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> consumers wanted more features

Maybe so, but I never personally asked the TV manufacturers for a smart TV.

Who I think came up with the idea: TV manufacturers.

Selling hardware that has software/firmware, that will become obsolete in 4-8 years, will result in more TVs sold in 4-8 years than would have been.

We just got rid of a TV that we've had since the late 1990s- about 18 years. It was not smart. We just bought a smart TV and I'm betting we won't get more than 8 years out of it.

Or, it could be that the king and his wierdo companion that likes to wear a helmet like Mercury fell into a river. So, the king told his servants to hold up his robe up to dry in the breeze, and he threw his crown up to them while they took a swim, realizing only too late that the floor of the river was covered in some sort of icky water plant.

Phava is great!

But, quine-relay still wins: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Just read this post from him recently, which, along with the referenced paper, was pretty enlightening: "Space Emerging from Quantum Mechanics" http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/07/18/space-em...

paper "Space from Hilbert Space: Recovering Geometry from Bulk Entanglement": https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08444

For many years additive manufacturing printers have been getting better, but slowly. In most cases, the printing process has leaned heavily on people and software for addition of part supports and other part modifications, and a good 3D manufacturing team will include experienced personnel; it's not easy to replicate.

While large companies typically mass produce, there are certain parts that cannot be made via traditional manufacturing processes. They've been using additive manufacturing typically for tooling and higher-end products in these cases.

Also, there is a trend towards customization, faster iterations of part design, and using a variety of part materials within each additive manufactured part that each have their own qualities.

But, printer manufacturers have seen opportunity in making the printing process faster and easier to use, which over time will reduce the need for all of the people involved in the process. Already some of the latest printers are autogenerating supports and making it simple to remove those supports. That's just a small part of the process, but it is a significant step.

So, while traditional mass manufacturing companies will be hurting in a decade or two, eventually printers will no longer require humans to be involved at all. Then, any company with enough money to buy a large number of printers could manufacture 3D parts at mass scale.

I think it is premature to say that China won't eventually own next-generation manufacturing eventually, but it won't in the next few decades unless they drop everything and get on it.

Would have been a better title if it named the material instead of making it sound like a new concept.

Memory metal's been around since 1949: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_alloy

Gives Google a D.

https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze.html?host=google.com

(Would take this rating with a grain of salt.)

> I'm about as senior a person as is temporally possible to be (I'm pretty sure I know everyone who's more senior than I am).

I'm just speaking as a representative of the mid-40's crowd who laments the highlighted startups focusing on sheen over substance, because the sheen gets the VC's money and the juniors hired, when what is needed is a solid business plan and good platform/solution.

> But maybe it's just seeing how this goes out of its way to fix the problems in hiring processes that I've been seeing, and ranting about, for quite a while now.

If your rant is that companies should clearly reflect who they are and who they are looking for in their advertisement, if they can do so without sabotaging their chances at hiring better people that can help fix things, then yes, I agree.

If you think that every company needs to introduce handholding and cartoon characters into its HR/recruiting process, then I'd only agree with that depending on the type of person you are trying to recruit, and would caution that might not be appropriate for someone my age.

Possibly because it is handholding them through the process. A more mature candidate would not need such direction, and might see it as not a good match for them.

Also, not to pick, but the owl character that might seem like a good idea to younger candidates, that might respect it for the good design and soft psychological impact, might scare off the mature employees that are there to get the job done and are there to engineer solutions.

Despite these things, I think it looks professional, and the fact is that if you're a startup, you're most likely looking for a younger candidate, because they are cheaper, can be more motivated, and are definitely easier to mold. And yes, if you discriminate, that is illegal in the U.S., at least.

However, at some point, you need to hire more experienced candidates, and this process will need to change to reflect that. I'm a more mature person myself, and would not seek to fill a development team with juniors. I've seen what that can do. It's fine to have interns and juniors, but that shouldn't be the primary talent pool, or you'll end up with serious design problems and lots of poor code. But that can happen with more experienced candidates also- that is why you want good, more experienced candidates to create an environment that fosters growth of incredibly smart juniors.

> But if you are automating your exact actions that happen via a browser, can this be blocked?

Yes, by checking times between actions and number of actions in a time period, and blocking atypical activity. I was IP banned from a site once for a few months, after trying to scrape it too much and hitting links on the site that were hidden from humans.

The random wait settings specified in the post are better than nothing, but still too flimsy. You would need to put hours between requests, only request during a certain 15 hour periods, take days off, and eventually you aren't scraping regularly enough to do much good.

