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I would presume that the higher resolutions of mobile devices over laptops and desktops is just a transient thing.

Laptops and desktop monitors are slowly catching up. We're just living in this part of history where it was easier to manufacture small high-DPI screens than large ones. It's not going to last. Heck, I'm typing this on a 13" Yoga Pro laptop with a near 4K resolution.

So the sizes needed for larger displays will bump up over the next few years and we're still going to have the same issue of having to serve massively larger images to large screens than small ones.
> It's always good to have another potential interview question in your repertoire.

It is a widely known "good interview question" which means it is a bad interview question.
The taxis here in Berlin even have an app that is quite similar to how you order an Uber. Though of course you still have to pay at the end of the ride with cash or card.
Yeah sure, if IE8 could display CSS properly, that would be the case but unfortunately even basic CSS is quite broken on IE8, it's not just graceful degradation.
You realize you are avoiding the question. It would be very easy to assemble such statistics as Uber drivers are clearly identified and any court could easily request data about all Uber driving requests (anonymized if there are privacy concerns) and correlate them with reports of traffic incidents. I suspect, however, that there is no such data, and nobody even ever cared about gathering such data - local cartels screamed to local politicians for help, and politicians obliged by protecting the cartel from competition. All talks about "safety" is just as smokescreen as nobody actually did any safety studies and has any data. Otherwise we'd seen that data plastered everywhere, taxi cartels wouldn't miss that chance if they had it.
> I was hopeful that something like persona from Mozilla would catch on, but that has failed.

I talked with two people from Mozilla at a conference in February and was disappointed (though not altogether surprised) to discover they couldn't articulate the compelling reason why someone would move to using Persona. For something to mainstream, the marketing, positioning and ease-of-use is crucial. They had no answers other than 'privacy' and 'ease of use' -- which while valid, aren't going to convince my aunt & uncle to adopt something new. Until they've been hacked, scammed and otherwise suffered pain.
No, that's not true. Free != permissive of nonconsensual interactions.

For a free market to work, there must be common respect for individual autonomy. People must enter into contracts of their own free will.
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> Why can't we simply let people decide for themselves whether they want to ride in insured vehicles or not?

People don't get to decide for themselves whether vehicles are insured or not anywhere in the world that you'd care to want to live. Liability insurance is mandatory, typically taxis carry passengers so they have mandatory insurance for their passengers as well.

Since you don't exactly get to check the state of the vehicle and/or the insurance situation of the driver before you get in this is something that is - rightly, in my opinion - regulated. It makes sure that as a consumer your rights are somewhat safe, rather than a gamble.
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It's because you weren't eating any fats. On a low-carb diet, your body uses fat as its energy source. If you don't eat any fat, your body will not willingly consume your body fat.

Excess protein you eat is effectively broken down into carbohydrates as well—so everything was working against you.

> With little research

Try it again—/r/keto have an excellent FAQ.
Fun fact: this is a specific case of finding the union (usually: area of) of a set of axes-oriented possibly overlapping rectangles.
Well, they're now getting sued. The other option would have been to apply for a permit, get denied a permit, go to court. They chose not to but rather offer their service despite it being clearly in violation of the law. I feel no pity for them.
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Not complying with regulations is pretty popular here in Italy, too! Indeed, there are so many regulations, that being able to get away with not complying with them is a distinct competitive advantage, and the market has, in many places, selected for companies and individuals whose skills mostly lie in that direction, rather than actually creating value.
"That's essentially it, and as soon as Uber follows the rules, they can operate freely."

The legislation is perhaps not about stifling competition or anything. But it has the end result of reducing competition by raising the barriers to entry.

Not only that, but it actively prevents competition (e.g. low-end providers) by making a whole segment of the market illegal. It's just the nature of regulation being universal to the country as a whole. i.e. it doesn't allow people to make their own judgements about what safety level they want based on their willingness to pay/not pay for it. In essence boiling down to "you get the extra safety, even if you can't actually use the service because the extra safety bumped up the cost"
this; afaik Uber takes no responsibility for the drivers themselves, they just offer a service to link freelance drivers to people in need of a ride.

As for the service quality etc, with Uber I guess people will have to have experienced a poor driver and leave a poor rating. I think it's a matter of time before people with crappy cars start driving for Uber, get into accidents or create generally unpleasant experiences for some users, and drop Uber's reputation downwards.
I've still got all my machines from that era. They still work, they're still highly entertaining, and very, very useful. My kids (6 and 4 yrs) are learning to read, write, spell .. and do math .. with the same machines I used when I was 13.

