The worse I had was probably Apple (before the iPod got popular) where I waited for month, but I would have been a junior for the position at the time. I think it took just a few weeks overall with Google, but for a job title with high demand and few candidates (yes I was hired). As for Amazon ... I got an offer under 24h from initial contact with the hiring manager (I turned it down and stayed where I was). On average I would say what I've had typically is technical phone screen within a week from the initial contact, first on site interview a week later, and second one the following week, with an offer days later. Easily under 1 month for the whole process.

My own experience is that if it is not happening quickly, then you are not the perfect fit and they would hire you only because they could not find anyone better matching their checklist. You are going to be much better off somewhere where they really want *you*. I've also had the opposite where they wanted me too much: the technical level of the interviewers is so low that I would have been an instant rockstar, but I did not want to be surrounded by mostly subpar coworkers (such places do not do well).

True story from when I started at Google, back in the good days years ago. It was on the last company wide ski trip, talking to an other employee.

  - So where is you office on the campus, what is your closest cafe?
  - It is Cafe Foo. (not real name)
  - Oh I like cafe Foo, good food.
  - NO! IT SUCKS! IT'S LOBSTER ALL THE TIME!!!

She was dead serious. Nobody's complaining about too much lobster or kobe beef these days.

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Quelle surprise!

They are 'space' savers, not 'weight' savers ? The spare tires are usually in the trunk where you want maximum storage while the 12V battery is under the hood, where things are crammed but most consumers would rather see that the space is fully used rather than seeing a lot of empty space where the engine lives.

The model S goes 265 miles with current battery technology, if you take the claim from the summary that goes to about 750 miles. You need a high end diesel car to get close to this kind of range.

Of course I do not expect a 800 miles electric car anytime soon. The cars will probably stay in the under 300 miles range while getting the prices down to a more affordable level ($30k range). The other big issue is charging. It probably takes 10m on average to fill a tank (my costco has long lines), but the infrastructure for an 'electric station' is much much cheaper than for gasoline (no underground tank, expensive permits, electricity get delivered 24/7, etc...) so there would be more charging stations around. Restaurants could start providing charging stations in their parking lot, some public parkings in SF have them, etc...

If you can charge 2h worth of driving in 10/20m then this even becomes a viable solution for long trips like from SF to LA. Not as convenient as Gasoline, I admit, but that's assuming gasoline will not go up to $10/gallon in the next 5 years (it is 1.67 euro/L in France, so $8.1/gallon today).

Overall: tripling battery capacity will probably allow for cheaper 200m+ range cars electric cars, maybe a wireless charging technology will allow you to recharge while you sit down at a starbucks without even pulling out a wire (don't mind the billing issue, that's easy), and you end up with something that is cheaper and easier to use than a gasoline car.

We should keep the overall efficiency of the fuel and the engine in mind. The traditional gazoline engines only have a 30%to 40% efficiency in the best case (40% to 50% for diesel), while electrical engines are usually over 90%. Add to that the electrical car can get energy back when breaking while it is pure loss for gasoline, and you have now an electrical car that has a longer range than a gasoline car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_specific_fuel_consumption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_efficiency

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When they kill and burry the project?

Amongst other things he forgot to mention is battery life. First review I could find:

And the heat management does not seem to be on par with my experience with MacBookPro, also seem to explain the poor battery life:

This is something that drove me to Python and then Django. Python might not be the best scripting language nowadays, though I still consider it one of the most productive languages from small to large size projects (as long as pure speed is not a hard requirement). Django is also probably not the most full featured web framework around but the documentation is rather good. And yes with examples. Usually the Python community also takes unittesting seriously and that also is a form of documentation and examples of how the original coder expected the classes/methods to be used.

I disagree and so I hate you. ;-)

Like in that little camp setup in Cuba? Limited time at geological scale? Due process?

My alarm clock actually has no Snooze button but has Slap! To snooze.

The Microsoft patent is 'interesting' but I do not really find it practical unless you have to start switching modes all day long: when running where the simple fact that you are running would make it misbehave, probably similar on my bike (SF streets are badly maintained), or worse on the train (I had to disable 'shake to skip' on my iPhone, CalTrain got to be the worse train tracks in the western world).

Something more useful would be to cross reference the ring mode with your calendar. If in a meeting, at the dentist, etc ... switch to silent mode. The calendar could even have an option to make the phone super silent and not even vibrate (meeting with CEO).

Should I patent this idea?

I'm allowed to vote, so should not complain? I though there was a thing about no taxation without representation here.
If I was given the chance to vote I would probably vote for the little guys that have zero media coverage. It's not changing much whoever I would vote for anyhow, eventually the US might get a colorful representation of ideologies like most european countries do. Not perfect across the pond but the people opinions do seem more represented rather than only the corporations will.