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Why not? Utilities make money by power transmission. Even if every single house in the US has solar panels there still is a massive market around transferring power between houses to balance loads and time of use issues. In my direct and relevant experience talking with r&d folks and strategic planners at big utilities, they treat cheaper utilities as another market to get in to. They don't think of it as a threat to their business.

Python/Flask React. Hosted on a linux box (ubuntu) in the cloud.

I came up with the idea of combining roof shingles with solar panels back in 2012. Now here we are in 2018 and Tesla is making it happen.

Go on to your fiance's phone, computer, router, etc and block all of the wedding marketing engines from showing up in her google searches. This includes, but is not limited to, theknot, pinterest, etc. This will singlehandedly reduce cost and stress more than any other single action.

Write code really really drunk. People reveal the worst in themselves when they code drunk.

Old cars are always grandfathered in. It would be completely unrealistic for the government to bench hundreds of thousands of cars.

Interim CEOs make a fair penny.

Use your skills and knowledge to do something beneficial for the world.

I got invited to a birthday party in NYC recently. I seriously considered showing up for it, but would have been a lot of travel for what it was worth...

I've done php, ruby, go, c++, c, java, javascript, and python and I must say I prefer python the most for generic server side stuff. Super well organized and documented. Just the right amount of abstraction. I like c++ for lower level stuff, where python starts to fall off. Go is growing on me but its still so much easier to be productive in C++ in most realistic situations. I use C only when I can't use C++, which is rare.

Thanks for fact checking me, I should have done my homework first.

I still think that the 9.15% stat supports my claim though. I hang out with mostly non-engineers so its a bit comical to be shamed by hacker newsians for proposing that we get paid enough. Most studies on the matter have demonstrated that any income over 75k has no correlation on happiness, so for me I guess I feel more concerned about finding meaningful work than a higher salary.

On another note, I am not sure why all of these people claiming to providing value equal to 10x their salary don't simply work for themselves and see if they can really rake in that much without the support of their company.

People writing software are generally in the top 5% income level. Why do you feel that they are not being paid what they are worth?

Anecdotally, I have programmed in python, js, java, c#, go, C, C++, ruby, and php all in a professional environment and I'd have to say I prefer python the most. It is a very logically made language with a nice balance of abstraction and expressibility. My general language choosing path is: can I do it in python? If so, use python. Obviously you need to drop down to lower level languages for certain cases, but why work with memory management for application code if you can help it? I guess my point is that if you're going to be learning ML, you should be thrilled that you have the option of using python. That said if other languages float your boat, I've certainly done some ML in c++ with openCV and it was a positive experience. Use whatever you want.

Interesting. Personally, I enjoy living in a world where my friends have overcome cancer, where I can spend < 1 hour a day focusing in food, and I am able to travel halfway around the world to experience machu picchu and be back by then next monday. At what point do you think we stopped productively progressing? Have you considered joining an Amish community?

I mean, the massive progress in science, medical, renewable energy, etc. are pretty good problems to be solving. The silly games and facebooks are only a problem for those who choose to participate in them.

I love how some people use 3 spaces.

Look at his submissions. He posts almost every day and their always one of about 3 major news outlets. I'd have to say I agree that that seems unrealistic for someone with honest motives.

More woodworking skills. R Pi architectures in the context of IoT.

I really like those questions! They seem more thought out than most of the stock interview questions a google search will show you. I definitely stopped as soon as I was asked for an email though. There's no way I'll give you my valuable email space just to see some interview questions.

I prefer Amazon Dog. Then you get all of the benefits of a real dog, but it lives in the cloud.

Agreed. I bought an old volvo for $2000 about 7 years ago. I'd say I average about $1000 in repairs every year. I'd call that a great investment.

I watch windows get popped all the time on physical houses. Is it a good idea to build windows into your house?

I'd start off super productive, but realistically I'd probably end up staying home all day playing video games and working on projects around the house until my social isolation left me wallowing in depression.

Probably not widely. They likely have some sort of source of information that they use like for example: 'the current published price on bloomberg by Intercontinental Exchange'. Though this may not be the exact market price of the REC at that particular instant, it would be within a couple cents or so. Also with such a small market the amount you could get per REC changes significantly based on volume. Anyways, you as a customer with a utility bill probably have 0 say in what you sell your RECs for. You already would have signed away those rights when you signed the lease on your solar panels. (at least that's how it all works to the best of my knowledge)

A big problem in the REC markets is lack of price transparency. I worked for a startup a while back building a trading platform to try to get major players together at a regular interval to agree upon pricing that could then be executed upon and published publicly. The idea didn't pan out; despite having a lot of the biggest traders in the game on board, there just wasn't enough trading to make a company viable. I believe that this is due in part by two things. 1 - the large variance in regulations. You can't just trade a REC for a REC. If there was national consensus then it would open up much more liquidity. 2 - most RECs are pre bought/sold as a means of project finance. A company building a wind farm will pre sell years in advance to help fund the hardware. On the other side utilities will pre buy all the credits to cover their needs. There is relatively low day trading, making a technology solution difficult.

Currently most large scale traders pick up the phone and call brokers like the good old days of the stock market. So to answer your question, yes you need to request a quote from each. There are also bloomberg streams for pricing and some brokering companies publish indexes that they believe reflect the current pricing.

I don't think that there is very much value there. Everyone who is going to believe in global warming already does. Acknowledging extremists only strengthens their cause.

In response to OP, I have dedicated my career to fighting global warming through software. It is VERY difficult to find good software jobs that accomplish this, but they do exists if you are flexible on pay/location. Some angles that I have found successful:

- Supporting REC markets with technology. The more successful they are the more politicians will support them which starts the cycle of affordable renewables driving more financing for innovative companies driving lower prices...

- Join companies doing efficiency profiling. This has been a huge area of recent growth. Companies doing things like analyzing utility data to show companies where they can reduce usages to have the most impact

- Work in renewables. PV's, inverters, batteries, wind turbines, etc all need to talk to each other! Brush up on your modbus, mqtt, sunspec, etc and start looking for companies.

- Build our scientists better tools! Tons of companies are working to provide researchers with better ways of understanding the environment and the effects of global warming. This may not be the most direct way for you to help, but it is important to understanding climate change. There is tooonnns of room for innovation here, especially in allowing scientists to understand and harness AI and standardizing data/research to open up collaboration.

- Work for the grid. Many giant utility companies are starting to realize that microgrids are real and imminent. How do utilities maintain control over a homeowner's power so that there aren't dangerous power fluctuations on the grid? Check out Kitu or Autogrid for some solutions. Larger utilities will also have R&D labs where they set up and test cutting edge renewable options and control strategies.

TL;DR: Tons of companies are working to drive down the cost of renewables. Save the world!

It may be worth looking into what AWS has to offer. Their IoT offerings seem to be pretty solid.

I love this idea. A quick tutorial on how to use this would make it much more approachable to developers wanting to use it without reading every line of code.

Also, why is it copyrighted by google?

Also take daylight savings into account, you could get an extra hour one day a year. Thats a lot more breaths.

Man thats a throwback!