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No from both perspectives. Engineering wise there isnt much cross over between electric motors and ICEs. Think of all the systems that would need replacement, removal or modifications. You would end up with an electric car with exceptionally poor characteristics or an absurdly high cost to modify. Crash test performance is also heavily dependent on overall design.
The article calls out scrollbar hijacking. That is a very example of the tools screwing up the user experience.

You generally don't have those problems in native. Apple in particular designs their APIs to steer you in the right direction and make it painful for you to do something that goes against their UX guidelines.
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The questions he posed are legitimate given his final statement. Converting legacy cars to electric is a waste of time and money. Unless of course, your definition of "feasible" and "make sense" is different than mine. Or maybe there is a different question you're trying to get too. Like, is it feasible to start a start up producing kits to convert cars, or a boutique conversion company. Which in my opinion would be the best option.
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It is incompatible. Just because a property is vacant doesn't mean it is "undesired" or "inefficiently-used".

As long as governments continue to rob their citizens via taxes, people will do their best to not be robbed, resulting in "black money" (which is actually "white money" since none of it went to fund wars and murderous statist schemes, as opposed to the "red money" which is tax paid and so did help fund wars and statist aggression against peaceful citizens).

This "white money" will then find a place to be invested where it receives some ROI, unlike the banks and bonds and stocks that have been completely destroyed by government meddling in the economy. That is real estate or precious metals and that's where the "white money" will go.

The entire "problem" (if it is one at all) is created by statist violation of property rights through taxation, in the first place. Further statist property rights violations will only distort things even further. Let's say you introduce squatting "rights". Well now you know what happens? Nobody's buying real estate in your country any more. All the "white money" flows to alternate investments and real estate in other countries that don't have squatting "rights".

It's basic human action. People don't want to be enslaved and robbed from. And they will do everything in their power to avoid it.
No one seems to be suggesting taking work away from people that want it, rather, it's to alleviate people from working who don't want it.

If you want to work 80 hour weeks to drive a car that can go faster than you'll ever legally be able to push it and live in a house so large you only use a quarter of the living space regularly. Go for it.

As for me, I'd rather have my basics met, so I could spend more time doing things to help build my community or just go camping and enjoy nature on a whim. The worst part is that I've found the more money I make, the better people treat me. So I don't have the option of working part-time just to make ends meet. That would quickly land me in a position with people who look at me like I'm worthless and treat me as expendable, which would make working even more unbearable.
The data dependencies mapping part sounds a little bit like FB's relay proposal https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing...
>espousing your highly conservative viewpoint.

I don't ever recall reading either of you or GP's comments before so maybe I'm missing something. But since when is saying "producing things has a cost" a 'highly conservative' viewpoint?
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Thinkin' the same thing. Actually, it is very feasible and affordable for a low-range city car. The major factors are the cost of batteries, and range anxiety. You can do conversions with in some cheap lead-acid batteries generally for a total build cost <$3-4k. Cons: limited recharge cycle, weight, not practical for >30km range (~18mi).

Lithium batteries are the best (either LiOn or LiFePo), super expensive though. Tesla Model S 85kWh uses 7104 3.1mAh Panasonic 18650 cells. They probably have a special purchase agreement ala Apple with Samsung NAND. If you wanted to buy enough for 100mi range I crudely estimated the retail cost at $15167.58 (vendor Orbtronic).

But there are people who spend $20k+ on conversions. Check out http://www.evalbum.com

Also at http://www.forkenswift.com they did a conversion for $672CAD on a Geo Metro
Great point. I think with robotics and other automations we will get minimum wages and work / art or other efforts will give bonus. Kaliyug in vedas mentioned a 10000 years period where everything will great with everyone happily living with others with out wars and fights. I strongly believe if all countries work together we can make it happen. I think corporates in current methodology done their job and move on two new model which will be that profits be used for bonus and for basic wages for all method.
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As someone living in the UK, I'm a huge fan - BBC's compulsory licensing for TV pays for a wide range of content from TV to radio, all top-notch... especially Radio 6 - a wonderful way to discover new music free from commercial constraints.
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Some conversion kits have been around for quite some time, but targeted towards hobbyists. Some kits from EVWest [0] even retains the transmission and the rest of the drivetrain, only replacing the internal combustion engine with an electric motor and supporting devices (chargers and coolers), and a place to put the battery in. They even have braking regeneration and replacement heaters for the passenger compartment. Maybe the space to put the battery in is the main hurdle in converting the car.

