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That's an interesting idea, but it could be a bit of a stretch. Dutch Boers, later called Afrikaners tended to aspire to be farmers, rather than merchants. In the last 65 years or so, Afrikaners did move into the big business world, but that was a nationalistic reaction to the economic dominance of English-speaking whites.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the rise of the CA as CEO has to do with the complex conglomerates that were created during the apartheid era. Companies had limited expansion opportunities, so they'd use their capital in unrelated businesses. South African Breweries, for example owned a large supermarket chain. The focus on the bottom line in these complex conglomerates rather than a specific business was presumably a great fit for bean counters. And even though the era of great unfocused conglomerates has ended as expansion opportunities opened up when apartheid ended, CAs were deeply entrenched in the corporate world, and the phenomenon of CAs on top has continued.
Great to know you're working on such things - if I didn't have a deep-seated mistrust of MS in general, I'd probably be a bit more willing to deal with some of these issues myself, but I'm also willing to admit that my prejudice is preventing me from checking out what looks to be some sweet, sweet hardware.
I can see the benefit if everything was connected and it was thoughtless integration the whole way through. I can't help but think about what it will take to get your own personal Internet of Things hooked up. Interoperability and a set of standards is pretty much the only way this vision will meet mass consumer adoption. If that is the case its too early to tell if Nest will be the winner, but it is clear they have a head start.
Or as Lefty Gomez artfully pointed out, "I'd rather be lucky than good." The more time I spend working on my startup, the more I appreciate the wisdom of this quote.
We're looking at the first top-tier market adoption of a home automation system, albeit it amongst two, soon to be three, products and the opening salvo that'll really stir the pot with other players (Honeywell, Apple, et al.) and open wide the automation market for maturation.

I worked developing interfaces for bespoke home automation systems with a small company out of Georgia in the early 2000s (Listman, if anyone's even familiar with them; they were a blip on the radar later bought by Leviton but quite advanced for their day) but all of these were closed-circuit systems with a then-innovative iPaq to control their environment from afar.

How far the industry's finally become since those days with this announcement; actual platforms are finally here.
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But they did so when he least expected it!
Ha, mind me copying and pasting this until we have time to make a real diagram?

It's funny how much better other people can be at explaining your own product.

And thanks for your feedback. If you have any advice on the API itself or any other ideas, definitely let us know!
This looks very, very cool. It's basically exactly what I've been looking for to make data journalism easier.

Do you offer some sort of API for using the web interface? I'd love to bake BlockSpring right into our CMS. Feel free to contact me@morgante.net if you'd be interested in discussing.
Every C99.php shell is backdoored
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A grid of sats designing for blanketing the earth in comms is going to be at most 400 miles up, most of my packets go way further than 800 miles, so no, latency won't be an issue.
> I'l grant that this may not be very solid scientific citation and reasoning here, but it seems like nearly common sense, that a driver can't remain alert for hours on end with a computer doing all his work.

There may be lessons to learn from pilots here. There are countless reports of pilots falling asleep in the cockpit while the autopilot is in control of the plane.
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Lol I was engineer number 6 there. Matt Campbell
Solar powered boosters and spaceodynamic lifting bodies.
stock, at least for me; applications can integrate with the contact list and the icon / link shows up in my list.
I've had the opposite experience.

Dreadful support for paid Google Apps although we were a small startup.
Is it really that recruiting is a form of sale, I was truly unaware about it. You can have a look at http://camilla.com.au/shop/tops-1.html.
I don't think with the way technology is now, even without utilizing all the advanced services that AWS offers (so simply using the basics like ec2 / s3 / ebs / etc) you need a full full time ops person until you're paying 50k/month + in server hosting, on AWS reserved instances.
"Tech" means technician. Generally they do the things that need some understanding of electronics, but not full-on "Engineer" knowledge/skillset. It might be anything from assembly, test, troubleshoot, characterize, document... but not likely design, research, develop.
"Interesting" that they're avoiding supporting HomeKit. But given that the majority of Nest owners own iOS devices, it sure feels like a slap in the face.

Supporting HomeKit would allow Siri integration, but I suppose Google probably wants voice control to themselves.
I am a little bit unenthusiastic about Nest integration into the Mercedes Benz where it tells Nest to warm up the house prior to arrival. What a waste of energy! Is it so difficult for physical human body to endure some discomfort while the house warms up? Imagine thousands of household doing something similar.

