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I don't think VSCode is going away. It's built on Electron[1] and performs quite adequately for me, personally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what your traffic intention is. But with the scooters, it's not really possible to take your hands off the handlebars (you lose control!), and there is currently no blinker control to indicate your traffic intention. I wanted to take a left-turn on a scooter recently and this was an issue. I got honked-at.

I think they should add blinker light controls to the handlebars.

> the same risk with conventional bikes

I think the scooters are riskier in some ways. My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what your traffic intention is. But with the scooters, it's not really possible to take your hands off the handlebars (you lose control!), and there is currently no blinker control to indicate your traffic intention. I wanted to take a left-turn on a scooter recently and this was an issue. I got honked-at.

I think they should add blinker light controls to the handlebars.

Coupon books are used in France. One coupon for each candidate. Voters privately choose a coupon from the book at the poll site and put it in an envelope. They're distributed and counted by volunteers very quickly and there are checks for integrity. A final count is ready for the evening news. There is a full paper trail. Very hack-resistant!

I've heard it said, "A data scientist is a better statistician than a typical programmer and a better programmer than a typical statistician."

I 'graduated' from the Data Analyst Nanodegree @ Udacity in my spare time, and have experience with both. I lack a background in math beyond university Calculus, though, so that seems the major barrier for me to get a foothold in the industry.

>XML is a better format than JSON.

That's quite absolutist - I can see why you see it as an unpopular idea. For me, the context where a tool is used is key.

XML is good if you have document-oriented data or want to use XML's namespacing.

I personally prefer JSON to XML in most other circumstances - which are most of them.

I happen to agree with you about YAML, but I don't think that's as controversal.

Thanks for the link. I like their disclaimer:

>Here at Veridian Dynamics, we care about you. That's why, by visiting this site, you agree to suspend all of your rights. Because we care.

A bit oversimplified, but in France, voters are essentially given a printed coupon book, with each candidate on a different coupon.

They just take their coupon/candidate of choice and deposit it into a box.

There are no pencils needed, no ambiguity. Ballots are hand-counted and totals are reached rapidly. A far less-hackable alternative to what exists in the US IMHO.

What is the maximum disk space for this offering? Amazon's RDS peaks out at just 6TB currently.

Ruby on Rails or Node.js for the backend (API) and React for the front end. Rails is excellent for database migrations. Postgresql / MongoDb / Firebase for the database, depending on requirements.

Very nice - wish list items: adding css version numbers and browser compatibility.

As a US driver living in France, I can share just the anecdote that French driving far less pleasant, more stressful, and feels more dangerous due to its narrow traffic lanes. I can also report seeing high numbers of highway accidents in Paris, and I would be surprised if per capita traffic fatalities were lower in France. I dream of driving in the luxurious, relaxing wide lanes of the US.

I'm curious if they looked into pf / CARP as part of their research into allowing horizontal scalability for an ip. See: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html

A very detailed breakdown of the basics of 'explain analyze' with various examples.

FYI Amazon RDS now supports Postgresql: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

You could try text top :): https://github.com/tombh/texttop

For fun you could try texttop: https://github.com/tombh/texttop

The Geo API allows it to work like a search engine.

On my wish list would be adding a bounding box query to return results within a map displayed on the current screen: e.g.: https://www.algolia.com/doc/javascript#search__inside-boundi... or e.g.: http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_MakeEnvelope.html

I've been perfectly content using RVM https://rvm.io/ - with all the functionality I need, and reliability, too. What am I missing out on?

Autoprefixer 5.2 release name was “Dont tread on me”, motto from historical American flag historical American flag https://twitter.com/autoprefixer/status/603596652683866114

Interactive demo: http://autoprefixer.github.io/ Autoprefixer works with Rails, too: https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer-rails

If you want to search court cases today for free, check out https://www.courtlistener.com , part of http://freelawproject.org

The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/

StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/

Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money

Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

This American Life had a great segment introducing this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/t...

They've blogged about their enhancements here: http://www.rubyraptor.org/how-we-made-raptor-up-to-4x-faster... and Part II: http://www.rubyraptor.org/pointer-tagging-linked-string-hash...

It's worth mentioning that This American Life (TAL) went all out promoting 'Serial' with on-air mentions, airing its first episode and using popups on the TAL website e.g.: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives.

Contrary to the article's title, LiFi doesn't _compete_ with the majority of WiFi use cases due to its limited propagation characteristics.

The article confirms as much: "“We don’t want to replace Wi-Fi,” he says. “That’s not our goal.” But Deicke says Li-Fi could complement existing communications technologies including WiFi"

I would think many would not want to share Oculus usage data with Facebook, but would rather keep info private.

Cool, can someone give useful ways this might be used in a browser?

Given that this comes from Russia Today, this could very-well be propaganda. caveat emptor!