[0]: http://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40
To me the worst side-effect of naively chasing "native" is permission prompts.

The web platform wants to have powerful features that are dangerous and/or easy to abuse, but haven't found a good way to allow them safely.

The "solution" we've settled for is to blame the user for clicking "OK" on permission prompts that have unclear consequences to non-technical users.
Those 9999 people would be completely fine if they were born earlier. We enable some people to be incredibly productive, at the cost of other peoples ability to support themselves.

"But society came and paved over the place where all the roots and berry plants grew and killed the buffalo and dynamited the caves and declared the tribal bonding rituals Problematic. This increased productivity by about a zillion times, so most people ended up better off. The only ones who didn’t were the ones who for some reason couldn’t participate in it.

(if you’re one of those people who sees red every time someone mentions evolution or cavemen, imagine him as a dockworker a hundred years ago, or a peasant farmer a thousand)

Society got where it is by systematically destroying everything that could have supported him and replacing it with things that required skills he didn’t have. Of course it owes him when he suddenly can’t support himself. Think of it as the ultimate use of eminent domain; a power beyond your control has seized everything in the world, it had some good economic reasons for doing so, but it at least owes you compensation!"
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/burdens/
This is clearly just my laptop (or maybe firefox) but that google site took about 30 seconds to load up. Every time I click on the tab that has it open - my computer fan whirs up to near full speed and it locks up firefox's graphic rendering until it finishes the page. Once loaded there is an unusable level of lag on the browser and CPU usage is levelling at 55 odd percent.
Yes, your local government controlling your communication channels will result in far better privacy than some remote government who doesn't care about you controlling it. /s
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Human nature is curious. People want to invent interesting things, that should be self evident to anyone who has been around open source software. You make it sound like 9k people are ganging up on some poor unsuspecting person to make them invent things to keep the world turning.
Yeah, this is kind of what I've been thinking:

Let data be data. Let features be features. And let user interfaces be user interface.
So many websites mess this up in order to deliver a quick working site that only works on the desktop and sometimes only Windows. And now we have sites making seperate ghetto mobile versions or mobile apps missing features. We still have data that can't be accessed through URL with text that can't be selected or shown without JavaScript loaded.

Unless you are doing something more complicated than content devilery (ie games or utility apps) there is no reason to override fundamental features of the web.
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You could add a generator and electric motors, but then you basically have a bad double conversion and extra weight.

You can strip out the motor, but then you basically are near building a new car anyway.

Everything engineered is a series of well-weighted compromises towards a optimum. Adding as a after thought a electric option to a gasoline car, is going to be a bad compromise. Always. If you want a good compromise, build one from scratch (just reusing chassis and gears) or buy one that is designed with this in mind.
Thanks for clarification. I think I disagree with the author here. In my experiences, it's sometimes awkward to use '-er,' '-or' suffixes to turn name into concepts that process data (active) e.g. JobUpserter, ...
Here's a relevant reply I posted to someone else:

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I'm guessing his point was that we're so accustomed to relatively comfortable living (especially here on HN), that we take valuable things for granted.

That leads to a sense of entitlement and confusion. We don't see how valuable the things we have are, so we end up thinking they should be "free", without realizing that nothing of value is actually free, because otherwise it wouldn't have value.

So if we experienced real hardship, our thinking would shift, and we'd appreciate valuable things more and we'd feel less entitled.

My point in another, heavily hissy-fit-downvoted message, was that everything of value costs something to produce, and therefore things can't just be handed out for free, because the things themselves are not actually free.

The same applies to "free money" in the form of Basic Income. People like to fantasize about not being personally responsible for their choices in life. Instead, they'd just get free money every month without having to work. "We have the technology!! Why aren't you giving me free stuff?! Damn capitalist oppressors!!"

People should think about how things work in the real world.

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Suppose Service X costs you $500 per month to produce. If you keep giving it away for free, you're incurring a loss of $500 per month. That is not sustainable.

In a similar fashion, running the Nanny-Fairy-Machinery and producing things with it would definitely cost something, and that's why giving the output away for free wouldn't be sustainable. It's a Marxism-tinged pipe dream.
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I couldn't disagree more.

I would fit into the 'potential employers' part of your comment, having hired <50 people in the last 12-18 months (and 100's total in my time). If I got a candidates name, and Google'd them (which I always do) and a blog post like this came up: it would have no negative effects on my view of that candidate.

