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The regulatory capture argument someone made below is hard to square with the history: http://www.americanbar.org/publications/franchise_lawyer/201.... At first, cars were sold directly to consumers by manufacturers, and independent dealerships were rare. It's really hard to explain using a regulatory capture or lobbying model how car manufacturers, huge incredibly profitable companies at the time, lost their bid to preserve the status quo.

In reality, these were consumer and economic protection laws. States didn't like how much money was flowing from their economies to Detroit, and by making direct consumer sales illegal they gave a lot of leverage to franchises, which are local businesses. They also justified the laws on consumer protection grounds--local car dealers would be a lot more responsive to customers than a megacorp in Detroit.

As for the "planned economy" aspect--remember that the ideas of what constituted unreasonable interference in the economy were very different back then. The revolution of applying economics principles to government didn't really happen until the 1960's and 1970's. Before that, quite extensive interventions in the economy were routine. For example, prior to the 1970's, the Civil Aeronautics Board set airline ticket prices! That would be amazingly controversial in the U.S. today, on either side of the aisle, but was par for course back in the day.
It's a double edged sword. The manufacturer will be happy if he sell a car. The dealer needs to first buy the car from the manufacturer and then sell it for a profit. Thus the manufacturer have a competetive advantage, that they could use to remove all competition, and then charge whatever the fuck they want.

I just don't think this blanket ban is the way forward, but rather some regulation/comparison about what a store (dealer or manufacture owned) actually pays for cars, so you can clearly see if manufacture owned stores are not getting unfair advantage. I suppose that competition between manufacturs would be the driving force in that case. It's certainly possible.

My own experience was something along the lines of this: Figure out what the car cost on Fords webpage, go to a dealer, get a quote, negotiate a little. Repeat with 2 other dealers and see what you get, and let it be known what offer you have so far (they usually demand some proof, so you better be telling the truth). I ended up paying 15% less than the standard quoted price, which could have been better, but I wanted to buy from a dealer with a great reputation.
It sounds like you're looking for advice on this nebulous idea of having your cake and eating it too. I actually did something similar last year - I had a good job but was moving out of state for other reasons. The simplest (and only) approach was to be honest with my boss. I opened a discussion of how we could make it happen.

You have to think about the company's point of view: is it worthwhile to keep you on, regardless of whatever difficulties arise? You need to make it a win-win for them.
Ask for a trial basis - see if you can work from home for a few weeks. Prove to your boss that you can be at least as productive, if not more.
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Sirius would be a cool name if Siri didn't exist.

I'm just imagining if Linux was called something like Winds. It makes the whole thing look like a cheap copy of the original.

Sorry, I can't take that sirius. Change the name!
Can you completely snapshot those volumes at any time, recreate them and attach them to new servers? Could you take these snapshots and easily copy them around the world?(again assuming you could snapshot). Are those SSD's automatically replicated to 2 different storage devices behind the scenes to give you near-instant failover? When they go boom are you then driving out to the datacenter to replace them (assuming you have replacements and don't need to wait for them to arrive). Can you do all of this without any upfront cost or excess in capacity??

Probably not. At all.

EBS is NOT harddisks inside a server. Comparing them to such is missing out on all the things that makes it a SERVICE and not disks you buy from Newegg/PCmall/<insert vendor here>. Yes there are disks you can buy to physically put in a server and they are super blazing fast. In fact AWS has those in their i2 instances and they get hundreds of thousands of IOPs as well.

This isn't even comparing apples to oranges, its apples to space monkeys.
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This is the result of the crazy patchwork quilt of small municipalities in St Louis County. All of these municipalities need money and property taxes are usually not enough to fund the police etc.

So they use ticketing as a revenue generator and that has really screwed up the relationship between the officials and the people who live in those towns.

There's a tiny tiny town called St. John. It has a tiny tiny city limits boundary on the highway (I-170). Yet they use that to capture speeders and generate enormous revenue. Every local knows not to speed through that tiny corridor on 170. Then there's the next city boundary on the same highway and the one after. Often filled with speed traps.

There's one report here: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/45/4542.asp

The whole county needs to consolidate all these tiny municipalities and put the police under one large force like Indianapolis or Louisville or others.
I found this article really interesting. I've really enjoyed my recent experiences telecommuting. The main difference in my life, though, is that I'm close to the office. This allows me to go in part of the week and work from home another part.

I love being able to talk to my coworkers and go in for meetings, but when it comes down to it, it's really nice to be able to sit in the silence and comfort of my house and work when I need to get stuff done.

