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When I was in Lille several years ago, you were supposed to buy a ticket but it really wasn't enforced at all. The ticket machines were to the side of the train entry, and there were no turnstiles or anything like that. My first time I got on without even realizing I was supposed to pay.

> Also, 'portmantout' (not, I think, 'portemantout', since the original is 'portmanteau') involves only one change in vowel sound, right, not any major shift in pronunciation?

Right on both counts. "Porte" means "door", "port" means "to carry/wear". The latter is the word used in "portmanteau". I also agree "portmantout" sounds nice, and very similar to "portmanteau".

Since they mention it a couple times in the article, how do other folks handle auth for their k8s dashboards? I'm trying to figure out the best approach that right now.

There's evidence practicing the Idaho stop makes cyclists safer, even in regions where it isn't legal. If that's true, IMO cyclists should bike in the safer fashion regardless of the rules.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bike-st...

The research I've read recently indicates (responsibly) running red lights and stop signs decreases a cyclist's chance of getting hit. When stopped, a cyclist is less visible and mobile. Vehicles can be less likely to see them, and they're less able to maneuver out of dangerous situations.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bike-st... (I've seen other sources, but this is the first one I found first just now)

I use it for server-rendering React in a Spring app

This is a myth. Rural areas get more tax money back than they pay out. Rural communities are already subsidized by cities, but their low tax base and inefficiency means they still can't provide the same level of services. That's not to mention that cities can provide services with less environmental impact.

> even for the same size school (the same tax base approximately) This is probably a bad assumption. Rural folks pay significantly lower per capita taxes, on average.

Here are a few relevant sources, but this information is all over the place: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/817088161906102273 http://www.startribune.com/metro-vs-outstate-which-counties-... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue-s...

One time I was trying to correct and "its" that should've been an "it's", but I didn't realized there was a preceding, correct "its" in the post. I ended up changing that "its" to an incorrect "it's", while also leaving the following incorrect "its". It was inconsequential, but very frustrating.

As a sibling comment said, the main reason my team abandoned Hipchat for Slack was Hipchat was hopelessly buggy and unreliable at the time we tried to use it.

Just adding to your points:

> The human body is very efficient. I'd be extremely surprised if my 15 minute bicycle commute to work burned more than 100 calories on top of my BMR. There's just no comparison.

Also, biking is exercise, and we should all be getting some exercise daily. If bike commuting replaces some time you'd spend at the gym, the question of how much energy exercise consumes is irrelevant since you'll be using that energy either way. As others have mentioned, that can also save you the time of going to the gym in addition to the other benefits.

> I'd link to icebike.org where they used to have pictures of people cycling in Chicago in winter and articles on suitable clothing and tires, but that domain got bought out and commercialized into some mountain bike advertising site.

I live in Wisconsin and bike all winter. Some combination of fat tires, studded tires, and internal hub makes it easier. With my studded tires ice is basically a non-issue.

It's also easier to stay warm than you might expect. If you have any kind of jacket on your core can get hot really quickly while cycling. You do need decent clothing to protect your extremities.

I do think it's a good idea to ban phones & laptops when possible (sometimes they're need for presenting, note-taking, etc). Daydreams really aren't comparable to the other things we're talking about.

I agree it's important for meetings to be concise and focused on issues that are relevant to the attendees. However, I don't think the presenter should have to be flashy. If someone has their phone/laptop out, they might not even give the presenter the initial few minutes of attention it takes to get engaged with the topic.

Also, I'm in favor of banning devices at meetings because IME it leads to improvements in the meeting structure. If there's a long, boring meeting I might be relatively OK with it if I can spend the time doing something else on my laptop. If the only option is to pay attention to the useless meeting, however, then I'm more likely to provide suggestions and pressure to make the meeting better.

The request usually won't be _explicitly_ solicited, but there are other cues you can pick up on (ie flirting). Of course people can read general friendliness as romantic interest (or vice versa), but you can have at least a decent guess whether someone will be interested in going on a date with you. In some contexts it doesn't hurt to ask when you're unsure, but at work it's better to err on the side of caution (doubly so if there's any power difference between your positions).

It might be because it's a verbatim quote from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/why-every...

Your examples aren't analogous. An analogous examples is:

Can a Muslim person work with someone who believes the practice of religion should be outlawed and is working to make that happen?

People post on twitter because it actually gets a quick response. According to Lemi Orhan Ergin, the root password bug had been reported to directly to Apple five days before his tweet, but there was no response/fix. Then he tweeted about it, and it was fixed the next day.

https://medium.com/@lemiorhan/the-story-behind-anyone-can-lo...

