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by taligent 14y ago
That's hilarious because Tesla doesn't exist outside the US where as today electric cars can be purchased via GMs Volt program e.g GM Volt, Holden Volt, Opel Ampera. Likewise when BMW releases their electric car it will overnight be availab
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by taligent 14y ago
Exactly. Which is 2% of their total yearly revenue. They still rely far too heavily on their existing Google Search/Google Adsense cash cows.
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by taligent 14y ago
Honestly there are so many sources its not funny. Toyota/Audi at CES: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145035-toyota-audi-showca... Volvo shipping in 2014: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/03/volvo-self-driving-cars-2... State of auton
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by taligent 14y ago
> It would appear to be a widely held belief Among people who don't know much about the automotive industry. The software/AI is secondary to the ability of the solution to work in hundreds of millions of cars in hundreds of countries (a
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by taligent 14y ago
Their work on Google Fibre is definitely an interesting one and there is a huge opportunity there if they can get navigate their way around the massive players there already. But Google is playing smart by lobbying governments to open up co
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by taligent 14y ago
To continue the analogy. She will also not work half the time and be messy beyond belief.
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by taligent 14y ago
Not me personally. If Facebook Search even remotely takes off then that will siphon away a significant amount of advertising that Google relies on. And Google has shown a worrying inability to monetize any of their recent projects. Docs/Gma
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by taligent 14y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted. It is a very legitimate point as there have been examples of similar sounding names in the same industry counting as trademark infringement.
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by taligent 14y ago
Wow. Nice working reinforcing the stereotype there of IT workers being callous, selfish assholes indifferent to everyone else.
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The large, bold heading "Diary" would imply this was an opinion piece. No ?
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And the big problem is that native SFers who have lived in those homes for decades are being evicted in favour of overseas workers who may only be there for a few years. Situations like this tend to breed resentment and destroy communities.
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by taligent 14y ago
You seem to be getting oddly defensive and completely missing her point. It isn't that IT/Biotech doesn't have a role to play in San Francisco. It does. But rather it should be more mindful about its impact on the broader community. The lar
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by taligent 14y ago
That site enters directly into Radar the internal bug tracking system where ALL bugs are triaged. It is very much used. And I my suggestion for your issue (which I have seen in the past but definitely isn't consistent) is to try restarting
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by taligent 14y ago
I would definitely make sure to add some of these to Radar: http://bugreporter.apple.com Given how much work they spent trying to reinvent iCloud you would think they would have made it more seamless for developers. Apple really needs to
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by taligent 14y ago
Syncing does generally just work between laptop and tablet. I add a Safari bookmark on one and it appears instantly on the other. Likewise for contacts, calendars, apps, music and any iCloud enabled app e.g. Coda. Then just add Dropbox and
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by taligent 14y ago
The OP said CoreData has pitfalls and they are 100% correct i.e. the link you provided. The OP said you can roll your solution using iCloud and it will work and they are 100% correct. The OP said you don't need iCloud to be featured and the
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by taligent 14y ago
>Real businesses need a data warehouse and SQL is the right tool for that job. SQL is NOT always the right tool for the job. There are plenty of situations where an Hadoop or a Storm/S4 approach works better. Again it's about picking th
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by taligent 14y ago
> Startups need to scale out because many of them like to deploy on mediocre EC2 instances. No. They need to scale out because providers like AWS have outages. And so startups et al need to deploy in multiple AZ/regions in order to have
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by taligent 14y ago
Enormous window ? Many startups would be using AWS and it is not inconceivable that you would have Multi-AZ/Multi-Region VPSs. Scaling out != Expensive.
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by taligent 14y ago
I am under no confusion. SQL ORMs all suffer from the same problems (which is forced by the underlying SQL model) that MongoDB does not. And your whole "use the right tool for the right job" goes without saying. It's others who seem to be o
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by taligent 14y ago
> So knock one more reason to use MongoDB instead of PostgreSQL off your list. One of the reasons MongoDB is so popular is because it is an fantastic database for developers. As a Java developer I can deal in my code with sets, hashmaps
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by taligent 14y ago
PostgreSQL is awful for storing unstructured data. It is the most cumbersome, clunky syntax I've seen for a while and it lacks ORM support meaning you are forced to manually write it. Making developers productive is an important aspect for
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by taligent 14y ago
> Real businesses need a data warehouse and SQL is the right tool for that job. Honestly. I don't think you could be more misinformed if you tried. Hint: Google "Big Data".
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by taligent 14y ago
> There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever to use a NoSQL database for a financial services company Yes there is. PostgreSQL doesn't support multi master replication which makes it a terrible choice if you really want to make sure every
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by taligent 14y ago
> I didn't intend to imply a value judgement. I will. That seems dumb. Why are conditionals not allowed in presentation layer but repetition is ?
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by taligent 14y ago
I used Knockout for my last app and now that I am re-evaluating choices for a new app it's amazing to see how far everything has come. It seems that AngularJS/EmberJS are more complete frameworks (routing, controllers, data fetching etc) an
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by taligent 14y ago
That StackOverflow post is hilarious. Who actually justifies slow performance by quoting the limitations of humans ? Here's a thought for that genius. What if I am showing a dynamic graph with that table .. or I have complex rows .. or anim
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by taligent 14y ago
> Just as an example, Rails is not fully unit tested by any stretch of the imagination And boy does it show.
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Were the officers in charge aware that this was going on ?
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> that in no way prevents making an example of the people who are in a position of responsibility I can't stand this argument. If as a CEO you completely destroy a company, an industry or the entire economy that does not mean that (a) y

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