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1: All leases in SF automatically convert into month-to-month leases upon termination (in rent controlled units). Hence why it doesnt matter if your long term tenant wont sign a new lease, they dont need to. The crux of rent control.

2: Subtenants have the full power of a normal tenant in that they assume the lease from the original tenant. Since its obvious the landlord is complicit in AirBnB activitys by continuing use, that constitutes approval.

3: Not paying rent while being evicted- This is false. For instance, in a ellis act eviction you must continue to pay rent for the duration else be liable for getting sued.

4: Legal fees - Only if the lease specifies this, most specify one way for the landlord or not at all.

5: Gaming a system is not akin to fraud.

6: That analogy makes very little sense. Please apply it to a WebMD post, where they say "WebMD does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment." - Its very well established disclaimers are valid

7: I think its a great business but needs to be amended to protect both landlords, tenants and would-be-renters. Currently it has some baked in risk.

8: A great related thing to google about this is "evicting roommates" as its of course the crux of the issue with subtenants and master tenants. You will find that subtenants inherit full protection in most cases.

* Disclaimer - This post is a opinion not to be construed as fact and not to be taken as legal advice for I am not a lawyer.

:)
I think the criticism he had of it was that it provides no way to know if the outlet is 240V or 120V. Otherwise it seems swell.
I rarely experienced that with megaupload. I won't say it never happened though.
Spanner appears to raise the bar on globally distributed DB's, in the process making it desirable to a number of application developers.

Which raises the question of whether Google will make Spanner available to 3rd parties... (hope so!)
Nah. In fact, AltaVista was fine until they stopped supporting exact phrase searches.
Java 7 has AutoCloseables for resource cleanup:

try (FileInputStream f = new FileInputStream(path)) {
// do stuff
}
I was thinking about that, and maybe I'll do it. I'm also thinking about selecting between SQL or XML code.
Problem is that you then have to explain monads to average programmers who'll be using the language.

I love monads (I love arrows more, but that's another issue). I'm a language design geek. My level of expertise is different from someone who has just been hired into a new job and wants to get things done.

I suspect that most language designers know about monads - I'm not sure Rob Pike did, but it's pretty common knowledge among folks who do this stuff. Until you can explain them to the folks who'll be using the language in a way that doesn't make them seem like arcane black magic, though, you'll find programmers will just say "I don't get this" and use what they're familiar with.
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Well, the choice is between structures or tagged unions.

I'm not a Go user, but if I understand correctly ("It's like an Either that always has Left and Right."), functions return a structure with both an error code and a value.

To wrap a C function into a Go function with this signature, you can initialize a structure with { code: success; value:f() }; and then of course error checking has to be done C-style (errno, lib_last_error(), etc).

The problem with tagged unions is that when you access the wrong field (when it's not enforced by the language), everything can happen : you can build ill-formed values, jump to random places, etc. Having an explicit NULL in that cases is better.

In a nutshell, unsafe tagged unions < explicit NULLs < safe tagged unions.
Dear Internet: please move the share buttons from the web page to the browser
There's been more than one mock-the-silliness-that-is-ten-share-buttons-for-an-unshared-blog-post blog posts.

The mobile browsers have already shown the way - a single share button, share with any service (yes, there needs to be some open bring-your-own-service functionality like we already do for search).

I'm hoping one or two people who are working on one of the major browsers would read this and "simply put it in" and we'd eventually all be living with a cleaner, faster loading web as the on-page buttons go the way of the dodo.

Not to mention that it would actually be really useful.
Indeed it would. Piracy it is not.
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Very nice job. That would be great if there were such thing for cities and nationalities.
See you guys there!
Lifecycles are either sequential or iterative. But there's a lot of differences in the lifecycles, and many more models than usually assumed. For example spiral development, throwaway prototyping, evolutionary prototyping, staged delivery, design-to-tools, design-to-schedule, modified waterfall (a sequential, iterative process) and more.

Read McConnell's 'Rapid development' for a walkthrough of the ones above and then some.
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Maps.app allows external apps to integrate with it to provide transit data.
I can't imagine allowing something like this to bother me - it's just a name on a disposable bottle. Are you sure you're not railing against it because you don't like seeing the marketing being so successful on social networks?
You happen to see this only in what you call "power relationship". I happen to see it like this: people, e.g. software developers, with the same experience and background attributing themselves as "architects", blowing up their programming experience by years and languages they have never seen. You call this harmless cheating because they kill nobody. It's not harmless because it distorts the reality we all operate in and it confirms the power-relationship-rule. (what age are you talking about anyway? I'm 46, I could tell you about ageism, but telling I'm born in '76 only confirms the ageisms in place)

To react also on the "crab mentality" remark in another post: If the emperor says that crabs older the 1 year of age should be cooked and all crabs start to lie about their age and put others forward as being older (the ones who don't lie) the real ugly face of this mentality becomes clear.
Great idea. But before you jump, here's the economic reality:

http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2012-ranking-200-jobs-b...

