Do you really want people so un-dedicated to working for their country that they can't be bothered to get in shape in order to do the job in front of them?

Especially when you're in an environment that places value on physical fitness, getting into reasonable shape is more a matter of discipline and habit than anything else. If someone's unwilling to make that "sacrifice," just like someone who doesn't want to cut their hair they probably don't belong in any unit depending on a certain esprit de corps to continue.

Do you often fill your gas tank up every two days?

The electric is completely full every morning; your wife's a 40 mile round-trip plus a 30 mile jaunt downtown (seems like an excessive estimate, it assumes that she works 20 miles away from downtown and you also live 30 miles outside of downtown in the same direction) is still only 100 miles.

Sounds like you'd be a poor customer - don't buy one.

Thankfully for the electric car business, you're also an outlier - the vast majority of drivers daily needs can actually be satisfied by the electric cars currently on the market.

You also can't build that kind of scale for $5M, even today.

Its like someone announcing that they're getting into the atomic collider game and have raised another $107. Just makes them look silly.

Very well pointed out. Professional website themes are inexpensive these day to the point that anyone using hand-scrawls like http://www.graphviz.org/ are just asking for disdain.

Seems to be https://github.com/ellson/grap...

Also, why does the website need a machine? Throw it on the free GitHub pages and you'll be fine there.

Right now everyone who wants to drive - even those not driving for 4+ hours at a stretch - fuels up at a gas station. With electric, many (certainly not all, but many) people will be able to slow-charge overnight. Having electric fast charge stations be less common will be just fine, and there'll rarely if ever be a need for one in a traditional residential neighborhood.

Oddly enough we've become comfortable with large underground storage tanks that, when not maintained, will start to leak gasoline into the groundwater. Those are coupled with very large trucks delivering fuel often in mostly residential neighborhoods.

Replace the fuel storage with a moderate power buffer (flywheel, battery, whatever), and add a moderate charging line and we'll be fine.

Just because something is different doesn't make it worse - or better.

Agreed. People forget that sloshing gasoline around is dangerous too - we've just become blasé about it.

If you logged in, the system would happily remember your preference. When you tell the system that you don't want to be remembered, don't blame it for not remembering you.

You don't have to. Build a website. Do marketing. Sell your product however you want to, and when someone's ready to buy you can provide them with a link that opens the App Store and gives them a "Purchase" button - no need for you to mess with handling payments or fulfillment.

The App Store replaces your shopping cart and shipping desk, not your sales and marketing department.

Even being noisily right with an answer to a question that nobody's asking, in a conversation about something completely different, is annoying and should be discourages.

If your disk is slower than your network connection then either you have terrible disks, or your network connection is just peachy and you should stop worrying about it.

They all count... on the one hand you're testing your local loop, on the other you're testing your ISPs peering. Both are valid tests.

Really?

Either just say, "... my ISP, Comcast..." or don't name them at all. Trying to be cute just muddles the conversation and gains absolutely nothing.

Why do you care about other people's results, too? Just upload a large file to somewhere with known good bandwidth (amazon S3 might be a good choice, or FTP it to Dreamhost, or whatever), time it, then pull it back down again (and time that). You'll get a pretty accurate "actual bandwidth" there.

If you're paranoid - and it appears that you are - make the file something unique and check the checksums in both places (or just record a brand new 60 second video, timed upload it from one machine, then timed download it to another and play it). No way that anyone can optimize that transfer - if they could, they wouldn't be wasting the technology on you (and, quite frankly, if they could move 7 megabits/second over a "5 megabit/second pipe" then they'd be entitled to say that they had a 7mpbs pipe.

Not everything needs a dedicated app.