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This is what they attempted to do with Windows 7, unify the interface with the tiled approach, and people hated it. In fact they hated it so much MS had to revert the changes. Still, if you look at the most recent versions of Visual Studio (ie. "Visual Studio Express for Windows" is separate from "Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop") and the .net framework, they are clearly aiming to get to a place with a single dev kit for both platforms.

edit: Windows 8, not 7
By that do you mean they don't stop, or that they stop for too long to let you through, thinking that you're not going stop at all? (Assuming it's a 4-way stop). If latter, then I could be that motorist as well -- I will naturally assume that cyclists will NOT stop at stop signs (since I have never seen them do so), so I would let them through preventively.
Quantum physics is - in some sense - strictly more complex than classical physics and therefore simulating quantum physical systems with classical systems, for example a classical computer, causes exponentially growing costs. Besides that quantum physics is non-local and can not be simulated at all if you have only access to local state. There is a prize of a million dollar waiting for you if you can demonstrate the opposite [1].

[1] http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/quantum_randi_challenge_...
That's great! Unfortunately I program in Scala, so D-specific advice doesn't really help me. Edited top post.
The biggest externality cost in the United States by far is parking. Many cities have mandatory parking space requirements for businesses that impact not just new developments but re-purposing of existing properties (ex: restaurants must provide so-and-so many free parking spaces per thousand square feet; you have to do this even if you're converting an existing property into a restaurant). This is a huge pain for a lot of people trying to open small businesses.

This is more of a zoning issue though (I think mandatory parking ordinances should be repealed and all parking should be privatized).
They don't really seem to be sterile, rather just highly unlikely to get offspring:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease#Banana_breeding_...

It seems that with each meiosis step the banana plants become less fertile.
Perhaps this depends on whether your livelihood depends on responding to the right messages promptly. The smart watch lets you triage in a low interrupt way.

Many people do not have the option of blanket "ignoring" calls and emails. The change isn't fluff, it gives back the ability to stay present, no more interrupted than the glance at a watch to be aware of the time.
T-Mobile will give you a customized router for better Wi-Fi calling
Sadly, that is not the case. Here is the groundbreaking work on this subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Tha...
probably not that hard, but the resolution is pretty low.
Apple doesn't just willy-nilly throw the i- designation of every product they have, though. i- is a special sub-brand that's used to express something that is small, easy, light, etc. Customers who are familiar with Apple's branding can immediately guess at how an iMac differs from a PowerMac (or, when they still existed, an iBook from a PowerBook) based only on knowing their names. That branding was carried forward, so that the same connotations helped offer consumers an immediate sense of familiarity with the basic idea behind new products such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. Even now, you see a hint of the distinction alive in iOS vs OS X. They rest on the same technology base, but keeping the distinction alive means users still have an easy mnemonic to help them keep track of the distinction between the two and their relative capabilities.

So yes, Apple does reuse monikers in their branding. But they use them to create a branding language that helps them to better communicate with customers. This is starkly different from what Microsoft is trying to do with the Windows brand, which is to turn the word into a blaring, monotonous drone to be blasted at us until we enter some sort of alternate mental dimension where words lose all meaning and every single noun is replaced with the word Windows.
A for average, B for bad, C for catastrophe.
Right. I don't get it. Bikers put themselves out in purposely dangerous environments and then are mystified and upset when they get hurt and angry at the environment they chose to ride in. I have absolutely zero patience for that kind of idiotic selfishness.

If somebody wants to ride a bike and wants to lobby for better bike riding infrastructure, I will be right there with them, even if it raises my taxes.
German here, living in the suburbs of a 250k people city, and I got 4 daycares within walking distance, which each provide care between 7am and 4pm – which is enough, as the average German only works from 8 to 14 (6h/day).
That asymmetry will always exist. The only way to eliminate it is to prevent any accident between bikes and cars by having completely separate networks.
I'm not seeing anything indicating that it's limited. You might be referencing the list of universities at the bottom of the page, but my impression is that that's just a "leaderboard" representing which universities have claimed the most domains.

Can you point to/quote the limitations?
I wouldn't recommend Swift to anyone that's new to the iOS SDK. I answered this question recently on stack overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/a/25751738/77567). Here's what I said:

- Objective-C will be around and supported for a long time. (Apple has a massive amount of Objective-C source code that it's not going to port to Swift any time soon.)

- Almost all iOS tutorials, examples, and books use Objective-C.

- Almost all iOS-specific third-party source code you might want to use is implemented in Objective-C.

- It's easier to use C and C++ libraries from Objective-C than from Swift.

- There are many Objective-C experts you can get help from. There are very few Swift experts.

- The Swift language and its standard library are currently not very well documented.

