahaa. Airlines make most of their money on business travel.
It's called Ryan Air[1]

[1] http://www.ryanair.com/
> The low frequency also gives them longer until they have to do a heavy maintenance check -- which, for an older MD-80, usually costs more than the plane is worth.

By the way, that's why we have this phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_boneyard
Scroll doesn't work (can't even hit spacebar or use the arrow keys), demos don't seem to work (I can't scroll to get to more than the first 2 anyway), and there is an unclickable scroll bar just taunting me. Maybe it is just linux+chrome that doesn't work well? Any one else get the same issues?

Also I like how they eliminated the scrollbar everywhere (for aesthetic purposes?) and yet there is a big greyed out scroll bar in the university page (in the area where you type your code).
FOUC is easily enough fixed with some css rules. Can even give it a snazzy transition effect after it's rendered.
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Anybody believe it? Too good to be true?
One thing I realized later that I did wrong was pushing back on the upper management too much. For example I said I did not want my team working weekends on regular basis as had been the practice up to that point. We ended up not having to anyways but it painted the team in a bad light.

Really this translated into me taking a long time to understand what the priorities of the business were vs the development priorities. Definitely let's of stuff I would consider typical first time manager mistakes.
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This worked nicely for me when I switched a while back:
RewriteRule ^blog/\d/\d/(.+) http\:\/\/www\.example\.com\/blog\/$1 [R=301,L]

Also if you pull the authorship code from the template, make sure you don't leave any class="hentry" unless you like seeing a crap load of structured data error messages in WMT about missing author details. I don't remember seeing any mention of reserved class names in the HTML spec so it would be nice if the Googlebot was a little smarter about that.
Many ports, particularly higher volume ones, have dedicated pilots that will board a ship shortly before it enters the port and navigate it in. This seems viable with a drone ship.
Not directly related to the piece (from 2010, although still interesting), but the first comment has a link to Brad Templeton's website, which was nice to discover!
it was considered a major innovation in the 1500s when they invented it. you ever hear the phrase "it's done with mirrors" when someone is pretending to understand how a magic trick is accomplished? Well, this is what they are talking about. It's done with mirrors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper's_ghost

That said it is sick as hell. I am always impressed by the things the that people could do centuries ago that we assume have to be some futuristic tech thing.

Oh, and not to be a jerk but you could have googled this for yourself very easily.
>It doesn't require as much maintenance as Linux.

What maintenance does Linux require? The only thing I can think you might be implying is that there are bugs caused by updating that cause system issues frequently and this is simply untrue. Software updates have been known to cause issues on all systems, and I can find plenty of results on google showing OS X having issues after updates. Linux, in my experience, is the "set it and forget it" operating system. OS X is great though, just not for everyone (personally the environment doesn't have the capabilities I look for in an OS).
Hardware design is a pretty broad term. As well costs and length of time are variables depending on project complexity. Feel free to contact me - email is in my profile.
Lack of leadership two levels above had a huge impact on bit strategy and morale. When you know the CEO is taking it easy while you work 60 hour weeks, it is very demoralizing.
Thank you!

I also refuse to hobble myself with custom desktop toys. If my machine fails I want to be productive again as soon as I get another machine on my desktop. Forget all the imaginary gains of diddling with exotic editors etc. Truth is, you can get used to anything. So get used to the defaults, and leave the whole discussion behind.
It's unlikely ever to happen, but I wish someone would start an airline that only requires pre-2001 levels of security screening[0]. I'd be interested in seeing how having some competition on security policies would affect the larger market. Would people value the sense of security that the theatre gives them, or would they prefer the less invasive measures?

Unfortunately, AFAIK, every airport in the country is required either to use TSA screening or to use private security companies whose policies are set by the TSA[1], so this is unlikely ever to happen.

[0] With the exception of ensuring that cockpit doors are always closed and locked during flight - this was the one absolutely critical security improvement that came out of 9/11.

[1] I believe SFO is one airport that uses a private company.
Easy...

OSX comes with the best hardware and you can develop in any programing language... not the same for Windows
Thanks for sharing as well.
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... and this is why entrepreneurship in airlines has not hit it's peak - yet.
What do you mean? The only way to not have a boneyard is:

a) Never take any planes out of service

b) fly every plane until it crashes

No manmade machines have infinite service life, so a is out. No airline passengers will accept b.
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Actually I reload, from brass I scavenge at a shooting range. Haven't bought ammunition in ages.
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Wow, thank you so much for mentioning this project (never heard of it before). I absolutely loved RC2 when I was younger and if I can get this to run with the GOG version I will be certainly do my share to bring it back as open source.
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Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis" makes the point that very few things actually long-term moves the needle when it comes to happiness:

Meditation does. As does therapy. And drugs.

