monkmartinez

Great observation. Fire inspectors perform an entirely different inspection on commercial property than that of a SFR or even multi family residence. There is a reason and it was paid in blood.

Who defines usual?

Who else has keys to the flat? Are you sure your electrical is up to code? How about plumbing, heating/cooling? Do you have a CO detector?

By the looks of the comments, I would say ABB is already on its way out of favor. As a Firefighter, I will not stay in an ABB... nope.

It shouldn't be that hard... most of my uber drivers have a Lyft sticker next to the U.

If Facebook went away tomorrow, no one on the planet would be adversely harmed. IMO, investors price in the fact that most social networks are ephemeral. Grow or have stock price hammered into dust.

Very interesting... Most people probably look for libraries, platforms and frameworks in languages they prefer. Perhaps the decline of PHP popularity has been the biggest contributor to the demise of Drupal, in the sense of user land action.

I wonder if platforms like Django are a few years away from this. It seems that RoR is also losing lots of mindshare, it wasn't that long ago that we had a RoR article on the frontpage every other day. Such is life I guess... frameworks come and they go...

And there are people that think Tesla is doomed. You can't run losses forever and expect to keep the lights on. I don't know what is so hard to understand, it is simple math. They, Tesla, are not "successful" in any sense of the word as it relates to financial stability.

I suspect if you are a diabetic that actually cares about his/her blood sugar, you wouldn't give two hoots as to the company that made it easier to monitor. You would simply want the device.

No one cares... outside of tech circles. Even then, I bet a ton of people will still use it, why? Convenience, price and "what does that have to do with me?" mentality. If I am being honest, I will still use Uber... especially in Colombia and other places where it totally obliterates cabs.

Note 3 here too, currently looking at the S8+ with rational techno lust. I am a samsung fanboy, as I wouldn't buy any other Android phone. I may wait to see what the iPhone 8 looks like before I jump... although the pre-order with GearVR seems like a really good deal.

I had an in-flight emergency (kind of) today while doing a cross country flight with a friend who is a PPL. We lost the alternator and lucky for us the weather was really good, sans high winds. That means we had no instruments and no comms.... except the back up handheld radio and our cell phones. No harm, no foul and we landed safely...

I say that to say this; I would hope they are just really fast at inspections. There is a real reason to get them right. Failures happen, even to super analog tech.

I am naive... however, some opinions...

If the startup is truly revolutionary|innovative, shouldn't we see VC's pounding down the doors to give them money? If they have money, shouldn't they spend that on their personnel (assuming they are not manufacturing robots or something) if we are talking software?

Seems to me that startups want to have their cake and eat it too. If you have money to pay, then pay competitive wages. If you don't, offer equity. If you have something worth a shit, people will want to work for your startup.

The next facebook, unless it is the next facebook, isn't going to sell a lot of people. I look at the YC list of startups and shake my head... most of them don't make much sense. They might be winners, but I would ask for a large paycheck instead of equity for most of them.

I read HN regularly and I don't know what you are talking about.

Where are the "all" hispanic outreach programs in tech?

Where are the all Hispanic Schools? How about some Hispanic related "campuses?"

Is Lagos flat?

Eminence based medicine vs. Evidence based medicine.

I feel for you fellow traveler. I have a good friend that had to be on drip IV antibiotics for some time and struggles with GI problems. He says his best results came from kombucha and/or other fermented foods with probiotics and daily metamucil.

There is also promising things happening with fecal transplants (FMT) I am told.

Very interesting. Is it really controlled by one person? Or is facebook dependent on user's, well, using it?

If facebook went away tomorrow, would meatspace life materially change for any of its users?

A little peer pressure to affirm that Facebook is a giant waste of time, narcissistic and generally kind of silly is all it takes plant the seed to drop FB altogether. I have seen that work in meatspace.

Real education? Like English literature, or Art History, or Communications, or Dance, or Latin?

