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At every moment of disruption in technology people saying that the new technology doesn't replace the incumbent. By definition disruptive technologies are less functional and inadequate "replacements".

First, folks tend to talk about all the things that the new technology can't do that the old one does do. In the Steve Jobs interview at All Things D referenced in the comments, he goes on to talk about how software needs to get written--"it is just software" he says. In the near term history we have seen this same dynamic in the advent of the GUI relative to CUI or in the way browser/HTML subsumed the GUI client-server apps. People are writing more code all the time that is "mobile only" even if some of it reinvents or reimagines the desktop/laptop world. I was struck by Adobe's recent developer conference where they showed many mobile apps. As an always aspiring photog we can see how the field is transitioning.

Second, people tend to underestimate the way that new tools, as ineffective as they are, drive changes in the very definition of work. Said another way, people forget that tools can also define the work and jobs people have. It isn't like work was always "mail around a 10MB presentation before the meeting". In fact a long time ago meeting agendas were typed out in courier by a typist -- that job was defined by the Selectric. The tools that created presentations, attachments, and follow up email defined a style of working. While we're reading all this, the exponential rise of mobile is changing what it means to work--to go to a meeting, to collaborate, to decide, to create, etc.

What is so fascinating about this transition is that we might be seeing a divide where creators of tools will use different tools, at least for some time, than the masses that use tools. Let's not project the needs of developers on to the whole space. We might reach a point where different tools are needed. Two years ago I might have said this applies to a lot of fields, but the rapid rise of mobile and tablet based software for many things is making that argument weak. Cash registers, MRI machines, video annotation, and more are all scenarios I have seen recently where one might have said "needs a real OS" or "this need sa full PC". As with the the idea of underestimating software, our own desire to find an anchor pushes us to view things through a lens where our own work doesn't change.

All of this is happening. In parts of the world they are skipping over PCs (Africa and China). Everyone is seeing their time in front of a screen go up enormous amounts and most of that is additive, but for many there is a substitute effect. This doesn't happen overnight or for everyone. TO deny it though is to deny the very changes that led to supporting the idea that the mouse, overlapping windows, and color once displaced other technologies where people said those were not substitutes for the speed, efficiency, or capabilities of what was in use.
It seems so bizarre that we're using 40 year old, Russian-made engines. I'm sure there are plenty of smart folks who will say not too worry, but I wonder.
especially given the trend is for mobile "apps" to really be trivial front ends for web services.

Yep. After doing mobile for a while you start to notice that most apps are just listviews hitting REST endpoints. Not exactly earth-shattering technology.
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So assuming consumption doesn't increase in step with deflation, you'd have to give employees pay cuts. That would be very strange indeed.
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I started down a similar path with ember.js and was starting to see the same issues. Primarily the business models duplicated on the client. So, it strikes me that we are still figuring out the right path forward on the client/server balance.
Touch screen kiosks for ordering have been in places like amusement parks for over a decade. There was a local 'entertainment complex' that had an arcade, batting cage, movie theater, minigolf and a few fast food restaurants that you could order from a kiosk on as well.

If they stick around now, what has changed since then? Touch screens have gotten better, but mostly for smaller scale. People are more used to touch screens because of phones and other uses, but they are generally pretty intuitive. There is also still the issue that you are touching something that everyone else touched right before you eat which is kind of gross if you think about it.
If Windows 10 was built on top of Linux I'd get a lot more excited.

I have to use Windows for the myriad of engineering tools that are not available under any other OS, for example, SolidWorks, Altium Designer, various embedded toolsets, etc. And, while I've been using PC's (and Macs and Linux) since they came on the scene I hate, hate, hate the DOS or technically DOS-like underbelly of the beast.

I know it is a ridiculous idea. It would break everything, including their profitable corporate platforms.

Yes, there are ways to mitigate this but it'd be nice if all computing platforms got behind a common standard. Utopia. I know.
Have you read the book From Good to Great? I've never applied, much less been accepted, but I imagine that YC helps you get the flywheel going that Jim Collins talks about.

It sounds like everybody that participates says they make more progress in the program than they would have otherwise in that amount of time.