This just points out, to me, how arbitrary technology really is. All the energy into building that C64 is wasted if the thing ends up on the trash heap .. but dust it off today and someone, somewhere, will still find a use for it.

"Where did the IDE go wrong?"

I think where things went wrong is the disassociation of 'developer' from 'user' that happened as a consequence of marketing-grads getting involved in the business of computers. I've never considered an OS truly 'user friendly' if it doesn't ship with everything on board that a person would need to build applications for it - and that is something the BASIC guys did well, back in the day.

(Which is why I think that things like LOAD81 are so darn cool .. ;) http://github.com/antirez/load81)
> You realize you are avoiding the question.

No, you're entirely missing my point. Uber does not exist as such, it is just an app. It does not have drivers on its payroll, it does not have a fleet of cars, it does not have - nor does it likely want - to collect accident statistics.

And as for that cartel, there is as far as I can see no such thing. All there is are a bunch of laws that Uber could choose to honour but has chosen not to.

If they comply with those rules and they are still banned then you could argue about cartels and such, until then that is premature.
I really don't think they'll be a Uber driver without the correct papers... And even if they did, they won't be for long.
War on Drugs is the worst thing that happened in US politics in 20th century, but discussing this topic would take us too far aside. In this case, the ban was clearly initiated by competitors (while in Walmart's case it has nothing to do with banning drugs) - the article itself says "The preliminary injunction comes in response to a lawsuit by the national association of taxi drivers." Nobody claims driving is bad - they just claim the other guy can't be allowed to do it.
Where did this come from? The requirement that you have to put yourself voluntary in jail or worst if the rules are aggressive enough is ridiculous. Civil unrest is when you are trying to solve larger societal problem through it. You are disadvantaged by doing it whether you turn yourself to law or not.

The difference against Uber is that they are not trying to solve some injustice or political problem. They are trying to get advantage over competition by ignoring the rules competition follows. It is just trying to get an advantage for themselves.
In Manchester, UK they absolutely are. Especially at night: what would be a £20 ride in a hackney and a £15 fare for a pre-booked company is about £10 with Uber. That's for 5 miles in 20 minutes.

Add onto that the ease-of-use and some level of assurance that if your cabbie takes you round the houses you can get a refund and it's a no brainer round here.
Also in the UK, under the London bubble salaries are increasing rapidly, a £50k is starting to be a very low salary for skilled engineers.
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Who will check them?
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This is crazy: more than 50,000 hyperlapse videos were created in just 6 days
> Another tip that I got as a high-schooler was to not use "very" or "extremely". That also "dilutes your prose" (his words, which were apt).

A generalized version of this is to never use an adjective/adverb/etc. unless it in some sense contradicts the thing it's applied to. There's no sense just trying to intensify the thing you've already written; the modifier should add new information.
If you are on a mac, then you can really do all this with Apple Script, which also is a bit small talk alike, and that by Maverick, can let you create libraries quite easy.

I use it a lot as a calculator, when I don't use it for autmating the UI. It is great, IMO, the best thing about a Mac.
Example: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/02/should-car-services-provide...

Such an accident may could happen, but then according to the German requirements it would be properly insured.
what are the issues? i'd like to know before getting too much into it.
You make a strong case for the existing taxi-companies. They sure do sound a lot better then Amsterdam taxi's. If they are so loved, I really don't see why they should protest... They will win over client any with their superiour service.
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I take it that you don't think it should be legal for businesses to lie about their products, but you think it should be legal for normal people to tell lies.

There is quite a bit of difference in regulating what businesses are and are not allowed to do, and regulating what people are and are not allowed to do.
"A court in Frankfurt has ordered the smartphone application 'Uber' to stop its transportation services in Germany"

Is this not a ban? Are you saying Uber drivers weren't following the regulations every other driver in Germany has to follow - they were not obeying traffic laws, not holding driving licenses, etc.? No, they didn't follow additional regulations that not everybody has to follow.
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Absolutely. It invited it to the point that for many of the 8-bit computers, to load a game you'd typically execute one or more BASIC commands that were no different in principle from any other.

On the C64 you might do "just" LOAD and RUN for a game on tape. Or you might do LOAD "$",8 (load the special directory 'file' from device 8 - the first floppy drive); LIST (to see the contents of the floppy), and then LOAD "somefile",8 / RUN to load and run your chosen program.

You were not just invited to play with BASIC. You were forced to at least acknowledge it and learn a few commands to do anything. So even if the command prompt did not intrigue you, perhaps the few BASIC commands you needed to load your games did.

