ken_railey

1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of course this is impossible to know for sure, but I'm curious to hear your view.

2) Is having their door kicked through in the middle of the night by SWAT, and being sent to prison in any way advantageous to someone struggling with addiction?

My own project (http://flowlab.io) is a visual programming language for 2d games.

http://newsroom.acep.org/index.php?s=20301&item=29928

I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.

These two statements are contradictory. The whole point of having it is that it is stored value that can provide you with the things you actually need; time, in your case.

Is that really the case? Scala's Akka actor library seems like it would qualify just fine: http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-p...

I see your problem right there :)

Also, I am not aware of any stable platform for game development. Browsers and iOS have both changed a lot in the last 5 years as well.

Let's not, they are entirely irrelevant.

Noone is claiming that any specific tool will make your startup succeed, or fix your bugs, or add features to your software for you - I thought we were discussing text editors.

Possibly, but some people are not starting, launching, growing, or evolving anything but software - and a text editor is where 99% of that work happens.

There are plenty of legitimate gripes to be made about vim, but you really should consider taking the time to learn a serious programmers editor like Vim or Emacs. That would at least help you avoid looking like a fool by ranting about things you clearly don't understand.

You may even find (god forbid) that you enjoy it.

www.sae.org/events/aars/presentations/2004-hill.pdf

1) The nominal amount of electricity used by a heater blower motor is not going to measurably affect the range of your trip (this is most likely the same for the Tesla)

2) The heat from the engine block is waste heat from the relatively inefficient combustion process. This heat has to be actively dissipated in most driving conditions (typically even in winter). It is essentially free to pipe this heat into the cabin. Now contrast this with the Tesla's 400 electrical resistance heater, which has to directly compromise range to generate cabin heat.