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811.
by codex 14y ago
He called Tesla and acted on the advice they gave him. In this respect, he was acting like a normal consumer, not an automobile expert, which is precisely why I like his review. One shouldn't have to drive a Tesla like a auto expert to av
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by codex 14y ago
Yeah, it's a bad article, but the best I could find. The article is slanted because the it only contains quotes from SpaceX, so you hear only one side of the story, with nothing from the defense. The case was settled.
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by codex 14y ago
It's a bit disingeious of Musk to propose that journalists repeat this trip, knowing full well that the problems reported in the original article stem from cold weather. The weather on the East Coast is getting warmer by the day. It is al
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by codex 14y ago
Unfortunately, it's not an exact repro, as the original journalist's problems had to do with cold weather, and the weather is getting warmer as we speak.
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by codex 14y ago
It is different, because range can change depending on external factors you have no control over. You can charge the car thinking you have 300 miles of range, and you do. Then you make the same trip again, but an overnight frost takes a h
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by codex 14y ago
What is it about Elon Musk's companies constantly suing people? Tesla sued Top Gear for libel. SpaceX sued a safety consultant asking clarification about a rumor [1]. Now this tiff may well end in a lawsuit. [1] http://www.theregister.c
817.
by codex 14y ago
I've used Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, Visual Slickedit, Sublime Text 2, and JetBrains' IDEs. For C++, Slickedit is king, followed closely by Eclipse, but soon I think AppCode will give them both a run for their money. For all other mainstream l
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by codex 14y ago
I disagree; the word "abroad" above implies this justification only holds off of U.S. soil. "National self-defense," further, implies a national security threat, which one fugitive clearly is not. He is also not a member of al-Qa'ida, and
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by codex 14y ago
I was thinking of software only solutions, but I think a hardware fix may be best. I wonder if Tesla chose to optimize for other scenarios in the design of the car: Tesla distributes the battery across the entire body, which makes for great
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by codex 14y ago
This problems are no doubt real, but sometimes it helps to change one's perspective from one of constant negativity (which causes you to see more problems, and feel worse about them), to one of positivity and gratitude. Every day I'm amazed
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by codex 14y ago
From what I can glean from the article, it may not be possible to completely address the problem in software, because weather prediction is inexact, and it's hard to account for all eventualities. The software can say, "100 miles of range
822.
by codex 14y ago
It sounds as though the problem is simply that the car loses range unexpectedly depending on the weather, so you can't necessarily count on the range you thought you had the next morning, and the degree of mile loss can be extreme. I imagi
823.
by codex 14y ago
Frequent asteroid impacts lend credence to the Doomsday Argument [1], which, simply put, argues that it is unlikely that the human race will be long lived, simply because it is growing so fast. According to the DA, there is a 95% chance of
824.
by codex 14y ago
This. It's pretty obvious what happened to the battery; the question is why, and why testing didn't bring the issue to light. Is it a maintenance problem? A quality control issue in manufacturing? Something unknown about the physics of
825.
by codex 14y ago
That is one interpretation. However, given Android and Apple's proven ability to execute, I suspect this feature was never productized because it's not mainstream enough to matter. They looked at it, and shelved it. Even BlackBerry didn'
826.
by codex 14y ago
Interestingly, for a time some Android handset manufacturers put out concept phones that could dock with laptop shells; when the phone was in the dock, you got a desktop version of Android, and your phone OS was still running in a window in
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by codex 14y ago
Being born in the USA is a lucky event, but it's not 100% luck. As a nation of immigrants, it's likely that one's ancestors took great risks and busted their collective asses to get to and succeed in America. To the extent that one inheri
828.
by codex 14y ago
Let me put it another way: it pains me to see mediocre companies like Canonical chase the latest fad with "me too" products. If more people could recognize failure ahead of time, perhaps we would get more true innovation somewhere else, or
829.
by codex 14y ago
TL;DR: An evangelist for a company that sells software for virtual labs says that everyone should have a lab at home.
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by codex 14y ago
I'm excited about the Leap because I rapidly transition my hands from the keyboard to the mouse and back again. That takes a lot of time and the mouse is hard on my wrists. I would much rather "mouse in the air" even if I lost some precis
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by codex 14y ago
Mark my words: this phone will be an utter failure. "Linux" or "Ubuntu" aren't some magic talismans you can apply to any product and make it great; in fact, it takes a lot of hard work, design talent, and money to make a phone, and Canonic
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by codex 14y ago
Previously, car controls were designed so that you could find them "by feel" and not take one's eyes off the road. The radio volume and A/C knobs are the prime examples. With a touch screen, this is no longer possible. The benefit of a s
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by codex 14y ago
Contrast Tesla's from-scratch, top-down strategy with those of some existing car manufacturers, which is to add electric motors and batteries incrementally to existing car platforms, which leverage their huge economies of scale: existing pl
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by codex 14y ago
I would draw a distinction between productivity and innovation. The source of Walmart's productivity gains was not innovation within Walmart, but advances in technology, from which Walmart was able to take advantage of more quickly than co
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by codex 14y ago
Apple is special because it is the paragon of the tech. innovator. There is always some new big thing in technology, and while Apple may not remain king, there will always be a company like Apple doing amazing things. Amazon, on the other
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by codex 14y ago
This is because Harvard prides itself on its graduation rate; any decline in that rate would cause it to fall in the popular rankings of colleges.
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by codex 14y ago
"Knowing that “Contribute” converted visitors to click more often than “Donate,” the team changed verbiage all over the site – and in all email messaging – to reflect the test results." Is it a good idea make this change to all contexts as
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by codex 14y ago
Amazon will never make a real profit, for two reasons: a) Amazon is in a fundamentally shitty business: retail. It's retail on the Internet, but still retail. Amazon may successfully get into a real tech business, but they've been fairly
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by codex 14y ago
Cache does rule everything, and the proof lies in the laws of physics. How fast can you access a bit of memory? The lower bound is the speed of light. How do you organize your memory such that access is the fastest? In a sphere with the
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Early morning fire at Tesla battery testing facility [Jan 2012](abclocal.go.com)
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