Scraping is not an API, and I should know- I used to do it for a living. Its unreliable. It requires constant maintenance. APIs can break too, but they are meant for the sort of consumption you are trying for.

If you scrape for a living, only do it as a side job.

I was where you are, but not in as good of a position.

You will be ok.

If your current team is smarter than you and you helped hire them, then that should be a feather in your cap. Even if you are on such a smart team, that is a sign that you did something right at some point, right?

Some things you could do:

* Go to a recommended psychiatrist. There are many new variations of drugs, and they should be familiar with them. Don't just go with something because they mention it and don't try too much at once. Make sure they have all the info they need to help you solve things.

* Reduce intake of bread, chips, and bagged snacks. Eat less.

* Go on walks. Get exercise. If you are overweight, decide that you are going to get healthy, and don't diet. Just regularly exercise and eat well in a way that you can sustain.

* Be your best even if that's not good enough for your team. Be a great parent, be a great friend, and be good to yourself.

* Get help from a technical friend you trust with your resume to make sure that it looks great. Do the same with your Linkedin profile, and get a professional photo with you smiling and looking good and put it on there.

* Practice interviewing before you start your job search. Right down every question and answer you can think of. Practice interview problems and puzzles you find online.

* Read whatever you can that will help increase your knowledge in the areas that are relevant to your position.

You will get through it. Don't just quit without another job and use up your savings. First do everything above to get in top shape, then go on vacation, if you can before you get your next job! When you come back, talk with recruiters some more, do some interviews, choose your job carefully- don't take a job unless you and your family are both 100% on it. Usually your company won't fight hard to keep you, because they know you've checked out already- don't take it personally. Don't burn the bridge back by telling them how you really feel, because you might need to go back. Accept the new job. Take a week or two in between jobs to relax some more.

Your life will be awesome. Just don't give up and remember- you have to focus on being the best you can be given what you are and can be, realistically. When you're expectation far exceeds what you can do, you're going to be unhappy.

Published July 2012. On October 18, 2013, Jeh Johnson took over, and he's made a lot of progress. I recommend reading "Fifteen Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer?" by Steve Brill:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/are-we-a...

I assume you mean that his car could be in the garage and he would be on the outside. If he were on the inside, he could use the emergency release that should be on every automated garage door.

Current hedgehog fodder:

* Subscription as alternative vs. reducing life on newer technology. While being wasteful works in today's "make everything in China" world, long-lasting high-quality products that consumers "rent" make more sense than throwaway products financially and environmentally.

* Mining first-world trash. Third-world countries do this manually, but isn't commercialized in first-world.

* Developing products and services that rely on greater levels of energy than currently available. Energy, propulsion, etc. advances will be made more quickly in coming years.

* Undersea and underground living: greater use of heat, heat or pressure differential as energy sources, related horticulture, and mining - but there are problems to be solved: how do we adapt things we need for overground living to deep underground and deep underwater?

* Space, the final frontier, e.g. transport: SpaceX, distribution: Blue Origin, mining: Planetary Resources, touring: Virgin Galactic, propulsion systems: Orbital Sciences, etc. - but there are many niches to fill.

* Solving world problems of hunger, poverty, unsafe water, lack of shelter, violence - e.g. agricultural transforming, fair redistribution as a service, clean water as a service in the third world, alternative building materials, guns/tasers/billy clubs replaced with net guns.

Some years ago I went on a cruise and they provided a name-brand toothpaste, and iirc a hotel in UK or Europe provided toothpaste on my stay. I was excited each time I received it.

A Sheraton I visited recently provided a packet of shave cream. It smelled of horrible medicine and it didn't protect my face at all during shaving; in fact, I determined over two days that using it had been worse than not at all. Note that I tried with and without mixing it with an appropriate amount of water, but it didn't matter.

I know there is probably a significant cost different to the hotel, but I vote for name-brand toothpaste over horrible shave cream.

As for the rest, they only thing I would want is shampoo. Since the TSA started checking for "insecure" amounts of fluids, I have really started to rely on the shampoo in hotels. I only keep an "insecurely" large bottle of shampoo at home and don't want to waste time and energy putting it into a small bottle to take with me for the matter of a few to several days of use.

BTW, If you're curious about the 100mL TSA rule, read these for their explanation and reasoning:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/liquids-rule

http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/02/more-on-liquid-rules-why-we-do-t...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/05/3-1-1-liquid-policy-still-in-pla...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/talk-to-tsa-response-are-liquids...