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I believe the GP was speaking globally. There are probably a billion people who would love to be poor in america.

The misery index of your commute is inversely related to your average speed.

For a spell I had a 50min commute with an average speed of around 40mph. It was a pleasant drive, mostly rural roads.

If I had to grind my way into a major city in traffic and averaging 20-25mph (with a worst case significantly slower) for those same 50min I would go insane.

There is something, perhaps, to be said about forced activities and artificially limited choices. There are no doubt people in possession of sufficient motivation, discipline, wisdom and insight that can take the near-infinite list of possibilities that lie before each one of us and choose the happy few which are truly worthwhile.

For the rest of us being forced to sig in one place for an hour a day might give us an opportunity to tend to parts of ourselves that might otherwise be neglected in the rush of life. To a busy person taking 30minutes to sit in the kitchen, read the paper, and sip some coffee would appear as sloth and idleness but doing the same in a train car is nearly as pleasant and gives no opportunity for the evil optimizer in our heads to give us grief about it.

I think it is a matter of "opportunity cost". If you take the commute as a given then the question wrt to the technical tome is: "What must I give up to read this book?" On the train the answer is: "Sleep, stare out the window, solve crossword".

Contrast with home where the answer is: "anything and everything." Then reading a giant technical treatise is not quite as appealing an option.

I'm not advocating long commutes but there is perhaps something to be said for artificially limiting one's choices at times.

I think this is just a case of ESL, not fraud.

The second sentence reads: "The official launch comes after nearly one year telecom minister Kapil Sibal flaunted a prototype of the device."

Also: "he device will bridge the gap between the rural India and the ongoing technology boom in the country."

My guess is "in front of us" should be "coming soon", "almost here" or "on the horizon".

You have your prices backwards. Tesla S is $50k(est) and the 911 Carerra is $79k.

Also, the S is a four-door sport sedan that seats up to 7, not a two-seat sports car.

> an expensive car that does not look good

Seriously? What cars, in your opinion, do look good?

> It's not faster or better than other cars

0-60 in 5.5sec

400Nm torque

Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at. Yes it is expensive. It is a low-volume exotic all-electric car. what are you expecting?

After thinking about this some more I think there is a massive communication failure here. Lots of unreasonable expectations and plenty of misinformation and not only in this article but by other poster (including myself). I'll try to clear things up:

1. "Kindle Touch" has a touch screen "Kindle" does not.

2. "Kindle Fire" never had 3G.

3. Newer Kindle 3Gs will not support free 3G web browsing (except for Wikipedia)

> If Amazon advertises it as a “Touch” device and it doesn’t behave anything like every other device advertised as a “touch” device, this is surprising.

The "Kindle Touch" has a touch keyboard the "Kindle"(no touch) has the d-pad controlled keyboard. Nowhere have I seen the non-touch Kindle being advertised as a "touch" device. That being said I had the same confusion after readin the article (perhaps because I never expected someone to complain about a missing "touch" feature on a non-"touch" device.

EDIT: Mea Culpa. The article was complaining that the "Kindle" (non-touch) didn't have a touchscreen and had the tedious d-pad interface instead. That revelation doesn't bother me at all (and hardly is a revelation.

Original post follows:

It is called the "Kindle Touch".

It is advertised thus: "now with multi-touch".

Their longer blurb says this: "Simple To Use Touchscreen Kindle Touch features an easy-to-use touch interface. Turn pages, search, shop books and take notes quickly and easily."

To learn now that the "touch" screen borders on being useless and that amazon has a very poor concept of "quick and easy" leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

EDIT: got confused between "Kindle" and "Kindle Touch". To me it is obvious that "Kindle" has no touch screen and that keyboard input must be via the D-pad. Consequently I assumed the complaint re:keyboard not being touch would apply to a product that actually had a touchscreen.

In short: I agree with my parent comment. neither unexpected or noteworthy.

I'm really late to this party but I want to stress a. Point that doesn't get mentioned often enough:

Do not use "cp". Please.

Copying changes to save them and reapply later is nearly guaranteed to quietly lose changes, reintroduce removed code, or otherwise screw up your work.

If you want to move changes stash them or commit them and then apply them elsewhere. Using cp throws out all of git's ability to help you do what you mean and not what you say.

Also, the data corruption was caused by a bug, yes, but the cp based workflow being used will result in a nasty suprise sometime in the future.

Do you have a source for your "considerably more" claim? Does that claim factor in the inevitable battery pack replacement?

Can you make a power supply recommendation for the casual hobbyist?

Edit: I mean a variable voltage variable current bench/lab power supply.

