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You have that guarantee starting with Windows 7. Version is one thing; some nice things are available only in v3+, but v2 is very usable already. Execution policy is another matter, but you can always supply a batch file with the PowerShell script containing

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File %~dp0.ps1 %*

That's what I usually do, which is also helpful for colleagues who have no idea how to run a PowerShell script because just double-clicking it doesn't work.

Often I start with a batch file, just to notice after a dozen lines that this sort of thing is much easier to write and maintain in another language. And in the last two years I shifted more to PowerShell than batch in many cases. Some of that is surely due to atrocities like Windows XP dying out and Vista never being common. For scripts that developers execute on their machines PowerShell should be a fairly safe bet in a Windows environment by now. Deployment or build scripts should probably be MSBuild or something similar.
There's been a backlash idea since 2008 or earlier, just google for "the myth of the lone programmer". There you will find countless blog posts from non entities busting the myth wide open with tales from their years in the trenches as part of a large corporate team reinventing the wheel.

Whereas I tend to find that if any state of the art is moved forward in a large sweep, usually an individual ends up being given a larger amount of credit than a collective.

This is probably a cognitive bias, I am sure I and a person with an opposing view could trade exhaustive counter examples.

Also I think certain toolsets suit individuals better than collectives and the collective toolsets are in vogue at the moment. Thinking LISP or C versus JAVA or ++C.
Thanks, got it, niche is the keyword here.
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> I doubt that it is.

I worked on cars a lot, old ones, newer ones and everything in between (oldest: 1961 Mini, newest, my VW bus from 2007).

Cars that are used more frequently and that do lots of stops/starts wear faster and tend to fail more frequently than cars that are used infrequently (within limits, letting a car sit for years and then using it is also not good).

Typical wear items: boots, joints, brakes (pads/discs), clutch, handbrake, steering housing and associated items (tie rod ends!), all consumables (including fluids, filters), lights (police telling you your lights are out is too late), safety belts, structural elements (rust, badly repaired accident damage) and on and on.

Having those inspected more frequently when you operate a car (many taxis are operated in shifts and I don't see any reason why uberpop drivers could not share a car for maximum profits) for the purpose of transporting passengers is in my opinion not a luxury.

On occasion I go by cab here in Romania and I'm always very happy to be alive at my destination, the number and severity of accidents involving cabs here is simply scary.

Give me German regulated cabs any time over the cabs here, possibly Uber could improve on that but I'm sceptical about what Uber pop would look like here.
In that case they should claim that UberPool is not a taxi business, since they don't intend to do it full-time (requirement as of PBefG §13(5)1), and as such they want a temporary license (up to 4 years) as per PBefG §2(7) for this new mode of transportation. (IANAL, no legal advice, yada yada)

What doesn't work is to pretend that laws don't exist, and pissing off regulators. That will also make hacks like the above much less likely to work for Uber because that requires some minimum amount of goodwill (given that it is a hack)...

We have laws for everything (as Xylakant succintly stated), but they usually also come with way to thread in new ideas.
However, screaming "DISRUPTION!!!1" all the time just isn't good enough here.
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if we think about it somewhat, it becomes apparent, that it would take linear time to merge one building to the skyline, and also two skylines together.

merging skylines together gets us more bang-for-the-buck. and is trivially done with scanning them from left->right, match x-coordinates, adjust heights...

all of this is just divide-and-conquer, and usual recurrence rules apply i.e. T(n) = 2T(n/2)+O(n), which means T(n) = O(n lg n)
Does it work on Chrome (nightly or with that support enabled)?
Does anybody disagree that this is a no brainer for Mozilla: they should work that around ASAP (with a HTTP/2 blacklist for example). The impact is so high and it affects too many users.
Also note that Google in its deepest feelings wants FF down so this may by even intentional since people will always blame the client.
5) The difference is that if you're doing it for profit, there are laws that govern that activities and you must follow them. It is really simple.
You are not thinking far enough: some of those stock images could easily benefit from a unified CDN. And why stop there, a number of "office girl on phone" might even be included in the browser distribution. Now _that_ would be an html tag to speed up the web!
I really wonder how much of this is protectionism for Taxis, and how much of it is protectionism against foreign companies. I don't have any particular love for Uber (the way they waste Lyft resources makes them d-bags in my book), but I don't buy the 'safety' excuse being given.