Both working in the office and at home have their pros/cons. It's all about preference.
I always wondered why I had an entire childhood of obsessive close work (computer, Lego, drawing, etc.) yet have better vision than my parents had at my age. I don't know if computer screens are bright enough to have a protective effect, but I did grow up in a culture insistent on kicking kids out of the classroom for breaks no matter the weather.
Why would you need any kind of such laws in a free market?
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It's actually not so strange. The EU is just openly saying what everyone knows is true: This decision is not as formal as the minister of the Exterior would like everyone to believe. The Will of the Alþingi (congressional resolution) is still in force and the majority couldn't assemble votes to have it anulled.
Detroit liked it because it was and is a barrier for foreign car makers.
> The bottom line , the computer was full of crappy Lenovo and other brands software that just gets in my way and i don't want to use. Even worse after about 2 days some of the bundled Lenovo apps started crashing once in a while. I know this issue is not related to microsoft, and i am not blaming them for this.

It's pretty clear that he distinguishes Microsoft from Lenovo. There's nothing specific that I can point to, but it seems that he knows the difference between Linux and Ubuntu, also.
Sure, and that's a good idea. But I believe OP's point was the inclusion of the [crap|mal]ware in the first place, not what a reasonable response to it is.
That's not quite the situation, but thanks for the sc tip. It looks great, but again it's not really Excel that's keeping me on Windows. Phone has been Linux for 5+ years, at least (n900).

I have ended up running Win7 with a few 'Linuxes' in VMs. One main one, really though. #! for those who care... sadly recently discontinued.

The main reason I stick with Win7 is a) legacy reasons of my own, I suppose we could call them, and b) translation software. The FOSS alternatives aren't quite there yet (for heavy use), although I'd love to sit down for a few months/years and try to create one. A vi-like CAT tool that produced translation memories and lightning quick concordance... that's the dream.

Similar to Macha's POV, sometimes you just need to work with people who have no concept of free computing.
No, meteor is still missing quite some, basic I'd say, things.

Have a look at https://trello.com/b/hjBDflxp/meteor-roadmap , but I can make a quick resume for you:

* There is no easy/official way for doing joins in subscriptions (you can't join "Posts" and "Comments" in a typical blog example). I'm aware of several plugins that try to implement that, but they all lack official support and quite of them just fail at doing it properly.

* No server-side rendering. Say goodbye to SEO, unless you're willing to follow the prerender.io way.

* No i18n. Should I say anything at all about this one?

* Not even basic forms support. This is the abc of any framework, and yet Meteor doesn't have it.

* Bad routing support

* Not-that-good documentation and examples

So, no, MeteorJS is just not there yet. But the idea is cool and I'm sure if those things get fixed/implemented, it will get quite a big user-base.
> Corruption of the sort you see in USA does not happen as much in Alþingi, it's more nepotism by the executive (parliamentary rule, which is problematic) than blatant bribery by funding campaigns.

Well, the funding that the parties in charge and their members of parliament got from the fisheries in the last elections can be considered a form of bribery. Especially when one of their first works in office was to make sure the fisheries make more money by paying less tax. (This issue is more complicated though).
I work from home two days a week and the issue I have is actually switching off so I typically start early and then keep going with less breaks than in the office. Maybe this feels easier because it is more comfortable at home and not an abrasive environment like an office. Pros vs cons also depends on both the home and office environment e.g. if you have dedicated working space at home vs a very noisy office or vice versa.

Also, just to say I love Lagos and the western Algarve - it's such a beautiful place
> This volume can host a 16 TB and 20,000 IOPS I/O-intensive transactional database requiring single digit millisecond latencies with consistent performance using Provisioned IOPS (SSD) on AWS

No, not even close.
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I didn't do much testing since PhantomJS 2.0 but I know that in the past, it was recommended to reload PhantomJS every +/- 50 pages to free the leaked memory.
I'm 24 now and made $900 pretax in FB (no college loans).

I think i'm lucky that i joined Facebook after IPO but when the stock was very low. My new grad offer was $280k (negotiated like a VC with tons of counter offers from GOOG, DropBox, etc...) and stock was $19 the day i had joined around Sep 2012. So, i got ~14000 FB shares. I sold all my vested shares(~11000 [9500 vested on my base offer and 1500 out of my refresher grants over last 2 years) at $80 very recently and leaving the company for $1M offer with a startup.

Total Money i made pre-tax: $900k. Bought a Porsche and chilling out in LA for a month now before my next gig. Everyone call me as a lucky kid.
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I've actually found that the car buying experience is not that bad at a dealership, but the service/parts department is not something worth dealing with unless you really have to.

At this point; the dealers know that you know what the invoice price or KBB value of a car is, and what kind of loan rate you can get elsewhere. They might want to sell you a warranty or the like, but at that point you've already negotiated the price of the car, know your loan rate, and can just say no to the extras and move on.
true. although they tack it on the end of the newspaper, or at the end of the news announcements as if its not very important, its still news. :)
What's the story behind this? Someone lost his followers due to some error?
If you are a lawyer, you need to make clear that something you say isn't "legal advice" because you can otherwise be held accountable for it.

