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> 95% isn't "only". That's pretty darn high. I'd wish that in-house code covered 95% of requirements more often.

> If we're talking about open-source (I can't see why not), you can just fork the library in question and adjust it to fulfill the missing 5%.

The percentage isn't relevant if working around the design of the library to fulfill the missing 5% takes 30x as long as just writing the code yourself. Additionally, libraries often do a lot of things you don't need, so you get a bunch of bloat along with the stuff you want.

> Obviously noone sane would pick third party libraries based on how fancy some web page is. That's a strawman argument.

We can argue about the sanity of people, but the fact remains that people on teams I've worked on have chosen libraries based on the fanciness of their webpage.
Are you expecting a sound technical argument why designers should show respect at least for the sources where they cribbed most of their core ideas? Not piss into the pool where they learned to swim (even if merely the "doggy paddle")?

Sorry, I don't have that argument.
Linq is a good alternative to reduce SQL noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query
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I should have clarified and said traffic accidents in towns and cities are not common.

I'd be willing to bet if you removed all the accidents and deaths on the highways (where people drive like demented so-and-sos) it's not more dangerous than the good ol usa
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I disagree with your statement to my core. I think we're going to have to accept philosophical differences on this one.

Sorry for your loss.
Let's be fair, Java I/O -blows-. The whole stream, reader, buffered, file, blah blah blah, multiple levels of abstraction on top of the basic "Look, it's a file, let me read it", is what is getting you there.

Ideally if you chose Java, the person would let you handwave the actual library calls. Or you'd pick something saner. In Javascript, off the top of my head -

const fs = require('fs');

const sum = fs.readFileSync("filename").toString().split(",").map(x => parseInt(x)).reduce((acc, i) => i+acc, 0)

EDIT: Node, specifically, and with the spoken caveat that devoid of context of how it's being used, you're just going to let it block; were it a real application you'd use the async variant of readFile.
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To emphasize what wcoenen said: the appearance of spiral arms persists even in the interior of galaxies where there is no discrepancy from Kepler's laws. Moreover, in order to explain fixed spiral structure using modified orbital mechanics, you would need to assert that outers stars have larger velocities than inner ones (in order that their angular speed is the same, to preserve disk structure), but in fact the rotation-curve conundrum is based on the observation that outer star have roughly constant velocity, and so reduced angular speed.
iirc (been awhile since EE so could be wrong):

Dynamo is basically an AC gen with some crap in front to make output look DC.

"Pulsing DC current" is actually ac with >50% of the duty cycle zeroed out.

Again, could be very wrong here my memory is fuzzy as hell.
This is very uncommon in the United States. Probably 99% of driver training in the US is driving a family car with mom or dad in the passenger seat. Most people get very little and often no professional instruction.

Certainly, when receiving professional instruction, the modified car with at least an extra brake is typical. It's just that most people never get much of this instruction.
Optionally. OpenBLAS and LAPACK are the default.

See here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

OpenBLAS — fast, open, and maintained basic linear algebra subprograms (BLAS) library, based on Kazushige Goto's famous GotoBLAS.

LAPACK (>= 3.5) — library of linear algebra routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems.

MKL (optional) – OpenBLAS and LAPACK may be replaced by Intel's MKL library
I (the author) can certainly do the silly algorithm tests, but whether I can contain my snide remarks enough to get the job is uncertain. :)
Certainly a big problem of mine, or at least in the past. Just as the not-invented here syndrome people will eventually learn that there is good code out there, people like me, eventually learn that you need to code some modules yourself, and sometimes the 400 line if-else-for crap is exactly what is needed to just get a step further and realizing that the customer actually wanted another feature to begin with.
Easy there, I was being hyperbolic.

There's really no need to make assumptions about my technical capabilities from 6 words and ask me to stop commenting based on those assumptions. That character is unbecoming for this community.
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Not necessarily. Keep in mind, property/land-owners own, as you mentioned, the land beneath their house. That land might be worth far more if it were rezoned for multi unit dwellings.

Property owners in SF are often opposed to new construction, but I don't think that they are motivated by the desire to maximize the dollar value of their real estate assets. They're happy with where they live, they often bought long ago so their costs and taxes are low, and they just don't want change, especially in medium density neighborhoods that have been stable for 75+ years. Their opposition to rezoning probably goes against their economic interests measured purely in dollar signs.

