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Commercial airplanes have (at least) two engines because of the high risk of failure at take-off.

The next step for this electric engine would be to replace that second heavy, expensive engine every large airplane carries around...

Additionally, the full power of the two engines is only needed at takeoff. At cruise they only run at 30-40%. An electric motor with a relativly small battery would be enough to provide enough power at takeoff.
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There are definitions for these things:

Rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
Always speak kindly of others. If you are blameless, what do you have to worry about :)?
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Hm. Yet people change religion all the time. Claiming 'no true scotsman' isn't fair. That leaves, people choose God.

And we can't call it coincidence that people of one culture mostly choose the same God. Gotta be learned, right? So I'm not buying that line at all.
there's thousands of us. thousands!
It isn't just lack of money. Teenagers are not as emotionally mature, they have not finished figuring out what to accomplish with their lives (career or otherwise), and often they end up being single parents. There is tons of family research on why it is better to have two parents in a family.

Government giving people what they want? Please. Teenagers can't even vote, so they aren't voting themselves contraceptives. This is adults imposing yet another view on their children. It just so happens that this is a differing view than the traditional religious view of teaching abstinence. (Or of teaching that teenagers who get pregnant should then immediately get married and the dad get a job.)
And if you don't feel like clicking on a site you don't know, here's a YouTube video describing errthang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxewIXvHO4s&feature=youtu.be
The Phil Karlton quote is fun and clever. But people should not mistake it for actual wisdom.

Read this paper (for example) and tell me that naming and cache invalidation are harder than that: http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf
But at this point what is the goal of continuing this process? What can the state gain from further prosecutions?
Na. Typically there are thousands more devs from cheaper places and although your code might be beautiful in comparison, someone who just wants "a website" is not going to care what the source code looks like.

Just my personal experience, though, maybe people with tight portfolios actually make a living.
In all states teenagers under 16 cannot legally consent to sex.
The criteria is whatever I happen to feel comfortable with.

I don't draw a distinction between and civil and religious marriage ceremony though and I have no clue what a domestic partnership is... :-)
I haven't needed to debug it very much. Thankfully, it's easy to insert debugging helpers at any stage of the pipeline.
High speed rail! Imagine!
Interesting! Looks like this is youtube-dl combined with FUSE, so that you can use a normal video player to play and filesystem tools to browse, rather than downloading first. See https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs/blob/master/doc/depende... .
i prefer the varian't that says :

There are only 2 hard problems in programming:

1. naming things.

2. cache invalidation.

3. off by one errors.
He tends to swear a fair amount, and go off on racist tangents. I realize that it's due to his mental illness, but I was just smiling at the disconnect between someone looking for a nice, sin-free operating system coming across a comment like "Fucken nXXXXr. I judge you, pig. I'm fucken Moses. Suck my mother fucken dick."

I'm really sorry if this comes across as making fun of someone's mental illness; that's not my goal.
If you zoom in further, it is actually placed Slubice, Poland, just across the border from Frankfurt an der Oder ;) Still no idea how it got there, though.
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Understood. My point was that the Constitution has been amended to remove rights. It may eventually be done again, and I agree that would likely be a mistake, but it has already been done.
One mans freedom fighter or activist is another mans terrorist.

Besides, it is human nature to be morally flexible. Many people don't really register atrocities of any scale as long as they don't affect their daily lives.

That's not to say this isn't terrible or shameful behaviour. It's just common terrible, shameful behaviour.
Maybe I'm too literal, or just... can't get past "terms of service", but...

Yelp TOS: https://www.yelp.com/developers/api_terms

"You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to: cache, record, pre-fetch, or otherwise store any portion of the Yelp Content, or attempt or provide a means to execute any "bulk download" operations, other than storing Yelp business IDs which you may use solely for back-end matching purposes;"

It looks like you're storing Yelp Content. Or maybe reviews aren't "Yelp Content" specifically? Or did you get a written waiver for this service?

Or does no one ever give a toss about these TOS, and just complain on twitter when they get API access revoked?
And of those, most of them are remote but require UK residence.
It's usually a knee-jerk reaction to not being able to buy the original. Big and hairy company threats small company that they'll "crush them" if they refuse an acquisition offer, small company actually refuses, big and hairy company rushes to launch competitor just to follow through, even if it makes little business sense, big and hairy company knock off fails to get traction, small company thrives, and everyone forgets.
You can think of C3, C4 and CAM as interchangeable functions, yes. They take in CO2 and energy from sunlight, and they output sugar:

def photosynthesis(co2, energy)
# C3, C4 or CAM
return sugar
end

to your second question, plants absorb photons that are not converted to biomass because all the light harvesting machinery is saturated. But this is only true at the parts of the plant that are most exposed to light. The idea is that we could reduce the absorption in those parts and let some light through to other parts of the plant, where it could be absorbed at a different wavelength if we install that ability.
Haha, from the title I expected this to be a solution for generating MP4s from arbitrary data that you could then upload to YouTube for backup.

