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Can you point me to a list of such recommendations for Django 1.8? Are these official ones?

Thanks for your reply! This is very enlightening! I think I'll go for FastMail, but I'll also keep RS and AppRiver in mind.

I actually like the way IMAP is email-only. FastMail also offers CalDAV for calendar syncing, which should address most of your points about invitations, right?

I'll think about Office 365, but I'm not using much of the Microsoft stack beyond the obligatory Office apps.

Looks neat, although $120/year is a bit steep for using a single mailbox. Maybe I can try to find 4 others to share the costs.

On that note, anybody else looking for a paid e-mail service..? :)

Yes, I did that years ago when I was in high-school, but I currently don't mind paying for it. I don't have too much to configure sendmail, procmail, IMAP server, etc.. Maybe I'm getting old. It was definitely fun and a good learning experience..

I am not trying to be cynical, but if software is eating the world, does it make sense to build hardware?

It seems to me that sticking an iPhone on any bike via an attachment would do everything this bike does. It has an accelerometer for pothole detection. GPS for speed and navigation. You could even charge your phone in the process!

The two things that can't be replicated are blind-spot detection and theft protection. There is no shortage of small devices on Kickstarter that can duplicate these features. A small IR sensor that bolts to the back of the bike. And for theft protection to work as expected, there needs to be hundreds of such bikes on the street. At the $1200+ pricepoint, I find that unlikely..

As someone who's been meaning to learn LESS or SASS, good to see this. SASS might be the way to go then..!

I always am amazed at these comments. This in itself contains as much info as the OP! I feel like they are getting lost in HN. Copy-paste to medium? :)

Thanks!

I only played with docker briefly on my laptop, and never in a production system. Do you think there will be any performance hits in a system like this?

Can you recommend a resource (book, blog article, website) for learning more about NoSQL database design and denormalization? The issue not being of course that I have trouble finding such resources, but that there are way too many..

Cassandra is another NoSQL database that is known for having lots of columns (I believe around 2 billion columns per row). It is typically used for storing time-series. The row is taken to be the "base" epoch, and each column in that row a particular sensor reading.

I also found Nilas: https://www.nilas.com/

It's not an SMTP server, but translates between REST calls and SMTP/IMAP commands (as far as I understand). So they store my Google credentials on their server, I keep an API key in cleartext, and use their infrastructure to both send and look at e-mails..

Anybody has experience with this?

Thanks for the answer. I'll look into Mac OS X cron's ability to send output.

But my main answer was in finding an SMTP service that can send emails. In your example, don't you have to log in to smtp.server.name? If so, don't you need to put a password somewhere in that tcl script?

Right, but the article's point is that they started working on cars. You are making the point that it would take them a long time to build it.. They have the cash and I don't see why they would be in any rush, if driverless cars are expected on the streets in 2020, or potentially 2023..

As a matter of fact, Apple's last quarterly profit was $18bn, while Tesla's valuation, is $25bn. They could buy a company like Tesla every two quarters..

Furthermore, maybe what they are trying to do is to create some in-house talent, in preparation for future purchases. Perhaps so that they can have their own employees join those of the acquired company..

Hi guys,

I've been working on this for a few months. It would be great to get some feedback as to whether people would be interested in helping out with testing or development..

Essentially, I want to create a very seamless, interactive IDE, making it effortless to develop intelligent smart home apps.

Thanks!

The reason for this broad applicability is because it holds for any queueing system. The beauty of the law is that it holds for any distribution of arrival, occupancy, and latency. Just multiplying the averages gets the job done!

Hi, johnymontana!

The idea is to have the SciPy tools available in the IPython environment. So from that environment, you can get readings from sensors, and then directly use this as an input to one of the many algorithms available in scikit-learn or scipy.

It's still at an early stage, and the RPi image is not fully ready. I believe it will be in a few weeks. If you can sign up to our mailing list though, I'd love to keep you in the loop. It's on the bottom of the page.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! Any thoughts on the concept itself?

It looks like the goal of the project is mostly to adopt the syntax of Go. Instead of using gevent, Greenlets, Coroutines, etc.. they use "goroutines"..

Agreed that this is ugly. This project would make so much more sense if it were developed as a static site. I haven't looked at the codebase, but if it doesn't require a DB, can it not be ported to Jekyll or Pelican or so? Then it would be extremely easy to host it on S3 for peanuts..

I would imagine they are probably operating like Amazon: spending all their money on growth, mainly on acquiring talent. If they get big enough, they will be able to close huge deals with the government. Maybe the investors see this as a safe bet to hedge their portfolio, kinda like a value investment. My 2 cents..

Yes, I also used to have TotalTerminal. But I found that using iTerm from the ground up was somehow more convenient than using TotalTerminal with the regular Terminal. Don't quite remember what was the particular reason.

The most important benefit for me is the "Hot key" feature. I used to have Kuake back in my Linux days, and loved it. It's so much more convenient that having many different screens, and switching between them via "Cmd-Tab". It's gotten to the point where I very rarely open dedicated windows, unless I'm doing some serious debugging or so.

For those who don't know about the hot key; I press "Ctrl-~" to have a terminal screen dropdown from the top of the screen. You can have any number of tabs and splits there. Pressing the same combination again closes it.

The neat thing is I know I can access the terminal with the same single keystroke, no matter which app I am using. Does Terminal.app has this feature?

Great points!

Here's another interesting point I read in an article. He says the leveraged the backers from the first campaign to get early support for the second one. This makes a lot of sense. He raised $100K from 250 people in a month. If he could then get all of these people to sign up on the first few days of the new project, that can give the impression that this is a really hot project.

That, combined with the points you mentioned about the price (for the previous backers!), and the timing probably did it.

Isn't this the same book: http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...