But if you have a successful business then you probably don't NEED them. But they can still help.
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Yup there is, especially for something niche.

One that I can think of is "Selenium 2 WebDriver Basics With Java". The the topic is niche, and the course seems comprehensive. And for the price tag, it somehow never gets to the discount bin(I know this since its been on my wishlist for so long).

If the price is cheap, I would bought this as a casual learner, but if I am really into testing with Selenium, I would not mind at all paying the full price.

With the price, that course garners something like 800+ students. So if you are into supporting your student when they are going through the course, charging high is the way to go IMO.
The guy leading the presentation to the Shasta County board of supervisors is the same guy who runs http://GeoengineeringWatch.org which is the first link in the description of the video. Not wanting to sit through an hour-long video of people making speeches - rarely a good way to get informed on a topic - I went to his website in search of a written summary of his argument. Unfortunately it sent my BS meter straight into the red.

If the US and/or other countries are actually seeding clouds on a massive scale, and if there is any evidence of this being linked to the drought in California as you asserted, then I would love to read it.
Modafinil is much more expensive, harder to get, and not everybody responds to it.
What was the most surprising way the texts were different?
This is NOT why deflation is bad. If there is a deflation rate D and (nominal) interest rates R, you can still get a real return of D+R by investing your money. If you want "risk free" income, you can put your money into AAA fixed income just like you would do in an inflationary economy.

The effects on the allocation of investment in a deflationary world are mathematically identical to an increase in interest rates. I.e., D=0, R=5 is the same as D=2, R=3.

The only notable economic effect is that black money can now earn interest (it's hard to invest black money in fixed income or other such things).

[edit: "Black money" is Hinglish for un-laundered money, i.e. cash profits from crime.]

The problem with deflation is nominal rigidities, i.e. sticky nominal wages or the prideful worker effect. Namely, workers will irrationally refuse to accept work below their previous nominal wage. People's real productivity fluctuates, and sometimes goes down. In an inflationary economy, you can wait a little and not give them pay raises until their real wage drops below their real productivity.

In a deflationary economy, the problem gets worse over time. Hence you'll need to fire the workers with wage > productivity, and those workers will refuse to accept new employment since new offers will have lower nominal wages than their previous job.
Yes, that makes it harder to try Safari, too.

Firefox, Chrome, Opera and others are not so picky about which operating system they run on.
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Gestures are much less efficient than using a mouse or touchscreen, gestures require more muscles and movement and are less precise. Voice commands beyond the very simple stuff is an AI complete problem. True AI is much further away than we think. And when it comes it will be so deeply weird and also mind-blowing that asking it to buy us plane tickets via voice command or whatever will be the last thing that we would be worried about.
I've mentioned this in another post. I'm a CPSC University of Calgary alum. James Gosling (Founder of Java) is also an alum. A bunch of my profs went to school with him back in the 70s and the stories they told about him. Well he was a legend. One day he came to do a talk when I was in undergrad. He told us that he applied to every major CPSC school for his PhD and was rejected EVERYWHERE except for Carnegie Mellon. As he was about to walk across the stage to be awarded his degree there, they pulled him aside and told him that each year they randomly select one person that they initially rejected and accepted that person, and that he was the first one that ever graduated. Even James needed luck. I would love to see the same experiment done with YC. IT would be one hell of an experiment.
While I believe you are correct in that supporting more languages by won't fix the issues people have with developing for it as they would really want the APIs/frameworks for those languages and in that regard compile to JavaScript tools would better serve them since the only secure way to give developers multiple API's to work with is through a translation tool.

But several people seem to insist that's a poor solution. It sounds like they want direct support for other languages in the browser but how can they securely directly support other languages?
Very reminiscent of Shellshock, actually. Never treat data as code unless very explicitly told to.
Nice site! Love the pricing packages' presentation.
So does it do dependency management? That to me is essential in a real package management tool.
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Stay strong. I use your application as well, rescuetimer. I really like the logging it does. Can you tell me if it is written in C++ or is it mostly and mixed with other languages as well?
I guess this would become circular because I'm not well enough informed. Because if the dollar value goes up, the startup costs are less. The argument to wait for the money value to increase applies to the entrepreneur in this case too.

