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Of course you can use firebase also in combination with server side code. It is no reason not to use firebase because you use server side code. I use firebase and SQL at the same time. It works quite good if you know what you do.

'Supports any web server

does this work with azure ASP.NET?

> Being three times lighter than sodium ions, lithium ions also make it possible to produce very lightweight batteries, an undeniable asset when it comes to portable electronics.

So what is the article about? It doesn't mention any real advantages of sodium ion batteries? Lithium is more rare than Sodium but that should be a minor disadvantage?

Nice to have Node functionality in ASP.NET. Nevertheless I switch from the Microsoft stack. No need for ASP.NET any more. NG2, Node, Firebase is more productive (and cheaper) for me.

I am a newbie to machine learning.

How does it compete to Azure ML besides it is open source?

Very vague comparison. Software is a technology and oil is a commodity.

you can't copy oil, you can't open source oil, software isn't limited

There exists also a very critical documentation about Samwer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dpqb2H-snA He described himself as the "most aggressive man on the internet, even planet", compared business to "blitzkrieg" etc.

Rocket internet is a copy shop. Some rocket websites even had the name of the copied companies in their legal notices. Nothing innovative, mostly online shops.

The big part is the battery. That causes the high numbers. Not because it is a SUV.

As you can see by the numbers the manufacturing takes a big part of the whole carbon production of EV.

Nuclear power is a very bad power source. There is no final depot for nuclear waste on earth. We have to get rid of nuclear power. Hundreds of generations past us will have to deal with this shit of our generation.

These 'scrubbers' and nuclear plants are already in my calculations of battery manufacturing C02 production. Base of the CO2 production calculation is the energy mix of germany. In the US it would be even higher(?).

Source is an independent german energy research institute btw.

Whole environment damage including the manufacturing should be taxed. Of course this can only be estimated.

Every engine and car produces different environment waste.

For example a Tesla S produces much more carbon in it's production than a gasoline car. There are also other toxins which are produced concerning different type of cars.

A diesel produces NOx but can reduce it with filters.

Just taxing the fuel used is just stupid.

Sorry. I have only a german source:

http://www.focus.de/auto/experten/duennes/oekobilanz-von-ele...

I think autonomous driving is first priority for Tesla. So I wonder.

I just want to mention some facts. EVs are interesting and the future for sure but thinking EVs are the holy grail is just stupid.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/hold-smugness-tesla-might-...

How do you can capture carbon?

As i mentioned there are many car makers which have these things since years. And they are much cheaper. Just look at the websites what you can buy from BMW, Daimler etc.

Roughly estimated carbon production of manufacturing (I got these numbers from a german discussion, one source for battery carbon production is: http://www.focus.de/auto/experten/duennes/oekobilanz-von-ele... ):

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VW Polo GTI: 2 tons

BMW M5: 2,5 tons

BMW I3: 4 tons

Tesla Modell X 13 tons

Manufacturing + 100.000km:

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BMW I3 -> 9,6 tons

VW Polo GTI -> 18,6 tons

Tesla Modell X -> 25,3 tons

BMW M5 -> 26,3 tons

Tesla isn't as green as many think. Building heavy cars isn't the solution.

Also the new infrastructure for superchargers does raise carbon production.

Can anyone explain me why Tesla as a silicon valley company is lagging behind in autonomus driving? BMW, Daimler and many more have already working things in much cheaper cars.

Edit: can't understand the down voting. Criticizing Tesla isn't endorsed here?

Later you have a family and responsibility for your children. In college you are free and can take risks.

George W. went to Yale. I think they could do better.

As you mentioned those universities are extremeley hard what means time consuming. Starting a company is time consuming too. Doing both at the same time is nearly impossible.

But when you are studying it is the best time to start a company. It would be better if colleges would honor this instead of just ignoring.

In my opinion elite universities are more for traditional career paths. They are nothing for entrepeneurs.

You waste too much time with exams.

There should be an opportunity to get credits for entrepeneurial work at university.

Edit: I am engineering alumnus of a so called elite university in germany and struggled much with exams because I just wanted to do more practical work which one can sell.

why I use Windows 10 on my desktop for daily work:

- best hardware support, no driver problems for example with my graphics card or thinkpad dock

- updates etc. just work without any configurations or reading manuals

- Visual Studio is yet only available to Windows, whereas it evolves to the most compelling cross platform development tool (xamarin, universal apps, android and ios support)

- productive cortana search

- fast, even on old hardware

- the desktop is much more faster and fluent than e.g. gnome

- I don't care sending over metrics to Microsoft, this is needed to make software better

- I can see edge evolve

I use linux vms on some severs where I need to scale things. But it has only one reason: fast deployment times because of smaller os images.

hamburger menu should only contain notbso often needed actions. There can be additional buttons in the GUI. Simple as that.

also most android apps support swiping from the border which gives the user a quick access to actions not using any space. The author doesn't mention it?

sometimes I feel like an alien when I say that I need 8-9 hours sleep to feel awake the whole day. 6h seems to be normal nowadays.

Can I train to sleep (a little bit) less?

Yes this has also to do with german culture (german angst).

I am a German SaaS developer. More and more customers are asking me for not using infrastracture services from US companies.

On the one hand this is bad for me because google and microsoft have top products for my needs. On the other hand this means big opportunities because my customers are heavily searching for alternatives.

The trust in US IT companies was never so bad here. It can become a desaster for their european sales.

It seems that google wants to have code monkeys instead of creative software engineers. This is a common problem of big companies. IMO it is one of the reasons they get stuck with innovations. Of course also the interviewers don't want to hire people which are smarter than they are because of their own career.

I like it just to press the win key to do a (cortana) web search.

If they stay with bing as the only web search integrated into cortana google will lose some users. Nevertheless they should implement google as an option.

there exists the term "overengineered" for technical products. There should be a term "overdesigned" for user interfaces too.

Material design is a good example for this.

if any hacker wants to help disrupting the banks: http://mapthebanks.com/