Top: Software developer

Bottom: Sociologist

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/09/best-and-wor...

Top: Aerospace Engineering

Bottom: Social work

Humanities degrees are for people who don't care about economics, career success, or having any kind of positive impact on the world.
Here here. Apple have had plenty of failures even after Jobs second coming (Hello Ping!) and its highly revisionist of the technology talking heads to think otherwise.

I believe Apple could have spent another year on it behind closed doors and not gotten much further than they are now. What Apple Maps needs is right now is users, well, using Apple Maps to help direct locations that need improving (that are not downtown San Francisco or Cupertino).
Lesson learned:

The more a company touts their product is "secure" the less it is

As much as "we use military-grade encryption" means a 16 year old can break it.
Dissing apple surely beds for a higher page-view count. I'm sure the problems with the maps will be fixed soon.

Nobody knows the real reason, or combination of reasons why Apple is not using Google Maps. It could be Apple and it could be Google, it could be both. It's all just guesses that are fueling the anger at both sides.
Or perhaps GoTwo.
Counterpoint: iPhone is huge in Japan and led a minor revolution in phones here (prior to iPhone non-Japanese phones were unheard of here). Now you can't even get proper directions to some of the largest train stations, including the busiest one, Shinjuku. I don't know how it is in the States, but in Japan this isn't a regression or an inconvenience, it's a total removal of a heavily used feature. I can't think of a better way Apple could have fucked up the experience for Japanese users.

And they were doing so well here, too.
Push notification service for iOS and Android with webhooks and custom callbacks
The custom callback feature (approve, delete etc.) is what makes this interesting.
... so that I can disable them (easily).
Apple is no way positioned to harm Google in any way on the longer run. In many ways Apple's products are like what video games, music albums and stereos were in the past. They are products with massive hype, craze and cult following of some kind.

Google on the other hand is a massive Innovation factory, churning innovations by the years. No body really is close to them when it comes to search, on line advertising etc. On top of that they have some of the top most properties on the internet- Mail, News, G+ etc etc.

What you are seeing now is Google really flooding market with their other innovative stuff Google TV, Android, wearable computing, self driving cars, offering peta byte scale data analytic engines etc. Engineering innovation is awesome too.

Apple cannot compete with that sort of company. Their best bet is to assume that their cult following will remain and will go gaga every time they come with a new product.
To be fair, this is completely different.
That's a fantastic book!
I like the idea of replaying commits. Never really thought about it because I tend to look at the current code without really bothering with the way it was developed or follow the commit history anyways if I'm developing myself.

I think the main benefits would actually be in the area of teaching. Just have people that learn to program watch replays of stuff in the language they want to learn and pick up on certain things via patter matching :)

At the very least even pretending to record your commits (rubber duck version) could probably improve your development process quite a bit. I think I'll actually pretend to record all my commits from here on out and give a running commentary to myself :)
And, they're releasing a maps app for iOS6 now, anyway.
The Forbes article is also interesting reading:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2012/09/23/why-the-new-...

I like this comment by Ludavico Corde:

The other thing that article totally was ignorant of, is just how far servers have come in saving power. You mentioned visualization which is growing by leaps and bounds. But what about processor (CPU) stepping technology? I modern server chip like the Intel Xeon can scale way back on power when it is idle or at a low utilization. Or using server blades like IBM Blade Servers? Modern class servers like HP Proliant, Dell, IBM Blade Servers, are engineered to the ninth degree with power management technology. To insure less power is consumed when the server workload is low.

I'd long assumed that servers, even commodity hardware, were good at reducing power use during periods of low utilization. How true is this? And I'm also given to understand that air-conditioning uses a lot of power, so I'm wondering if coolant systems do any better.

Overall if the energy used during/for computation is really only 6-12%, then there's probably a good amount of room for improvement. A good electrical engineer with awareness of industry practices and metrics could probably tell us whether there actually is a lot of waste going on, or if these numbers are to be expected due to practical limits. Maybe Google, Facebook and Amazon are running tight ships, but I can imagine inefficient practices going on in less well run datacenters.
Primary key on idCountry, no unique constraints on name/code/isoAlpha3, and 'default' blank values? It's certainly a start, but it's also a bit questionable.
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I usually see one on the front page every day or so (today there is two, often there are none).

