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tl;dr: government incentives

Range goes way up – electrification can turn a 10+ mile commute from something intense (where you need a shower when you arrive) into something manageable. It allows bikes to be a …

My understanding is this is precisely backwards: using BMI to gauge your own health is inaccurate, but using it to analyze populations is the intended purpose.

I think there's some "both sides are equal" aspects in your position that mischaracterize the reality as I understand it. In 2016 Democrats thought manipulation / fake news (exactl…

I've seen plenty of junior engineers who read a FP blog post, and start arguing about 'purity' and the need to refactor lots of code – without having any clue that pure functions a…

Without much more detail than this, they don't sound like cofounders. If they're waiting until you launch to go 100%, then you're assuming all the risk right now. Again take with a…

I'd make the argument that because there are low costs of switching (as has been mentioned elsewhere), these are scale effects (like in most industries), rather than network effect…

Why? I actually still have a 6S and I find the physical button feels mushy in comparison to the new solid state / haptic button. Is there a disadvantage I'm missing?

Yes – every day. By most metrics, my startup is going great, but it's taken years of all-nighters, working weekends, and skipped vacations. I love what I'm doing, but I'm also cogn…

Folsom Labs, San Francisco, Full Time Software Engineers (www.folsomlabs.com) We make powerful design tools for Solar PV (think cloud-based AutoCAD with built in physics modeling).…

We use it for our core app, and now have a bit over 10K lines of application code. Our general strategy is to organize the app by functional areas, each area of which is organized …

It's a $10 million dollar idea, they just sold 15% of it.

The closest parallel I can come up with is Erlang, which (I believe) was developed by Ericsson specifically to handle their exchange traffic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(p…

Folsom Labs, San Francisco, Full Time (www.folsomlabs.com) Basically, if you are interested in science and/or energy, and want to do software engineering at a place that actually l…

I posted this on the "Who's hiring" thread a few days ago, but didn't get much traction. Basically, if you are interested in science and/or energy, we're going to be doing a lot of…

Folsom Labs, San Francisco CA, Full-time/Intern Software Engineer http://www.folsomlabs.com We're building the next generation in solar (PV) system design tools; basically we make …

It is, though if you're using PostGIS, I'd recommend GeoAlchemy2[1], which ties into SQLAlchemy a bit more naturally (because they get rid of support for all other engines). Also, …

You can always create functions that refer to the private element: MyObject.prototype.id = function(){return this._id;}; Which gives you: leagues/{{ league.id() }}

While I agree with this statement in general, it is a bit of a tautology - do cash reserves come from success, or cause it? I agree that cash reserves help, but I think it's hard t…

If you take a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KITGRQujQ and associated tutorial, it will give you an example of binding to the RouteChange events for exactly t…

I don't get it, why are you afraid of scooping yourself? In the same way that HN frowns upon stealth startups, shouldn't we frown upon 'stealth theories'? If your thoughts are nove…

I'm not saying people aren't still choosing Backbone/variants today, just that 2 years ago, Angular was (1) not a nearly as viable an option and (2) not nearly as well known; so an…

I wouldn't draw a strong conclusion about 'larger' startups using Backbone instead of Angular based on this data. There is probably some high correlation between a startup's size a…

If you don't have a specific reason not to, I'd highly recommend using the unstable branch today. I've had no problems with it since I switched several months ago, and any breaking…

What this is missing is the amount of listeners each play counts for. On Pandora/Spotify/Youtube, a 'play' is typically one listener. For these, it's mainly worth noting that Spoti…