In fact, I would prefer a candidate who knows their limits and is obviously willing to communicate them. I would view a person who would publicly talk about a subject that few others in their position do as someone I would want on my team, as I would view them as more likely to not only push when their workload/lifestyle is becoming unhealthy but would actively help in recognising it in others who maybe wouldn't talk it so readily.

Frankly any organisation that would view something like this as negative is one I would council no one to want to work with.
> After 25 years, why do web designers need to create their own page transition mechanics for long-form articles

As far as I am concerned those things only exist to inflate ad views, they have negative usability impact.
I don't really see why a long document should be broken up in pages to be readable.

> The same with photo galleries - after 25 years, why isn't there a standard user experience for viewing photos related to articles?

There is one: right click → open in new tab. It work very well, much better than the jquery kludges that people come up with.

> In fact, why do we need to write CSS to create a basic readable document in the first place? Why doesn't HTML/CSS default to a high-end and legible reader experience out-of-the-box for basic text?

I find plain un-styled HTML to be much more readable than the tiny light gray webfont on white background that designers usually settle for these days.
It's clear that the web has outgrown its original intent. Instead of just being a simple substrate for linked documents, many (if not most) websites are now trying to emulate applications, platforms, and services using the poor, ill-suited DOM.

But I don't think the solution is to give up. Native apps are great, but there's a vast gulf between the binary running on your device and the server you got it from. Downloading and updating take forever. Connecting to other apps is barely possible. Everything is horribly siloed. The brilliance of the web is that it allows people to quickly connect to computers anywhere in the world and get at whatever stuff they might want to serve; native apps will never have that level of flexibility, barring some horrible proprietary ecosystem.

Unfortunately, the web was designed primarily with content in mind, not presentation. The only way servers can provide interesting and slick user experiences is to hack up the content presentation system, which is as silly as using spreadsheet scripting to build enterprise software.

So I think the best approach would be to revisit the design of the web. Instead of having the web be strictly document-centric, I think there should be a higher level above that, through which HTML, CSS, the DOM, and everything else are implemented. A sandboxed, scriptable, low-level canvas that only gives you the bare essentials, allowing you to create native-quality experiences without having to piggyback on the DOM or reinvent the universe via canvas or WebGL. A "Vulkan" equivalent for web software. Not making a document? Feel free to not use HTML — or only embed it in the parts of your web-app that actually present content.

It should be possible for a user to go to facebook.com and immediately retrieve an equivalent to the Facebook app in their browser — smooth scrolling, gestures, and everything. (Or whatever the future equivalent of a browser might be.) But if a user navigates to a simple blog, it should still appear as it does in the web today, because this new web would be a superset of today's web.

We've been interacting with other computers through a seriously constrained pipeline this past decade. Instead of bowing our heads and conceding defeat, why not blow it wide open?
"Producing things has a cost" is n obvious, meaningless assertion; the actual suggestion here is that everyone only deserves whatever they manage to produce. That's a fairly conservative viewpoint.
>> So it would be possible to produce a mass-produced replacement part targeted at specific models

It wouldn't be a big deal to design an electric motor that would be a bolt-on replacement to a gas engine - especially for the most popular vehicles like a Honda Civic or Toyota Camry.

The problem is where do you put a big enough battery?
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I'm not sure I understand your argument. It seems like you are saying "Patio11 clearly is lying about his consulting rates and the sale of BCC proves it."

What I don't understand is how you make that leap. BCC is the single most documented thing Patrick has done. The finances are there for review. You'd need to assume that the whole thing was an elaborate multi-year lie to think that he is embellishing the BCC numbers. This sale fits the numbers (though I don't know if we know the sale price) and therefore I view it as evidence that Patrick wasn't lying, at least about BCC. Am I reading that wrong in your view?

Or am I to assume that Patrick, whose writings on BCC are reasonable and backed up, then pivoted when it came to writing about consulting and started making things up? I guess I can see that happening, but how would a piece of data (the sale of BCC) that backs up many of his claims both about the financials and his own motivations help me discern that?
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"With all that, the last 20% of a Cordova app may well take 80% of development time, and that's rarely been budgeted in."

To be fair, that could be said about most software projects. "80% done, now the last 80% remains."

Not that I disagree with you, I had the same experience trying to make an Android app in Phonegap. It's lacking, like most cross-platform frameworks (for most types of apps, but typically not games) I have tried. They are only suitable for basic stuff where the native feel isn't critical.
This article feels dated. If he wrote it in 2011, I would agree with him.