And if you did a "LIST" on those games or programs you loaded you might be surprised by a full or partial BASIC listing (noteworthy examples: Sid Meier's "Pirates!" for the C64 was a mix of BASIC and machine code; though still a nightmare to modify for the curious as the machine code extended down into the BASIC memory area, which meant that modifying the tokenized length of any lines would case part of the machine code to get moved - or overwritten - and everything would break), or you might see the mysterious, to a beginner "SYS some-address" indicating a jump to a machine code. My first forays into assembly programming came after spending lots of time seeking information to figure out that curious thing.

Couple that with magazines with type-in program listings, in between game reviews and other stuff, and with manuals that pretty much started with the assumption you wanted to learn to program. I don't think people who grew up after this era really understand just how impossible it was for computer users to at even regularly have source code trust into our faces, even for those not seeking it out.

For example the VIC 20 manual that can be found at [1] (warning: large PDF), or the C64 manual at [2]. The VIC-20 manual starts with:

"You are about to meet a friendly computer! Friendly in price, friendly in size, friendly to use and learn on and experience. Most important - you don't have to be a computer programmer, or even a typist, to use it!"

.. and goes on to explain how easy it is to learn programming, for anyone, and what chapter to turn to to learn various aspects. First halfway through the preface, it starts to address users that don't want to program...

[1] http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User's...
[2] http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-manuals/commodore-64-users...
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Yes, it is indeed a sad state of affairs.

Instead of Dynabooks, we got interactive TVs.
Any of these comparisons between countries and cities have to take into account cost of living (rent, childcare, food, transport, insurance etc.). High salaries in a region are often required to cover high costs to live there.
Then there is the self-hosted https://github.com/jonnor/imgflo-server based on GEGL
Really? Although I rarely see salaries advertised in job ads, and rarely hear from programmers how much they're paid, I got the feeling that you could get about 40K as a non-junior engineer (about 50K in finance).
My comments aren't meant to refer to the German situation in isolation.

In a lot of jurisdictions complying with some of the consumer protection laws is more expensive to the consumer than a feedback system alone while offering little to no additional benefit. Things like medallion laws, knowledge tests, etc. These laws will never get changed unless Uber breaks them and demonstrates that they are, in fact, unnecessary.

I'm not familiar with the German regulations and the article is light on details but if it's as simple as liability insurance and an extra car-checkup I doubt Uber would be opposing this so vehemently. They already provide commercial liability insurance to US drivers, for example.
It makes easy things slightly easier, and slightly harder things impossible. Stupid idea.
The previous 'Uber in Germany' discussions were about insurance coverage, something that most (all?) Uber drivers would lack supposedly.

So yes, there's evidence that Uber is less safe. Not in the 'drivers are reckless' or 'vehicles are crashing a lot' sense, but in the 'someone covers your .. behind' sense.
I have one and like it. But I'm big and my wife is small, and the Nexus 5 is much too wide for my wife to use with one hand.

I wonder what phones those tiny Korean and Japanese women use. Perhaps they've all given up on single-handed use.
You can't decide whether or not to be hit by an uninsured vehicle.
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The heavier vegetarians I know tend to be chocolate monsters.
In Berlin, the last time I've been there (beginning of this year), Uber was priced just slightly below the normal taxi. There was no UberX, so you did get the extra quality.
Although not a fan of Über, I'm glad taxis are being disrupted in Australia!

Taxis are a joke, there are regular complaints about credit card skimming (including myself!) and reports of unsafe driving, sexual harassment and refusals to accept rides if not in the driver's best interest.
I'm left wondering how this missing overtime pay continue past the first short paycheck? I'd stop working overtime until it arrived.
If these things are easy for you, then you're probably not uilang's target audience ;)
All of the examples are basically differently-styled variations of "clicking on X adds/removes class Y on element Z". Is this all it can do? Would have liked to see some slightly more varied use cases.
If they're able to speak English that is :)
The reigning CDU and also the in the past reigning SPD are well known for their protectionism and regulation.
If voters would not like that they would have voted the FDP.
This has nothing to do with corruption, but with Europe's and Germanies history back to the guilds [1] from the dark age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
I think in Berlin the problem are the people, not the regulations. The german start-up scene is all about copying US ideas. And this is also what gets funded. Stuff that already has proven itself somewhere else.

There won't come much disruption from Berlin, soon.
yearly health check for the driver

The other rules are plausible, but what on earth is this about?
I doubt only 00,01% accounts for:

- Real time deployment scenarios

- J2EE containers, which tend to work best with the respective vendor JVM

- factory control JVMs

- car infotaiment JVMs

- smart card JVMs

- Compilation to native code

- Android

- Embedded deployments like MicroEJ

- Commercial UNIX systems

- Mainframes

- ...
Any developer can earn double in silicon valley, especially in san francisco. Being french has nothing to do with it.
Then Uber's prospects in Berlin aren't that good anyway. Maybe that's why they're willing to be so patient and fight things out in court.

