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Bad for business but good for customers? I'd just assume that most of us are customers.

Stupid question: The article never says what ICE is, anyone can give a clue to non-americas readers?

That would be such a rookie mistake. Airlines don't do that, because 1) it creates bad habits with passengers 2) that's when the ticket has the highest value for customer who need to travel NOW 3) if they have remaining economy seats, a price drop 33 minutes before departure has little effect in stimulating demand for most destinations.

I spent the first month and a half on a level 1 set up, basically an extension cord in my driveway and I was surprised that I only had to go to a faster charging station twice. One of these two times was just because I was curious to try it. You could argue the second time was just anxiety because my remaining charge never went lower than 20%.

The only reason I still got a level 2 chargers at home was because I have doubts a level 1 will be enough to charge in the colder months of winter.

I was shopping for an electric car just two months ago and you're right but I'd add that while Nissan now has the Leaf Plus with longer range, if you order one you only get it in 2020. Also, a lot of these options (Bolt, Kia Kona, Leaf Plus) are at price levels, especially if you add any options, that are close to the Tesla 3, but after driving all of them, the Tesla is just a better car.

Same here. That being said, I never felt it was difficult to switch on off the AC since if you just press the fan for about a second, it shuts it down. This is the sort of stuff I would have liked to be voice activated.

If you time your travels right, it often makes more sense to compare prices of sleeper trains to the price of a flight + one night at a hotel instead of the flight alone. Also trains often get you to city centres while most low cost airlines will take you to an off-center airport which is also worth something.

Well, I never got to needing a paid license so it never was a worry. I found the database size tended to grow more slowly than what I expected from past experience with MariaDB/MySql and PostgreSQL.

All and all I found the killer really was the ability to store situations where an exception was raised and being able to replay it later. It saved a ton of time for debugging.

For some perspective, the original guide was produced to help the Canadian population to stay healthy during war induced restrictions.

The later, and current version of the guide influence institutional kitchens that do not have dedicated nutritionists such as daycares, some schools, clinics, etc.

If I followed by grandma's preferences we'd be eating canned food, salted meat, mincemeat pie, a lot of mayonnaise and cookies (exaggerating of course).

I'd say canola is the default oil if you need fat that has little to no flavour itself in a recipe.

While it is not completely impossible, if political ramifications were the prime drivers, meat, dairy and grain would have a lot more space and would have suffered when comparing to previous version of the guide.

The guide as likely little effect outside the country, its effect is more on small institutional kitchens (daycares, schools, clinics etc.), its content is unlikely to affect international sales. Its political effect is more likely to be felt internally, through perception of people in the affected industries rather than the effect the guide may have on their sales.

Some of the not so favoured are powerful industries what occupy a lot of land across several provinces (wheat), have suffered recently and are getting more politically active (dairy) or are in areas where the party currently in power needs to keep its support for the next election (meat).

I deployed a few web apps running on gemstone based on their community edition starter license. You can get a lot going just based on that and it really isn't as expensive as Oracle.

Yes, a sleeper train needs to be compared to a flight + a hotel room, not just a flight alone.

DB going out of sleeper service was so sad. At least ÖBB took over some of it with their NightJet service and are replacing the rolling stock with newer cars, so is Caledonian Sleepers in the UK. Hopefully Trans Metropolitan will begin service as well to take over some of what was abandoned by DB.

Book early, check different departure times, or check Ouigo. It can quite cheap.

Gates and Jobs were both familiar with the DynaBook concept from Parc, I don't see how this would be a case where Jobs is taking Gates' ideas.

Exactly, what can you expect when in many cases, the flight costs less than the ride to the airport.

We sell to large, mostly state owned, corporations. In most cases that means going through answering Request for Proposals (RFP) where you need to show how you will meet a set of requirements for a price. Prior to issuing a RFP, often the organization will try to look for what is possible or what exists out there, this is usually done through a request for information (RFI). We usually try to build a relationship prior to these processes by regularly talking to people in these companies, helping them to solve some of their problems. That way they know about us and notify or invite us to answer when they issue an RFI or RFP. That all takes a long time, sometimes years, and you don’t get revenues for any of this.

Now this probably is not the most appropriate course of action for you. We initially started as a proof of concept for a branch of a large state owned company. If it’s small enough and doesn’t require too much spending or too much involvement, you can probably avoid the RFP process. But you need to know someone in charge inside, ideally more than one. You can try cold calling or meeting them in a conference but it is easier if you can use a network. If someone else in their industry or their company or maybe a well expert or industry researchers can vouch for you.

Also since it’s a potential ML project, if it’s a public organisation, you may be able to access the data though other means either because it is already public or by simply requesting it. In some jurisdictions, you may request data from public institutions. Once you have the data, you can build you proof of concept and pitch it to the organisation or someone you could use to network your way in.

I was using a late 2011 that I had outfitted with 16GB of ram and a larger SSD, save for the screen, it performs comparatively to the latest models. Now, its graphics just went bad and Apple now considers it "vintage" and won't fix it. I assume the 2012 models will suffer form that fate soon as well.

The province did take a stake when it provided assistance but the stake taken was on the CSeries program end not on BBD itself. And hat stake just got diluted a while lot by the deal with Airbus (going from 49% to less than 20%).

If you don't restrict "America" to the USA, this would probably count as an earlier initiative for creating a true reserve. http://ricemm.org/en/

Yes, big files has always been the major issue for me. I always kept sublime text around for some larger files and ultimately decided I would only stick with a single editor.

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the article talks about the Mac Pro, I considered it but never pulled the trigger in part because OSX slows down dramatically when it is multitasking too much. Using large Linux machines for computation seemed much more appropriate.

When we had to choose a few months back, we picked Cap'n Proto over flatbuffers mainly over the fact that we liked the API better. I couldn't retrieve my notes from back then so I sadly can't point out. In any case, we never looked back.

Then you update and your Nvidia drivers stop working and can't get into X. Lose a day figuring out what happened. Try to take a screenshot and that no longer works either etc. etc. I love Linux as a dev environment but it has its share of yak shaving and sometimes it breaks as well.

Don't worry, your French could be completely fine I'm a french Canadian and they often answer back to me in english.

Interesting idea but it the way it is currently done isn't that great.

Most of the patterns I've seen are obvious simple things but they are missing a lot of content like : - What was the design's intended properties? - Expected volumes, access patterns? - Good places for indices? Maybe the comments could be of some help but really haven't seen much. I've actually found more interesting content in the HN comments than on the site itself.

Personally I still have a seaside application, I sell the service so clients get a user account on the web application that I host myself. I wouldn't attempt selling the application as something a client would continue developing on.

Indeed, the big plus is really that when an error happens, you can save the state and open a debugger right where the problem happened resume execution. This was a big help when I'd get home at night, I would check if there were errors during the day and would fix them right in the debugger.

Interesting, I used to think of the comparison between Anonymous and the "knights" in Serial Experiment Lain but now that you mention it, I now remember parts of it but feel I need to rewatch standalone complex.