chadmaughan

On SHI, it's listed at $16,779.00 (per unit?) https://www.shi.com/products/productdetail.aspx?SHISystemID=...

Agreed. We got around this by hacking the single use CVS/Rite Aid cameras according to the below guide. Dropping one of these in the water or on some rocks didn't feel quite so devastating.

https://makezine.com/2008/02/29/how-to-cvs-video-camera-h/

I also had a lot of fun KAPing before drones. Stabilization was handled fairly easy with a Picavet (or Pendulum) suspension system. Neat and low tech.

More details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography#Pica...

First thought (to the article title "Why we stopped building fatjars") was that the build person had "graduated" and took their newly "acquired superpowers elsewhere" [0]

Joking aside, fantastic idea =)

Have you received a cease and desist from SlimFast yet for violating their trademark?

[0] http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...

They've already increased it from the originally published concurrent requests per function limit (originally 50, now 100) [1]

We'd like the "Total size of all the deployment packages that can be uploaded per account" increased. Since you have to "require in" (as you put it) all your dependencies with each published function it's plausible to hit that limit pretty quick.

The average node module is 1.6MB [2]. If your functions have 3 dependencies, you're near 5MB. That limits you to ~300 functions. That initially seems like a lot until you realize you may have to start breaking up complex logic into multiple functions to hit time limits. You also might need to maintain multiple versions for backwards compatibility (think v1 endpoints). And if you use Java 8, you're just screwed. That size limit can be hit quick.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150315092544/http://docs.aws.a...

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/npmjs-stats

It was published by the Wall Street Journal. The opening sentence incorrectly attributes Forbes.

"Yesterday Forbes published a piece on 'The Billion Dollar Startup Club'.”

http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/

Someone did (Marty Lagina) and they attempted a number of things last year. This is the premise of a reality show on the History Channel called "The Curse of Oak Island."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Oak_Island http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455408/

Totally agree. For example, the Frontlines project, or "70 miles in 7 years" was done 2 years early and 300 million dollars under budget. [1] That goes a long way towards future budget increase requests and tax increase votes.

[1] http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56733855-90/2015-alleg...

Salt Lake City (also "in the West") already has ~45 miles of light rail track [1], 88 miles of commuter rail track [2], ~3 streetcar track miles [3], and 69 transit stations. It was named as one of the top transit systems in north america for 2014 [4].

This was approved in 2008 by voters in Salt Lake County [5]. Already under works are plans to expand the commuter rail beyond Ogden to Provo (from 88 to 135 miles) and expand the streetcar concept. Additional lines are also currently being studied [6].

Of course, when Fastracks is done, it may have more "track miles" but that will be mostly due to the airport being so, so far away from the city center (~23 driving miles from Denver to DEN compared to ~6 from Salt Lake to SLC).

I'm excited for Fastracks. Can't wait to never have to fill my rental car out at that single, lonely Conoco gas station by DEN again.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAX_(light_rail)

2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontRunner

3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Line_(UTA)

4 - http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865605797/UTA-named-one-o...

5 - http://www.rideuta.com/mc/?page=Projects-Frontlines2015

6 - http://www.rideuta.com/mc/?page=UTAProjects

After ~36 years in the US Senate you're bound to get a few things right.

The social safety net and creative destruction discussion is interesting.

However, I'm interested from a design perspective. Does anyone know if this was built by the "apps team" at NPR? IMO, it's very well done.

More from the NPR "apps team."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279440

http://blog.apps.npr.org/2013/02/14/app-template-redux.html

His profile lists "CEO/Co-Founder of competehub.com and ignitelab.net"

The irony, of course, is the tagline used at ignitelab.net is: "Ignite Your Innovative Internet Business Idea Right Now"

Several people at my work had the same Google Wallet problem. Most of us had a $900 charge that was later cancelled. Ultimate tease.

This was my favorite tweet:

"Another year, another batch of developers who will be sure to never ever use +Google Wallet in anything they build. #io13" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/seedifferently/status/311856162440093696

This is beautiful. I love NPR.