OK, there could be a use-case where the elderly is due to arrive home and needs the house to be at the right temperature for health reasons. But this is clearly not the use case being put forward by Nest. It uses s luxury Mercedes Benz and is spinning it for luxury market.
> and rear-ends you later when you end up in front of him and have to brake suddenly?

All major car brands have their version of automatic braking already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
Same as a sports photographer tracking a race car.
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Our spending is peanuts compared to what others spend on AWS. A few hundred thousand dollars a year is pittance -- there is actual pain from purchasing bare metal, maintaining / colocating, etc. AWS offers just the right amount of flexibility and pricing with reserved instances, and they keep driving prices down. The only unfortunate thing is their largest instances aren't beefy enough for some use cases.
Agreed. Watching a video of someone who had the lights turned on and of by a Kinect connected to a Pi a while ago I pondered what I would like to have automated in my home. I came up with... nothing. Most of the basic household chores are about actually doing stuff. Groceries, fixing food, washing dishes and clothes etc. Automation boils down to switching on and off electrical devices and maybe some video or information display. Not enough optimization potential for me. Even my roomba (clone) sits idle, because it is tangling up in the stuff the cats play with.
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I'd love to tinker and play with it, but I don't have the time. Have to get my I2C sensors done with the Pi before that.
I think its totally cool, and I've been trying to work out how to do it myself for the last 10 minutes .. if anyone has any tips about this, I'd love to know. There's a few lung xray's waiting for my industrial tracks in the drawer .. ;)
I can attest to the lower than usual salary and high cost of living in LDN
throw in first-order functions and lambdas as well, replace generics with templates the way they are now, and I'm all for that!
Man, glad to reconnect; I remember you. Was there Mid-Late 2001 on the portal and handheld redesign/dev projects.
> Is it so difficult for physical human body to endure some discomfort while the house warms up?

A person driving a Mercedes-Benz is probably not one to care about saving the half a dollar in energy consumption to pre-heat the living space. So, it's not difficult, but not not-difficult, either.
Firstly, the premise of that scenario, is the house is cold while the person is gone. That means SAVING on energy costs by not heating the house unnecessarily while no one is inside, which is the current de facto standard. (Do you turn off the heat when you go to work? I certainly don't)

Secondly, it's silly to object to innovation that allows humanity to be frivolous or wasteful according to their desires. Where do you draw the line? Why have central heating in the first place? Is it that difficult to wear a sweater indoors? If people want to be warm, they will utilize technology to be warm. And if that technology progresses to allow this process to be simple, efficient, and automated, people will use it. And not just those in the luxury market.
> How can you run 24/7 with 3 people ? In Australia that would mean you would have to be above the allowed 38 hour working week as it would be a 56 hour working week, overtime and possibly penalty rates would apply. Even if it is on call a lot of companies in Australia pay extra for that.

You wouldn't do 24x7 with 3 people, but you could do 24 hours x ~5.5 days with the rest on call. You could cover all Business hours within the week. Secondly you don't bring engineers on as employees (that requires all sorts of legal & Tax liability). You hire them as self employed contractors. This works out great for them (they can claim all sorts of things as tax write-offs for their "business") and you get to avoid dealing with the bureaucracy.

> do not know who you are employing in Australia but I would suggest that there is only about 5000 - 10000 USD p/a price difference for mid-level guys.

Avoid Sydney & Melbourne.

A lot of people will take the opportunity to do this kind of work for a decent wage ($65k in Brisbane, $55k in regional centres). I know people who do this work, move to Thailand and live in luxury on similar dollars. Brisbane is one of the Red Hat support centres so there are plenty of engineers moving on from lowish salaries offered.

Not to mention once US interest rates start going up the AUD is set to start dropping again.
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Meh. Already possible with systems like TheThingSystem or Ninjablocks - there are rough edges, but there's a convergence of protocols and platforms taking place in the open source space.

I predict that these sort of things may be slicker initially, but open platforms focusing on one problem (ie: nodered or Huginn for rules, Owntracks for presence, TheThingSystem or Ninjablocks for pushing a bunch of readings to an MQTT hub from multiple protocols) will win out.

Right now I can drive both airconditioners through either a simple on/off 433mhz plug, or for the samsung, via wireless/direct commands.
I can trigger rules to disable when I leave the house.
I can control my lights when motion is sensed.

