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Show Notes for August 20, 2013

The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It Query languages Scala Slick (related to LINQ) Slick web site Presentation from 2012  (PDF) JavaScript in your Postgres JSONiq : The JSON Query Language ("The SQL of NoSQL") AngularJS Data Binding  (doc) Databinding in angularjs : "Could someone explain to me how databinding works in the AngularJS framework?" (SO question)

Show Notes for August 21, 2013

Mercedes SLS Electric Drive  (Chris Harris on Cars , not Top Gear) 750 hp 2200 kg Tesla model S 2107 kg (lighter!)

Show Notes for August 15, 2013

What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 , Popular Mechanics article Redevance TV Suisse  (wikipedia): CHF 462 / year for TV + radio (~ $500) UK  (wikipedia): GBP 145.5 / year (~ $225) Presque tout le monde devra payer la redevance radio/TV Le paiement de la redevance radio-TV étendu Sherlock (TV series)  "is a British television crime drama that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Six episodes have been produced, the first three of which aired in 2010. Series two aired in 2012, and a third series began production in March 2013. The series has been sold to over 180 territories." BTW Steven Moffat is one of the main Doctor Who writers. Water repellents Scotchgard NeverWet  ( video ) Ultra-Ever Dry  video (is it the same?) YouTube easter egg Tessel "JavaScri

Show Notes for August 7, 2013

120 secondes La semaine de l’alcool Il est devenu plus facile d’acquérir des armes en Valais , accent valaisan pas mal, un peu exagéré parfois En Valais, les mineurs peuvent acheter de l’alcool trop facilement , même chose Ford Super Duty "is a line of trucks […] introduced in 1998 for the 1999 model year. […] The Super Duty trucks are larger, heavier built series pickup trucks with heavier-duty body-on-frame steel ladder frames, axles, springs, brakes, transmissions, more powerful engines, and all other heavier/bigger components (with much higher payload and towing capacities) than the older traditional equivalent F-250, F-250HD (Heavy Duty), and F-350 Ford truck lines. The  F450 can even be used to implement  shuttle busses

Show Notes for August 14, 2013

AOL CEO apologizes for firing employee during a conference call with 1,000 people Transportation California High-Speed Rail Top speed: 220 mph (350 km/h) San Francisco-Los Angeles: 432 miles (695 km) 2 hours 38 minutes 164 mph (264 km/h) "estimates final cost at Year-Of-Expenditure (YOE) $68 billion for the Phase 1 project, connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles via Central Valley and Palmdale" unclear who would build the trains? wher e is the  Taiwan High Speed Rail Top speed: 186 mph (300 km/h) Operating speed: 179 mph (288 km/h) "total cost of the project was $18 billion. At the time it was built, this was one of the world's largest privately funded rail construction schemes." based primarily on Japan's Shinkansen technology Hyperloop Claimed top speed: over 700 mph (> 1100 km/h) Claimed cost SF-LA: $6 billion Hyping the Hyperloop : blog post by Robert Cruickshank, "former Chairman of Californians for High Speed Rail