Why is this comment downvoted? Flux is the thing that I misses the most on my iPad. Moving from my Mac to my iPad at night is a painful experience due to the sudden influx of blue lights.
That's mostly likely true. Assuming you drive 12k miles per year and gas costs $4 per gallon for your 15 mpg premium european sports car. The price for gas over 10 years is: (12,000 / 15) * $4 * 10yrs = $32,000.
Yes that was 2011 but it scared the hell out of me. Since then all my company's project are hosted on Heroku and other Amazon technologies (Simpledb, Dynamo etc.). If I had to have a vendor lock in in exchange of faster development process, I'd prefer to get locked in with Amazon other than Google after that GAE pricing incident.
It wasn't easy to mitigate: re-writes were needed because of the private apis. We ended up doing a lot of optimization to prevent a pet project from costing us too much money, which before the price increase stayed well under the charging threshold. The pricing incident was the only thing on my mind about Google's cloud because we left Google since then. I'm sure things are different now, but then I got too many other things to do before taking a serious look at ditching aws for google.
I've been using the dvorak layout since 2001. Never really had many problems; all operating systems seem to support it, and coworkers are easily trained in the use of one's preferred keyboard switching UI should they need to use one's PC. Initially some people seemed to act as if this was some kind of fad, one that I'd soon get over, but as the months ground on, and then the years (since 2001 I've worked on and off with many of the same group of people), and my keyboard layout didn't change back, this attitude seemed to die down.
The only technical problem I've had, I think, is that at one point if you were the first person to sign in to a remote system over Remote Desktop, you'd imbue that session with your locale and keyboard layout. No good when I happened to be the first person to log in.
I haven't even found my QWERTY skills atrophying that much; on a non-split or laptop keyboard I can type QWERTY without looking at 75wpm, without too many slips. On a split keyboard, like the ones I prefer to use, if I have to type QWERTY then I do have to look at my hands as I type.
I've typed in dvorak day to day since about 2004. I type in querty on my phone without any issues—the devices are different enough that my nervous system doesn't get confused.
On library computers and such I'm reduced to hunt and peck. It's really hard to switch between dvorak and querty and type both well. I like dvorak enough that it's worth not being able to type full speed on random computers.
Sure. I've used Dvorak about 99% of the time since about 2001-2002. Except on my phone; I use QWERTY there, because it's a completely separate skill and the different layouts don't make any difference when you're typing one-fingered (Android's Gesture typing). I actually just tried switching and typing a few sentences, and I keep defaulting to QWERTY gestures.
I can still type QWERTY if I need to, even though I have barely used it in the past 13 years or so, but it takes me a few minutes to adjust and get up to speed. This happens if I need to use someone else's machine, which doesn't happen a lot. They wonder why I'm suddenly typing like an orangutan. But it goes away after maybe 10 minutes, then I'm up to maybe 70% of my Dvorak speed which is good enough for most short-term purposes. It still feels awkward to type QWERTY, so I try not to do it for more than a couple minutes.
(Interestingly, most of the problem when switching comes from punctuation, the muscle memory for typing punctuation seems to be separate in the brain. I noticed this when I was first learning Dvorak. I'd type 'v' instead of periods all the time, even when I was reasonably fluent with typing letters. Now the same thing happens in reverse, where I'll type 'e' or 'w' instead of periods or commas if I'm typing QWERTY.)
Overall, the fact that I'm using a different keyboard layout isn't something that I think about much. I'd be surprised if I'd even thought about it more than twice in the last six months.
I've been using dvorak (and qwerty) since around 2002 or 2003. Currently I type Dvorak on my kinesis keyboard which is hardware reprogrammable, and I type qwerty on "normal" keyboards.
It was a huge boon for my wrists when I switched, as they were starting to hurt but switching gave them a "break" as I learned the new layout, and then the new layout was more comfortable so the wrists stayed comfortable.
I'm using Namecheap and GoDaddy. Both works functional wise. So given the reputation Namecheap has and GoDaddy has not, I will go with Namecheap for the future.
I recommend Gandi (https://gandi.net) for TLDs namecheap does not support. Both companies are extremely good, no-bullshit, against censorship, took a stand against SOPA, etc.
It sounds like they actually have a conventional supercharger in addition to 2 turbochargers. It'll probably be tricky to keep it all under control, but it could result in impressive performance.
The article is kind of confusing. At one point, they say:
"The 2016 XC90 (on sale early next year) is the first of this new generation of Volvos. It’s powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with a turbocharger and a supercharger. (While the turbo works best when the engine’s already going, a supercharger forces in air with power generated by the engine itself, so increased boost is available from idle.) The supercharger runs from idle to 3,500 RPM. Above that, an integrated clutch disengages the supercharger, allowing the turbocharger to take over."
Based ont his paragraph, it sounds like a traditional supercharger that works up to 3,500 RPM. Later on though, we get this bit:
"We’ve seen plenty of twin-turbos before. Volvo’s innovation is adding a third—third!—turbo. But this one doesn’t charge the engine. It charges the other turbos. It’s electric, hence the name “e-booster,” and sends air into the two conventional turbos to improve their performance below 3,300 RPM, filling out the torque curve and eliminating that pesky lag problem."
Now we have an e-booster referred to as a third turbo, which runs up to 3,300 RPM.
So, the confusion is warranted. The article isn't entirely clear on whether these are two engine options, or a single engine with inconsistent details.