I think the "IANAL" disclaimer is just a step beyond that so non-lawyers can't be mistaken for acting as lawyers giving out legal advice (not sure what liabilities that would entail).
I too have been finding it hard to find a single reliable and up-to-date source for learning windows drivers. There's a plethora of info online, but lots is out of date and/or scattered and redundant. Even decent paid training is hard to find, at least in my part of the world.

There's a book, but it's old [1]

There's samples, which are fresh [2]

There's a multi part series on Code Project, but it's old (yet much of it still applies conceptually; samples not so much) Part 1 of 6: [3]

If anybody has a good one-stop-shop and updated source of learning I'd very much appreciate it (I'd love a nicely written book on the matter that's not older than, say, 3 years old)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Drivers-Foundation-Develope...
[2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-samples
[3]: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9504/Driver-Development-...
It is in a sense more honest. If you didn’t get anything done, it doesn’t matter where you were.
I think this is interesting but I'm not sure I follow.

So by increasing communication speed, diversity is less of a problem ?
I guess my question is what is implied by communication speed ?

I think I'm missing something about the implications because it doesn't seem like communication speed would change anything, if the members are really stubborn.
The Planet Money podcast did a fantastic episode answering your exact question:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
I am on my first month working from home. While I am not a huge fan of it, either I work from home, or I lose my job.

My biggest gripes about telecommuting is that I have a hard drive focusing. Something about the process of getting up and getting ready and LEAVING the house, puts my brain into this mode of "time to work!" While telecommuting I can get up and get ready, but there's nothing there that convinces my brain I'm going to work.
Calling Postgres the leading open source DB is probably a bit more than a stretch these days, but yes its quite popular with startups(though one would argue nosql DBs are #1 in the eyes of most startups sadly).
Unfortunately one of the places its not popular in, is Amazon and the majority of their business customers. MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server are all much more popular than Postgres, which is why they have probably focused on it more over the years. That said, the features have seemed to be coming pretty regularly.
There was a similar notion in a sci-fi show, I believe it was Babylon 5, of a alien probe that would promise superior technology if you could prove your species' intelligence; only to destroy you instead if you passed the test.
Provisioned IOPS are quite stable, in my experience. That's their entire point.
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Two down (Gecko, WebKit), two to go (Trident, Blink).

I'd love to see more browsers have APNG. Alpha transparency in animation is awesome.

It's not a lossy format like WebP, but PNG offers more sophisticated lossless compression than GIF (after all, it was supposed to be a better GIF, basically), so I wonder if APNG could produce more efficient compression for video with a good encoder.
Simple solution to the loneliness thing: get a webcam. You can see the office, they can see you. I saw a business that ran like that. Seemed okay. It wasn't a dev who was remote though, and that may matter.

Also some people don't like the feeling of being watched.
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And this would be where I would put my extra Windows licenses, or MSDN account, IF I HAD ANY. </dramatic cat stare>
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Coming up on my 3rd year now working from home and running my own company. I agree with most of this article. The lack of social interaction is probably what I miss the most. Overall it has been a positive change for me though. I had serious issues concentrating while coding at my last job. Working from home has mostly solved that. I've found in the last year it is easy to stop working at 4:30-5 since we have had our first child, before that I was doing 10-12 hour days because I could.
My scrolling seems to work, but it is annoying. The embedded video does not work at all for me. I had to copy link location and paste it another window for it to work.
Sometimes it's easiest to illustrate the flaw in a theory by using extreme examples, so please forgive me for the hyperbole.

Let's say you have a company with only $100M in discounted future earnings (and no significant balance sheet assets), but it is trading on the market for $1B. This 10x intrinsic value scenario isn't common in real life but we definitely see examples like it during market bubbles.

The company wants to distribute $1M back to shareholders. If it pays a dividend, shareholders receive the full million less taxes - so perhaps $600-750k in their pockets.

If on the other hand the company buys back $1M in stock, they are buying 0.1% of $100M in future earnings, or $100k.

If my post doesn't make sense, google "Buffett on buybacks." He's written about the subject in a number of his annual letters.
Had a problem with a cache plugin, I think that it's up again
Vanilla libpng, not libapng? Interesting. Apparently they've built an APNG decoder.
Another German here. I have legal insurance. Comes with a card for your wallet listing a 24 hrs hotline that puts you in touch with a lawyer (for free) within seconds.

I've actually made use of it several times to get a professional opinion on difficult situations.
"I start Subleme Text , download some npm packages and started writing code."