People in rent controlled apartments have a similar motivation. Their costs are very low, they don't want the disruption of new construction, and they are often concerned that there wouldn't be a place in the new construction for them. Why take that risk? The difference is that people in rent controlled units are more vulnerable than property owners. If they do find themselves out of a rent controlled apartment and on the general market, competing for the few new units that become available, they'll be displaced.
Some languages are explicitly designed to be easier to optimize than others. Both for their compiler and, most importantly, their users.

The mythical Sufficiently Smart Compiler, is, well, a myth.
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Am I the only who thinks wireless charging is a terrible idea ?
Well then it backfired horribly.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/09/media/billy-bush-nbc-today-s...
Does it share the same weakness at zeroNet - maximum allowed size of a webpage (100MB)?
What I'm trying to say is that: If your head hits the ground (or anything hard) in an accident Then the helmet is likely to help. But I agree that most small accidents will not include your head hitting anything. Humans are pretty good at protecting their head per reflex. However I disagree that it is not dangerous when it happens. Just imagine even from standing completely still if you would jump into the air and then hit the ground head first. You would be pretty wrecked, doing it a 10 or 20 km/h wouldn't help.

>It's generally not hitting the ground that is the dangerous part in traffic accidents. Helmets don't do anything useful is the vast majority of accidents.

Citation needed. Just like in the original comment. It would be great if there was a comprehensive study, but it seems for now people will have to make their own estimates of the risks and benefits. I always wear a helmet, and encourage others to do the same. Others don't and that's their own choice.
Hardware feature table mentions WiFi, but not the LTE modem and radio which is far more important as LTE has to deal with skyscrapers and buildings with stone and steel which conveniently block LTE signals, population density, and spectrum consumption has been dramatically increasing year to year. The unit has the Qualcomm X12 modem but that modem doesn't cover AWS-3 (Band 66) which is a very large swath of spectrum, making the phone already obsolete for dense markets (e.g., large cities).

So, it would be very helpful to see 1) signal improvement, 2) download speed improvement, 3) improvement in voice quality when listening, 4) improvement on voice quality when speaking including background cancellation.

For example, something I rarely saw in iPhone 6s(+) reviews was the addition of a 4th microphone for noise cancellation. I also rarely saw any talk of the H.265 compression (2 x H.264) for FaceTime Video over cell networks in the 6s.

Last Sat, I was in a Starbucks speaking with a friend who was in a different Starbucks. I was on the 7+ he on the 5S. I could hear annoying background noise, he could hear no background noise. These things are critically important, but it seems as if the reviewers are not using these units in real world situations.

I think this is because the people doing the reviews don't really have technical backgrounds. Otherwise, they'd be testing this issues.

EDIT: The modem specs (for Verizon/Sprint). AT&T, T-mobile use a lesser Intel Modem.
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/modems/x12
Here in Rotterdam they've added signs to the entrances to _all_ the bike lanes in the centre mentioning that scooters/motorbikes should be in the street.

("Herinnering: <scooter icon> op rijbaan", example here: http://www.rotterdam.nl/Clusters/Stadsontwikkeling/Document%...)

Although I think that it's illegal for them to ride in the bike lanes (or over 25km/h? or both?), they still do it
> I find it very interesting that commenters from countries where cycling is decidedly unsafe are going to lecture those from countries where the predominant mode of transportation is the bicycle on safe cycling practices

This is exactly the point though. The guidelines that apply in the Netherlands are different to the guidelines in, say, the UK, precisely because the two countries have very different attitudes towards cycling. In the Netherlands you have an environment where cycling is extremely common, motorists are very used to sharing the roads and in fact most motorists are also cyclists themselves. This dramatically reduces the sort of us vs them conflicts between cyclists and motorists that seem so common in other countries. Different types of road user are seen more or less equally and show each other a level of respect that is just about unheard of elsewhere. In such an environment, hogging the lane seems unnecessarily aggressive because you simply don't need to do it.

In the UK, USA and just about everywhere else motorists are simply not used to driving close to cyclists. They don't know how much space to leave, they don't know how to pass them safely, it's actually socially acceptable to be aggressive towards cyclists but most of all, motorists are not on the lookout for cyclists, they are not expecting them. In this kind of environment the cyclist's number one priority is to make themselves seen and that's why being assertive is so important.

If you're in the middle of the lane by default the car behind you might be annoyed but at least they are likely to see you, and when you've been seen you can then move closer to the kerb to allow them to pass you safely. This puts the cyclist in control in a situation where they'd normally be at the mercy of motorists.
I am buying iphone 7 plus for my wife, yet I believe
this review is quite biased towards iphone 7 and at times reads more like a PR piece.