These can move our "normal range" of happiness. Most other things, Haidt argues, will temporarily bump our happiness up or down, but we quickly revert to our normal range.

Some things that generally don't affect our happiness in the long term according to Haidt: The amount of time we work or spend on leisure activities. Major health problems that are not degenerative (heart attack, losing your legs). Winning the lottery. Getting that big raise at work.

The reason, it seems, is that we adapt very quickly. Winning the lottery will make us very happy for a short while, but without a lot of discipline we've shortly adapted to our new-found wealth and the needle goes back down to our "normal range". Losing your legs will make you depressed for a while, but soon we adapt and the needle springs back up. Getting a raise is great for a month or three, but then we're used to it and looking forward to the next one.

As long as things are steadily getting better, we are mostly happy. If they are steadily getting worse, we are mostly unhappy. Even seemingly earth-shattering events that totally changes our lives only tends to affect most people for a while.

This does explain some of the obsession with GDP: It is a proxy for growth, and ongoing growth is associated with happiness. But as point out, optimizing for GDP can happen at the cost of negatively affecting other things that are also associated with happiness, and the net result is not necessarily all that great.

An interesting aspect of Haidt's claims is that we should not aim for a too rapid improvement if they make further improvements harder. That is, it's better to get a steady 3% increase in salary, than 50% now, and then nothing for many years. If you do get that 50% raise (or a huge exit), it is better not just for your finances but for your happiness to invest most of it, and slowly increase your spending over time.
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ok, anyone know what's up with all the pings to Churchill, manitoba, and to multiple different cities?
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(I'm a 3rd Asst Engr. I just upgraded my license to 2nd, but I'm still sailing as a 3rd.)

Maintenance is staggered because there is only so much room for people to work in inside the engine room.

For most ships, it would be cheaper for the company to pay for the crew than lose out on shipping contracts due to being in port for maintenance.

Engineers can detect a lot of problems that machines can't, be it unusual smells, sounds, vibrations, temperatures, etc. Sure there are probes that can detect vibrations and temperatures, but they would have to be placed everywhere (not just the hundred or so usual spots), and then they have to be programmed. I use a handheld device to measure vibrations on running machinery. It's only as good as it's programming, and it's not that good.

Additionally, hoses burst, o-rings leak, filters need changing, etc. We don't have machines today that can fix those problems on the fly.

My last ship I was on was Diesel Electric. It was incredibly automated, yet still we had MAJOR problems because some circuit boards died.
For such an ambitious project, bugs at this stage are totally reasonable. The problem is that they're front and center following months of hype and promotion.

And there's nothing wrong with building momentum either, Famo.us has really done a solid job generating the buzz. But if you are going to take that route, then yes, the details at launch-time are dang important.

I'm very intrigued by the premise and think the progress is tremendous. But I can't really blame folks for their initial reactions and that's kind of a shame.
Seriously. I just spent a good deal of time roaming around Churchill on Google Street View and it seems utterly desolate. Wikipedia says there are 813 people. One of them's blowing this app up. Probably not so private for that person.
I like the winner-take-all hypotheses best. A lot of people are employed in advertising, marketing, PR, sales, lobbying, law, etc. and even those who are not might be required as part of their job to do some of those things from time to time.

The problem is that it's more lucrative to manipulate people to buy things they don't need or to trick them to pay more. Note that there are industries where marketing costs are outrageously high, sometimes higher than production and/or R&D. A company that doesn't spend the same amount on marketing or lobbying might make less profit (e.g. due to network effects, other scaling effects, special protections or subsidies) and thus seem like a bad investment.

This leads to a sort of arms race: everybody needs to hire more and more marketers, patent lawyers, etc. and donate more to political campaigns.

Solution: Heavily regulate advertising and lobbying. Some kinds of advertising could just be outlawed, and the rest could get (time or space) limits. Anonymous electronic cash would also help to make internet publications independent from corporate advertising money. Tax money could be used to support independent institutes or publications that try to spread actually helpful consumer advise.

I think some winner-take-all mechanics might also be at play on a personal career level. Note that there are actually lots of people with nothing but free time, though usually not by choice. Many governments deny those people a decent standard of living (some even a home, food or medical care), forcing them take shitty, low-paying, insecure jobs. The constant threat of losing your income to someone else who will work harder or for less money kind of naturally creates a situation where you either work long hours or not at all.
Also the Glass is 4x the cost of the most expensive thing GoPro sells.

It doesn't mean a future version couldn't be competitive though, and Google has certainly thought about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7TB8b2t3QE#t=232
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What's always amazed me about the 8-bit and 16-bit console days is the relatively high quality of the code. It might be ugly, but it's relatively defect free for the most part. My understanding is that Nintendo did significant QA testing before providing their "Seal of Approval" and allowing the game to be shipped.