It reminds me of the bullshit safety concerns used to continue Oregon's ban on pumping your own gas at gas stations: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/06/its_for_...

The reality is, it's a form of protectionism for gas station attendant jobs, just as this German decision smells like regulatory capture. My guess is that if Uber changed policy to actually meet whatever requirements safety they're asking, they'd devise a new set of excuses for the ban, because this is ultimately about preserving the status quo.
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London has the well known taxi test you have to take. Can Uber drivers manage this? Can you navigate London by car successfully via GPS?
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Why should Mozilla act? This only affects nightlies and beta, as the article stated. If you use one of those, you should expect things to occasionally not work.
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Currently, we're looking for a:

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Briefly, what we're looking for in the marketing role is experience. There's a lot of scope here for moulding our brand.

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If you've good experience with Symfony, or another Composer-based framework (ZF2, Laravel, etc.) we'd love to meet with you.

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The junior dev role is a great entry point - initially this will be frontend based and integrating into our PHP application.

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> You're arguing for the legalisation of wage theft on the basis that it might disrupt prices.

No. I'm arguing that we're currently labeling something as "theft", that might not actually be theft, and that we should thus take a closer look at the issue.

> if you have an economy where all the growth goes to the 1% and the 99% see no change

Yes and no. Growth (and progress) will go to everyone - Obviously, new technologies will be available to everyone, since there'd be little point in them if the average consumer couldn't afford them. Actual money however will only to to the "1%" (or whatever other small fraction).

The idea is that since, in total, those "1%" will spend less of that money on consumables/personal-indulgences, most of this money will either be taken out of circulation (and thus damping inflation) or handled by professionals (and thus put to good use).

> But why in God's name would anyone want to live like that?

(1) Because it makes for a more easily predictable future, resulting in less headaches.

(2) Because less of the work performed by humanity as a whole will be squandered on unimportant endeavours.

Like I said, what is the alternative? Give people more money to spend on things like booze and vacation trips?
The "excuse" is the Personenbeförderungsgesetz (law on [commercially] transporting people). Taxis have to implement it (and they do), and so they can complain in court about competitors who don't (as a remedy to state intervention: regulation has to apply to everyone). That's what happened here, nothing more, nothing less.

If the court hadn't stopped Uber, we'd actually see some special treatment (that is, protectionism) in Uber's favor.
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Fool.com is a great name! Easy to spell, easy to say, relevant to its content. And a short .com!

So those would be some of my criteria.
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How do you find 100 people with the same need ?
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In America:

1) take a parcel from your home to the post office. Have an accident on the way.

2) take a parcel from your employer to the post office. Have an accident on the way.

In 1) you're probably insured. In 2) you're probably not insured.

This small amount of extra regulation covers every commercial operator.
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We have an introductory tutorial (http://colour-science.org/tutorial.php) showcasing some features of the API and we have started some IPython Notebooks (http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/colour-science/colour-ipy...) to cover it deeply along with the theoretical aspect.
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reddit's mechanism is a (third party?) browser extension (RES) - I'm sure that one already exists for Twitter... or could easily be built in a weekend/hackathon?
True, but in the US at least, there is a very long jurisprudence that says government cannot compel vaccination over parental objections, as parents are stewards of a child's bodily autonomy. Parents have rights that government does not, but those rights do not include brutal beating or mutilation -- or compelled abortion.
Um, no. The analogy would be Canada deciding to host a Chinese base and getting invaded by the US.
In this case, since it's a court-granted injunction ("Einstweilige Verfügung") an appeal has no delaying effect. The preliminary injunction gets only granted if the court feels that the risk associated with the action in question is sufficiently high to warrant immediate action. IANAL, but from what I know this injunction can be enforced until it's overturned in an appeal.

That's different from the last two bans (Hamburg and Berlin) where Uber was banned by administrative action (Verwaltungsakt). In that case, an appeal has delaying effect until the case gets heard in court.
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This looks really awesome for people with PowerPC architectures.

As part of the porting, though, are there security guarantees?

