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> Expecting without expressing.

Absolutely this. You have to let people know what you expect and where they stand, and with honesty and compassion.

I'm surprised this article doesn't mention setting boundaries. As a leader (and coder), the best thing I've learned to do is set aside regularly-scheduled time to meet with individual colleagues. People no longer walk into my office or ping me on Slack when they run into technical problems. They take the time to think through things before bugging me and often come up with solutions on their own. It works wonders. Don't be a jerk about it, but don't be as available. If someone interrupts you with a technical problem, tell them that both of you should set aside dedicated time to discuss and explore it.
When you have to evacuate, how much freedom do you have then? Going to rely on someone like Ray Nagin to drive you in a school bus?
That sounds like a fairly decent app! I would probably try it out.
Urbanists who hate cars like to tear down freeways. E.g. in SF they tore down the Embarcadero and Central freeways, instead of repairing and extending them. This of course forces more cars onto the streets, making life worse for everyone.
It doesn‘t seem very smart to download a whole RSS feed for users who tweet 5 times a day every time they do it, it‘s 9000 entries after 5 years. Incremental updates are fine and scale.
Failed because my co-founders weren't committed and I didn't care enough about the idea to attempt to pursue it on my own. Learned that having good committed co-founders is critical if you'd like to have them at all. Also learned that starting a business in an industry you have no experience in is incredibly hard.
Spinning up another Reddit clone, with some nice new features is trivial at this point. You provide a reason for someone to spend time filling a void, and they will.
Or better still, just get the nutrition you need from plants. There's nothing essential in fish you can't get from plant sources, with a much lower environmental footprint.

And before somebody jumps in to say Omega-3, not only can you easily get that from plants but fish also get it from algae. They don't produce it themselves.
There is a huge difference between cities that have done most of their growth after 1940, when cars have been common, and cities that developed their physical structures before the car. The car-oriented physical structure has to be retrofitted for walking -- streets narrowed or replaced with housing, shopping, and offices.
There are other ways to address that such as false advertising or rules defining what kind of service can be called "gigabit" when sold.

I've been trying to find the lowest latency connection possible and was excited to call AT&T and find out they had fiber available. I asked the rep multiple times if it was a 100% fiber circuit, and was told it was.

Then on the day of installation, the installer called up and mentioned copper. I said, "Uh, what do you mean copper?". Turns out it was fiber to the pole and copper the rest of the way. The rep simply lied.

I would like to see firms that lie to customers in that kind of way removed from the market due to competition. So in my view regulation of ISPs should focus on allowing competition and breaking up the last mile market power. Why can't the municipality own the last mile transmission line and rent it to whichever ISP wins the customer's business?
Loved the book!
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It’s expected that suburbs are walkable for children and maybe even stay-at-home parents, but working members of the household usually drive to work and take the family to activities (restaurants, youth sports, shopping, other adventures) outside the walkable bubble.
No, I meant Stripe will build it. It's not much different from what they just created.
As someone who is not expert, what's annoying is having to play the game of "Who do I believe?" You have your points, and they have their meta-study. I don't want to dismiss their study just because you don't like their journal, which is a bit of an ad hominem. And the problem is you are making your case, but not actually addressing their study.

So my request to you: If you were a journal referee and this paper landed on your desk for review, what would your response to the editor be? I think many here would like to hear your criticism of the actual study.

Thanks.
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It just doesn't make any sense. It is like saying that UPS should deliver to everywhere on earth in one day for the same price, despite large differences in cost between local delivery and e.g. air freight to a war zone.

The Internet is a bunch of interconnected networks. Any of those networks can largely have whatever conditions they want. That is what the Internet is. Do I think it should be different, yes, but a lot of people don't. Especially those arguing against things like throttling.
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So far the scandinavian countries have shown success, while still keeping liberty indexes very high. The US is not the free-est country in the world.
> Take the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris for instance: a nuisance for people living nearby, often gridlocked, super dangerous and atrociously ugly. People realized that this approach wasn't sustainable and now more and more work is done to undo it, that's a good thing IMO.

Do not worry, we still go on building ring roads and bypasses around cities. Either where there were not yet any, or farther from the centre and the existing ones where there are already existing ones.

- But this time, they will be enough far away from the city, and they will make traffic jam disappear, we promise.

- Yeah, that's what you said 40 years ago about the first ones, and then urbanisation exploded around them and they quickly got swallowed by the city and its suburbs...

