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> Having left London, I really do miss Ocado. Unlike the
> silly timing restrictions you suggest, they delivered at
> any hour between about 0700 and 2300 with one hour
> windows.

We really do deal with six-hour windows here (and the delivery people tend to miss even those and come late). One-hour windows sound great, especially if they never missed them. You're still stuck waiting around for a delivery person, though, even if it is just for an hour once a week.

> This is just the tragedy of the commons at work. Outside
> of the City there are bus lanes (shared with cabs). It
> isn't the job of society to subsidize drivers in
> congested areas. There's simply no political will to
> squeeze private autos.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I wasn't saying that driving was faster than taking a bus in my city, though it is. I was actually thinking of the local rail system, the MTR. Taking a taxi anywhere or driving yourself is almost always faster than taking the MTR.

By it's very nature, public transport, which has to run on a schedule and leave gaps between runs to allow passengers to accumulate and then make multiple stops is, is often going to be slower than an individual getting into a personal vehicle and driving themselves to their destination.

> You're tilting at a straw man. Single family houses and
> high rises aren't the only options. Greater London, for
> example, is full of four story row houses.

I'm not British and haven't been to London (I just live in a former British colony whose development was planned by British civil servants), but the reference to Greater London seems to refer to London plus its suburbs.

Hong Kong has a lot of three-story "village houses" in what passes for rural areas here but which in reality are more like suburbs or outer boroughs.

HK village houses don't have elevators. Do the four-story row houses in Greater London have them? If so, then great. If not, then I would imagine it must be quite unpleasant for the people on the higher floors to carry their groceries (or anything else) up to their flats.
If you read the decree:

If Comcast offers consumers Internet Access Service under a
package that includes caps, tiers, metering, or other
usage-based pricing, it shall not measure, count, or
otherwise treat Defendants’ affiliated network traffic
differently from unaffiliated network traffic. Comcast
shall not prioritize Defendants’ Video Programming or
other content over other Persons’ Video Programming or
other content.

It's not about Comcast using your bandwidth, it's about them offering services which third party providers "can't," because their traffic is not treated equally.

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E-bra : le soutien-gorge moniteur cardiaque à l’attention des sportives
Les sportives vont bientôt s’offrir un « e-bra ». Il s’agit d’un soutien-gorge bourré de nanocapteurs qui recense les données pathophysiologies. Elles sont ensuite transmises sur leur Smartphone.
ohh my..reading Zee's tweets https://twitter.com/#!/Zee ..Amazing how little this guy cares about this. He basically tried to bully his way out of this before coming up with a meek apology. I will try to stay clear of TNW from now.
This was exactly my point. I enjoy learning things too, and the first time I went to school I had a hard time doing the kind of coursework that you describe because I was not motivated at all. When I went back, I literally just forced myself to walk through the checklist.

The problem is, there are a lot of students that can grind a checklist that are worthless.
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Thanks for the feedback! That actually makes a lot of sense.

I was thinking that I would be changing more by removing score, but I'm starting to realize that having two objectives (getting a high score + trapping the other snake) is too confusing and they can't really work together. Especially since my aim is a minimalistic game, in the spirit of snake.
the problem with this idea is that some items overlap — a multimedia book could be a book but it can also be an app. someone shopping for a song may be very interested in the music video. also the idea of sync isn't something that apple wants you to even know about...

actually there are a few things i'd like to see:

- i wish i could read a book on the mac desktop

- i wish Pages had a draft mode

- i wish apple would do an adobe CS killer

- at this stage i wish they'd kill ping

- i wish the book store went deeper

- time capsule as hardware should be killed
90 million users is a great datapoint, yes! In my book that's more than respectable.

The only other stat that I'm curious about is the total size of the DB. Certainly databases with tens of millions of records can be held completely in RAM these days... but that also depends on how big each record is.
Or http://comprends.com ...
just because i use windows on my desktop doesn't mean i don't know how to use vim/xargs/find/awk/sed/bash install and configure linux/solaris etc.

just means i prefer windows on the desktop?

if friends ask me if they should change to Mac from Windows, nowadays my thinking is: "if you want to learn a new operating system that is different to Windows, get the Mac. If you just want to get stuff done and you already know Windows, get Windows"

(Note i'd say the same thing in reverse if they wanted to change to Windows from Mac, i.e. stick with the Mac if you want to get things done)

bottom line: you are not your desktop operating system choice (well you might be a Mac, but fscked if i'm a PC - both PC's and Mac's are tools, lol)
If you want to allow for high scores, you could let people collect score over unbroken chains of victories.
Focus.py
I wonder if the author understands the distinction between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area.
So Wolfram thinks he is the Charles Darwin of what exactly? The Origin of Species has a singular focus, i.e. presenting evidence for the mutability of species. What is NKS's focus? What makes you think NKS is in any way comparable to Origin of Species?
Absolutely Amazon is an innovator. And surprisingly so -- who would've predicted AWS?!
Quite true, but density ratings can always be a bit tricky as they vary a lot by how much extra land cities have.

