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He was entitled to fly all 3009 segments, but if those were at least 2 hours per segment -- that's over 1700 hours a year. Way more than a pilot flies at 1000/year. So at a certain point it just becomes too impractical to fly that much. It's easy to book that many flights, however.

Listing the number based on flight segments makes it sound much worse than it really is. It seems like he flew internationally a lot -- so every round-trip cancellation could easily be 6 segments. I've often had to reschedule a trip twice. On those occasions, I'm only flying 0.33 of the segments I booked. His cancellations are only twice that. And with the golden ticket and no consequences, I could easily see a person with a busy schedule often booking two trips to have the seats reserved and then only taking the one they need. While he was abusing the system since there was no penalty, there are some of legitimate reasons too.

I got the same thing here, but had to scroll just a little. It's always the same popup on each site. It leads to a Czech Republic company herbalfun which offers downloads of games and movies for $40/mo. It looks like someone may be buying up recently expired domains, uploading a bunch junk there and Google is falling for it. Going to just the main site of any of those links shows just a long link of links for various strings.

(Full disclosure...22X/B22 here) I'm really excited beyond just our batch. Paving the way for this can change the game for a lot of other early stage companies.

My company just finished this batch. 500 was upfront that funding would not happen until at least 2 months after the batch starts. My impression is that communication has been weak after Dave leaving and that has allowed room for speculation. Personally, 500 has been good to us.

I had a couple drivers tell me they'd use Lyft until they had too many hours and we're forced to take a break, then they switch to Uber until the mandatory Lyft break is over. I forget how many hours they said they drive on average, but it was a lot.

That argument against it was that it was like taking blood from a diseased patient and trying to inject that into an already sick patient. Big mergers are tough when the companies are healthy. Are there cases where this has ever been successful?

During college in Indiana, a couple of us software engineers wanted to take the state's "Professional Engineer" certification exam. Just to see how we'd do. We were told plainly, "you cannot register for the PE exam because the state of Indiana does not recognize software engineers as 'real engineers'". However, if we were Electrical Engineers and wrote embedded software, that would make us a "real engineer". They explained that the certification was primarily designed for Civil and Mechanical engineers. One guy looked into changing his major temporarily just to take the test but assumed the college administration wouldn't be thrilled about that.

I spent years designing electronics and motors for GE, including the washing machines. I never once heard anyone in any department make the slightest mention of designing a product to fail. That was a side effect of something like "design for 20 years" but "prove reliability for 10 years". The purchase price set by the market was just too low to prove reliability longer. I'm not sure if the following was true, but I did hear the discussion of "for every $1 we add to the product cost, it will cost the customer $5". People move every 7-10 years and moving appliances is a pain, so I think that's just where the market landed when accounting for reliability vs price.

I think there's some unfair nostalgia about appliances being built to last years ago. A quick search revealed a 2 speed/3 cycle 1962 washer sold for $185 which is over $1400 today. You can buy that washer for $300 today. Plus it has safety features to prevent ripping your kid's arm off. :)

Sources:

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60selectrical.html

http://www.in2013dollars.com/1962-dollars-in-2016?amount=185

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Roper-3-5-cu-ft-High-Efficiency-Top...

I've gone through this before and the law is very clear that continued employment is not a valid compensation for changing the terms of your employment. The original employment agreement was the contract you are bound by. Coming to work each day is just both of you continuing to abide by the original contract. As you mentioned, the other side is the at-will part. It's pretty easy for them to just decide to dismiss you.

I think it was a language they developed to be used with IUP. Original research paper: http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/download/spe95.pdf Under "Resources->LED" on the site there is some more information: http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/led.html

I saw binaries for Snow Leopard and it appears to be built on Fink. So I think you're required to set that up too.

What I thought the author was trying to say was that you can make a car that floats. It's just a much better understood problem to buy a car and a boat, then call it a day.

I think part of the reason for the curve is to give the illusion that it's thinner than it really is.

You mention Grove Square...they were the worst. Interesting thing about them was to get around the (now expired) filter patents, they used instant coffee rather than using coffee grounds. They were much worse than your standard Keurig.

Exactly. Customer satisfaction is the last thing on Keurig's mind right now. I think we all know how this will play out if they don't wise up.

I wrote the software for the Mother Parkers RealCup brewer and am quite familiar with at least their knockoff. The real purpose of the brewer was really as a way to push their brand of K-cups (it's the razor blade thing). Everything is about pushing those cups because the margins on those cups are amazing. Keurig is desperate to try to maintain their licensing deals. The (patented) Vue cups aren't doing great, so this was their next attempt. Keurig's attempts aren't really focused on serving the customer, but rather on trying to extract continued revenues from them. BTW...$3.7B market in K-Cups. Crazy huh?

