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by Zanni 8y ago
A Tesla service center, not dealership.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Exactly. "Returning" an internet mattress is a lot like when a bookstore "returns" unsold inventory by tearing off the covers and dumping the rest.
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by Zanni 8y ago
I have, and it was absolutely my experience. I "retired" at 28. Before that, I loathed my job and couldn't wait to quit. After? I realized that satisfying work is one of the main ingredients of happiness. If I had figured tha
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by Zanni 8y ago
Ha. Came here to say exactly this. In fact, I used to be an "idea guy" until I started running an arts organization and was suddenly inundated with people telling me what I "ought to do." Most of their ideas are terrible
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by Zanni 8y ago
I'm not saying it's ideal. But there's a population of folks for whom Tesla is definitely on their radar, regardless of their retail presence. I live in Hawaii, and I've been following Tesla since the original Roadster.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Personal experience. Tesla owners tend to be so stoked on their cars that they want to share the experience. Seriously. I've seen multiple requests and offers on Tesla forums and apparently it's pretty common at Tesla meet-ups as
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by Zanni 8y ago
That's a great idea. Hell, I just want to be able to rent a Tesla whenever I travel out of town.
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by Zanni 8y ago
They're still offering test drives, just not in as many locations as before (also, FWIW, Tesla owners tend to be very generous in letting friends and acquaintances, sometimes total strangers, test drive their personal vehicles). There
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by Zanni 8y ago
It's less unsaved work (that would be madness), but unsaved context . The physical arrangement of windows and browser tabs and file locations is significant, and losing it all to a reboot (intentional or otherwise) destroys that con
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by Zanni 8y ago
Long, long ago I was a developer at Microsoft, and at a small startup before that. I've since transitioned into theatre, but I love keeping up with the tech world via Hacker News (which is my way of warning you that my blog is complete
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by Zanni 8y ago
How Starbucks Saved My Life [1] is a good read along those lines, although it's highly dependent on how much sympathy you feel for the author and his responsibility for his circumstances. I think there's a universal appeal, espe
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by Zanni 8y ago
One thing that should give athletes pause (though probably won't dissuade them entirely) is that drug testing is getting better. You might test clean now but have your sample retested years later with better tech and be stripped of y
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by Zanni 8y ago
Except European hotels, where the first floor is one up from the ground floor, making floor number effectively zero-based.
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by Zanni 8y ago
I don't see how this can be an "answer to Tesla" when it has less than half the range, terrible acceleration and seats fewer people than a motorcycle . If price is your driver, get a used Leaf. The article doesn't menti
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by Zanni 8y ago
Okay, let me try this again. Forget the money. Forget the job at Microsoft (which was a huge deal back then--Microsoft was the center of the software universe at the time). Consider only this: if you have to walk away, walk away. But be civ
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by Zanni 8y ago
It's not a question of what they deserve but what it costs you down the road. My friend and I both worked at the same Bay Area startup under extremely trying circumstances. We knew the deal going in but this was ridiculous (no salary,
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by Zanni 8y ago
Barriers to exit are barriers to entry. If you make it hard for me to leave, I'm less likely to come back. If you make it hard for me to leave, I won't recommend you to my friends. If I hear that you make it hard for me to leave,
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yeah. This seems less like an argument about why designers should code and more like a case study of incomplete requirements/inflexible process.
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by Zanni 8y ago
In the context of the NYT, this isn't blogspam. This is news; they're reporting it; of course they're going to quote the article. In the context of HN, though, yeah, it kinda is. Why link to the NYT's rehash when the ori
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by Zanni 8y ago
There's a legit distinction, though, between startups and other businesses - startups are designed to grow fast. [0] That doesn't mean they're better, but you have to know the difference or you're going to get yourself i
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by Zanni 8y ago
Gates was a pretty accomplished coder. He famously wrote the bootloader for his Basic interpreter by hand on the plane trip to Altair. Microsoft bought DOS out of expedience, not because they were incapable of developing it on their own.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Indeed. Thirty feels old ... when you're 30. Get another decade or two under your belt, and you'll look back and realize you had so much time .
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by Zanni 8y ago
Here are some "loopholes" you can use to legally get away with "murder": 1) be an executioner, performing a state-sanctioned execution, 2) be a member of the military and kill an enemy combatant, 3) be a doctor performin
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by Zanni 8y ago
The Blind Watchmaker , also by Dawkins, is the book that really undermined the necessity of a Creator to explain the complexity of life.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Exactly. It's called Physical Education most often, but there's very little eduction involved. There could be, and that would have made it more accessible for me--I'm thinking weight lifting and mobility paired with kinesio
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by Zanni 8y ago
You're solving the wrong problem. Calculating tax owed is the easy part. Figuring out your income is the challenge: tracking all your business expenses, depreciation, credits, exemptions, etc.
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by Zanni 8y ago
To reduce the chance of creating an assignment expression when you intended a simple comparison. Yes, there's already a different operator for equality, but it's easy to mistake = for ==. Forcing you to use := makes it a deliberat
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by Zanni 8y ago
Competitors only tried to enter the market after SawStop validated the market's existence. Something that never would have happened without the assurance of profit that the patent provided. The company tried to license the technology
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by Zanni 8y ago
> SawStop invented a thing. Does that mean nobody else can ever produce a similar thing? No. SawStop patents (there are many) begin expiring in 2021. > Ford created the first mass-production automobile. Did that stop other companies f
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by Zanni 8y ago
My mailbox opens and closes for my mailman to collect outgoing mail and deposit incoming mail. But anyone can open it. That doesn't mean I want them to, or that they are allowed to. But if my mailbox doesn't want to allow access

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