San Jose's 5,000 per square mile underestimates what it feels like to live there.

See the borders: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Jose,+CA&hl=en&sl...

All that area in the southeast are farms and mountains. A The entire northern part are marshes. Its "effective" density is really much closer to 7-8,000 per square mile.

Los Angeles is also one where the density numbers underestimate the feeling of it. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Los+Angeles,+CA&hl=en&...

A lot of that land is mountains. Indeed, south-central and central parts of LA have about the same population as SF and pretty much the same density:
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/populat...
I used to be like you, then I realised that the English language has been ever evolving. Being prejudiced against efficiency has rarely turned out well.
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I do live in an urban environment (NYC for a decade now), and you're... confused on some counts. Public transportation is radically faster than cars, at least in any city with a fraction of the same population. Have you ever tried to drive through Atlanta or Miami? And living in an urban environment doesn't demand high-rise towers -- walkable townhouses and height-restricted buildings abound, and there's no shortage of human-friendly neighborhoods in New York. (I also hate midtown Manhattan, but that's nowhere near representative of city living.)

If you absolutely need a car for big purchases, Zipcar and its competitors are easily accessible. If you're older, you have BETTER options here in the form of delivery services than you'd have in a rural setting. If you'd like to get a little further away from the city in a nice, quiet Queens neighborhood, you can hope on the express train and read a book while you're zipped to your destination.

Hong Kong is a different animal just because it's, well, Hong Kong. But nothing in the world quite compares to that, and you really shouldn't associate New York or Paris with that crazy city.
Michael Smith and his point of view of startups in South East Asia
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Yep! This is exactly how it works. Each app node runs a magicd which connects to an haproxy instance on localhost (connected to every machine in the database cluster), so when a Riak node goes down we don't miss a beat.
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My advice is to stay away, far away, from Comcast. I wish I never had the misfortune of having to work with such an incompetent, corrupt organization. But alas, I am stuck in a year long contract that auto-renews without my re-authorization.
"Downloading the Android SDK" is actually a dozen
steps of installs, updates, add-ons, setting up
emulator devices and so on.

That's not true. The first time I did it, it took me something like 10 minutes. I must say that I was already familiar enough with Eclipse to install the plugin without much struggling (though it can't get any easier, unless it came built-in). Beginners should also try out IntelliJ IDEA which comes with Android integration built-in.

The Apple dance takes a couple minutes to
do and costs $99/year.

That's also not true. It took me somewhere between 2 and 3 hours. And you don't have to pay $99 for getting the Hello World on your phone, but you do have to fuck around with certificates for signing the binary and you also have to read a lot of documentation.
It really is true.

Population of Europe: 738,199,000
Population of US: 311,591,917

If the US were double density, it would have more walkable, urban areas, etc.
His arguments triggered a sense of deja vu. I've made those same arguments with clients who want a system to process a specific product differently to all the others, and colleagues who think our framework should have special code to handle a rare use case.

Those arguments are valid - from the perspective of the architects. Maintaining and learning to use such a system is incredibly difficult, and resistance against special cases is healthy and helps promote simplicity.

But the purpose of law is to promote quality of life not quality of law, and life is messy.
It could be duplicated, but then it would be a copy and not the one you currently have. I expect you can easily imagine this by picturing your copy uploaded to the simulator while you live and then running the simulation.

Whatever the copy does after that you won't experience and it won't be part of your memories. If you say that's not the case and that you will experience and be aware of what the copy is doing, then you are proposing some sort of metaphysical connection between the two beings, which I find hard to swallow.

I like this definition of identity: "A person's identity is defined as the totality of one's self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires to be in the future"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_%28philosophy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_%28social_science%29
http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=76
It still is, practically. It's also not really directly competing with Java the way a lot of JVM languages are.