Stick with Objective-C for now. When you're comfortable with the iOS SDK and Swift is better documented, you can consider learning Swift.
I grew up in a "radical" concrete neighborhood built by the Soviets in the 1980's. Closest thing to the "garden city" dream promised by concrete utopia planners.

Looks something like this http://www.niekonaujo.lt/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/14-tv_pa...

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/43031765.jpg

Very fun place when I was a kid. Kindergardens, schools and stores all walking distance in those images. Remove some of the green space and you get a dystopian looking brutalist nightmare.

But functionally you can fit dense housing, a public backyard for your kids, a place to have a picnic, stores, schools in the middle of a city. Some people just balk at the idea because so much of this utopian planning went wrong in one way or another, often in ways that have nothing to do with the housing style but became associated with it.
In Germany men can also go into maternity leave, so yeah, we got that.
But that's a ridiculous comparison because cats and dogs are not toddlers, and treating them like they are isn't going to solve the problem?

For example, when you leave a group of toddlers alone for a few days, you don't end up with an entirely new batch of toddlers two months later. That right there changes the dynamic of the issue pretty seriously, and you're just hand-waving that away.

Granting cats and dogs the rights of toddlers or autistic individuals means you're giving up the right to spay or neuter your pet; nobody would advocate for sterilizing a toddler, but many very reasonable people advocate for sterilizing house pets, and for good reasons.
Sorry, these seem like exaggerations, based on my own experience. There are certainly a percentage of motorists who ignore traffic rules, but it's nowhere near the percentage of cyclists who do so. Again, this is based on my experience only.
Wow - butt-hurt much?

I pay an absolute fortune every year in property taxes to subsidize high-speed road construction for selfish, entitled, ungrateful drivers like yourself - you're welcome! In return, I'd like to be able to ride my bicycle on the edge - indeed, the very fringe - of those magnificent roads that I paid for without getting run down by some low-life eating a breakfast bagel and talking on his cell phone while driving. And yet, in his mind, I'm the one behaving selfishly for commuting on the road that I paid for.

Astonishing.
Confirmed here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CheeChew/posts/eaZ9wzPxtmm
Well their roads weren't built for bikes either if you want to get technical about it.
Wait, you have special roads? Dofferet from all those other roads? But not so special that bicycles were forbidden from using them? Not like all the roads that bicycles are forbidden from using?

Read the fucking law. You are wrong. Here's California's bit of law grantin cyclists the same rigts and responsibilities as other road users:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_law_in_California

> 21200. (a) Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division... except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.

The rights of cyclists to use the road is specifically written into law.
To be sure, driving emotionally is a terribly dangerous thing to do. Personally I thought it was cool to see the horses, but the plant engineer in me fears animals on the road (no matter how big). And the motorcyclist in me fears the giant heap of poo to slip on.

My attitude is whatever has the most momentum gets right of way; but again, I think forklifts will do that to a person. I doubt I could ever have the nerve to ride a bicycle in a city.
These missing connections need to be defined as a crowdsourced, semantic, knowledge & history graph. Preferably on github so everyone can improve it.

A geneaology of ideas and the historical problems which motivated these ideas, with anaologies to problems and inventions in other times & spaces. These lists are skirting around similar representational issues:

https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

It should be possible to jump into this graph at any point, then navigate to neighboring regions of the graph. The onscreen distance between any two nodes should change depending on the interests of the student.

Students should be able to identify gaps by tagging a region of the graph with "Why Do I Care?" and this could be filled in by more experienced students.
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App Store Realities: Six years as an indie mobile developer
I wonder what it would look like with interpolation pathways that minimize the amount of bending
Speaking as someone who is double majoring in "hard" and "soft" science, I can say that in my anecdotal experience, grading is tougher the "harder" the class is.

However, it's also possible I'm just worse at the harder science, and better in courses which require qualitative high performance. Another student could have the opposite effect.
The problem is, "one of the reasons I attend hackathons is to [distract other people from hacking]".

Really, turning it into a gender/oppression/whatever issue obscures the problem -- other attendees are present for a well-known purpose, and you're there not just for some other purpose (which wouldn't necessarily be that big a deal, ex. sponsors/recruiters) but to interfere with their achieving that purpose.
The same principle applies to analogue computer chips. They're probably still faster for some tasks than digital ones, but more expensive and fragile.
What does stop Google Chrome simply disallow new SHA-1 hashes that collide with known list of SHA-1 hashes for existing certificates?

That would allow non-colliding SHA-1 certificates function as usual and prevent millions of people from major headaches related to speedy certificate migration.
It's a bug in the indexing system, exploited by hostgator for (I'm guessing) SEO purposes. There are other people doing the same thing, and they're all spammy (viagra sales etc.)