I don't agree that people will go without clean clothes, or food storage today to save a dollar tomorrow. I've thought about cars as well, car costs don't go up year over year, you get more for less value theoretically, why would the price go down?

The view that deflation is bad seems to always henge on a dramatic fall in prices and increase in the dollar value. Inflation doesn't work that way, it is very slow year to year, why would deflation be different?
I think we're making the same point here, but with a nuance.

I think we both agree that: YC is becoming more like everyone else in the investing game. they want to make a lot of money.

Just to clarify, it felt like YC used to be more different from others in the investing game, like they cared more, or they were willing to invest in earlier-stage startups, or they had a higher purpose, or followed the hacker ethos. but now it just feels like they're more like every other investor out there -- please note the use of the word "more". they still do great things (watsi case in point), and all of their blog posts are very respectful towards applicants. to reiterate, it just feels like they're becoming "more" like traditional VC and less like what I thought YC was or used to stand for.
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What about just real POSIX and some kind of X interop or compatibility baked in? My (poorly informed) guess is this would allow a lot of low-hanging fruit from Linux, BSD, etc to be ported properly.
The problem with deflation is that, if you're trying to control the money supply, and your control is based on printing money, and you have deflation, you lose control. The figurative "pushing on a string," you have nothing left to leverage. You can't go below 0.

It's really more of a power/control issue than anything. The _entire point_ of centralized banking is to _cause_ inflation, just not enough that it becomes an issue.
There is debate on the thread about whether or not low level AT&T employees are scum...

I don't claim to know, but a funny thing happened a few weeks ago. My girlfriends android phone was acting up and shutting off randomly. So she took it to the AT&T store to have it reinstalled (I don't know much about smartphones and didn't want to play with it). So, in the middle of the day, I get an angry call from her accusing me of installing Linux on her smartphone (and why not? I install Linux on everything else...It must have been me!). The guy at the AT&T store told her since I had installed Linux there was nothing he could do for the phone and couldn't reinstall it nor repair it. I protested my innocence but she said the guy in the store had given her proof and she would show me that night. (I was actually a little curious as this was the first I had heard of Linux proper running on a stock android phone). So when the moment of proof came, she pulled up an android screen with the kernel version and there it was... at the bottom of the screen in bold white letters... "SELinux status". Proof! I mean, it said Linux!

So maybe they aren't evil, but that guy at least left me wondering about their general competency. I laughed for half an hour solid imagining all the Linux infected phones he must be seeing coming in.... Or more likely, he was just trying to sell her a new phone.
So, you're saying that you want another Great Depression? That's generally not considered as a positive period of time.
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I didn't downvote them. You can verify that I don't have enough karma to do that.

If I had to guess why you've been downvoted, I'd guess it was because you keep posting links that don't support your claim, wasting everyone's time.

Also, this is much different from last time. Last time, you didn't bother to post any links at all, even links irrelevant to your claim.
I think Gilbert Strang at MIT does a great intro with his "Big Picture" of Calculus overview. I really enjoy his starting with how calculus is a mapping between two related functions without getting into the mechanics of calculating them until later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWsDwg1XwM
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise is wonderful and completely evergreen since it's about love and broken hearts.

Confessions of St. Augustine is from late antiquity but I think should "count" as medieval because it was so influential to scholasticism, and is similarly great/relatable.

The Travels of both Marco Polo and Ibn Battutah (rough contemporaries who were active toward the end of the medieval period in the fourteenth century) are both fascinating and entertaining tours of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia.
Right before the explosion you can hear launch control saying something like "Got engines at 108%".

I was curious about it, but from Reddit discussion, apparently this is totally normal; "Yes, the engines have been upgraded many times. To avoid having to recalibrate the software each time engines are upgraded, they are simply rated at over 100 percent thrust over the first engine's thrust."

Another interesting fact. The pad is NASA's. So you can imagine the crew that maintained it are pretty disappointed.... "Look at what you did to my pad!?!" The fireball was enormous. The view from the Cessna incredible.

