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In my experience so far (Prius, 110000 miles) it is more like 5x. And the Prius brakes are tiny things, especailly compared to the huge brakes on the German cars I've owned in the past. The Tesla S is comparable to them in weight and handling, and the brake system looks comparable too. From the testing and reviews we know it has excellent stopping distance, so it looks to me like the best of both worlds. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets 10x the lifetime out of brake pads, depending on driving conditions of course.

Brakes in electric cars receive vastly less wear than conventional vehicles, feels like literally an order of magnitude. They really only come into play at all during final stopping and emergency braking. The separate parking brake design on the Tesla is an interesting related detail.

Doesn't seem to handle load very well, though normall I guess it wouldn't need to.

Don't you typically run up against traffic limits though? Seems like I've run into suspended pages more than a few times.

But first they'll try to sue a bunch of people.

It is probably unfilmable. Many things work great in our heads and don't translate when out on paper etc. in this case the internal monolog of the character is what makes it work, I haven't tried it but I'm sure if you looked at the story from only an observers view Ender looks like a nasty little sociopath. Films with lots of monolog are damn near impossible to pull off.

More than a homophobe, he turns out to hold truly repugnant views on a wide range of subjects. I was really disappointed when I learned this, not by reading about it but by reading a book he wrote post 9/11 (Empire) that I kept expecting to turn into a clever political satire, but never turned the corner.

He censored the domain name with * :-)

HN isn't a cult, it is a zoo :-)

Pushover works better for that kind of stuff, plus it is actively maintained unlike boxcar which seems abandoned.

Doesn't sound remotely cult like. Sounds like good business.

Right but on a large system it is possible to mistype it to a valid address that isn't yours.

For non-techies Twitter achieves what they would use RSS for (notification of content) with convenient annotations. Yes they are very different, but that's how it works in principle. I doubt RSS will ever be completely gone, but the number of human readers was never high and is unlikely to go up in future.

Even apps that make use of it will be moving away from the user being directly aware of it.

False equivalency is a major logical fallacy. If you aren't trolling you have some damage to repair in your brain.

Lip service to their citizens' rights only. They've already determined it is 'ok' to kill a US citizen with a drone purely on the presidential whim, and hold you indefinitely without trial.

The off-the-grid folks are surely on top of this. They also have the advantage of a 'natively' DC supply coming off storage batteries.

What are you talking about? Glucose and fructose is all you'll find. It might be sucrose, but it is all the same by weight and effect once it hits your stomach.

Exactly, the type of thinking behind that chart casts doubt and caused me to stop reading. Just getting to standing desks is a big leap for most cultures. And I say this as someone who had their treadputer setup featured on lifehacker 7 years ago.

And in a rational world it would be. It's P/E ratio is crazy low compared to Google and Amazon just in raw terms. But the market is an irrational place, it only looks sane in aggregate and over longer time periods.

The rational part of me says it will be over 1k within a year, regardless of how irrational I know that thought to be :-)

Exactly. If there is anything lacking in grunt for what they want they should contribute changes back. A wheel re-invention plus big-bang "we'll not just replace, we'll make it totally awesome" is not a great move.

The cobbler's children have no shoes :-)

Still, why not link to a page offset and just show what is current? Or include it with the current linking and automatically redirect? Pretty basic ux optimization.

Exciting. Something you are super glad you found.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find it when I was posting, otherwise I would have. It was really cool. Difficult to search for and I can't recall exactly where it was any more.

I don't have time to dig right now but you might want to have a look here; http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html

I know he's had some interesting results. Here's a good write-up I found with a bit more searching; http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

It is always as Twain said, "Sorry for the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one."

The essential advice of all writing: the simplest word choice, the fewest words, is doubly true for technical documentation. Unfortunately only 1% of tech writers seem to follow it.

And as you say, there never seems to be enough time left to document. This is why: a) the doc should be the spec b) write the doc first.

There, that's the concise version of your manifesto :-)

A bit of time making this more concise and cleaning up the language would go a long way when you get the time. Clarity above all other virtues for documentation, goes doubly for meta-documentation.

We have some things to look at that give us clues. So-called 'genetic' programming/evolutionary computing gives us results that were not designed. It seems likely to me that true machine intelligence would recognize the value of iteratively finding optimal solutions rather than trying to design with intent. I have to think it would also be vastly more efficient at re-use, which we recognize as a good idea but in practice aren't very good at. Gene-swapping between organisms in nature is rampant.

A nice example of how 'alien' the results can be is experiments that have been done designing hardware circuits with this type of approach. Results have included designs that were difficult to comprehend at first glance, including features that were not connected to other parts of the circuitry but upon removal caused the rest the the chip to not work correctly. (It was figured out but explanation is beyond the scope of a discussion here).

HFT is an abomination. Anything that will curtail it is good in my book.

Sounds like a list of C# benefits. In 2004.

There is a big difference between blogs, corporate blogs, and blog advertising. The author is conflating the three and drawing a bogus conclusion.