I reckon this will be fixed in a matter of days, judging by how quickly the latin lorem ipsum google translate thing was sorted out.
It's simply more general. And it's really easy to write macros that do interesting things.

So, incf, which is CL's +=, could be defined as

(defmacro (incf lexpr val)
`(setf ,lexpr (+ ,lexpr val))

which would evaluate "lexpr" both as a place to put the new value in and as an expression to get the old value out.

If you wanted to do that in terms of purely-functional monad application, it gets a bit hairier... Basically, you've got things like "+=" which are mutators (i.e. functions Int->Int). And you've got places, which either (i) take an X mutator and turn it into a mutator for Y, or (ii) take a Y and return an X (accessor).

In your example,

list_of_objects[index].attr = 'abc'

would mean that you take a "constant value" mutator that takes some string and returns "abc" and turn it first into a mutator that changes the .attr value of something ... to something that changes the .attr value of index [index] of the list_of_objects member of the current data.

Why would that kind of functional style be useful? Basically, because you could write something like a Python program that still allows for search/nondeterminism/backtracking etc.

Some of the weirdness I see in Mutagen seems to come from a partial (or just differing) understanding of how Python and Haskell, respectively, do things. Shoot me a PM if you want to discuss more.
If you're lucky and live in an area that has a good public transportation infrastructure. But even in NYC, I can usually get to where I'm going on my bike in half the time it would take via public transit.
Fun fact: if you have ever have those small banana lollies, they taste quite different to bananas now. That is because they were created during the time of the Gros Michel, the old type of banana.

And all bananas are cloned from the same variety, one reason this virus is such a concern.
Lack of exclusivity might mean sharing the same lanes for multiple modes (what you're suggesting), or it might mean giving up some real estate to build dedicated infrastructure for other modes of transport (e.g. bike lanes, etc.). Which is appropriate will depend on context. But I don't think drivers have a right to object to both having to share lanes with cyclists and to giving up car lanes to build bike lanes. Cyclists are taxpayers, too, and should be entitled to something, but to hear some drivers talk about it, any infrastructural decision that doesn't lead to cars moving as quickly as possible ought to be verboten. That's what I find objectionable.

But to more bluntly answer your question: actually, yes, at least sometimes. Though I would instead phrase it as erasing the distinction between sidewalks and streets: http://nacto.org/usdg/commercial-shared-street/ This kind of streetscape is common in Europe and Asia, but much less so in the States.
Often gas taxes/vehicle property tax is tagged by the state to be dedicated solely towards road development and upkeep. If there's ever a shortfall, they stop maintaining lesser used roads because the rest of the budget has already been decided.

This is despite the fact that it takes more than gas + property tax to fund the highway system.

Thinking about that... I get your point, non-drivers are funding the roadway system as much as drivers are.

I think its the way that gas taxes for instance are leveraged in the decision making process that makes people think that it makes the lion share of the contribution. When the proceeeds from gas tax falls, lawmakers think less people are driving thus less maintenance is needed.
> Then you should be in favor of increasing biking infrastructure so that you're much less likely to make a mistake involving a bicyclist.

Of course i am. Not sure what made anyone think i'm not in favor of it.

Guess opinions are bad-form around this place :P

> As a driver, it is your responsibility to manage a two-thousand-pound weapon responsibly. As you have the most power to cause harm, you also have the most responsibility to prevent it. The biggest problem with vehicles in the US is that you're "entitled" to drive without learning how dangerous you are to everyone around you, and how to navigate that danger safely.

You seem to think my post was entitled, it's not. It's my opinion that i don't like them. I also do not like pedestrians jaywalking, but that doesn't mean i'm entitled. I would prefer to reduce risk by means that this article lays out.

I don't like things that increase risk. Bikers in my lane, infront of my "two-thousand-pound weapon" simply increase risk. It's like gun safety. I don't put my finger on the trigger until i'm ready to fire.

You (and i assume the downvoters?) seem to think that just because i express my opinion, that i would attempt to ban bikers from the roads completely. Far from it.
I don't know if they contain as much protein and whatnot, but I found peaches give me a similar "satiated" feeling if I eat them in the morning (in case you'll need an alternative fruit soon).
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Most of the world is far less car centric than the US. People go outside on foot or bikes instead of traveling everywhere in cars. Cycle paths are a way to make room for cars in busy cities that would be much more pleasant without them. It should be possible for anyone to go outside without fearing for their lives or waiting for ages to cross the road. That is just good design.
The vast majority of users will not have to worry about the distinction between versions. They will be using what they perceive as Windows. When they pick up a tablet running Windows it will be Windows and when they sit at their desktop or laptop they will be using Windows and when they pick up their phone it will be Windows. Add in the universal apps and you have even less confusions when a user can move from Desktop/Laptop to Tablet to Phone to XBOX and use the same app.