I imagine if they're re-written low-level implementation details they'll be opening themselves up to risk (not to mention the chance for backdoors). I wonder what their process is for fixing new security holes as they are fixed in firefox.
Shouldn't regulation should be about more than warm fuzzy feelings?

Absolutely!

In this case the regulation determines streetworthyness of a vehicle, which is considered part of public transport infrastructure.

I, for one, rather get a cab, which is regularly checked and safe to be driven.

Would you suggest that Ryan Air, since they are the cheapest airline far and wide, should flout regulation, which aims at ensuring the airworthyness of their fleet, so that they can offer cheap tickets?
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Most people in the world are also like you. Looking forward, Twitter needs to get these people into their service, or at least using it more.
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I don´t have access to the paper referenced in the article, but a general rule applies: You have to be very cautious with the conclusions of a interventional nutritional study. There are lots of challenges[1] in the design, execution and evaluation of such studies.

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Health insurance.

Ahh, exactly as I said: society at large pays for the profits of a private company.

And actually (at least in the case of Switzerland) you're wrong.

Health insurance does never pay for accidents, period.
Indeed.

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But they city has no real political power its one of those old hangovers in the uk political system - like when university graduates got two vote's - which was only abolished after ww2
That surplus was not intended to address the surplus of cars in general. By your argument any parking lot is a surplus that could be used for transportation.

Such surpluses are typically addressed in other ways (greenwheels for instance).
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There're A LOT of checks your car has to pass in germany. The "TÜV" (the "institute" that checks cars) are pretty hard on every car to make sure that the car is secure and safe.

But not only that, if you have holes in your exhaust and it makes awful noises, you need to fix it. If the rubbers on your windshield wipers is in a bad condition, you need to fix them. If certain parts of your suspension or the steering mechanics wiggle and wobble, you need to fix them.

After each 2-year check you have a certain time to get your car fixed. After everything is fixed, you'll get some kind of license plate sticker with the next TÜV-expiration date (very hard to copy). The Police will check those stickers regulary (if they see your car) and if it's invalid they'll stop you and you have to pay a big fee.

IMHO this is a good thing. Sure there are some stupid rules in place, but overall it makes the streets safer. And if you look at german roads, most cars are in perfect condition, even the older ones.

And as someone mentioned before, those rules are even harder enforeced on transportation companies or taxi drivers.
> the usual methods of setting public policy

But what are the usual methods of setting public policy? It's only very rarely running for political office and making carefully thought out arguments and finally winning a vote.

Civil disobedience and activism have a long and proud tradition of pushing the rules, bending them and sometimes breaking them. Famously, Rosa Parks was a private individual who sought to be allowed to set public policy, rather away from the "the usual methods".

Obviously, Uber isn't even in the same league as the civil rights battle, but your expectations of what the "usual methods" are is wrong.

Also, on the other hand, taxis are already conveniences for the relatively well off and trying to tie in the regulations of the taxi industry with high-brow "public policy" like clean air policies or even "regular" public transport etc. is equally not in the same league.
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The wp page says it got repealed.
To be fair, since this is a federal law and Volksentscheid are only possible up to state level, this wouldn't change anything in this case.
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Sorry, got any sources to back up that claim? Smartphones are indeed complex but I highly doubt Windows phone has the same LOC as Windows 8 (despite them sharing the same core), same for iOS -> OSX
Inflation as long as it does not run out of control is in plenty of peoples interest it devalues the value of debt ask any home owner.

Ask a Japanese person about how deflation is bad for the economy / them
I meant if I had designed it from the start. Then everything is a tag, no attributes, no quotes, equal signs, etc.
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Only black cab drivers take The Knowledge. Minicab (pre-booked private hire) drivers in London mostly use GPS.
Does a modern software engineer not need to demonstrate an ability to design efficient algorithms that solve problems that haven't been encountered before?

