cpprototypes

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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Lyft and Uber have wasted so much time and money. This is the problem with VC money focused on growth. There's no pressure to build anything sustainable, no pressure to build competitive advantages. Arbitrary point to point level 5
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
This is a lot lower than I expected. I wish governments would just add this as a tax directly. But seems almost impossible in the current political climate.
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
A lot of gas stations here ask "Do you want a car wash for $x.xx" directly on the gas pump after you slide your card. If gas stations just added "Do you want carbon neutral for $x.xx" I think many would push yes in the
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
This was true years ago, but I think times are different now. Theres a feeling of near panic among many as the effects of climate change become more obvious and the new Trump environmental policies. I think theres strong desire to do some
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I often wonder what is the natural market price of these services? Basically, without massive VC money distorting everything, how much would a Lyft or Uber ride really cost? I have a feeling it would be much higher than now. Despite all t
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I think organics food shows this isn't true. These gas stations would first target the affluent liberal markets. The marketing could be, don't feel bad about buying that luxury BMW gas guzzler, come to Neutral gas station. The
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I wish some billionaire would start a chain of carbon neutral gas stations. I wouldn't mind paying more for gas if I knew it was carbon neutral. There are several ways the gas could be carbon neutral, either through production (solar
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The "smartwatch" from Apple and Android is not a good idea. Fitbit and Pebble are closer to the right direction. Apple/Android keep trying to make watch-sized smartphones. But they will never compete with actual smartphone
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The software field really needs to stop associating "top engineer" with Google interview process. The Google interview process has nothing to do with "top engineer". The only thing it measures is how much time you spen
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The plan in the article is complementary, not against public transit. It has the potential to fix the "first and last mile" problem for trains. If successful, it would greatly increase use of rail public transit.
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I looked at ebikes a few months ago and it's still too expensive. Even the kits for converting a regular bike was almost the price of an ebike. Is it this expensive in the rest of thr world? If not, why is it so expensive here, why
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I don't understand why Toyota is not the leader in plugin hybrids. They had such a big lead in hybrid tech and the next natural step was plugin hybrid. Imagine a RAV4 or Highlander plugin hybrid with 50 mile range. The demand would
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
And this is why software today is in such a sad state. Managers think it would be great to have an army of young engineers who don't question and just do what they're told. But any leader surrounded by sycophants will eventually
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Recently I got an email about a job that seemed interesting. It's a well known company that used to be a startup but is now a mature company. I went to the job description page: 8+ years experience, tech stack I'm familiar with,
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
FTA: LA Metro opened up the Expo Line, a light rail between downtown LA and Santa Monica, in May as part of its effort to wean people off car ownership. When it began running, Uber ran a promotion for $5 off Pool rides to or from Expo line
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Does anyone know how strict is the Google two year update policy for Nexus? It's clear they won't do major releases (such as Android 7.0) for old phones. However, what about critical security updates? For example, if something
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The word "remote" is so general it's basically useless. We need new common terms to describe the different types, such as: - Long remote: When someone is offshore or many time zones away (such as India or Eastern Europe). -
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
There is great potential for something like Lyft to fix the rail "first mile" and "last mile" problem. If they can integrate systems with government so that the Lyft cost is part of the rail fare, then it's possibl
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I had no issue interpreting the likely intended meaning of this: This person is saying they have been keeping up with new technologies the past 14 years (such as RoR, NodeJS now, but years ago Java held that spot, etc.) https://
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The message is loud and clear for senior engineers (10+ years experience): startups don't want you. They may say they do, but they really don't. And the message from SV big tech is also clear: we don't want you unless you&#
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Something that annoys me about all this self-driving focus is that they are not targeting the obvious low-hanging fruit: 1) Focus on perfecting low speed bumper-to-bumper traffic fully autonomous driving on freeways. 2) Focus on passing leg
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not under Joyent control.
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Does anyone know if the ECMAScript group is seriously considering adding something like TS? Maybe in ES8 or ES9? TS 2 will be impressive and it seems TS has a lot of momentum (such as Angular 2).
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Just a little bit of programming can be powerful. If I were designing an elementary school course, it would focus on two things: 1) How to clean data. Real world data is always dirty. It mixes strings and ints, has commas and quotes wher
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
What are some of these companies? A common advice I've seen here and other sites is that the best workplace for developers will be at companies where the software is the main revenue product. It's assumed that if software dev is
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
The energy efficiency of the process is bad, but the future economic conditions could change dramatically: 1) Fossil fuels costs will eventually start rising and never come down again. How much investment and attention will synthetic produ
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Ethanol is terrible, especially corn produced ethanol. The type of process I'm referring to is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel The inputs to this are just energy + water + CO2 = oil. No corn or othe
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
When comparing just technology, EV cars are superior. Far greater engine efficiency, less complexity and moving parts, efficient transmission of energy from power plants to vehicle, etc. But we live in an oil world. There are billions of
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
Oil is great for energy storage and we have over a hundred years of infrastructure built for it. And that oil technology is still being refined and advanced. The big issues with oil are due to the source, not the technology itself. Right
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I think LA has a lot of special advantages that other regions don't have: 1) It has the same strong CA protection against non-competes as Bay Area. 2) Starting to develop some big and significant "anchor" tech companies such

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