Kotlin is indeed much less ambitious than Scala but, as much as I like Scala, I think it's just a bridge too far.
$599 for a mini would be stopping me for me one. Since I'm not getting paid to do mobile development $599 is money that could get me a holiday or a used car, I'm not trying to make angry birds here; just a few tools to make my life easier. Besides it seems silly to spend all that money on a low spec Mac when I already have a perfectly serviceable workstation that I have invested in.

Even if it cost them a fair amount of money to port it all over, they're Apple so they have the money in the bank. Plus I can imagine the ROI would be fairly significant when you consider how many more people could get into casual iOS development and then potentially make it into a full time thing.
You don't get paid for vacation, learning time, marketing time, double tax and of-course no benefits. Consulting makes sense, if you can charge 2x hourly rate as you would get as a fulltime salaried employee. And you should have enough reputation in the industry that clients come to you with minimal marketing. If you don't have 2x hourly rate and marketing pull, you would be better off working as a salaried employee. Of-course, you may not "feel" that you have the "freedom". Another alternative is to work with reputed consulting companies, who can do the marketing and some of the wrestling for you. Ofcourse, they will take a portion of your earning.
there are just as many women here as anywhere else.

Males: 408,462	(50.7%)
Females: 396,773	(49.3%)

if anything, when you consider that there are far more homosexual men than homosexual women, men have it good here.

http://www.city-data.com/city/San-Francisco-California.html
It never has been and currently isn't. The person you are responding to is trolling this entire thread.
It is worth noting that Galyn's home machine, and the one that I drove over to get with her and return to Pixar as depicted in the video in question, was in fact an SGI. Not your average "home computer" by any stretch. Although you are correct, there was nowhere near 4.5 terabyte of drive space in that Indigo II or Octane (I forget what she had in her house specifically, although I can ask her if people really want to know).

The sum of all the source files (models, animation, shaders, lighting, sets, etc..) was probably in the hundreds-of-megabytes range at that point in time as Loren pointed out in his comments on Quora.

I've also added a lot more details to that Quora thread too (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...) if folks want to read more about the whole thing, although it was 14 years ago so my memory is a little foggy on some of the details at this point in time.
Yes, HTML escaping is missing. That'll be one of the first things I'll add. Probably relevant: https://github.com/mmozuras/git-playback/issues/2
Ahem, if you are registering from something like India. You will have to fax some documents to them for review. There is no option to even pay online. In fact, this song and dance is so time consuming that, I haven't bothered to register an account myself.
Question to SW about this favorite books:

On my desk I have to say I have only one book: A New Kind of Science. [by Stephen Wolfram] But within reach, I have [N]ewton, Darwin, Euclid, Galileo, Boole, D'Arcy Thompson, Linnaeus."
> Getting an A is as easy as doing everything, it doesn't require any real intelligence or understanding.

Cheating at solitaire? Of course you can go through the motions, but for the money (even public) education costs, that seems like quite a waste of opportunity.
Nice, I think I might have two leaderboards, especially since I have the room on the screen for more. One for win/loss ratio and one for either length of winning streak or accumulated score for a streak.

Yep I think this is coming together. I won't ditch the idea of having a score, but I will ditch the idea of competing against your opponent based on score. You won't even see your opponent's score, only yours. You compete for survival. And the accumulated score will be a sort of trophy :)
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I'm sorry, but you're associating liberty with cars, and that's just not true. If you live in Nowhere, Indiana, then you're completely dependent on your car to get ANYWHERE, including to buy food, get to work, or see your mother in the hospital. If it breaks down and you can't afford the repair? How free are you to travel now?

You're not completely incorrect, insofar as European cities (and any worthwhile city) are forced to infringe to some extent on fundamentalist interpretations of property rights for urban planning. But you might as well throw up your arms and complain about building codes and zoning restrictions anywhere else if such things are such "onerous restrictions on individual liberty."

The reason why so many Americans have settled in exurban developments is because we've artificially subsidized those lifestyle with federally-funded freeways, artificially cheap gasoline, and destructive corporate attacks on public transportation systems (especially in the 1950s, check out the GM attack in Los Angeles as an example). Exurbs didn't develop organically, nor are they in any way models of efficiency, cost, or sustainability.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/redux_how_facebook_mobi...

This was how app was designed. With so many technologies involved things are bound to go wrong
There are objective ways to measure these things. New York City is the most efficient place in the whole country, with half the per capita energy consumption as the national average. Energy isn't free, and pollution isn't free, and those both argue very strenuously for favoring efficiency over soft fuzzy factors like the ones you mention.
The cost for a Mac Mini is big enough for me.
Yes I can afford it (I actually do own one), however a Mac Mini is a desktop and that's so 1998 that I can't stand it.

