This is a good thing.
It means that schools will start teaching actual programming again instead of 'coaching to a language'. Colleges are cranking out Python/Javascript coders like they used to turn out Java coders. If every company is different maybe they'll teach the logic so that people can learn any language.
The problem with busses is that anybody of means doesn't like taking them. Too many other people's stops and what not.
But with a bus you could enter your destination (as would everyone else on the bus) and it would pick a few key optimal stops. Have the phone buzz when it is your turn to exit.
Have a large party? It wouldn't cost a ton to just schedule a pick up and a bus comes over 1 block, picks you up and then continues down town or wherever else it was head.
You could optimize bus routes on the fly. Big sporting event get out? You could easily re-route a ton of busses and then put them back on normal routes.
You can easily make busses full electric, NG-hybrid, diesel-hybrid, etc which makes it more efficient. If it works I can see cities like London and NYC going completely driverless. Rail into the city. Automated busses and subway in the city.
All programming now inherently a death march because unskilled "coders" most senior members of any team, cannot be fired and also direct architecture.
You do realize that you can create your own union however you want. Make it easy to fire bad coders. The problems you listed are pretty specific to the UAW and government job unions. Look at German Unions. Everyone is in a union over there.
Model the union however you want when you create it.
I don't want to switch to *BSD..... and buy a Mac.
So which is it? I got introduced to Linux because I had a Mac. I first started messing around with Terminal.app and it's gone from there. After a botch attempt at Linux on a generic laptop and hating having to deal with finding GNU Tools for Windows I'm thinking of going back.
It has a UI that "just works" and I don't have to dick around with settings. Even IPv6 is very easy to set up with a lot of brokers straight from the Network settings. But it also has gcc, clang, make, etc that makes life easier for doing development.
go back to the drawing board and redesign around multicore and the architecture of GPU's
So Grand Central Dispatch available on OSX and FreeBSD?
It has F keys, you just need to press a Fn modifier. My wife has one and she loves it. It replaced a Asus Tablet and Dell laptop for her.
I want a ARM hybrid. Put android on it and make it easy to put Linux on it.
Both gasses are "natural gas"
They are natural gasses but they are not Natural Gas: Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and even a lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulfide.
You wouldn't be able to run the same car on that.
Why not? I make my living on large engines that run natural gas just fine. If you can run a car on propane you can run it on natural gas. You just have to account for knock and energy density. At which point Natural Gas runs better than propane. Methane has a Octane rating of 120. Propane has an octane rating of 112. (Most cars run on 87-93 in the US).
Honda has sold a natural gas vehicle in the US since 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the US Department of Energy is trying to get companies to make a cheaper home filling station: http://www.cngnow.com/news/pos...
> That should be enough to charge a decent battery in a few minutes.
Gasoline density is 32.4 MJ/L.
Assume a 60L tank (~16 gallons).
Assume you can fill up your vehicle in 10 minutes.
60 L/10 min * 34.4 MJ/L = 3.4 MW
That's nearly 7 times faster than your 500 kW charger. Assume a 475 mile (30 mpg * 60 L) / 765 km (60 L / (7.84 L / 100 km)) range from that gasoline fill up.
That means your "quick and speedy" 10 minute 500 kW fill up can provide all of 70 miles of range.
It's a matter of physics.
That's why I don't get why they're pushing Hydrogen.
With CNG I can fill up at home. It'd be like installing a high current plug except I'd pipe NG to a compressor and let it fill up my car.
Natural Gas is already flowing through hundreds (thousands?) of pipelines across the US. There are already filling stations. Honda has offered a CNG fleet vehicle for ages.
Get the price of a home compressor down to a Level 2 charger ($1000) and let me by a CNG car.
Split Comcast down the middle. Internet on one side. Cable TV on the other. Ma'Bell style.
Apply what ever laws for DSL to have dry loop DSL to Coax so that you have dry loop COAX.
Then you could have separate companies competing for your coax internet. Comcast wants to charge their prices? Fine. Some local startup (operating over the dry loop coax) could offer unlimited data. Maybe another offers a "Netflix" package since they have a local NetFlix mirror at their offices. They could pay any of the local fiber providers for backhaul to Netflix. Everyone wins (except for Comcast's internet division).
It will also force the Comcast Cable TV to innovate because they can't trap cord cutters by raising internet rates.
> Oh, god, don't make me support those people's code.
Why? Do we make engineers 'support' the welds from a welder. Do we make engineers 'support' the plumbing from a plumber?
There is a huge gap between hiring a full engineer and hiring a technician. There should be an analogous range for software. Right now that gap is being filled by cheap Indian and Chinese programmers.
Code Monkey == Wrench Monkey.
Which is what the US sorely needs. We stopped telling people to go into trades because EVERYONE HAS TO GO TO COLLEGE. I was told in high school I couldn't take welding because I was "going to college." Guess what jobs are in short supply these days? Welding, plumbing, etc.
Sometimes you just need a trade to do a job. Do I need someone that understands coupled classes or a hashtable to build me a website or implement an idea in C? No. If you put 5-10 good coders under a good software engineer I'd trust the output more than trying to hire 3-4 software engineers.
Companies don't hire all engineers, they hire techs as well. We don't need to hire all CS or SE majors but there is a place for them just like there is a place for someone that took a 19-week course on programming.
Is there a good *BSD that has figured out binary package management yet?
Not that I don't love being able to compile everything from scratch but I've stuck with debian for so long because apt-get "just works".
I think in 8 years of use I've had a handful of issues with it (or aptitude/dpkg) where as I've had many more with Windows dependencies.
I want one in the garage.
I also want to name it Jarvis.
"Jarvis, what is the closest english size to 13 mm"
"Jarvis, remind me to order part number 132-2343".
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