I know there are a few glitches and bugs, but it's still amazing to me that I can't think of a single 8 or 16 bit game published on Nintendo or Sega's consoles that had game killing bugs during normal gameplay. They didn't lock-up, reboot the system, glitch out, etc. Even when monkeying around with the weird glitches, the games stayed pretty rock solid.

I know today's games are incredibly more complex, but I don't think they go through the rather rigorous gameplay testing of those old days.

(then again, it was every kid's dream to be a gameplay tester, until they found out it was a minimum wage job that involved following a specific script to test a sprite collision bug on level 5 of Yo! Noid for 8 hours straight)
Air travel is a commodity which means razer thin margins and fight for shaving off every last cent. In this type of markets, usually way to succeed is provide upscale product but with only slightly higher margins. In other words, instead of fighting for margins at the bottom, you fight bit above. In airlines case this strategy would translate in to providing all business class plane but with only 15% extra prices, for example. Lot of customers who are extremely unhappy about nickling and diming would flock to this model.
Unless its not the cheapest solution on a different time horizon.
This is basically International airlines:

* Free alcohol
* Free meals on all flights

plus some.
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The point I was making is that many of the planes in the boneyards are in working condition (assuming you gas them up and do some other trivial un-mothballing work).

It's not like a car, where it can be driven until the wheels fall off. Planes are flown until they need an expensive scheduled maintenance check, even if they seem to work just fine.

(To be absolutely clear: I don't think this is a bad thing. Maintenance checks are good. Falling out of the sky is bad.)
One thing I didn't see on any of the lists is ethics. Truly world class managers and team builders are also very careful about ethics, and see it as more important than their project, job and career.
>The most irritating thing was the keyboard which could not be mapped in the "standard" PC way (i.e. Ctrl Super Alt in the bottom left).

That's funny. After using a mac for several years, that's my biggest gripe about working on most linux boxes. OS X separates text viewing and editing functions (C-f, C-k, C-a, etc in eamcs parlance) from system functions (S-c :: copy, S-v :: paste, S-w :: close window). In Linux, ctrl-A will either get you a cursor at column one, or select everything. I wish it were easier to define these actions system-wide the way OS X does.
Boeing should know: not only do they sell to a lot of airlines, they founded United Airlines [0] until they were forced to divest.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_Airlines#Begi...
Without having looked at the data I would speculate that competition. When competition comes into play you are usually forced to lower your margins. When the Go PRO first came out, AFAIK, there was no good alternative, and thus they could get away with charging a higher price. Now, that there is more competition they have to either lower their prices or raise the specs of the product they offer.

Then again, this is pure speculation and the reason may have nothing to do with competition.
$3,299 is EXTREMELY cheap. I don't think that is right. A captain alone can cost anywhere from $600 to $1000 a day. Then you have a Chief Engineer that might just be $100 less a day, other officers, then unlicensed crew. Salary-wise, that number is less than half.

Also, unless they are getting their fuel for about 30 cents a gallon, fuel costs a lot more than $8247.50 (the other 56%) a day.
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Why is there no consideration of unemployment in this exploration? In order for leisure time to be evenly-distributed, in an anti-freeloader society, work would have to be evenly-distributed as well. That means having two employees working 20 hours, instead of one working 40. However, employers would need to be able to supply the workers the same salary they now pay the 40-hour worker, or else the workers would have to be willing to consume less.
I totally understand! We're working on getting it right, but it will be coming soon. There are too many terrible billing services out there for websites.

Here's some basic info on pricing, but we haven't put it up too publicly yet as we're trying to get it right: http://hoistapps.com/terms/pricing
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Seems to work for BA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

My hunch is that we're so busy because capitalism seeks to find local maxima in the possible space of all profits, and because so many people are involved in it, it works pretty well (as far as hill climbing algorithms go).

What keeps me up at night is knowing that there is a higher point that can only be found by going down the descending side of the hill, potentially for an extended period of time.

So here I am at the bottom, wondering if I should turn back or try another hill. It was a lot more work walking downhill than I thought it would be. I keep wondering if there’s some other search function I could employ that would reveal where the peaks are or even transport me to them. Sometimes I picture where a hill would be but nobody listens. They are too busy climbing their own hills. Then it vanishes and reappears under someone else, and people admire how hard that person climbed. Lately the best strategy seems to be doing as little as possible and riding the hills as they grow around me. As someone born and raised to climb, I don’t know what to make of this.
It's the geographic center of Canada, that's the coordinate that the geo-ip database gives us back when no specific city is available. Works well for smaller countries, but in Canada it's quite visibly "off" :)
I believe they just make engines and other machinery. There's a difference between a company that makes a steering wheel and a company that employes a fleet of drivers to drive it's fleet of trucks.