It's going to take a long time; but the open rules solutions already are approaching competitiveness with IFFFT or Zapier; and the NodeJS based lower level stuff is all focused on MQTT; so interoperability is highly likely.
Wasting/saving energy is not as simple a calculation as that. When energy is at peak use (say in the winter, around 5:30/6:00 when everybody returns from work), it becomes more expensive for energy companies to procure the requisite energy needed. During these peak times, they often have to buy energy from other companies at a higher cost or find less efficient means of generating it (e.g. coal) to meet the demand. Getting an accurate picture of estimated energy demand can actually save a lot of money/energy for customers.

I work at Nest and it may be a little unclear at the moment (we're working on it), but The Nest API does not guarantee that if you send an ETA of 15 minutes (docs: https://developer.nest.com/documentation/eta-guide), the home will heat to the appropriate level in 15 minutes. It's actually filtered through our algorithms to determine the best course of action to not waste energy but also provide the appropriate level of comfort.
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I'm a lone Designer / beginner Developer with an Infrastructure Engineering background, and I'm working on a project that I think will actually make a difference in the world. I agree with the OP's sentiment regarding the real world value of some of the Products (and relating investments) out there, but this was not the driving force behind the Project I'm working on. I recently moved to the Valley because one of my family members was given a certain amount of time to live. This has been hard on the family, especially considering how many we've lost over the past 4-5 years. Spending a large amount of time in hospitals and observing how medical technology works from an Engineering perspective has led me to some realizations (or at least hypothesis). I believe that there are opportunities in the health and healthcare industries from a technology standpoint. And I'm not implying monetary opportunities, I'm talking about opportunities to build something that can actually save lives. My Project is focused on building the technical foundation for a next-generation Emergency Room. Even without a background in medicine, it is apparent to me (likely from my background) that a large amount of inefficiencies exist relating to the interoperability of today's medical technology. The solution to this problem will represent a new approach towards utilizing medical technology, more specifically, medical data. The goal is to provide capabilities that greatly increase the awareness and effectiveness of medical staff operating a modern day Emergency Room. I'm currently communicating with medical staff from a few different Hospitals here in CA in an attempt to build a stronger Team. I'm also looking for Developers. I believe we can save lives.
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It was Apple that chose to make HomeKit a nonstandard, proprietary protocol for the purpose of locking people into iOS. You simply cannot fault Google for failing to fall in line with Apple's play for the market.
Bah, and I spent the 60 seconds "decrypting" notAdmin's password ;)

Woops, you got him there! (teehee)
Your "read more" link doesn't work on the Blackberry browser, and the page is almost unreadable too. I'm pleased for you that you got lots of sign-ups, but I have no idea what you do, and this experience amkes me disinclined to spend any more time.
Like ASquare said, it's obvious English is not your first language. If you want to keep your readers engaged and coming back, attempt to have native english speakers proofread through your writings first before publishing. You might want to look into Grammarly.com I've never used it before, but I think it might help your particular case.
I think quality begets quality, too. I once had a phone screen interview with Backtype before they were bought by Twitter. I was (and perhaps still am) extremely unqualified for the role, but the interview process was interesting and enjoyable. At the end, after doing a small at-home project for them, they turned me down. To thank me for their time, they gave me a 25$ Amazon gift card, which is still the best rejection gift I've received to this date. I worked for Amazon at the time, and you basically get $100 in Amazon credit per year even as a full-time employee, so the irony of getting a quarter of that for failing an interview was not lost on me.
Depends on your use case. Advantage is around performance, and that you don't have to focus on the devops part of deployments that Capistrano requires. You get full access to servers & free SSL for rails apps. Strong engineering support.
Doesn't work for Japan. I'm in a Thunderstorm right now in Tokyo. Nothing shows up on the map.
>"everyone understands it and a lot of useful things have already been written in it"

That's such an overwhelmingly good reason to express yourself in English, instead of Esperanto, that you really don't need to postulate any additional reasons.

Most things like programming language choice follow heavy-tailed distributions, which means that there are a few that are overwhelmingly popular, as well as many that are extremely unpopular. The reasons that C++ turned out to be overwhelmingly popular may be mainly historical.

You could probably also blame popularity for making C++ so ornate. It jumped on every language trend over the years. Fortran didn't, but if Fortran had been popular...
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I guess this will help you: http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page
Genuine khrushevkas were made exclusively out of prefab concrete slabs. Each wall was one slab, the ceiling was one or two slabs per room and the sound isolation issue was less due to the thickness of the slabs and more due to poor fitting of the slabs or bad sealing of the joints.
Not really, just don't make them as shitty as this one before going public.
Fortan is -undoubtedly- thought as a HPC. That doesn't mean it's great or I would use it today, but yes, without a doubt it is one of such languages.