This is definitely really cool, too. I like that it shows that a node in a filesystem is just another way to represent some resource, but in a way that's a little more familiar to most people than something like procfs.
Or IRC
This one seems to stand out:
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...
I lot of my friends in the bay area use Uber actually to get to and/or from work. I find it rather insane with all the other transit options and you know, walking? But to each their own.
I like to listen to Marco's point of view of the tech world, being a successful independent developer his (conservative) opinions on languages and platforms are always insightful.
The case was so perfectly reasonable the prosecutor failed to find relevant statute and instead offered up no relevance and caused an innocent man to suffer greatly?
That sounds like a firewall issue. Email me and I'll help debug: jakob@eggerapps.at
In my experience, almost all overhead in Go programs will result from being bitten by memmove, alloc and GC. Profiling any program that uses interface{} and byte buffers will quickly expose you to how much the runtime loves to reallocate and copy objects. In one instance I got 10x throughput improvement by switching from a generic interface (take an interface{} and detect the type) to using typed methods and hand-rolling a shim that called the appropriate methods.
Xamarin and Titanium compile to native code and use native components, so they wouldn't have the same problems as a JavaScript and HTML solution like Cordova does. Particularly re performance since they don't run in the web view widgets like Cordova.
"Each journey can be paid for via the app with Google collecting 15 percent of the fee."

http://trooclick.com/event/google-s-waze-tests-carpooling-in...
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Didn't expect dev salaries to be that low in the UK. Just out of curiosity: what's the median take-home after-tax income for a developer in the UK in general, and in London in particular?

And how do devs compare to the general population? Are they just slightly better off?
I thought the same thing when I was trying to flesh this idea out a bit more, but the more I've spoken with farmers, the less I think this is the right way to go. The downside to doing this approach is that for many small farmers contract farming is all but assured. What if it doesn't rain when it needs to? What if you have an odd cold snap that wipes a crop? What if your planned delivery date of particular produce is delayed because things aren't growing as well as they should?

These are all things that happen with a fair amount of regularity on small farms, and things that many good restaurants would be flexible enough to accommodate, but it would sort of negate the benefits of planning out menus at the beginning of a season.

I would ideally love to see this idea extend to foragers as well. It would be kind of amazing to have local foragers post their pounds of morels and fiddlehead ferns and see local chefs snap them up.
how is it a filesystem? can I store a PDF or zip file on youtube with that ?
> I don't think these alternate social networks will ever displace Facebook

I think they could. The facebook model rules out certain kinds of very common social interaction. There are certain things you only say or share when you're pretty sure of some privacy (or otherwise drunk). I would argue that there's definitely a need for a network that enables those kinds of interactions even if the demand isn't obvious yet.

That being said, I'm not sure "Christian Facebook" encourages or supports those use cases. I'd like to see more discretion-oriented (end-to-end encryption, read-receipts, retracting sent messages, etc.) features on a service that aims to serve Christian use cases.
> What prospects will she see to be a hacker and escape being pigeon-holed as a sex object in a community and in offices full of young men?

Well, if she doesn't get freakishly large breast implants, I think she'll be OK.

http://imgur.com/a/ky02J
Are there good reasons to think that this is supposed to be serious? It all looks very tongue-in-cheek to me.
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It'll be interesting to see the parts that silicon photonics and molecular assembly come to play in meeting the future process nodes.

I agree with those who say we'll reach a cost barrier before we reach a technical barrier. If I were to make a wild guess, I'd say 7nm will be that limit, and that it'll be about 5 years away (Moore's Law is already broken and isn't likely to be fixed any time soon, hence the slower timeframe).
Would improved photosynthesis be liable to find its way into nearby weeds via horizontal gene transfer? It sounds like a really advantageous modification, and so something that's likely to be picked up on. (Whereas, say, a modification for higher yields wouldn't be, because it wouldn't be advantageous for a weed.)
"vanilla spaghetti" might be a new term we can start using :) leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth!
Sounds interesting would like to give it a try but cannot register from UK
There's advantages and disadvantages of both early and late childbearing. I don't believe there is an "optimal" choice. 28 is hardly an "old" age to become a father.