I admit I don't tend to read any further than that, so I could well be missing most of them.
By 'collective growth in our emotional intelligence' I meant that because of factors like the internet, mobiles, globalization and the speedy virality of ideas, for a lot of the world their frame-of-reference is so much broader. Our ways of communicating and discussing ideas are broader. We network quicker.

So I agree that we're not going to meet some 'perfect state' of emotional intelligence, but I like to think that in the context of today, our ability to process and empathize with a diversity of thought is, on the collective, greater.
OT: I went to Staples once to actually buy staples. At Office Depot or Office Max, this is easy--just go to the aisle where they are supposed to be and look around until you see boxes that say "staples" on them. At Staples, all the generic house brand things say "Staples" on them. I actually had a bit of a problem finding the damned staples!
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when the industry has somehow captured the regulators (like the taxi industry), this sort of civil disobedience is warrented!
Note that Apple Maps isn't using OpenStreetMap. It's using a combination of a few different sources, mostly TomTom maps.
Don't look now, but the DOW Jones can jump to 36,000 in the same amount of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_36,000
See ISO 3166...

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm
They can already live in the browser by way of addons - if you use delicious then install the addon. If you don't, don't.

The solution is not for browser makers to host the share buttons, but for content creators to stop treating users like push-button monkeys and realise that if I want to share it on facebook I'll do that of my own volition and if I don't then a little blue and white f in a box at a cute angle is not going to sway me one iota.

Web page creators: It is not your job to make sharing easier.
They would probably get sued for misrepresentation (aligning someones image with a brand is not a right unless you sign waivers, which granted some people would do). Names are generic hence you can get away with it.

Also it would feel more lik missing persons on milk cartons than social brilliance.

Edit: Wait, should I be hearing a whoosh sound about now?
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We have them on Android and iOS (probably Windows Phone as well). OSX 10.8 now has tweet and facebook functionality as well. Are the other operating systems and browsers social enough? Should they be?
That'd kind of defeat the whole point of linking a binary. Were you using cabal to build executables? What shared libs were missing on remote machines?
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So company B can do business with company D. They never liked company C much anyway.
This surprises me, why people expect that they not have TVs in the countryside? Even the most remote village has some kind of power (water wheels are common, wind and solar also), then the TV, the DVD player, the karaoke machine are minimums (but cellphone is always first). The only pic without a TV...people who live on a boat, and what looks like a rich antique dealer.
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See? Apple does have NFC after all. Just the 'F' isn't quite the type of field that most people think it is :)
Sort of like how Google's obsession with Facebook is hurting Google?
iOS App Store URL?

(There are no indications of a Google Maps app AFAIK but I also hope we will get one soon …)
The position described above isn't an entry level or even medium level position -it's a leadership role (Think "principal engineer") for a strategic project (mapping) on the mobile platform(s) for Apple. I guarantee you that person will be making north of $300K/year.

Put that another away - This person responsible for driving a Multi-Billion dollar project will be only making 3x the lowest paid software engineer at Apple, and they will likely have 500x the responsibilities.
Say you need to migrate a database to a new schema. You need 10 SQL statements to do this. Each statement may fail, in which case you want to write stuff in a log and abort the transaction. In this case, wouldn't you agree that writing your statements in a try/catch/finally block would result in clean, easy to understand code, as opposed to adding explicit error handling after each statement?
They could have at least donated the excess energy to finally breaking SHA-1, Folding at Home, SETI, or Bitcoins for Babies, or whatever.
There was an effort to put sharing into Firefox. I'm not sure of the current status - it looks like it may have gone stale.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1 and http://f1.mozillamessaging.com/
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What about sharing option in Android, and now in Windows 8? It seems to be more versatile to embed this functionality into OS rather than a browser.
We're getting there in my opinion ;)
Apple's Google Maps app on iOS had turn-by-turn navigation, only without voice. I used it a lot and I truly miss it. I am fine with Apple developing their own maps service but they should have given a user choice.
The problem is, they work (for a certain definition of "work").

On one website that I work on, implementing one of those stupid "like us on Facebook" popups (in the lower right of the screen) almost doubled the number of likes the page had over a couple of weeks.

Now, whether the number of Facebook likes your page has is a useful metric to you is another matter, which is why I put the word "work" in quotes above...
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... how is it being successful on social networks anyway? I haven't seen anything about this on Facebook.

