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I think it is. As somebody who JUST bought the last version, it'd still be nice to get cut a break on an upgrade.

As a potential Model X buyer, I hate the idea of those doors.

I currently drive a Subaru Outback and would be replacing it with a Model X so I could cart myself and some friends for weekend skiing or surfing trips.

Unless I'm missing something, the gullwing doors preclude a roof rack, which is a deal breaker for me.

Is this true? It seems, from the comments from the SREs in this thread, that these puzzles are highly relevant to this functional role.

This girl on girl/woman on woman semantics you are calling out is unnecessary and distracting--even an uncharitable reader would have a hard time ferreting out sexism in the parent comment.

And by the way: your insinuation that a black man would automatically kill/cause bodily harm someone who says something racist to him is in and of itself racist and is far more perverse than anything else I've read on this thread by a very, very wide margin.

Not true. Google employees are finding it much harder to share pictures with each other.

"Have fun. You'll be dead a long time." Love this.

What this analysis didn't include was SV vs. other global hubs; as NYC is the only legit challenger domestically in the medium term, I heard the same about Tel Aviv internationally. It would also be interesting to see how SV's funding proportion holds up over time internationally.

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that was equal parts hilarious and depressing. I dislike how completely CONTENT the author seems to be in DELIBERATELY wasting his life away. Come on man--you can do better!

I find it very sad that in the 21st century Americans... still consume raisins. Gross.

"Another concern is that American corporations have been moving their R&D operations offshore. According to the National Science Foundation, fully 27 percent of all employees in United States multinational corporations’ research departments were based abroad as of 2009, up from 16 percent in 2004."

Is this a cost cutting move, or is there some other set of benefits that these companies will get by moving research abroad?

This is an essential quote:

"Please, let the advertisers figure out for themselves how to tackle this very new medium instead of trying to shape the medium to meet their needs."

Forgetting the rest of the article, I think this point is really salient to the way lots of valuable web services are evolving right now.

I think what makes this Google case different from the Groupon case is that Groupon applied its rule UNIFORMLY whereas Google in this instance behaved inexcusably: applying one policy to one retailer, and a different policy to everybody else.

so this is my favorite thing, ever.

Here's a thought: if you can't get your act together with servers during a launch, stagger the launch. IE, when you buy your game, you have a place in a queue, and when there is enough server capacity to support you, you are let into the system. That way, you can change gamers expectations such that they are being let into an exclusive party, not that the game that they purchased is defective.

Tesla customer care appears ignorant/poorly trained. This debate over things as trivial as a .6 mile discrepancy actually underscores the most damaging assertion that can be made against Tesla: that driving its vehicles in normal winter conditions requires some sort of finesse or special knowledge that most customers won't have. Niether end customers nor reporters should be expected to have deeper knowledge of the product they are buying/testing than the customer care agents who are assisting them. Tesla needs to clean its house of bad customer care and accept responsibility for its role in Broder's bad experience.

I think this underscores the need to have smart advisors. I could see myself making similar mistakes; to avoid them, consult people who have done stuff similar to what you're trying to do. It seems most of these issues could have been prevented if the author had consulted folks in his MBA network and gotten their advice on what he should do in his business, on pricing, on setting expectations for how hard it is to launch a successful product like this, on importing, and on general advice. Who knows--he might even have gotten a smart business partner to help him sort through these tough issues.

I think we need to induce more crises in government to get perpetually-unsolved policy problems to finally get results. Like a mandatory 10% slash in government spending if we don't get immigration reform passed by Dec 31, 2013. Any number of other issues (education, gun control, entitlements, greenhouse gas emissions) could be addressed in this manner.

Why isn't Albuquerque a tech capital when it has everything else going for it? It's not a cool place to be. Young whippersnappers taking on the world want to be around like-minded (read: young and educated) people, who congregate in big, cool cities like Boston, NYC, Seattle. Not Albuquerque.

This is poor advice. Asking people if they would do something may not give you good data: people are finicky, and may not do what they say they will. Alternate solution: put up a kickstarter. Instead of asking people if they would do something, get them to put the money where there mouth is. Kickstarter is real market validation, not just a throw-away survey.

When I switched from using mostly windows to a lot of Linux, I celebrated the lack of distractions on Linux. Goodbye, productivity.

yeah. This is the best textbook I've ever read, period. The tangents are actually quite helpful, because they keep you motivated to keep reading, and slow down the pace a bit. Also check out tryruby.org for an awesome interactive tutorial, which was originally written by the poignant author. Good luck, and chunky bacon (you'll get it when you read the book, which you absolutely should do)!

#1 change I want for HN layout: infinite scroll. #2 change--drop the numbers for the articles. Unecessary. #3 change--make the comments click area larger.

Everything else is pretty much perfect.

Sure, families as a whole spend trillions a year, but you don't get any meaningful insight at such a high level of abstraction. Also, many of the ways that families spend money--like games (mobile games), toys (toygaroo), and entertainment (netflix) are already being served. I don't buy that families are a particularly under-served market in terms of start-up attention.

does this mean oral exams are the ultimate teaching tool? Something to loose (bad test score) + you have to be able to think on your feet and respond to questions (which I find broadly similar to teaching; it tests the depth of your knowledge).

I'm not sure if it's a non-starter. As a total code newb, I would find it very enticing to have to learn fewer things--like just their front end--rather than server-side too. If they are truly awesome, I'd probably be willing to pay through the nose to have that simplicity. If they can effectively reduce complexity so that all you really need to learn is JavaScript, it's going to make it easier for non-software engineers to build services. Of course most of the market isn't new to programming, but flattening the learning curve of would-be programmers is a pretty important comparative advantage.