I do take issue with the statement that young people (people in their 20s) have energy "in abundance."
May I access your bank account and transfer some untouchable numbers to mine?
That's a fascinating idea. Unlike gmail, there isn't an upper bound on how much you can store on YouTube. If you could encode data in a way that's resilient against re-encoding, you could use YouTube for steganography as well. Or, for that matter, see http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/2012/09/your-youtube-orig... .

That said, it's also amazingly wasteful, and abusing a free service for a purpose it isn't intended for.
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The programmer won all the battles in court, but GS won the war.
> People have being praying for thousands of years, yet I have seen no conclusive evidence of its effectiveness.

Praying isn't likely to mess with the metabolism. It is, in fact, entirely difficult to tell what it would mess with. Fasting is relatively easy to observe: if it fails, people starve to death.

Meanwhile, people all over the world incorporate fasting into their world intentionally. Far before civilization, they probably did so unintentionally. I highly doubt the body is not equipped in some form to deal with regular period of not eating. It is only extremely recently that the median human has reliable food sources.
Just put that server payment in your will and tell your executor to not reveal its existence. Alternatively, pay on an annual basis.
>Nobody is blaming you.

>The Industry Is Fucked.

That's my industry that's fucked. Not some random people on the internet, not some assholes in a convention. The statement is that the entire industry that I participate in, interact with and identify with is fucked.
Sounds like a familiar analysis... Oh that's right, I posted it the last time this came up, and a certain prominent legal mind here shouted it down as ignorant and insulted my intelligence.

No hard feelings. Cheers, sir.
Spoken like a young person.
Except that they've made a big deal lately of differentiating themselves from Google by not using your data.
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Perl is also the 'duct tape of the internet', just like the Church has been to modern society for a millenium.
I'm fairly certain directions in Google Maps integrate some sort of dynamic Waze navigation routes. This weekend Google Maps routed us around the highway due to heavy traffic, which is not what it used to do. There was no accident or roadwork, just traffic.
> Software Engineering

Unfortunately, I feel like that term has been very diluted in the last few years, to the point where I'm not sure it has much difference (at least colloquially) from "programming".
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Is there anyway to split up the one HUUGe battery into a number of smaller ones? so that the battery box isn't so large?
3D stacking. Heat dissipation is the limitation in this case, not the process size.
Interesting, I hadn't really considered the market outside of restaurants. Typically the price of organic, locally grown (although it doesn't have to be limited to just organic) produce is higher per pound than similar produce found at supermarkets. Do you think that community groups would be interested in paying more, or would have the budget to pay more?
But I think you've misinterpreted the original comment in the first place. Saying something "is likely to be of use" is not the same as "is empirically true".
Hey @vitovito,

First off, thanks for taking your time in writing this.

Sorry for being unclear as you have commented on this already.

> How do you make sure that the user experience is what it needs to be?
is a different question than
> How do you start the process that you come up with such interesting interfaces.

What I actually meant was "How do you work on initial prototype for a product"?

> That's because your goal isn't "interesting." You're not
> making a design to impress other designers, or to create
> something novel, or to challenge your developers. You're making
> a design to solve a problem for a person that isn't you.

Yeah, this seems a nice advice, till now I was doing just
opposite of what you're suggesting.
Turns out there is; http://imgur.com/a/EonaF
What model of car was the last taxi you took? Did you pick that taxi because of its stylish design? In contrast, were you impressed that the driver knew a shortcut to avoid traffic by getting off one exit early and going through a parking garage?
Interesting, maybe I'm just less familiar with debugging in Haskell.
Definitely. And you'd have no guarantee that your video wouldn't get transcoded someday into a format or setting that corrupts it.
Interesting info, thanks for the pointer!

I can see the benefits of the indexedDb behavior: an open transaction is an exclusive resource, so leaving one dangling locks out other transactions. The auto-commit behavior means it's a lot harder to accidentally leave a transaction dangling. But it is unfortunate that this makes it not play nicely with promises.
>Are there good reasons to thing that this is supposed to be serious?

Yes. The lone author is supposedly schizophrenic.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

If this is all just a joke it's a very elaborate one.
You kind of missed the analogy - we should do all of those things. The problem is that the acts of the violent criminal are being treated as the acts of the whole town.
Mapping data isn't travel data. One is useful for representing the world, the other is only useful for marketing data.
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> When a good name cannot be found, you probably have muddied up the problem, and should rethink it.