Personally I have a pretty close and loving relationship with my workstation. That's why it needs to be a laptop.
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I agree with overlap and splitting up the stores, it can get tricky having to go multiple places to buy things. I guess I also didn't realize people still downloaded and watched music videos that way.
I think it's possible to underestimate the value of effective checklist grinders. On the one hand it's unlikely to make you an innovator or entrepreneur but the world needs people who can identify exactly what is required for X and make sure that it is done.
The sad truth is, if Apple were a private company, they could do this. Being a publicly traded company, their first responsibility is their shareholders. Hence, they can not indulge in good-heartedness just for the sake of it if there is even a slight chance that it won't bring in money.

This is the big big problem with the stock market.
Offline services as discrete online "units"
never seen that piece, thanks!
> PDAs... are able to parse any context free grammar

To be complete, _non-deterministic_ PDAs can recognize any context-free language. Afaik you can't use a normal, deterministic parser to recognize things like the language of all palindromes (which is context-free).
The lines themselves are very local to the areas they pass through, many of which are in populated areas.

But, if you are basically saying I am comparing apples with oranges, France's ongoing investment in urban light rail is currently eclipsing the United States by an embarrassing margin.

These are figures from 2009, so are a bit old and dusty, and they are from a pro-light rail source, but they say that France has committed $29 billion for urban rail, compared to the USA's $8 billion. http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_newslog2009q4.htm#LRT_200...

And this is just France, which has a population five times smaller than the USA. I could try and find figures for all light rail investment across Europe if you like, but then it would just start to look utterly ridiculous.

To give another comparison, The UK spent $8 billion just on widening the M1 motorway.

[edit] Although with that last figure, nobody is really sure where most of the money went. I personally suspect that they found a new and exciting way to create road surface entirely out of pulped ten pound notes and dried caviare.
Pixar is a movie studio that developed mpviemaking technology over many years. No one is talking about backing up Tom Hanks in case he keels over.
It sounds like you're dealing w/ the perceived loss of a potential significant amount of cash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

> I need to talk about it because it distracts me from what I need to get done.

Therapists are available to help work out these kinds of issues.
All-told the users database when we started migration was about 600 GB on disk, so not the most easily stored database in RAM, but not impossible if you get enough large machines.

In fact, we use Redis a lot at Bump, although almost exclusively for queueing and transient state, and not as a persistent database. For a period of time we did store long-lasting metadata in Redis, and as we became more popular instead of throwing engineering effort at the problem we threw more memory, culminating with a handful of boxes with 192 GB of RAM each. We've since moved that entire database to Riak. :)
"Downloading the Android SDK" is actually not a dozen steps of installs and updates.

It involves downloading one archive, unpacking it, running the SDK manager, checking checkboxes for target platforms you want to develop for and waiting for a couple of minutes, until it downloads. You can also set-up emulator devices for the different platforms.

That's quite a short of complications you speak of.
The overwhelming majority of people in HK live in highrises, virtually all new housing being built here (unless your uncle is a village chief and/or you're a male who can prove that he is of villager stock and has a right to build a village house) consists of giant highrises, and most of the existing housing stock consists of the same.

So, while you're correct in saying that highrise living is not the only choice, it is the reality that most people here are living in highrises and that the small percentage of people living in smaller buildings will continue to dwindle over time.

Regarding older, low-rise, buildings, those low-rise residential buildings that do exist and which aren't out in the boonies are being gradually "redeveloped", as you may already know. The government or a developer buys a certain percentage of the flats and compels the holdouts to sell, usually at a price that won't permit the residents to buy a newer flat in the same neighborhood, demolishes the building(s), and erects a huge tower block.

Regarding the minibuses, a car or taxi is still faster than taking a minibus for the same reasons that a car or taxi are faster than the MTR: no walking/waiting/walking and you're going to your destination directly rather than following a route and making lots of stops at places that you don't want to go and then.

This is a separate issue, but haven't you noticed that most of the drivers are visibly impoverished (raggy-looking clothing, many missing/black teeth, etc.) and many are senior citizens? The minibuses, especially the red ones, also tend to speed and get into lots of accidents. Rarely does more than a day or two pass without a report of a minibus ramming into something and most of the passengers being injured, or two minibuses t-boning each other and two minibus-fulls of passengers being injured, etc.

Also, you do know that most of the red minibuses are under triad control, that the drivers have to pay a huge lump sum when they start driving and then "parking fees" every month thereafter?
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