Quite a disappointement from anandtech.
Longer Names have there own issues and remember not every one can recall long strings. dyslexics and other neurotypical people often have difficulty with this
> people I know would never ride a bike again if they have to wear those silly helmets

Why not? You make it sound like Dutch aren't very committed to cycling.
I can't find it now, but there was a Minecraft "adventure" map that was played by a couple of the Yogscast (I think Lewis and Simon) that involved moving back and forth through time and you had to be in the right spots when moving switching times to get across various barriers. So this is definitely a concept that has been explored.

Thinking further, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages definitely involved puzzles like this.
I remember trying to solve a spatial 4D maze using this program: http://www.urticator.net/maze/

It's difficult.
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The principal problem with abandoning Apple at this point being that you can't get developer grade desktop hardware anywhere outside Apple at a reasonable price.

And if Apple ever goes back to making new laptops, those will probably be head and shoulders better than the competition at the same price, too. We don't know for certain, of course, since it's been two years since Apple has made new MacBook Pros with more than cosmetic adjustments and they may never make new ones ever again. None have been announced, anyway. The price of the two year old version, of course, is the same as it was on original release.

But there's no matching quality and features of the retina iMac for creative work, including software development, even at double or triple the price.
Alcatraz is lumped into the same census tract as the Presidio.
Why no Linux version?
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> The percentage isn't relevant if working around the design of the library to fulfill the missing 5% takes 30x as long as just writing the code yourself.

Of course, but one should be aware of a tendency to overestimate the effort required for tweaking third party code (understanding somebody else's code is always more difficult), and underestimate the effort required for writing the thing from scratch.

It's closely related to the infamous "Big Rewrite" problem.

> the fact remains that people on teams I've worked on have chosen libraries based on the fanciness of their webpage

I believe you, but I find it difficult to believe these would be the same people who tend to introspect on their profession a lot, eg. by following software engineering blogs, so the author is kind of preaching to the choir in my view.
I still wear a watch because of reasons like that.

(I look at my watch, I have 2:30) "What time do you have?"

"3:30"

"Ok. Let's meet in an hour. That's 4:30 for you." (Which I know will be 3:30 for me)

My watch also runs for years on a single battery. I probably get asked for time once a week by somebody whose phone has died. (Wearing a watch is the universal symbol for "I have the time")
I, for one, am shocked that a mode of transportation that is treated either as a toy or with contempt is rarely used. Who could have ever predicted such a thing?

Now look at a country where bikes are treated with roughly equal seriousness as cars, like the Netherlands, and tell me how many trips and how far bikes went.
Experience with what, biking or flying stuff in eyes? In the latter case you might be right, which is one of the reasons nobody wears goggles while biking (it doesn't happen that often). In the former case you're wrong about me.
I have Note 7, my first non-nexus device going back to the G1, and its a brilliant piece of technology. The screen is flawless, its blazing fast, and the stylus is great for notes on OneNote. I am pretty bummed out Samsung couldn't get their manufacturers to deliver on 100% quality and control. I can't think of what other device to get. The Pixel XL looks fine, but it lacks wireless charging, a 5.7" screen, and a stylus.

For the record, Touchwiz is a bit too much, so I changed my launcher and made a few changes to the UI to align more with stock android. But other than that, I couldn't be happier with the ticking time bomb of a phone.
#1 has a big influence on my argument. I think it was Python and NodeJS library systems that made it super simple for people to publish libraries. There are a lot of trivial libraries out there, and many of questionable quality. Sometimes using a library ends up as more work than writing the bits of code myself.

It's not like I'm going to decide to write a new 20k line library for my project, but if something is only a few hundred lines of code it's definitely easier to just rewrite.
> Apple marketing simply has succeeded in convincing you and others that there is no viable alternative which in turn keeps you from accepting such a possibility

Speaking of FUD. Marketing only gets you so far, and at some point you have to have a product. I have tried to switch to Android. First with an HTC One and another time with the Nexus 5 (I also have a Nexus 7). Android definitely wins on open and customization, but on overall system it continually failed. My Nexus 5 would randomly get system processes spinning out of control and if I didn't notice, I would have a dead battery in ~10 minutes. I don't remember which, but there was an Android update that made my Nexus 7 completely unusable.