Or, in your mind, is the solution to every problem that a modern software engineer might encounter already found in some stackoverflow post?
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Neo900 http://neo900.org/ will be able to detect such things as well.
It would be interesting to see the same benchmarks for more normal amounts of cores. Most system does not have 240 cores, after all..
The victims insurance will for sure claim damages from the driver. As the driver most probably will not be able to pay the victims insurance has to cover the loss. This on the other hand means that the insurance needs to raise the prices for all their customers in order to cover for those kind of cases. To prevent that it is mandatory that all people are properly insured and pay their fair amount in respect to the risk - so a commercial driver has much higher insurance costs than a private driver.
The US had around 5000 missiles pointed at the Soviet Union; having 40 missiles pointing back in and of itself did not pose an existential threat to the US. But Kennedy & co chose to play a very public game of chicken over them, and fortunately for the world, Khrushchev blinked.
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It looks like Paul is still working on his own ( via http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/index.html )

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> Uber says there is a surplus, people driving cars with empty seats, and they attempt to capture that surplus.

That's not what got Uber in trouble. Ride-sharing is extremely well-developed in Germany (it's called mitfahrgelegenheit, extremely popular, mostly for longer trips between cities), and it's probably not illegal. Uber, however, was/is operating a taxi company (admittedly, ride-sharing is much less useful within cities, because there is a much lower chance of someone going exactly where you need to go, exactly when you want to go).
It was replaced, can't let a good law go to waste [1]. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with it's highest mountain of 179 m above sea level (49m above the surrounding area) even has a law about cable cars, though that's a EU thing. We're really well equipped with laws.

[1] though not by a law, but some administrative process
As a ZX Spectrum veteran the only things I really missed - in the sense that they made my bigger programs unwieldy - were precisely those cited in the first paragraph, viz calling subroutines by name rather than line number, and parameter passing. Oh yes and an Else statement. Of course those snooty BBC Micro kids had all that IIRC.

The Spectrum community was fantastic in those days - in addition to a plethora of magazines there was the "ZX Spectrum ROM disassembly" (which I still possess) that gave an annotated listing of the whole 16K ROM; basic interpreter, fp calculator, cassette tape routines, the lot; an absolute goldmine.

So an entire ecosystem that basically screamed "program me!". A beautiful time.
> But the German taxi situation is not accurately described in that way.

In fact PBefG §13(5) explicitly states that new applicants for taxi licenses are to be taken into account.
Please, get together with benjamindc.

I think you both can create a really good project with that and split the work while extending the language and create a good documentation (with nice ui).
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Ride sharing is specifically exempt from the regulations as long as the total fare is below the actual costs for the trip (fuel, tire wear, etc.). So yes, it's legal.
You should turn this into a start up idea. I think it will work. I think you should call it......

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The latest Intel hi-end desktop cpu has 8 cores. With hyper-threading; which makes 16 threads.

I think in the next 10 years we will reach a number that is close.
More than happy to - glad to see the excitement. benjamindc - anyone else - see the github repo!
This is a really juvenile comment, but batsh.it would be an excellent domain for this project.
I count precisely 1, but ok.
What exactly is the issue here? How is this different from her being struck by any other car/driver?

I'm not sure what the laws in the US are like, but in Germany that would already be covered by the mandatory insurance every car needs to have, before being allowed onto the streets.
I don't know about 'unfriendly' but these appear to be the numbers:

"The French consulate in London estimates between 300,000 and 400,000 French citizens live in the British capital" which compares to city populations as follows:

Paris - 2.3m
Marseille - 859,000
Lyon - 488,000
Toulouse - 447,000
Nice - 344,000

whereas "20,500 of the 135,000 expat Brits in the country live in or close to Paris".
He's describing a powerpc mac that literally cannot run anything newer than 10.4
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I disagree. (shrug)
Can anyone explain the use of 'round-robin' to describe mulit-node scenarios and 'fill-first' for single node scenarios. I initially assumed they were describing thread schedulers, but that doesn't make clear sense in these tests. Thanks in advance.
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Plain milk probably is okay, but it easily induces diarrhea. Flavoured, highly processed milk products have too much sugar added in for them to be considered healthy.

But then there's stuff like cheese and yogurt, as long as they're unflavoured they're pretty good.

Check the carbohydrates section on the nutrition label. If it's above 2g, you should limit it's usage. Well.. if you follow this recent research.
Commercial drivers need commercial insurance.

In Germany the driver would have regular insurance, unless they're working for a cab company when they'd have commercial insurance.

The US situation is a bit more complicated because of liability - is the driver liable? Or the driver's employers?