Web apps don't try to recreate the native UI anymore - something that used to be the case some years ago in the iOS1-6 era. Nowadays the UI of Android 5+, iOS 7+ and WinPhone7+ look very simple and Web-alike.

Simply avoid bloated outdated big JS libraries and use a minifier to shrink the JS and CSS files.

I thought the trend reversed as many little commerce switched from offering a Android/iOS app to a mobile-friendly website. This may not be a global trend.

quirksmode.org used to be great resource in the IE6 era. Nowadays http://caniuse.com and Mozilla's MDN have replaced it completely for me as it offers up-to-date information.
Yeah, that's probably true but I really got the feeling that when they first published that they sort of masked the fact that your average Raspberry Pi enthusiast wasn't going to be able to buy the board and run existing application code on the 16-core epiphany chip. They did eventually edit the page a bit to clarify this a bit.

As it turned out there were a few folks that appeared on the forums who had these kinds of misconceptions. After all this time there weren't that many; so I probably overestimated the number of people who signed on based on those misunderstandings.

Having said all that, I guess I should point out that while I do have a very skeptical view of kickstarter as a whole, I don't view Adapteva's kickstarter as being very unethical or as complete failure. They eventually were able to deliver on what I see a bare minimum of what they said they were going to do. Though I do feel we have to be honest and acknowledge that they weren't able to fully live up to all the claims and promises that were made... like you said "more about suggesting dreams than making contracts".
> Why do you need page transitions for articles at all? The only reason I can think of is for more ad displays.

What I read was that it's not for "more ad displays", although closely related. It's because news sites keep (and market themselves based on) a "pageviews" metric, so they try to get as many pageviews as possible out of each piece of content.
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I find pre-sense works well, the only issue I have had is when you want approach a car that is turning left/right and pull out (around it) at the last second. The car doesn't know you are both steering in the opposite directions to avoid the collision will either beep, or in one scenario has applied the breaks (only to remove them once the car in front was no longer in view).

In general I really like the ACC, although it really high lights the inconsistency in other drivers speed (often for no apparent reason). It also isn't as clever as a driver, so you are constantly sat there observing things it can't and waiting for it to notice like a car about to pull into your lane. Another annoyance is that it will slow down for cars that you can see are moving out of your lane, or turning off, when continuing a the same speed would have been fine.

I also have the auto dimming head lights, although they too are a little dumb. They respond to seeing the oncoming car's lights, by which time you have blinded the driver of the other car. They are not clever enough to see the lights coming around a corner, and also sometimes miss a motorbike, or mistake a reflective sign for a car. They also don't work at junctions :(

Peraps next time I will drop the head lights for side assist.
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I disagree. Burnout should be talked about, so that people learn it's a real problem and it stops being a taboo. Third world countries have public health problems specifically because there are these "taboo conditions" that are not talked about.

Sure, public exposure might discourage a few employers but realistically - it's a pretty big world out there and imagining a single internet tarnish will ruin ones future is really exaggerating.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

I can speak from observing events at a close distance -- - even high-tech employers can be really clueless about the effects of burnout and it's cousin clinical depression. And it's too bad because the cause is often bad management and poor project management, which are areas that are, if not easy, then at least feasible to improve on given the large supply of educational material and consultancies available to help in these matters.
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crosswalk adds 58mb of weight on your app though and works on android only.
> Something based on Cordova (eg PhoneGap, Ionic) with Crosswalk can get you to about 90% of the performance of a native app

People always go on about Cordova etc, but I've never used one of these that wasn't a clunky, slow non-native looking mess. Do you have any examples of Cordova apps which aren't noticeably more crap than, say, an average-quality iOS app?
Thanks for mentioning Reapp, I hadn't heard about it. I'm facing the same problem as you as I'm starting to build an app for Android and iOS and I can't really see myself building it the 'old way' after having tried React Native. Have you tried Reapp?
Spawn off a rdesktop or VNC session back to a cloud based server. Skip all the intermediate interference that just slows down and complicates things, and turn the web into a dumb graphics terminal. You can either intentionally use the correct tool for the job, or painfully slowly buggily reinvent it if NIH is a requirement.
And maybe thats the difference between your experience and patio11's?

He did take the time (and lots of it) to write up his advice (though if you read his earlier stuff it was much less advice and much more "here is this thing I'm doing, lets see if it works").

He also has near endless patience when discussing this stuff with others. It doesn't hurt that he is a persuasive writer, and it is a skill he has obviously and publicly worked at.

I for one would love to hear an opposing viewpoint, especially if it could be as well written and the author allowed as much access as patio11 does.