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Walmart.com revenue/worth is a tiny, tiny fraction of the whole Walmart.

This has been writing on the wall for a while.

While both companies have their pitfalls, it's certainly interesting to continue to watch e-commerce's rise.

I immediately thought it was Boulder when I read this, based on what I know of the Bing office here(Boulder). Seattle would make more sense if there's a mapping team AND Uber already there though.

True, however Pants right now does not have support with Git to only checkout dependencies it actually needs for the build.

I agree that it should take effectively zero time for me to download and apply 50MB of updates, but poor quality internet is still pretty easy to find (working with plane wifi) -- maybe my coffee shops have worse internet than yours!

The speed is a serious downside.

Go on vacation for two weeks? You get to go on another vacation while you wait for your monorepo to update. Similarly, good luck ever trying to work from a coffee shop -- at the very least you probably have 50mb of updates because everyone in the company is committing code all the time.

Patents aren't everything though:

From ToyoDIY: December 6, 2009 The diagrams are no longer available on this site per demands of Toyota Motor Sales Inc.

Yes, they still have part number listings/search (which is awesome), but they did use to have more.

We tried them where I work. Our office is probably a 75 person open office. No one liked them (I believe we tried two vendors, not sure which). I felt that they were a little too intrusive -- when it was quiet you still wanted to put your headphones on.

I would like to think that 1100 people isn't enough of a critical mass for other companies in Boulder to start "requesting" the devotion of 80 hour weeks. As long as it's only one(Google) then employees who move to Google Boulder with the hopes of a non-Silicon Valley lifestyle can find hopefully equally gainful employees at one of the other companies.

If the general world culture here were to become more similar to that of the Valley then I'd leave. Part of the reason I live in Boulder is because of the lifestyle perks (being able to go skiing in 90 minutes). As soon as I don't have time to enjoy that there's much less reason to stay.

Really happy to have seen this pop up. I'm a huge DFW fan. This is a stellar listen.

Makes me think of "These new laws will fundamentally change how we get around them".

Very true. 36 is 101 levels of bad at times. Thankfully for me I walk to work right now.

Map: http://gisweb.ci.boulder.co.us/agswebsites/osmp/OSMPTrails/

Everything green is open space.

Heh, yes. I live in Boulder. I am not quite sure where others get the 40 miles to Denver number. To South Denver, sure, but it's about 23 miles to Downtown.

I don't consider (nor do any of my friends) consider Boulder to be a suburb of Denver. If anything it serves as "the city" to places like Lyons, Longmont, Lafayette and Louisville.

Of relevancy to this article, Longmont approved municipal fiber a year ago.

This is what the modern "software driven company that happens to make hardware looks like". And I'm glad it's Microsoft. This looks awesome.

This should be all corporations.

I think it's simple: Developers who are on-call write better code.

As soon as you take the view of "This is crappy, but keeping it running is someone else's problem" then everything suffers (product quality, engineering quality, and reliability).

Best comment I've seen in a while.

Supposing the word 'censorship' isn't censored...

Really happy to see more companies doing this though!

The Director of the FBI James B. Comey says: "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law."

See, that's funny. Because what concerns me is that the government thinks they are beyond the law.

I remember looking through the RadioShack catalogs all the time... Sad to see it now, but I recall an Onion article with the headline to the effect of "RadioShack CEO can't figure out how stores make money". I think it may be too late.

Twitter offers 2 factor authentication for account logins (SMS a code every time you login).

One of my old math teachers won a top of the line NSpire.

She showed her students, everyone poked at it for a bit, and then it was never used again. It didn't provide much additional educational use.

I still use my TI-83+ pretty often.

All the years of using it with physics homework and statistics homework and whatnot has wired its usage into my brain.

Sure, I could use R or Python, but when all I need to do is some simple math the calculator is always faster. It has tactile buttons I can operate with one hand, a clear readable screen, and a battery that lasts long. And it's simple.

If mine broke I'd buy another one.

"Twitter encourages and amplifies bad behavior while inhibiting intelligent and thoughtful conversation."

Ok. So, how is Twitter unique here? How often do you read an intelligent and thoughtful article in your local newspaper? Doesn't your local cable news channel choose to focus on the 'bad' instead of the 'good'? Or are you living in some alternate universe?

"I have found that my greatest frustrations with Twitter come not from people who are being nasty — though there are far too many of them — but from people who just misunderstand."

This is not different from life outside of Twitter (or Facebook or Instagram or The Internet for that matter). It's life. A fraction of people will always 'misunderstand'. The Internet has generally attracted open and eager people to the platforms it builds, but as things go more mainstream, you're going to get some 'normalcy'. The Internet population becomes the rest of the global population.

Fair... I don't yell at rivers.

But by your same logic the number one thing isn't banning drivers and replacing them with self driving cars (have you ever written perfectly, 1000% bug-free code?), it's banning all movement faster than walking speed -- and even then requiring people to wear crash helmets and blinkers and "blind sport information systems"...

There is no perfect approach. But I don't think that insurance companies doing this is even on the 'better' spectrum. It doesn't solve people: not turning on their lights, not merging correctly, talking on the phone, keeping their cars in safe operating condition...

Yes, paying attention to a few numbers and alerting people helps -- but if you want real improvements, you have to tackle the source.

Much like trying to drive on a highway of people who's sole purpose is to "achieve the best MPG EVER!!!!" this encourages hyper-focus in the wrong direction.

I don't think that braking slower, or accelerating less (or even limiting turning g-forces) is really an indicator of "Safe Driving". Yes, it is definitely a signal, and obviously a good one otherwise insurance companies wouldn't be using it. But I think that the mark of good driving is knowing what you and your car can do, and actively paying attention to the road around you (several hundred feet behind and in front), and thinking about piloting the 2 ton piece of metal you're in as opposed to blindly doing it. A better, more strict drivers licensure program is the number one way to increase safety on roads and thus lower the cost of insurance -- but it has to be all in or nothing.

On the flip side, I would find it somewhat amusing to put one of the trackers in my track car and see what they think of that...

Sigh... I'd still like to see real graphics on the 13".

"Do something that has nothing to do with any of this."

This is actually some of the best advice I've heard in a while. Never thought it would come from HN. Thanks.

This. This is it.

I've actually written my resume in markup for a while just so that I could put it on a nice dynamically driven site. Sort of a fun weekend project (no, it's not hosted anywhere).

While I strongly doubt that this will ever be a standard, I think it's nifty, and potentially useful. It opens up easy, pretty resumes, which the world really needs (Note: I'm not being sarcastic. The number of mountains-of-text word document resumes I've gotten in the past few weeks is too high).