Basically, Louisville is a small town when it comes to Engineering. I had some contacts which eventually led to a job there. But the job got stale. Our platform was based on a National Semi COP8 (8-bit micro without even a multiply instruction). That can only be interesting for so long. So I went to GE and started designing 3-phase induction motors. Quite a change of pace.

It was a lot of holding cabinet stuff. That's easy to introduce into your workflow and doesn't really change the way you do things. Primarily a money saver by being able to hold things longer. I think Arby's experimented with it since they slow roast at a fairly low temperature. Cookong that way will more quickly get you out of the "unsafe" region where bacteria grows quickly. Restaurants menus have been optimized for the current way of doing things. There's not enough incentive to change that. Especially in franchises where you'd be forcing them to buy expensive new equipment and shake up the menu. (KFC is especially scared after the meas introducing the Chicken Little caused.) It's easier in fine dining and smaller chains where they have the ability to experiment. They also have more incentive to be different.

I was the guy that used to write all the software for the CVap ovens at Winston, so here's my take... The basic idea is the pan of water is your food temperature and the air temperature is your food texture/browning. It really is incredibly simple technology, and it really is quite superior to the old way. I would LOVE to have that feature in a normal home oven. The same oven can be a proofing oven, baking oven, steamer and holding cabinet. You can cook a roast and it can safely be held for about 24 hours without affecting the food at all (medium-rare will stay that way no matter how long you keep it in the oven). Not to mention that is cooks faster and more efficiently. Also you can cook at lower temperatures safely, which is kind of big.

The two major difficulties are: 1) The pan of water is a pain to clean and keep full. All that moisture just builds up gunk. 2) The user needs to rethink how they cook. They need to think food temperature and texture, rather than cook X minutes at Y. It's simple to modify your recipes, but customers have always seemed quite resistant to change. I still say it is needed in every kitchen, however.

Regular radio does this. There is a bonus if your music reaches a certain level. At 25,000 performances, it is 1.5x the base rate and goes up to 4x.

His $4 number is misleading. You have to look at both his BMI and SoundExchange statements. The webcasting Pureplay rate was $0.0021 per play for 2013. 14227 plays is about $30.

Glad to see someone mention this. A quick calculation using the listener formula from (http://www.radio-media.com/song-album/articles/airplay66.htm...) says his cumulative 3 month total is equivalent to a single song play on the top station in Indianapolis, IN. Or equivalent to 0.6% (6/10 of a percent) of the number of simultaneous listeners from the top station from every market across the country. At the Pureplay rate of $0.0021 per play, he'd receive $4971 for the same number of plays as his song being played just a single time on the top radio station in every US market. It's not the fault of streaming music services that he made so little, it's just that his music isn't listened to by many people over a 3 month period on those services.

While the book is quite nice, I think it really misses it's target demographic. Many people in poor areas end up buying a lot of their food from the local convenience store where there's just a selection of low quality and unhealthy food (and not anything fresh). Kids also tend to be left to fix their own meals, which will be mostly junk food or something that doesn't require any preparation. It's a very challenging problem to address. Even when you have programs to get fresh and healthy food to these neighborhoods, it's a challenge to get people to take advantage of it.

It kind of bothers me that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is supposed to an educational charity, yet they are devoting resources towards developing products aimed business and industrial users. It doesn't seem aligned with their stated mission.

I would hope that most teachers are proactive about this. But I can tell you from working with some of the poorer schools, it can be a different world that what you are used to. Some teachers seemed to be apathetic and not very concerned about the students. I wouldn't trust that these schools could be left with taking care of the problem. Hopefully, I'm mistaken.

I can speak a little from my experience in electronics at GE Appliances. I hated most of interfaces we put on things, but that wasn't my call to make in engineering. I seriously doubt it's a patent thing. Note that we didn't make microwaves -- we outsourced them. There aren't a lot of companies that make them any more. Competition is primarily on price. You want to keep costs low -- R&D, development, manufacture and warranty. Justifying an increase of pennies per unit is tough in that environment if you can't prove a direct increase in sales. Think of decisions being made with the mindset that you don't get promoted by increasing the cost 50 cents per board. ;)

My two cents...There's a lot to read. I'd expect the home page to say that you can "Get local news, weather, traffic and deals" and a place to enter your zip to see if it's in your area. Your option are then to either signup or be notified when their city is available. I won't think to "check back often", so you should immediately want to capture interested users on their initial visit.

I there the guys behind this are smart. But I also think they have lot going on. The project seems to move slowly. Interesting ideas tho.