It just feels like the bottle belongs to someone else. I'm allowed to feel weird, if I want.
I'd love to hear their reasoning for introducing this bug, assuming it was intentional.
Can you predict the future by mining web pages?
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I thought this question had already been answered by Deep Thought? :)
True. AltaVista was certainly good enough for me.

I distinctly remember when someone recommended Google to me. I tried it and was unimpressed. They had a sparse index.html (which has served them well over the years) but other than that, AltaVista was still better. AltaVista was the first real search engine and I still think it was the best.
But I don't see why it's a time based animation.

The stats you just mentioned seem impossible to pick from the demos. From logs and summary yes but the demo is just ... Pretty
> What are your goals?

I think the point is that in the short term goals can vary a lot (e.g. "obese and looking to lose a massive amount of weight" vs wanting to tone up) but in the long term they converge on having a long, healthy life.
But the integrated Maps application is inferior in every way possible compared to Google Maps. I guess though, what's the alternative at the moment?
I don't know if it's successful in NZ or not, but when it ran in Australia a year or so back you barely went a day without someone posting a picture of them with their name on the bottle.
Your dream is never going to become a reality in the way you're asking.

As a feature of the desktop browser, users could turn share buttons off. Embedded in the page, they can't. That is why the site operator put them there in the first place: to maximise exposure.
What I'd like is an extension that just removes them entirely (an anti-social browser?)

For one, I don't use them. For two, they cause a cluttered mess. For three, I don't want all those little snippets tracking my page loads.
Games and Education categories missing on iPad / iOS6 appstore
This morning we noticed that Games and Education categories appeared to have gone missing from the iPad appstore on iOS6. They are there on the iPhone but not on iPad. We have checked UK, US, Thailand, and Singapore. Does anyone know what is going on? Are they missing for you too?
Plus one for the rubber duck analysis.

Of course anyone remote working has problems trying to do this in Starbucks.
No the reason to remove it is to get parallelism from threads. Once you have parallelism, you can overcome a 2x slow down for a single thread by using more cores.
Caveing! :) And mountaineering!
IIRC, many startups have been funded by investors based upon purely traction, not profit. I am not saying that that is the optimal path, but still a viable one.

For example, Facebook went a LONG time before they actually started making money. They created something that people wanted and consequently gained a lot of traction. Later down the line, they were able to turn the traction into profit.

"In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time." Facebook was founded in 2004.
That's an index of visible corruption.
There are more and less extreme forms of every diet. What Keto is for weight loss, Low Carb is for maintenance.

If you are 5kg overweight, a "sustainable lifestyle change" will be sufficient. And there are those people for who even the severe risks of a gastric bypass outweigh the damage their weight does. Quite obviously, in between those extremes, there will be people were an unsustainable diet will be healthier than staying at their weight or losing it only slowly. And why not choose a diet that has been shown to minimize the loss of lean body mass.
The problem with shared_ptr is that you can't use it for fine grained stuff because it's terribly inefficient. It also has problematic concurrency implications.

But more importantly, what makes C++ memory management difficult is that different libraries do it in completely different ways. Bridging that mess is error prone and a huge mental burden.
I thought adblock can do this until things get better. Apparently I'm correct
http://superuser.com/a/454634
I find it distressing that all of these very well educated, well researched, and up-to-date authorities on Diet continue to write OpEds for the NYT with basically polar-opposite positions.

Here we have Dean Ornish basically coming out with a position almost completely contrary to Gary Taubes.

Perhaps, one day, someone will do some long term randomized trials with a unbiased observer and we'll discover the truth.
Coca-cola, along with pretty much every brand, pays quite a lot to have it's product on the shelves or on display ends. Pissed off or not, supermarkets are being paid to position it. And usually paid for prime real estate.
> You get deterministic failure modes instead of dragons flying out of your nose

What Go currently has does not solve this problem, which is what I'm pointing out. Your argument is basically "not handling the error Looks Bad". Mine is "It should be impossible to do wrong". Something like ADT's would have been very welcomed, then we could just have a classy option type or either type.
Exactly, I have about 8 browsers installed and I find this very annoying. Your suggestion fixes this nicely.
In addition to this, it's worth noting that not all calories are created equally. If you process your food to make juices, smoothies etc (or buy it already processed), then you'll get a greater, more immediate hit of energy than if your body broke it down itself.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/th...
I've had some pretty good results with Scott Young's ebook and blog in general: http://www.scotthyoung.com (ebook is on the side of the page, can't find a direct link to it).
Just like "Would you like fries with that?" this is just: "would you like to advertise my page for me?". It'll only get worse before it gets better.