So, basically, the theory that they have nothing to do with one another is not looking at the entire ecosystem.
The first paved roads in the United States were built as a result of years of lobbying by the League of American Wheelmen, a national bicycle club: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement

The idea that roads were not for pedestrian use was a public relations campaign by automobile industry lobbyists: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/04/invention-jaywalking/...
This demonstrates the dangers of loose path resolution rules.

Traditionally, consecutive slashes in a path name are treated as equivalent to a single slash, presumably to simplify apps that need to join two path fragments -- they can safely just concatenate rather than call a library function like path.join().

Unfortunately, this makes it much harder to write code that blacklists certain paths, as robots.txt is designed to do. Clearly, Google's implementation of robots.txt filtering does not canonicalize double-slashes, and so it thinks //search is different from /search and only /search is blacklisted.

My wacky opinion: Path strings are an abomination. We should be passing around string lists, e.g. ["foo", "bar", "baz"] instead of "foo/bar/baz". You can use something like slashes as an easy way for users to input a path, but the parsing should happen at point of input, and then all code beyond that should be dealing with lists of strings. Then a lot of these bugs kind of go away, and a lot of path manipulation code becomes much easier to write.
Its much more fun than driving. You can go as fast as you want and you don't have to wait in traffic jams.
And here on this computer are 4 Germans sitting who also do NOT agree with your opinion – stop saying this xenophobic bullshit.
Toxic outgassing. You COULD use a regular kitchen oven but then you should no longer use it for food.
In many cities it is perfectly legal for bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs. I have no idea if this is the case in Edmonton, Alberta.
this is the best hacker news thread ever. DIY powder coating AND Harbor Freight! Bam!
Hardly. I can recall any scene you want word for word. And I'm sure I'm not alone. What amnesia? You're talking like the love of the original trilogy is all nostalgia, and no one remembers them, and they don't really hold up. They do.
The next video seems to be skipped forward 20 - 40 seconds.
Inventing the LED
I used to get the Powell's e-mail newsletter and I remember that the cat in question was called "Fup". (Unless you're thinking of an even earlier store cat.)

Apparently she died in 2007, aged 19.

https://www.powells.com/blog/book-news/a-tribute-to-fup-stor...
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it may happen that psychologically ill people among other things may do hoarding, of pets among other things. No argument here. In general these hoarding stories are just scarecrows. I personally knew an old lady with 17 cats in her apartment - it was wonderful - they followed you and around you and played and sat around you like a living cloud. She took perfect care of them, they were healthy and happy, the apartment was clean, etc... Another case i personally know was a happy family with a bunch of children and 5 Chihuahua living in their own house - they were forced to give up one dog because of the 4 dogs limit. Speaking about tough choice - how do you choose which of members of your family to give up?
your parts may be larger than a turkey. Notice that the DIY oven is much taller? It can fit longer parts.
> I most states its legal for cycles (motor and non) to pass cars and pull to the head of the line at a light.

It's legal in exactly one state: California. I think it's a wink and a nod for bicycles (or maybe it is legal for pedal bikes, I just don't care enough to look), but it is most definitely illegal outside of CA for motorcycles. One lane == one vehicle. I can even dig out the relevant section of the Revised Code of Washington, 'cause it sure would be sweet to lane split in WA but the RCW says "no".
Good thing I don't live in those places then. But I do live in a place where the roads were built for cars. And separate travel passages were built for bikes. Yet bikes are all over the roads. Can I take my car on the bike trails?
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Still, much less dangerous than pedestrians overflowing onto car lanes. I've hit a pedestrian who stepped in front of me (I was 2 feet behind him when he stepped out), but I'm not going to kill someone when it happens. We might get hurt, there could even be blood, but unless the person is very fragile, there's next to no chance of a fatality.

Also, as bicyclists fill the bike lanes, pedestrians (at least, non-tourists. Avoid Times Square!) learn not to blindly step into the bike lane. It's a learning process, but I have noticed even throughout the last year, with CitiBikes adding to the bike traffic, that walkers seem a bit more wary of jumping through the bike lane.
So, cyclists can't physically cause road accidents that kill drivers?
Interesting (and false :P)
> Or would that enable a Linux port?

I would be interested in a Swift port for Linux server-side/command line dev. Not so much client UI dev. Swift on Linux servers could help Apple sell more Macbooks to developers.
I image you would become used to reading the interpolated states eventually. That would be a pretty nice way to write fractions.
At this point in time, the road is the only good place for a bike to travel.
it's one of the benefits of cycling. you could do the same if you weren't stuck in a big metal box. deal with it