Ember has always dwarfed by Angular and now more recently.. React. They simply have more marketing dollars behind them. That said, it has always had a strong community behind it, and believe it or not it's still growing strong.
She inherited a mound of shit. The one mistake I'll admit she made was not gutting management when she came in. It is, and was, completely dysfunctional at the management level. The only people rewarded were those willing to play the political games.
Well, it's not like there's been any positive Nest press in the last year or so to obsess over.
Based on the stories, what's been happening at Nest is an extreme case of many of the same organizational antipatterns that people in the tech industry see in their own companies on a smaller scale. The things that have happened at Nest (if the stories are to be believed) are like cancer to a tech company. If left unchecked those antipatterns can grow and consume a company, and can ultimately kill it. No amount of reform will save a company if they can no longer retain talent or recruit replacements of the same or better caliber.
Given that so many HN readers are in the tech industry themselves, they probably worry about these kinds of cancers taking root at their own companies (I know I do). This stuff exists everywhere, it's just that for stable companies it's the exception and not the rule. I'm not surprised that it's been a hot topic.
> Well, it's not like there's been any positive Nest press in the last year or so to obsess over.
Their performance versus the rest of the Google ventures? The product line that was previously leaked? And, in the eyes of Hacker News perhaps celebrating Tony stepping aside.
A lot of these stories, if they are in fact true, likely happened prior to Google acquisition and those people are now just feeling comfortable to speak out without the fear of it being spun as retaliation.
I have a lot of faith that the Google HR department wouldn't tolerate any of the behavior, which is why it smells like a marketing campaign.
Can we scale the schools, transportation, etc. to support this legislature? If so, I'm all for it. But the way things stand currently, it's already pushed to the limits.
It's likely not out of the goodness of their heart but rather coal's terrible performance. There is a bankruptcy filing every other week. This week alone the largest miner, Peabody, filed for bankruptcy.
It's because the parlament told them to. Divesting in coal is a political move stemming from environmental concerns. At least officially, I think some parties supported the move because Norway doesn't export that much coal, and this could potentially increase gass and oil revenue.
The European oil/gas companies all support a carbon tax for the same reason. Coal is such an appallingly bad fuel that a carbon tax would kill it (even faster) and gas would replace it in large part.
There's no futures symbol because coal is inherently worth different values based on location. It's a solid, it doesn't spoil (sometimes it spontaneously combusts), you need a whole lot of it to do anything useful. These difficulties fragment the market. For example there are futures for: Australia coal, South Africa coal, Wyoming powder basin coal, Illinois basin coal, etc. It is transported by train or on a dry bulk ship.
Well, the same is roughly true of oil although it's a little harder to store and ship. There's at least two futures markets (Brent and WTI), various oil grades etc. People seem happier assigning a single "oil price" despite local variation.
If you know with any degree of certainty at all which way an asset will move, you stand to make a gigantic amount of money. Everybody you have ever heard telling you which way an asset is moving is guessing just as much as people who tell you it's going to move the other way.
It isn't as much the fact that the asset will move, as the direction and the timeline that matters, as well as the availability of investment vehicles. If I'd wanted to profit on the knowledge that coal will go down, I'd have to short the stock which isn't free, so it is important for me to know on what time frame it will go down (if I knew it would go up, but not on what time frame, it would work just fine). Another example, I know lithium (the commodity) is going to go up, but 90% of the lithium market is dominated by 3 companies, each of which get less than 20% of their revenue from lithium mining, meaning I have no way of profiting from my knowledge.
Top tip: if you're willing to forgo the timeframe, it's possible to become a super-genius stock picker. I GUARANTEE you that the US stock market will crash!*