That must have been just about a worst case scenario for the pad to sustain such a direct hit. Hopefully it was the strict safety protocols and not just dumb luck which kept everyone safe. That's another aspect of this event which can be studied and reported, so at least we maximize the take-aways. Track the entire response from T-6.

Apparently the rocket is designed to do that little lateral kick that you can see in the video and initially seems odd. 'Why is the rocket not going straight up' causes a little unease at first but apparently is nominal. If that's the case, then the time of the explosion may correspond to a point where they kick up engine output. It also may have been a heavier payload than usual requiring higher engine output? (Unconfirmed)
I do not understand. Where is the memory backing /proc/pid/cmdline and who in the container has a COW copy of it? If nobody, how can reading it cause more allocations in the container?
I wonder if it could have survived the explosion. I suppose it would not have been activated for launch though.
This, aside from the wage concerns mentioned elsewhere in the comments, is the huge problem with deflation. Anyone with debt (got a mortgage or student loans? This is you we're talking about then) gets a huge kick in the balls, which is compounded by wage cuts or, at best, stagnant wages.
>the result of complex interaction among parts

Agree 100%. The architecture is bad, and that causes suffering.
Unexpected inflation is good for people in debt, and unexpected deflation is bad.

If the inflation is expected, interest rates adjust accordingly. India has roughly a 10% inflation rate and interest rates on mortgages tend to be 11-12%. The US has inflation rates of about 1-2% and mortgage rates of 3-4%.

tl;dr; If inflation is I, you'll be paying interest rates of I+R where R is dependent on availability of capital, your risk factors, etc.
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Well, part of the investigation is to find as many of those pieces as possible and examine them. For instance in airplane crash investigations the NTSB will sometimes secure a huge hangar, draw out an outline of the aircraft, and place every single bit they find in its approximate location on the airframe. The plane reconstruction was a big part of figuring out how TWA 800 crashed.

Then there is all the video and film footage. I bet some of it was high speed (so the resulting film will be slow motion). Slo-mo film helps show the exact sequence of failures and was a big part of the Challenger investigation.

Finally, there will be a ton of data that was collected from the rocket in its brief flight.
Sorry for my ignorance, but as a user: why would I use DDG over Google?
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Heartwarming to see how positive and forward-looking the responses here are. Certainly more positive than the responses towards India's (successful) Mars mission.
There has been an (albeit poor) package manager for some time: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc748979(v=ws.10)...

I've personally struggled with it to fix corrupt updated installed by windows updates, and while it doesn't meet the bar set by mainstream Linux distro package managers, it is a package manager nonetheless.
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That, and possibly installing programs via group policy and MSI packages
Up until a few months ago, I was an engineer for OSC. We used the same Flight Termination Logic Unit (FTLU) as Antares. I can confirm that it can provide for automatic destruct should the engineers desire it. I have no knowledge of the specifics of its use in Antares (I did not work on the Antares program), but given the constraints of operating from Wallops, I would not be surprised if automatic destruct is enabled for all Antares launches.
But over the last while we've had negative nominal interest rates. This is impossible in a deflationary environment and so one problem in a deflationary environment is that the central banks can't use things like QE or lower interest rates to stimulate spending or investment.

The other thing is that from a behavioral/psychological perspective having an inflation of 1.5% with interest rates at 2% doesn't feel the same as having an interest rate of 0% with a deflation of 0.5%. In the latter people are probably going to be spending less/waiting for prices to come down.

[EDIT: Your salary example is the same effect. It's basically loss aversion. Either loss of income when your salary is decreased or loss of $ when paying more for something today than it will cost tomorrow. The fact that your salary reduction may be less than deflation or that what you're paying is more than if you'd invest doesn't matter to the way our minds treat loss, unless we try to trick it]
All this pro-deflation talk makes me feel like I've walked into a Christian Science convention.
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We connect IoTs with Mobiles. We were rejected but nothing changes, work plan continues as agreed.

Anyways we will apply again in the next round, YC is very important for us to get the right advice and move in the right direction.

Good luck everyone and keep moving forward! :)

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