Every source I've seen clearly states tanning always increases your chance of skin cancer. Tanning does provide a small amount of protection against burning (around 3 SPF worth), but no protection against cancer.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-a...

Is this easier for someone who was a "domain expert" in an obsolete domain than for a programming generalist? i.e. could a programming generalist also "own" a domain in a couple years?

I have metal-studded tires for winter. They make a huge difference on ice, but they make less of a difference on fresh snow. For snow a fat bike is better. If you're doing a lot of winter biking, I'd suggest one or the other. You can get studded fat tires, but they're expensive and I don't usually see anyone with them.

I took a class titled "Software Engineering" (or maybe "Software Development") that covered these things. I believe it was one of several upper-level electives I could have chosen, though, so I could have avoided taking it and still gotten my CS degree.

It's clearly important to be able to communicate about technical problems, but is it really necessary to be able to narrate your thoughts about a technical problem in real time as you're first having them?

In my work experience I don't remember ever having to do that. I'd look at code & investigate a problem independently, then talk to someone about it afterward. I think that should be considered at valid approach to the interview.

I'm the same way. Sometimes I'll try to ride slowly to avoid getting sweaty, but I'm rarely successful. I'm just used to riding faster, and it's more fun. As you said, it also can feel safer/more natural if you're next to car traffic. Luckily I've usually worked places that had showers if I really needed them.

I think the issue is mabbo listed the types of apology in different orders in two consecutive sentences. This apology is the latter in the former sentence, but the former in the latter sentence.

The ACA pretty clearly made health care more affordable than it would have otherwise been[0]. Still, it was an incremental change and a huge compromise compared to what I'd really like. It doesn't make sense to mock the name of the Affordable Care Act when it is in fact helping with affordability. We should do a lot more, but your criticism seems misdirected.

[0]: Here's one source, although there may be better ones http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamac...

This is a newish feature that's at least close to what you want https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/226410907-View-all-...

I don't know about the overall reason, but in my personal experience Slack just worked way better. My team used Hipchat for a while a few years ago. We found it to be very buggy. I would frequently send messages, but the recipient would never get any indication I'd sent it. The same thing happened for my incoming messages. Technically the message would be there if I looked though all my chats and checked for messages I hadn't seen yet, but there were no notifications or indications they were new.

Even when the worked, Hipchat notifications weren't configurable a the granularity I wanted.

Slack also is prettier and feels more cohesive to me, but that's a secondary concern.

This is addressed in the FAQs. The headers are already frozen, but Google's serving it as static HTML.

For me, by far the biggest difference is the notifications. In HipChat, notifications are both buggy and almost completely unconfigurable[0]. If I sent a message to a colleague while they were offline, they would never get notified of it[1]. Slack notifications always work how I expect and are configurable to the degree I desire.

Slack also has a nicer UI and better integrations for us, and generally just always works how I want. I don't know if I'd call it a "revelation", but it's way better than any comparable product I've used.

[0] - I think HipChat recently added support for more granular notification settings, but I don't use it anymore. Also, it took over 3 years of this being their 1st or 2nd most requested feature before they addressed it, so I don't give them any credit for having it now.

[1] - They might get an email depending on their settings, but the HipChat app would never give a notification.

In my view, talking about how much representation a state deserves doesn't even make sense. People should decide elections, not some semi-arbitrary geographical boundaries. In the house, people are fairly represented. In the senate, people in smaller states are unfairly over-represented.

It's a feature like an "install our app" popup on every random mobile site is a feature. Someone thought it was a good idea and did it intentionally, but I think it's awful and was done for bad reasons.

I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ about a year ago, on a machine with an SSD, and found IntelliJ to be way faster and to have more useful features. I'm not sure what accounts for the difference.

Are they un-googleable jargon? I googled all of them, and about half of those searches yielded bupkis. Phoropter was the only medical term I found.

I know about the s// substitution, but it just isn't very useful. Sometimes I'll have sent a couple messages before I notice a typo. Also, it's very limited in the type of edits it can make. Last time I tried to use it I realized I had typed "it's" instead of "its", but it turns out I had already using "it's" earlier in the message. I ended up making both "it's" wrong instead of correcting the one I wanted to.

Slack added @here a few weeks ago. Otherwise that would have been on my list of Hipchat pluses.

Being able to rearrange channels would be nice, but it isn't a big deal to me. I mostly use the "Jump to next unread message" hotkey in Slack to switch between channels.