Not really comparable to Visual Studio. One is a notepad while the other is an IDE.
Grooveshark supports Flattr which does exactly what this article proposes, if the user opts in.

http://help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/articles/669416-...
News like this one, and other similar ones, show that Uber is really disruptive. It's no surprise that its valuation is what it is.
What purpose does having 10000 reachable nodes serve? You don't need that many to make sure any client can retrieve the blockchain and can easily forward transactions.

You don't even need to do any mining yourself to be included in this list. If I were to speculate this number has more to do with people using online wallets or places like coinbase rather than running the client themselves.
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What's your startup? How many users do you have? I you don't have any after 7 years, it's a bad sign - speaking as someone who has been working on his own startup for 8 months, without any user yet.
His story was different when Tesla was first banned. But then he wasn't running for national office.

That was 11 months ago. I'm pretty sure Chris Christie's political ambitions haven't radically altered in the meantime.

The original "ban" was a perfectly reasonable reading by a regulatory body of the existing law. Regulatory bodies shouldn't be in the business of rewriting unpopular laws; that's the legislature's job, which appears to be what happened here.
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Well I'm afraid that we will see a extreme right party in the next elections and I wouldn't be surprised if they got 1 seat in parliament. The progress party made some vague statements which were interpreted (and rightly so) as islamophobic in the last city council elections and that brought them two seats in the council. Before they made those statements they were looking at no seats so there definitely are people that will vote for extreme right ideals.
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Worth noting that this article is from 2014.
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It means something specific: at trial, the police must prove your guilt by a reasonable doubt, and doubt is resolved in favor of the accused. That's all it means.

This is not to say that law enforcement doesn't need to cut back on the aggressive tactics. But rather that the presumption of innocence has nothing to do with why.
"Do you know how fast you were going?"

Or, in my case a couple weeks back, "any reason you were going so fast?"

You don't have to answer. I didn't (though I may have babbled some irrelevancies while digging out the paperwork). It's actually quite a mental & social breakthrough to realize you don't have to answer people's questions.

As for being a victim or witness, still best to keep statements very short, as in "that man assaulted me, there's the stick he hit me with, and that woman walking away saw it, I want to press charges and I need to talk to a lawyer" or "I witnessed the attack, here's my contact information". You say what you must to establish legitimate victimhood ("she stole my cocaine" isn't), identify perpetrators and witnesses, and identify probable perishable evidence.

Then.

Shut.

Up.

The only thing to say at this point is "am I free to go?" - repeatedly, if necessary. They'll say & do darned near anything, but at some point they have to either arrest you or not stop you from leaving.
Yes we can and do snapshot them, at several levels actually - I don't think that's a particularly hard thing to do so I'm not sure why that's relevant.

Yes there is replication both to separate disk arrays AND seperate physical servers with live failover and load balancing - again nothing new here?

No we don't send out storage to other countries - in fact that would be illegal, and if we were to do so our clients would suffer as Australia's international peering is pretty woeful.

We also gain on-disk compression and encryption on a LUN by LUN basis as we require it, storage is automatically provisioned to new application instances, all the software is 100% open source and mature, we don't have to phone a large corporate that doesn't really care about us, we pass security audits because we can prove where things are and how they're configured.

By the way, none of this is your 'new egg' gear you referenced, we use Intel DC P3600/P3700 PCIe storage.
Oh and as a bonus - there's no licensing or monthly invoices that need attention.

Is shared hosting / hardware outsourcing / cloud computing amazing - yes! Of course it is!

But you must remember it is their intentions to sell their product as the only right answer and to tell you what you should care about. In some cases it applies and in some it doesn't. The danger in jumping on the bandwagon and becoming an Amazon 'fanboy' (I'm really sorry for using that term - I hate it) is that you quickly become silod from external opperuntities and security / high vertical performance solutions.

If I was in a small team of devs working on launching a web app that's going to be targeted at an international audience, my growth is highly unpredictable, our future uncertain and our skill set focused on developing great software - I wouldn't think twice about using AWS/Rackspace etc...

But when you understand your environment well, when you have a limited budget, when you have a predicable customer base with strick security requirements and when you're pushing databases pretty hard - would I use AWS? No, it's not cost effective for us, nor is it legally (and perhaps morally) viable. Do we waste lots of time looking after our hardware? No! It's 2015 - hardware is easy.
> In practice, only WebKit-based browsers will get APNG, not Chromium-based ones. That's not a big market share.

Safari Mobile is a pretty big marketshare, if that ever trickles down to it.
Your IT/PC guys keep images with Visual Studio and SQL Server? Yes, please. It was a major hassle getting approved for the PARTIAL-admin account just to so I could install those things.