I'm curious, what are the rules/requirements for initiating a new "NPR app"? An election app seems totally obvious, but what about other apps? Is it based on available data? Available funds? Pervasiveness of a certain story? An individual reporter's weight? (for example, if I was on the team and Nina Totenberg made an app request, I'd drop everything and do it for her - she's dreamy)

Also, how much lead time do you typically get with your apps? A few days, a few weeks, longer?

No worshipping. Just (parenthetically) expressing an opinion.

John's an awesome guy. He has a great ability to consume technologies and present them in a clear and concise way.

These videos are professional and helped me quickly get up to speed with Angular (the greatest web framework yet).

John's videos are also featured on the Angular website.

PS - John also has the great pleasure of being a developer evangelist for Webstorm (the greatest web IDE) at Jetbrains.

PPS - You should follow him.

Indeed. +darrenkopp missed the Mid-Jordan line, the West Valley line (both currently operational), the airport line (opening in April) and the Draper line (also opening in 2013). These are mostly east-west lines. Also not included is the Sugar House street car line.

SLC mayor Ralph Becker says, "by the end of 2013, we will have witnessed the largest expansion of an urban rail system in the nation." [1]

"70 miles in 7 years" seems pretty ambitious to me. [2]

[1] http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55680450-78/salt-lake-beck...

[2] http://www.rideuta.com/mc/?page=Projects-Frontlines2015

Is this sarcasm? =)

If you want to know how real auto-complete works, try out IntelliJ. Auto-complete on Eclipse is like slowly being pecked to death by ducks.

A more accurate statement in my mind is "Eclipse makes Java palpable, IntelliJ makes Java fun."

Seriously, right? Integrate it into the Nexus Q and suddenly it (the Nexus Q) becomes a compelling product.

Super Dev Mode and Elemental (appear to) take away two of my big complaints with GWT.

The biggest still remains: pounding OO Java into a functional paradigm.

One of my favorite quotes (http://matt.might.usesthis.com/):

"One should always choose the programming language that reduces the impedance mismatch between a problem and its solution."

Java for rich web = impedance mismatch. We're in a polyglot world folks.

That's welcome news. The only downside of improving compiler speed is that I'll have less time to peruse HN.

PS - Great job on the presentation today. Sort of felt like it devolved into a marketing pitch (with Sencha et al.), but you're a hard act to follow!

With the new optimizations I will be twice as productive as I previously was (but still half as productive as I would be with native JS).

This is classical geek owning up. My first thought was, this is written with two purposes:

1) to prevent the average, non-technical person from understanding it ("Phew, I'm glad these guys are figuring out this stuff and not me - that's why I host with them. I don't even know what a 'dyno manifold' is!")

2) to show management how smart we are and that you still need us ("because who else is going to figure this 'routing mesh' stuff out if you fire those responsible for the outage")

A simple "we're sorry and we've given 10 lashes to the engineer performing the manual garbage collection" may have been a better approach.

Having said that, I still think Heroku is awesome.

Scanned from right to left, read the URL and thought "Last artup club? What's an artup?"

Regardless, great idea!

Hmm... my MacBook doesn't have a home/end cluster and I seem to function fine on all those sites. CTRL-A & CTRL-E (handy if you're an Emacs fan).

I was also a skeptic of Chromebooks until I took mine home from Google IO last year and gave it to my then 7yr old. His response after a few minutes, "Dad, this has the whole internet on it!"

This was followed by a detailed lesson from me on exactly how the "whole internet" works. Then later, regret on my part for not having explained that to him earlier.

Hehe, sorry. The "doo-doo" was used sarcastically - meant to show exactly how out-of-place it is to talk about excrement (using any synonym) in the context of a git tutorial.

Next time I'll be sure and add in my <sarcasm/> tags for clairty.

"There's just one thing, Dude. Do you have to use so many cuss words?" -- Big Lebowski

Joking aside, there is really no need to ruin a great guide by swearing in the subtitle.

I'm not sure I'll ever understand why developers think they need to swear in articles. In this instance, is it because the author is writing in nerd (addressing a seemingly technical concept) and needs to show his article has some universal accessibility by using one of the most understood terms for excrement in the subtitle?

I mean, I'm glad he warned me there is no deep poop in the subtitle because I won't read ANYTHING that has deep doo-doo in it.

Show some maturity: s/shit/stuff (that'd be Sed for replace the word 'shit' with the word 'stuff')