Bus yes, it is true that the fad of building expressways ending right inside city centres has stopped quite a long time ago.
> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

Do you know another source for this column?
They rely on it because there's no real good alternative for data. Europe uses TETRA [0] (the equivalent of the North American P25 but with better data support among other things) for critical communications but still needs a TETRA + 3G/LTE hybrid for large data transfers (above the hundreds of Kbps order speeds TETRA offers).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio
Sorry I don't. I've just heard that these requirements exist.
The weather has a lot to do with it. Most people advocating this car-free stuff never lived in New Orleans, Houston, or Miami from June until October.

The last thing I want to do is walk to a grocery store and carry home food for a family in the 95 degree heat and 95% humidity.
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For the past 50 years or so, the literal books on good design (according to the govt of the US) have specified cul-de-sacs, which offer the promise of less vehicle traffic but actually guarantee MORE traffic, because you can't have good walking paths. From a plane you can get an idea of how old an area is - old ones will have cul-de-sacs, middle-aged ones will have a fern-like structure with dead end streets that have only lines of cul-de-sacs coming off of them, and recent ones will have this fractal-like shape of cul-de-sacs of cul-de-sacs of cul-de-sacs. In those environments, nothing is walking distance (and walking paths start to become labyrinthine swirls if you actually wanted to walk them) so vehicle traffic increases.
Another way to look at this article is: The browsers are killing EV certs.

That seems to be the bulk of the point he's making, EV certs are dead because, especially on Mobile, you can't even tell they are there. He doesn't really, in my mind, support the case that EV certs never were worth anything. I definitely liked to see them when I went to my banks and the like. But I'll admit that I don't remember which ones had them and which didn't, other than that I expected my financial institutions to have them.
There are many properties as such, but we can still prove many properties about a program despite non-deterministic behaviour, using hidden logic
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/pps/hherb.ps

As such, a proof system which incorporates behavioural specification is highly desirable.
Amazon’s new toolkit helps developers build Echo-connected accessories
So would I. That runs counter to everything I've heard about the subject.
99% of the time? Sounds like 100% of the time since we're only talking about a sample size of one company. Serious generalization. More like "a bird in hand".
Not exactly an unbiased take from Aral considering he tried to launch a social network where "you were not the product" around the same time too.
Yes. If folks are interested, here's more about that: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/
But to be fair, San Francisco did not even want the Embarcadero freeway and proposed a tunnel that the state nixed. When the thing collapsed in an earthquake it was a pretty easy choice to not spend money building something the city didn't even want.

You do have to agree that not having to walk under a urine-soaked freeway to get to the waterfront is an improvement to the city. The tunnel would have also been fine, of course.
In general, it's the current-time value of perpetual production in a particular use, multiplied by the likelihood the land would be put to that use in the future.

So if International Paper owns a square mile currently used for fast-growing trees, the value of the land is the value of the next lumber harvest, discounted over the amount of time left until it's ready, plus the harvest after that, discounted by even more time, and so on, forever. Then you add the value from a developer that thinks, "this plot is really close to Townsburg, and I could build houses here that would get annexed". So you add the value of the land as residential housing, times the probability IP would sell to the builder.

It's the same for food. Most farmland is rather far away from anywhere people might want to build houses. The few houses that exist nearby are only there because the people that live there need to be closer to the open land than the cities. So if it stops being useful for growing food, it's value drops to the next-best use, which is probably not housing. One of those uses might be preserved wildlife habitat. It all depends on where it is, and what it's next to, and the perceived value of a particular use.
Modern discourse about "rights" has become twisted. Some day we need to realize that one person's right is another person's prohibition. A society needs to choose its rights wisely lest the unintended consequences result in less overall freedom.

In a healthy civil society legally enshrined rights are less important because you can trust that everybody's freedom will be maximized, at least to a first-order approximation. In unhealthy societies legal rights are often cold comfort.
> So, if something can be done and no one notices it can't be a bad thing?

Not only that, the article clearly indicates that people do notice the impacts, they just don't know that the cause is deliberate throttling by their provider.

It's like if people frequently complained about loose coins missing from their homes, but it took some legwork to find the crooks who trained cockroaches to steal the coins and deliver them—would you say that the thefts shouldn't be illegal because it wasn't immediately obvious that he losses were thefts?
Applies to a lot of things though. Just think what else you could replace the first part with, and whether it qualifies as an argument at all.
Interesting. For a moment I thought they would aggressively optimize encoding for frame cost but then I realized that's probably a rounding error compared to their costs in storage and co-located infrastructure.
I don't know the history of the mall in Raleigh but I suspect at least part of the issue was that, at the time, downtown Raleigh probably wasn't a place a lot of people wanted to walk around. As you say, there are a lot more people (and companies) downtown today and more upscale restaurants, bars, etc. Though, even today, like a lot of smaller cities that have had something of a renaissance, most of the places the average upscale professional would want to walk to are in a fairly small area.
At least one of your challenges is addressed by the OP: "The constant noise"
Do not worry, I've got this:

1. Yo Yo Ma

2. Stevie Wonder

3. Salman Rushdie.
In general it's true for all positions. A CEO should be fire-able for the board to keep them accountable. We never got to the size where we had a board tho, so we didn't have anyone to appeal to apart from the investors directly, and as I mentioned, the CEO kept us isolated from them.