In US cities, the taxi companies are collecting monopoly profits and providing bad service. Their scam is protected from competition by strict nonsense regulations by local governments. The local governments support the taxi companies for bad reasons like corruption and ignorance. Uber is better because it is subject to competition and is not a monopoly.

In a city with functioning taxi competition, Uber's only advantage is its software, its brand, and its network. Local companies could easily compete very effectively against that.
It is completely legal for businesses to lie, and they do it every day, just as every other people do, at least in countries where freedom of speech is respected. What is not legal is to enter a contract under false pretenses - i.e. lie to me about the contract I am about to enter, defraud me, misrepresent your offering or details of the goods, etc. Same holds for a person too - if I defraud you, I would break the law, even though I am not a business.

"Business" is just a common name for people (or just one person) doings things in exchange for money, it doesn't change who the people are. So why exactly the difference? Where does it come from?
You can do it with environments provided with most OS's. The big difference is that it is not put in front of people to the same extent that makes it trivially discoverable, and available from the second you press the on switch in the case of most of the 8-bits.

AppleScript is a particular peeve of mine. I was a long time Amiga user. I was used to "everything" being glued together via AREXX ports. OS X have the capability, yet the environment is very different. It is far more rare (presumably not Apple's or developers fault per se - more reflecting a different demographics) to see OS X applications manuals call out script integration as a major feature, or "hang" all its own automation off of it, even for the ones with good script integration (and though I'm a Linux user at home, this is a sore point: Linux script integration is woeful in comparison)
I also wish someone sent the video games industry a memo about this as well :P 50k is something a senior would make.
Try calling yourself an engineer in Germany and see how well that goes. That's also a 'barrier to entry', you have to study and prove that you're capable by passing a bunch of exams. How unfair!

Some regulation is good, depending on the field. Public transportation is in my opinion one of those fields (and engineering another).

Uber could fairly easily comply with these laws but it would cut into their profits and that is the reason why they have chosen to ignore the law and to cut their drivers loose the moment something happens (such as when a driver is involved in an accident).
Sorry, what? I actually come from a country where vehicle insurance - even third-party - is completely optional. It's called New Zealand, pretty decent place to live all things considered.

Anyway, why can't we just let Uber drivers state the degree of insurance coverage they offer and explain how often they check their vehicles and who does the checks etc? Then let people decide who they want to ride with. No gambling required. We can even expect Uber drivers to freely offer this information themselves, because it will make their services more attractive.

Remember we are talking about interactions between free individuals here. No one is forced to take an Uber ride.
You've understood it! We Germans want this "market" to be illegal.

Just like erecting skyscrapers that cannot withstand a summer breeze or storing nuclear waste on a city landfill.

If Americans want to do it differently, be my guest. Yes, you're more focused on individual freedom than the rest of the world. Fine with me.

But maybe you could try to understand that Germans are very safety-oriented. And maybe you could just accept that instead of telling us that we're not doing things like America and therefore we're wrong.
You talking about a keto diet which is high protein, high fat, limiting the carbs to under 50g or less, depending on your size. High protein, Low carb, does not reduce the carbs to such a level that it puts you in a keto state. Half a cup of mixed veg has around 12g carbs, so eating a cup at every meal with your protein will not put you in a keto state but will keep you at a low carb level. This is where most bodybuilders stay or go for 40/40/20 ration with 20 being fats.
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A few things that should be noted because articles like these tend to focus on the mere disparity in earnings:

1) In France, your salary is usually lower because your employer has to pay a lot of taxes. So does the employee.

2) Those taxes are in turn used for a lot of things that make the French model (and those of Sweden, Denmark, etc.) a nice place to live like next-to-free education, health care, transportation infrastructure, public libraries and hospitals, universities, so called "Grandes Écoles".

I'm not saying the system isn't currently broken or that it even works but in the end, it is really not as simple as X in France and 2X in the Silicon Valley cause in the end, you have to shell out for your health insurance, your education and a lot of different services that are just part of the French package when you live in the USA.

A good illustration of this is the price I paid to go to one of the best universities around Paris: the equivalent of $250 a YEAR.

For that kind of quality, I would have easily paid something like $5000 or more in the States.

So really, both systems have their pros and cons, it's really way more nuanced than that.
I was thinking the same. From the few examples given, it seems to be only useful to toggling classes from click events. Would like to see some more use cases.
They are being stopped from operating without taxi permits and licensed vehicles. So that's not a blanket ban as far as I can see.