Absolutely. Software as we know it could not exist without abstration, and abstraction can not exist without names for things. Sometimes a new name is required because a particular concept or application is relatively novel, but if you decline the challenge of naming it then progress stops immediately. No future applications will be built on top of an unnamed abstraction.
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Well, WebSQL was deprecated in favor of IndexedDB. LocalStorage is also quasi-deprecated (synchronous access == problems), which is why it's not available from a worker either.
Agreed that the biggest challenges are often non-technical. The article really hit home, especially the ‘Tragedy of the Commons”. I’m just about to leave a ‘unicorn’ startup that is beginning to implode due to team and individual sub-optimization. All directors in R&D report to the CEO and the only way to get teams to work together is with the CEO in the room. My director once said, “Why are you helping that team, if it fails, it’s their fault.” Developers are judged on commit counts and bugs fixed. No one can figure out why quality is tanking and velocity is plummeting. It’s sad to watch, like a slow motion train wreck, but it’s also a poisonous environment and no one can change it except the CEO, who blindly trusts his “Generals”, which only exacerbates the situation.
Well my mom works for the health department and she passes them out all the time. So I'd say transportation is not an issue for some of them.
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I'd imagine it's read only, much like parts of procfs.
I see this same issue come up from time to time and I always recall a little saying I heard (unfortunately I don't remember the source).

"If you are having trouble naming something, then you don't fully understand that something."

What I get from that saying is that if I have a function that I am struggling to name, it means that I don't fully understand the problem, and there's a good chance that it is doing to many things. Keep your functions to performing a single task, so they have just that one purpose, then name it after what it does. This improves readability and makes naming things much easier.

You have a variable you can't name, well, what data is it actually holding? If it is holding more than one piece of data (reused) then you are doing something wrong or very hacky.

Follow the same rule as with functions. Keep your variables to holding just one specific piece of data, and name it after that.

Both of these rules not only make naming things much easier, I've found they produce much more readable code, easier to debug code, and generally much less bugs in the code.
The drop in drug violence could be a couple of different things but if it is correlated with a drop in prices that would suggest that decriminalizing or legalizing would further drop violence. Just like it did with the end of prohibition.
It's read-only - you can play/copy youtube movies as a file
Amazon is 20 years old and never had a profit.
I am not sure how practical is this idea. Just thinking of the extra weight, extra maintenance, extra complexities, extra costs. For my money, I much rather have good training and a ballistic parachute installed.
> It brought us already once near a global atomic war.

I think we disagree on how important that 'almost' is as a result, and what the alternative was / is.
... wanted to clarify further:

"The API is made available by Yelp Inc. ("Yelp") to enable you to access valuable local information and present Yelp Deals or Yelp Certificates on your website or mobile properties, including mobile apps ("Your Site") that encourages the visitors to Your Site (the "Users") to purchase certain Yelp Deals or Yelp Certificates (collectively "Yelp Voucher(s)") by directing them to Yelp's website or mobile properties, including mobile apps ("Yelp site")."

The entire purpose of the Yelp API is explicitly to get you to direct people to their site and/or to sell Yelp Deals.

Do people really not read these TOS before launching services, or do they think they can skate around the edges until they're big enough to get noticed/acquired before the API police cut off access?
I don't know a lot about Howard Hughes, but there are some obvious parallels. They were both maverick entrepreneurs in multiple industries, and both in aerospace.

However, Elon Musk started from very humble beginnings, whereas Hughes was born into a fortune. Also, Elon's story is not finished. He has really just scratched the surface. If Tesla continues as a niche car manufacturer and Space X doesn't create re-usable rockets, then Elon will not be even in the top 10 most important entrepreneurs. But if his vision comes to fruition... If in 20 years, all cars are electric and supplied by giga-factories or competitive clones. If super-charger technology is a standard like 120V electrical outlets... If we have re-usable rockets. If space x provides global satellite internet access to earth and Mars. If we have a colony of 1 million people on Mars... Then Elon will be the most epic entrepreneur of all time. The compelling thing is his vision and the trajectory of his success.
There are some good thoughts here, but it isn't all quite coherent yet. So, to add my 2 cents:

There are basically two reasons to name things.

1. Because something is lacking in either the syntax of our PL or our skill in coding, so that we end up giving something a name, when it does not really need one.

2. As a handle on some abstraction, indicating what it is for.

When #1 is the issue, names are best avoided. When #2 is the issue, names are a Good Thing, but a poorly chosen name can be very harmful.
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It is similar to sociology or psychology problems.

They use models or paradigms with lot of names mainly because of lack of theory than can connect human sciences to mathematics or physics. In each model they can solve some aspects but the whole.

It looks like zoology or biology before DNA.