jguimont

I would like to know your opinion on "When to drop the ball when trying to build a business?" You need to persevere, but like playing poker, you invested so much energy that it might be hard to pull the plug. Success might be just around the corner...

Throw in a VR headset and you got Ready Player One.

And that is why when I went there for business, my company insisted on hiring a driver for the whole month. He was a phone call away and was driving me all over the place, anywhere I wanted.

(that's also why most politician or people in high places get a driver)

I do not understand why paper ballot would be difficult to achieve, that is the easiest to do!

I never voted in the US, but the system seems overly complex for such a simple exercice. Here in Canada, we have a paper ballot (http://www.elections.ca/vot/yth/stu/gui/images/dxsmp1-e.jpg), which is pretty simple. The vote is done, the stub is tallied and 2 people need to verify the vote before dropping it in a sealed box. When the polls close, the votes are counted, by multiple persons, by hand. Nothing electronic.

... and there is a single vote at a time, no votes on laws when electing representative, etc. That is just non sense.

It says 13 days ago, but the linked video is from 2012?!

Of course it should... :P

Neurones are electrical but mostly chemical when they work. The average speed of a connection from one neurone 0.1-0.5 m/s. So if you hit your toe on a chair and you are 1.8m meter high (and pardon my rough math/science here) it would take almost 1 second to reach your brain (of course this is why reflexes are handled close to the spine and not the brain).

And now imagine the complexe processing that is required to view/ear and recognize something. It is done quite quickly and yet the basic processing unit of the brain is slow. One might think it is the massive parallelism of the brain that makes this possible so quickly, but even there if you think about it it all that processing done in such small amount of time cannot be more than a thousand operations...

Ford - GM - Chrysler.

I believe that node is installed with npm and both are installed in system directories. I think they should by default point the npm global directory to the user dir and not a system dir.

I am the one who reported this ;) In fact that was a single production server that I tried to reinstall 3 times before catching it was not really one of the commits that was doing this. No data was lost or connectivity (as long as you do not reboot it), you just lose any ssh connection/login.

Should I have done this on a staging server? Sure, but that does not change the fact that I would have had to rebuild the whole server there too. It is not expected that updating npm will kill the complete system it is on... It would be expected to have some deploy failure of some sort.

As previously noted, `npm update -g npm` pulls in version 5.7.0. Version 5.6 is still the latest but for some obscure reason if you have thisupdate anywhere in your deploy script you are screwed.

Well, there is Air Force One that is a modified 747 and both are still flying.

Last time I contracted for IBM I was paid 150/h and I heard they billed 300$/h on their end to the federal government.

Am I the only one thinking about the slime river under NYC in Ghostbuster 2 ?

Same colour, but not the same texture

"Technology alone is not enough. Technology must intersect with the liberal arts ..."

This was a quote by Steve Jobs if I remember correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlI1MR-qNt8

The video/gallery shows a gamecard and gamecard plug. Maybe there is no estore.

If you look at ruby there is "gem" that you could equal to "npm". On top of that there is "bundler" that is you could equal to "yarn".

It is the same pattern.

This reminds me of my philosophy classes. Rousseau believed all human are fundamentally good vs Machiavelli which thought people will act narcissistically and you need leverage on them to make them behave.

Trust vs non trust. We vs I. The futur vs the present.

Porkepic Solutions, Montreal, Qc, Canada. Candidate needs to live in the region but the work is remote (some visit to the customer would be needed).

We are looking for a fullstack developper. Our stack in RoR with a Ember.js client.

The full job posting is here https://porkepic.workable.com/jobs/265149

I think there was no "boots on the ground" confirmation yet.

However rescuing a startup/project is good as a contractor. Did it more than once and it is rewarding in both experience and money.

You just need to comment the line in the Gemfile and you are done, no more dependencies. What is the big deal really.

Ford 2.7 Ecoboost and 3.5 V6 are used on the F-150, which is not your regular car. It is however one of the most popular truck in north america (1st I believe), outselling cars in most states.

A Spinnaker is a type sail first and foremost.

I'd pay 25$ for this. I laughed at the 250$ price point.

His Vanilla examples is exactly what Ember.js does because it already knows which data changed and to which node it was linked to so it will diff the vDOM only for those.

I would love to see the same comparison with Ember.js in the mix.

The hell with the world, I can make my own people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbOplZHFfg

SAP star building in Germany headquarters are a good example of what to do with office spaces:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOgdHlT33Jo/TQ7zXFqaxjI/AAAAAAAAAJ...

http://www.mz-web.de/image/view/2012/4/23/17117282,16301136,...

http://www.donfeidner.de/assets/images/P1000400_SAP_Star_Bui...

The wings have offices which can sit 6 to 8 people and at the center there are the meeting rooms, restrooms and lunch area.

You have to change all trucks to accomodate such a street. Firefighters, paramedics, even some cops have cars/trucks that are too wide to fit those streets. There is a huge difference in size between european and american fire trucks. Paramedics and some firefighters in europe use something like a Sprinter or Transit, both of which are narrower and smaller than their american counter part.

I built the Timbuk2.com bag customizer (http://timbuk2.com/customizer) and I would say that 50% of their business is on the custom side. People are playing with the product and often they surprise us. Timbuk2 ends up charging a premium for the custom bag, but it a unique bag.

Same applies to Nikeid or adidas or converse or ... A lot of people are trying to build custom products and let the consumer get access to their manufacture, but it is not as simple as it sounds. There are, as in all things, a lot of moving pieces and enough rope to hang yourself.

They even invented medication for the flu!

The last 10 min reminded me how much time I spent playing SimCity, SimTower and Civilization.