The bigger problem I had with lack of control was when things started to go south. The CEO was never around, so I was the "boss" in the office every day, being the technical and cultural leader of the dev team, who came to be close friends. Once the money stopped coming in, it was really hard emotionally to be the person who needed to convey that to the rest of the company, but without having any real control needed to get them money or real answers.

The CEO came from a very wealthy family, and never had to worry about money. Myself, and most of the employees weren't so lucky, and were pretty new out of college, so didn't have a pile of savings to fall back on. I am not even that upset about never seeing that pay I was owed, it was more just emotionally draining to be seen as an authority figure, but to have absolutely no ability to exact change or get answers when they mattered most.
I would like to take this moment to advertise a project currently under development in my city:

https://beltline.org/about/the-atlanta-beltline-project/atla...

The Atlanta belt-line is mostly being built on top of old light rail line around the city. The idea, as I understand it, is to provide a pedestrian and (unfortunately) cyclists only pathway that connects many of the notable places around the city. On this pathway, there already exists a large amount of beltline and road accessible shopping/restaurants/bars. There are plans to build a large amount similarly accessible housing on the beltline as well.

I assert that this strategy is a better alternative than closing off convex sections for cities similar to Atlanta.
What would define a city similar to Atlanta? One that is not very dense, with some undeveloped or neglected land in urban areas, and whose centers of social activity are decentralized. By saying the centers of social activity are decentralized, I mean to say that the major parks, stadiums, shopping developments, chic neighborhoods, and so on, are dispersed around a few mile radius of downtown. Shutting of any two square mile area to car traffic would fail to capture more than a few of these places, and cause worse traffic problems elsewhere, which is costly regardless of how you approach it.

There are some downsides to the beltline of course, mainly its cost, but you get the same opportunity for a pedestrian urban experience, without overtly turning it into a political battle.
People buy cars with their worst case transportation requirement in mind. By moving car ownership to an external fleet, people will be free to only use the extra transportation capacity as needed. Why are we spending all of this energy to accelerate giant metal boxes when most of the trips in cars are only to get a person from point A to point B? It's incredibly inefficient. Self-driving cars and electric bikes are going to completely change the transportation paradigm inside of dense cities.
Why Linux? Sometimes it's nice to have an OS to take care of all the BS for you.

Why not? Power budget, simplicity, security.

I also have a light hammer, a medium sized hammer, and a sledgehammer in my basement.
Very nice. Have you thought about expanding it to more languages?
It is strange because this is a big announcement, that is concrete with real money and people (more soon to be announced). By Elon Musk. But there doesn't seem to be much love for him by the press.

Is it because Elon offended the press few weeks ago? I don't understand why press thinks it is above some criticism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story) ?
Combine this technique with something like this: https://www.medgadget.com/2014/06/mits-wifi-system-detects-p...

and we can start modifying people's responses to any ads or other media that has audio. Just pipe in fake respiratory signals under the source audio and boom, that car ad really got your heart racing.
Absolutely. I see nothing but benefits from having both options (incidentally was thinking PIC due to power requirements) for a project. But the "hmmm" thought was about complexity of a system as time goes on. Was imagining dozens of unpatched Linux-based devices put on top of other dozens of devices in a system and the maintenance aspect took on a new tone.

It's like you can send an email with a single line of PHP code, which turns into 673 lines of system calls, which turns into thousands of assembly instructions and that's not even counting what happens after it's passed to a mailer - and at some point the complexity of being able to account for every action of a part becomes untenable.
Exactly what I was wondering. Looks like it has been going on for more than half a century as per the article.
Pedantry. If you honestly believe that Manhattan "peaked like a star quarterback" in 1910, I don't know what to say to you.
(disclaimer: didn't/couldn't read article) Well, that's a rather snooty, snarky comment.