I went back to the iPhone, and only then fully realized Apple's advantage of controlling the hardware AND software. I think Google is finally recognizing this, and attempting to replicate it with the Pixel.
This describes better what I'd advocate for. Thank you.
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There can always be exceptions, I agree. And these are much better points that in the commented article, imho.

Anyhow, we're talking averages here - the default mindset, if you will.
This benchmark is rubbish, and the author doesn't know what he is talking about.
"Knowing a little about Matlab should really be surprised to see that it performed just as fast as Julia and Fortran. This is due to the heavily vectorized and optimized Matlab assembly routine. "

Complete gibberish. Matlab (like Octave and the parts of Julia tested here) is made of Fortran parts. Were this an actual benchmark it would have spectacularly outperformed Matlab, Octave and Julia.
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This should still be implemented by the browsers, not hard-coded in HTML. Like Microsoft's implementation mentioned at the end ;)
The drivetrain matters too--I suspect many American bicyclists blow through red lights and generally don't respect road rules because with fixed/single speed bikes, it takes enormous effort to get started from a standstill, and with derailleurs it's impossible to downshift from a standstill (i.e. when you make a quick stop). If hub gears were standard, bicyclists wouldn't have as much reason to ignore signals.
I think those statistics are very very very heavily skewed and should be ignored. If you have a car accident, 99% of the time, it gets recorded. If you have a bike accident, if the police is not involved, where are you going to report it? To whom? Therefore, the only cases that do get reported are collisions with vehicles, or cases severe enough that cyclist gets taken to hospital - and in those cases, the situation is already bad, even if they wore a helmet.

My point is - situations where a helmet has saved a life are rarely recorded, so they don't show up in any sort of statistic(even I had an accident where I flew across the handlebars, hit my head directly on the edge of a curb, helmet split in half, and I was fine - yet this wasn't recorded anywhere. It does not exist in any sort of statistic, despite - very clearly - saving my life).
See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/sho...
Ah, just realized that I haven't heard from antivirus people for a while.
I'm almost certain that Linux devs make a very small percentage of their target audience (I see most web devs use Macs). That's a great question to ask them directly, though!
Personally the only site I'll trust downloads of Truecrypt is GRC (Gibson Research Corporation) in US: https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
I'm in West Africa and just bought a fully-functional phone for $20 - that was new price, in the box, no haggling. For another $10 I could have got a much bigger screen and better specs.

It does absolutely everything I can think of a cell phone can do, even has dual sims.
I'm tethering to it off 3G right now.

It's running Android 5.1, and to be honest I have not even tried to upgrade it because it just doesn't matter. It does everything as it is.

It's this http://www.naijainformation.com/2016/06/itel-it1355-price-fu...
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> In a village in the Austrian Alps, Swarovski, which has been making crystals for more than a century, is refashioning itself as a tech company.

It's somewhat unclear to me what all of this means, but it also wouldn't be the first time that high fashion and tech collided. For example, Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to run its stores a few years ago.
is there any real evidence to back this up - they used to say the same/similar things about seatbelts.
Maybe it's just my inherent bias towards command-line-based Git, but I have to wonder just how useful this is to Git newbies if a lot of their page is dedicated to learning how to use Tower, especially with a 24-part video series.
Without editing, you could be sure that everyone saw your follow-on correction.

With editing if people read the first version of your opening message, you don't know if they saw the edits or not.

I find edits useful for typos/formatting/cosmetics, but I don't ever edit significant information into a previous post for that reason.
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And why is Santa Clara County left out?
You sound more ignorant than rude. Yes, there are jerk cyclists who blatantly ignore the law. There are also jerk drivers who go over the speed limit, roll through stop signs, park in the bike lane, don't signal before changing lanes, enter the intersection after the yellow has turned to red, etc. This doesn't mean we should just treat car drivers in general with contempt.
Someone actually did make soundbanks based on syllables/morae from Trump and Sanders speeches, for the freeware (sadly not open-source) version of Vocaloid [1]. While it is technically extremely difficult to use this technology to approximate English speech (which has a much wider array of possible phonemes than Japanese), the soundbanks can already "cover" some of the more famous Japanese Vocaloid songs [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau - which incidentally was the software that created the voice for that erstwhile Nyan Cat meme

[2] http://store.vocallective.net/album/trumploid-vs-sanderpoid-...
You can also angle the parking spots. My town has parking spots that aren't parallel to the street, instead roughly 45 degrees.
I feel like the format makes this really hard to read through. It'd be much easier to read as a blog post.
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What evidence do you have that IRC is already used more widely than Slack? Also, what's your metric, number of users?