That's not to say that if today I had to write, as I do, a tight CPU kernel, I would not chose C or C++, these have the best compilers and tools and are more general languages.

But C++ was never designed to aid stuff like numerical computation, never. It was designed to be zero-overhead on top of C if you didn't use any feature with overhead. That means that it can go all the way down to C performance, and C is considered almost as a portable assembly, so it's quite low-level.

Low-level and high performance are not entirely the same thing!

In fact you can easily, easily outperform -standard- C++ in many interpreted languages that support vector operations or GPU offloading, for example matlab.

If you want a c-like cpu hpc language for tight numerical kernels to integrate with c functions, look for Intel's ISPC
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People tend to waste energy when they're cold - it's the false savings of turning off the air-conditioner.

You think you can bear it - until you absolutely can't, and immediately turn it to the highest setting you can because damn it you want it warm now.

Then it's warm (or too hot) and you turn it off to cool down faster and...rinse repeat.

For most people it's far more efficient to turn the air conditioner on to a given temperature setting, so when they enter a room they don't have any immediate reaction to "make it warmer or colder". We are exceptionally bad at judging these things in the moment.
I'm at least a little excited to see this. I've been reading about home automation for decades in the likes of Popular Science, and now, to perhaps see it really happen, finally. It makes me feel old, feel young.
I'd be curious what you think of this: http://platform.qbix.com/guide/pages
The blog post was a lot of 'this is amazing and will change everything'(which wolfram thinks about everything he does, lol) without a convincing demonstration as to why. To me it sounds like they added more features to the Mathematica language. Which while potentially cool, it isn't likely to become a mainstream development language anytime soon. Seems most useful for quick data visualizations.
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I would have loved too see in the article how the ZPU is extended with an instruction doing 64-bit multiplication and how that measuably improved the performance of the game. It would have been a good example of how a soft CPU core can be adapted to the application. And how hard it would be. In this case probably getting the compiler to emit the new instruction. (The HW part is very simple.)
I have only every seen the c99.php shell used by script kiddies which utilizes some well known php vulnerability and uploads this as the control point.

It would be cool if somebody wrote an automated script which would seek out these c99 and try to identify those which are used on hacked sites. It could then use this to get access and remove this script and fix the original exploit.

Using exploits to help people is of course a can or worms but I like the idea of good hackers helping everyone.
|| some kind of appstore I would imagine.

Extrapolation != predicting the future. You can't just download an android app to fluff your pillows before you get home, it's about integrating the house with new devices.

|| if this fails

This won't fail.
Why would anyone who's not completely insane install anything like C99 in the first place?

Not only is the idea completely nuts, but all Google produces for C99shell is how it's used in backdoor tools.

Surprises: Zero.
It's a pity I can't edit sample data in-browser. It would be much easier to do it in-browser for simple data sets - shorter feedback loop.
Looking at the Nest lineup, I was reminded of that adage: "Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services."

Those products look damn good.
Weird, the project is using "The FreeBSD license". Not 2-clause BSD, but actually FreeBSD:

http://repo.or.cz/w/zpu.git/blob/b1bba840534b2e9a6f79564b006...
We are refining it right now but you can go to http://www.coursebuffet.com and see approximately what level a free online course would be at a US university.
Thanks Forbes... Who would have ever thought that people leave their current jobs for a higher paying job??? Do people think that the only reason anyone changes jobs is because they are fired or laid-off?
> You wouldn't do 24x7 with 3 people, but you could do 24 hours x ~5.5 days with the rest on call.

Thanks, I hope I didn't sound too harsh as I just wanted to understand how you were doing this.

> You hire them as self employed contractors.

If you are an Australian company you may want to be careful with this. A contractor is not necessarily a contractor in Australia, there are some strange guidelines as to when a contractor may actually become an employee.

> A lot of people will take the opportunity to do this kind of work for a decent wage ($65k in Brisbane, $55k in regional centres).

I worked in Brisbane for 12 years and that sounds about right. Although the need for Linux admins seems to be increasing so there is some interesting salaries being offered.

> I know people who do this work, move to Thailand and live in luxury on similar dollars.

One can only dream, although I now live and travel around Asia .... I am just missing the $$$ :)
Millions of thousands of homes today simply leave their thermostat at the same temperature all the time, failing to optimize for the large portions of the day when nobody is home because it's simpler (and they probably don't have a timed thermostat, or they can't figure out how to set it up.)

Imagine thousands of households doing something smarter.
> This won't fail.

Why not?