By real education do you mean STEM, medical or Law? Or something else?

I am dumbfounded by your answer. As if, college grads have a lock on being smart and figuring things out... You see, other people can do that too. The fact is, most Americans have a really good chance to work for someone who is not a College grad.

How many small business owners do not go to College? I'll answer for you [1].

[1]https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Issue%20Brief%202,%2...

One finance class? Unless we are talking about someone majoring in finance, I don't think one class will get you very far. Look at the classes required for the finance major at USC, for example[1].

Uhh... ok, if you want to do finance for a corporation or similar, great! I don't see much there about managing personal finances... do you? Perhaps if we had more personal finance and less about leverage, in the USA at least, we wouldn't have the crazy debt problems we have. Perspective.

Real world is managing both personal and professional. College isn't great at either.

[1]http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/fbe/curriculum/undergrad...

> College doesn't teach you about your job, it teaches you about the wider world.

Playing devils advocate for a second...

How does college teach you about the wider world? By taking a bunch of tests on subjects being taught by TA's (if you are lucky) or professors that sometimes struggle with English?

Or

Cramming for tests and writing papers you don't want to write is learning about the wider world?

Find me the Engineering major that would rather take 2 semesters of humanities|Literature|etc or graduate sooner!

Find me the doctor students that wish undergrad was a like 2 years shorter! Fuck it, make it 4 years shorter and call it a day! Strait to med school if you have the aptitude.

> but I'm willing to bet one semester of finance would far outweigh the knowledge that construction worker has about why the building is being built like it is.

One semester of finance is craptacular, you wouldn't learn much. Better if you had said Accounting... but most students don't pick accounting. You would do far better listening to Dave Ramsey for a month, IMO. Seriously, where in the bulk of College majors outside of Finance can I find the requirement to take a finance/accounting/econ classes? I'll answer, NO WHERE!

The fact that you bring up finance is interesting because fully half of the Colleges today would go bankrupt if their students knew ANYTHING about money! Why would they go into such crazy debt for what they get in return? The subset of college majors that actually have promising career futures ahead of them are miniscule in comparison the "majors" offered at universities.

> To put it simply: it's easy to learn how how a computer works and how to program it to work for you. It's much harder and takes much longer to learn how the world works and how to make it work for you.

I would argue strongly that university DOES NOT teach anyone how the world works. Wet behind the ear college grads are worthless in most "blue collar" professions, for example. If you get a degree in English Lit, what do you know about the "real world" that a peer who has worked construction for 5 years doesn't know???? How much more knowledge about the "real world" does a journalism major know than a military veteran?

The first two years of "learning" at American universities are generally filled with bullshit pre-requisites that serve almost no purpose in the "real world!" The last two years are more specialized but hardly teach shit about the "real world."

It doesn't and it doesn't matter. I doubt good business will sink or swim based on "demo day" type expositions and vice versa for a bad business. Eventually the "market" will figure it out... It may take some time for that to happen however.

The guys/gals that can express themselves without anxiety are, more generally, going to make a better impression. Those with social anxiety or those with less social skills than those "extroverts" will, more generally, make worse impressions.

Any interview/test/discussion without overwhelming objectivity will be subjective by nature and therefore subject to emotional bias.

We need to bring pain back. Humanity has become soft in most first world countries. Eliminating pain is big, big problem.

How did they test the $10 million dollar system empirically? Did they send it on 500 missions before it was certified? The first mission has to start somewhere at some price... SpaceX will get there...

ULA is triple the cost of SpaceX and they have an $800 million rider with the DOD for "at moments notice" launch. That makes them almost quadruple the price SpaceX. [1]

[1]https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ula-executive-admits...

Except the part about getting sick to your stomach? How many people do not know they have VR induced motion sickness? I know I didn't until I strapped up a cardboard. I do not get sick in less than 13-15 foot seas, but sick as hell with cardboard.

Are indies piling on because there is so little money to be made else where in gaming, at present?