Do you really want Nietzsche to be your guide in this subject? Of course not, geez. I didn't think the GP 'suggested a dismissal' of N, but of him as a one's guide to Better Living, which sounded very reasonable to me. And anyone familiar with N's writing can hopefully imagine many reasons why one might think that. It's sheer bluff to sound as if it's an unexpected or unreasonable question.

(I had written a page in answer, e.g. starting 'Did he ever even have a girlfriend?', and started rounding up amusing and acute quotes from Chesterton and Santayana[0], but decided against including any of that. I'm a huge Nietzsche fan so answering properly would take a while; I decided your remark wasn't worth it. Sorry.)

[0] Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy contain good (and funny) critiques of Nietzsche, as do many of his other works, e.g. Varied/Twelve Types and GBS. Santayana's wonderful Egotism in German Philosophy has chapters on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
To live within reasonable walking / public transport distance of my workplace in SF, I'd be paying about a thousand dollars a month more in rent. If you don't want me to commute in from the suburb, build more housing in the city and bring down market rent there.
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It has been like that as long as I can remember. I couldn't understand why people were falling for the "Chrome is faster" line when it was wasting everyone's time by sending people to search results instead of URLs like Firefox.

Google Chrome doesn't really let you set a home page other than a Google Search box. Even if you set your home page to a specific URL, opening a new tab doesn't start you on your home page -- you get a Google Search box.

Google's attempt to remove subdomains and hide URLs from users also appears to be part of a plan to force users to become more dependent on search rather than being able to go directly to destinations.

Chrome is full of manipulative patterns.
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When I managed developers, I didn't have a list of programming cases that had my name on it. It's more that I would pitch in on complicated or challenging pieces of the code, typically with pair programming. I found this develops a different kind of relationship with developers (I'm a valuable resource, not a micro manager) and allows you to establish your technical skills without becoming a blocker for deliverables when you have to spend your time managing up. It allowed me to stay involved and very familiar with what was happening "in the trenches" without taking on a bunch of programming tasks which are better handled by dedicated developers.
Yeah, I've long thought that the syndication that happens via server-server communication could be replaced with a smarter client. As far as UI goes, Twitter seems more like a browsable network, e.g. @ IDs, follower/follows lists, and those features seem to be key, not the specific transport. Would like to see something like Mastodon but based on RSS.
Well said. Very common scenario when it comes to retail, grocery stores, import/export businesses.

Great article on this topic by Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Capital: http://tomtunguz.com/timing-sales-cashflows/
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People fleeing city centres is often not a matter of affordability but a choice on other criteria.
The article is about mobile carriers, not wisps. There is no point carrying on this "conversation".
I mean, the project is cool and all, but it's a guarantee that a rocket that does not really exist yet will not send people to the moon's orbit in 5 years time. Anybody arguing differently is mad. This news is like a Molyneux announcement
It sounds like you were implementing metered bandwidth in a very haphazard way.
I like how the JavaScript functions support different bases (5 or greater), but the page itself doesn't. It makes me want to play around with it in the browser console...
That's also an excellent approach. Preventing evasion through shell companies would probably be helpful too.

We need to teach our kids that, when the world is exceedingly generous to them, it's nice to care for the ones it wasn't so nice to.
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It is false advertising though. I’m not sure why it’s allowed.
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This isn't something that I've seriously looked into myself, but I thought that in the past, Google had a way to tell them about your new articles, to avoid this problem. Does that no longer exist/work?
People make noise. People shouting in the streets, nearby festivals, etc. I don't like people, and there's no such thing as a dense city that doesn't suck for me.
I wonder where do you get those mentoring managers with one on ones. Coaching and all thut stuff. No one has time to do it.

It is always: here is your job that are requirements. No meaningful one on ones.
It is not only in work, I just all life have to figure out taxes, relationships, learning, work. What is even better when I was trying to pay for advice of accountant they did not take my money and no advice. I got advice from attorney but it was useless, I figured out later on my own.

Oh I got some advice from relatives like uncle or grandma but that was like outdated and totally not true anymore. Almost got fined for trying to apply that.

So my point is no one cares about one on ones and mentoring, and someones advice on life or carreer because probably they still have to figure all on their own, and they think they are smarter. so better keep track of tickets and that stuff is rolling, keep obstackles away from team and don't say yes to everything.
Indeed:

>led the kind of maladjusted life that contemporary therapies and self-help books are designed to rehabilitate

>... suffered the dramatic breakdown that would debilitate him until his death 11 years later

> troubled relationship with food throughout his life, ricocheting from one extreme diet to the next

isn't really selling my on the Nietzsche lifestyle.
Ramanujan was born too early. I wish he was alive in today's independent and richer india, he could have achieved so much more.