There are plenty of explanations that don't involve living paycheck-to-paycheck.

1. You keep money in several accounts (checking, savings, money market, paypal, etc.)

2. You are a contract worker being paid in large installments and you need to know whether your deposit has cleared before paying bills.

3. You have difficulty with fiscal discipline and only leave money for essentials in your account to prevent over-spending.

and so forth.

Perjury requires you to be giving testimony under oath. This law covers any and all conversations however casual.

Furthermore perjury requires the act to be willful and the item under question to be of material importance to an investigation. This law requires only that the statement be known by the speaker to be incorrect and however trivial.

Whether she had zero, one or several jobs in between is immaterial. Bringing it up borders on ad hominem

Also, Fixed the tense on the previous comment, sorry.

> Just before July 4th, Angela, a 26 year-old Boston University alumna, was laid off from her job as a software trainer.

She was fired after her previous employer threatened legal action. You can't say she "chose to quit" that job.

Regardless of whether the bond has a coupon payment or not the face value of the bond is due at maturity. In your example the $1 coupon is still paid but in two years you also get $100 back on your $50 purchase (netting 20+%apy).

Of course if the government defaults on your bond you get maybe on $1 coupon and end with a net loss of $49.

The point I am trying to make is that all "productivity aids" have a learning curve and will require time spent "messing around" before they confer any benefit.

In my experience, once you understand how git works it gets out of your way entirely.

You can say the same with almost any non-trivial development tool. Vim, emacs, Eclipse, VisualStudio, etc all require time spent "messing around with the tool rather than coding.

Another fallacy is that "writing code" is the only "useful" thing one can do. Creating clean logical history and good commit messages (or other documentation) does not invole writing code, but that doesn't mean it is not important.

That is overly verbose. Try this:

    git checkout -b changes_on_their_own_branch
    git commit -a

You can always create a new branch at HEAD (where you are currently) and switch to it without having to stash.

On the other hand, stashing may be required if you wanted your branch to start elsewhere:

    git checkout -b changes_branch start_point

The OP made no mention of how large the SVN repo is, but rather speculated that the git equivalent would be "100s of GBs".

Had the statement been: "Our SVN repo is alreay 100s of GBs in size" then yes you are not likely to want to stuff that onto a laptop but that was not the claim. The claim (without rationale) was that the git equivalent would be 100s of GBs which is similar but not at all the same.

one assumse 1:1ish correspondence the other applies an unstated multiplier SVN * n = git where n > 1 (and significantly so.)

In reality the multiplier appears to be negative in many cases:

> Git's repositories are much smaller than Subversions(sic) (for the Mozilla project, 30x smaller) [1]

[1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnComparison

Not at all. Where did you come up with that? That would merge in any commits in master not already in experimental and the next command would fail because a branch 'master' already exists.

To do what you are describing you would do this (or something similar:

    git checkout master; git merge experimental

What is the disk footprint of the existing SVN repository? "100s of GBs"? git's worst case repository size is equal to or slighly larger (few % probably) compared to an SVN repository.

Git will deduplicate all of your binaries across branches (and if you are clever, across repositories, but that's another story) so worst case you will only have one copy of any binary file no matter how many times it appears in your history.

That is not to say that git may be a poor fit for your current project+organization for other reasons but a blanket assumption of ("repository would be too huge") is not generally accurate.

related yes, but not directly involved. cars.com is advertising because you still drive to the dealership to buy the car. You research appliances or siding online but you get them at HomeDepot. You print your grocery coupons from a website but you buy your milk/cheese/eggs/cereal/etc. from $LocalGrocer. And as mentioned elsewhere, you will not be buying gasoline over the internet anytime soon.

I appreciate the blurb but my point is Amazon.com will not be selling gasoline over the internet. Nor will your monthly Costco run be replaced by a giant insulated box delivered by UPS.

Yes online retail is a small and growing portion of the retail sales market and the market is large but it is not as large as some might think.

Over half of "retail sales" fall into: Motor Vehicle sales, Building Materials, Gasoline, Food Service(restaurant/bar), Food(Grocery). I don't see online retailers making significant headway in those areas.

UPDATE: I just retested this and it appears that Wikipedia no longer breaks the back button.

The author holds up Wikipedia as a good example, but I have found the wikipedia experience on my phone to by abysmal because the back button doesn't behave correctly.

When nagivating to a Wikipedia page I get a flash of the normal page then a redirect to the mobile version. Pressing back gives me the normal page which redirects me forward. to actually get "back" I need to double tap quickly enough to actually escape the site.

Many other sites do the same thing but Wikipedia stands out in my mind as consistently frustrating.