I have to agree with some of the points you made but disagree on some others. I definitely agree that you should never use a PPA, get the loan or pay cash. But I have to say they whole process for getting my solar installed was really nice. I purchased my first home three years ago almost now and had solar installed back in the spring of 2017. It was on my short list of things to do as it seemed reasonable to do. I had one guy come to my door from a competitor but I was very put off by how pushy they where. So I called Solar City (Now Tesla) to talk to one of their sales people. They came on time and was very professional. In terms of financing it all I asked them to run the numbers for everything just to compare. When it came to the PPA I quickly realized that it basically meant I was replacing my normal provider, PG & E, with them for electricity. That didn't set well with me as I was gonna end up paying roughly the same for what I was currently paying. I had just bought the house so I didn't want to take out the loan. I had the cash so it seemed like the logical thing to do. It was nice and comforting to know that I had some time to decide how I wanted to pay for it, and that I could cancel practically up to the day they installed my system. Since then my power bill has been great. I paid just about 200 dollars for the first year since the day they turned it on. And I am on track to pay even less this year. As far as customer service. I don't have a huge opinion on that yet. I haven't needed to call them, though I probably should call and schedule my panels to get cleaned.
Probably the most interesting part of the whole process was paying nearly 10k dollars through PayPal. That was something interesting.
This is precisely the problem. There is too many people, not enough housing, and the housing that is here is too expensive. And from what I've heard its also very hard to get the permits and approvals to build knew housing here. What they really need is to flood the market with housing to help drive costs down.
Personally when I saw JVM as a VM for this I lost interest. JVM is not how you make something as fast as C/C++. You want to make it that fast you should be running it directly on a C/C++ code base. Thats pretty much how Python, PHP, and other scripting languages work.
Absolutely. I've had to implement protocols from a spec using various guides that had really bad diagrams of how the data is laid out. This tool could have made them a lot better. And as others have pointed out its extremely useful for binary file type diagrams.
Yes! I rarely use C these days to write Mobile Apps but knowing how to use C is absolutely great to be able to do some complicated things some times. It never hurts to be able know more than you need.
For machine learning neither OpenGL and OpenCV will help you very much. OpenGL is a 3D graphics library, OpenCV is a Computer Vision Library. OpenCV handles things like detecting faces or objects in an image or video feed. Machine learning is the process of teaching a computer to detect specific types of objects in graphics, or to understand say how a tv or movie script is written. The goal of machine learning is to teach a machine to do something like write a movie script based on hundred of other movie scripts. If your end goal is to learn about Machine Learning then I would suggest you look at something like Google's Tesnsor Flow instead. OpenGL and OpenCV wont help you at all really. However they may be required to feed data into your Machine Learning system.
This really greately depends on the kind of work one does. Many people working on websites prefer developer, while people working on mobile or desktop apps prefer engineer. As someone that writes mobile apps for a living I greatly prefer engineer. I don't simply develop an app I engineer it. I do greatly think that the term developer also is looked down on in the industry by many. We do a lot more then just "develop" an app. We engineer how everything goes together, the tools to build it, the tools we use to write code. Also the title engineering usually comes with time for many. You start off as a developer, your job is mainly to write code based on another engineers design. Eventually you get good enough to do the engineering bit yourself.
This is well time as we have been evaluating moving from completely native for iOS and Android to Reactive Native for our app. I am really hoping that we don't because I think we probably would run into most of the challenges they hit.
From all the articles I have read about this Telegram seems to offer no evidence to supports its case. Further more it claims its only iOS, and not macOS. And I personally have gotten at least several updates for at least the mac version over the past month.
Am I the only person that feels that places like Uber/Lyft/Etc are fighting the wrong battle? I think their money would be better spent instead fighting for a new classification of labor. One that defines exactly what a Gig (Hate that term) worker is and how the industry operates. Its clear to me that tons of people want a job like Uber offers. I think its time we make a law that represents that. Instead they waste their time fighting in courts to keep them as a contract employee, which according to the law is not what they are. But I feel they are also not a regular employee. I think adding a new classification for them is win win for both sides. It gives both sides rights under the law.
In simple terms before the new law you had to go to court to get a patent reviewed. Now you can file a request with the patent office and skip court. Which makes it cheaper and easier to fight bad patents.
I would like to note Bloombergs choice of words for the title. I find it interesting they went with that nickname instead of its formal name. To me they only want to strengthen the opinion of the general public that the new patent review process is bad.
Depends on what I'm doing... Android Studio for Android Development, Xcode for iOS/Mac/C/C++, Atom for anything else really... Why should I use only one? Each one is good at various things. I would never try to write an Android app with Xcode, nor would I do the same with Android Studio for iOS. There is no wrong answer here so I personally think that there is no reason to ask. Its a personal preference.
Its kind of the same thing, Vysor has ads in it though and isn't open source. So this seems like an improvement in general as it doesn't have ads and its open sourced.
This looks really awesome but the thing that i feel is missing from the website is simply what is it capable of doing? Like I want a list of features that it is capable of so I can evaluate whether or not I may have use for it.
When I bought my fist house a few years ago here in the Bay. Comcast tried to give me one of their new routers wifi and everything built in. I let them but I wasn't happy. I hooked up my own router and ended up double natting it. After a few hours of frustration I went out bought my own cable modem. Installed that and returned the one comcast had provided. When asked why I sighted security and privacy concerns. Working for a fortune 500 means they could easily do some sneaking and see a lot of stuff that I worked on. Either way I use Ubiquity hardware throughout my house. Its a bit expensive but god is it good.
I have to say that this is kind of surprising but thinking about it all logically it seems like there is a lot more to this story.
First off as others have pointed out Waymo's case wasn't a slam dunk. So they settled for way less than they originally wanted.
But there are several other interesting things to note. Because of this case there is now a criminal investigation into Uber's acquisition of Otto. I feel like part of why Uber settled was because they knew this was being investigated and dragging out this case in court may have made public some really incriminating evidence in the criminal investigation.
What further leads me to believe this is the case is the fact that the current CEO has basically admitted that the acquisition of Otto should have been handled differently. It seems like they knew that Otto may have stolen trade secrets from Waymo. It also appears that Uber may have had helped set up Otto from the start to acquire such information. For this we will have to wait and see how the criminal investigation shakes out. At which point we could see federal charges appear against Uber and Levandowski. We may also see the SEC step into this as well if they did appear to set up Otto as a Shell company to acquire stolen technologies. Time will tell.
My biggest issue with this seems that it only is a password manager. I use 1Password A LOT. And I use it for more than just passwords. I have my banking info in there as well. 1 Click credit card filling is awesome, wish it would work the same for my checking info. Also all of my software keys are stored in there. Until someone adds support for all that I wont consider switching away. I have however upgraded to AgileBits new subscription version it seems. Might not either as I don't wanna pay for it every year.