amclennon

Interesting concept, but that one is a bit of a stretch...

People have already started to bypass hand requirements by placing a weight on the steering wheel . At a certain point, you can't really blame the manufacturer when the driver is actively trying to defeat safety features put in place for their own good.

Before the ACA removed restrictions of pre-existing conditions, merely switching employers carried the risk of losing access to necessary healthcare.

Slightly off topic, but I've always found it fascinating how much rivers and other bodies of water can have a drastic impact on the culture despite how easily we can cross them.

Also see San Francisco / East Bay, Manhattan / Brooklyn, or really any other city where water is involved.

Although I agree with your statement in general, it sounds like she was already walking her bicycle while crossing the intersection, and the fact that she had a bicycle was a moot point.

You seem to be working under the assumption the nobody has ever hijacked truck up to this point, and that for whatever reason self driving trucks would be left unlocked with no security mechanisms in place whatsoever.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make? The German people can always vote to overturn the laws they've imposed on themselves.

For a large part of American history, black people were literally unable to vote (or were considered 3/5th of a person). That is by definition the opposite of a democracy.

I feel like this might become a burden later on when you have to support multiple versions of a codebase in the wild.

At the same time, you could've made that same argument at some point with Google and AngularJS, Dart, Polymer, etc.

Not necessarily a safe bet.

If that small subset is sufficiently useful to that particular individual, I don't think it really matters. The average person only uses a small subset of Microsoft Word for example.

I think the word you're looking for is deductible

With that said, I think the true power of Alexa's ecosystem is it's smart device integration. I'm sure Google will catch up soon enough, but at the moment I feel like Alexa still has a sizable lead.

In a company like Google or Facebook, it may not matter whether or not you have any experience with technology X, because they have a large training organization that will teach you proprietary technology Y anyway. Their interview process might therefore come across as overly academic, because there's a good chance you might have to "study" and quickly learn something arbitrary as part of the job.

In a much smaller organization, it's unlikely that you will encounter any technology or basic problems that haven't been seen before and it's much more important that you have a baseline level of competence in your expected job. It's also less likely that they have an organization dedicated to training software engineers.

Logically, these very different types of companies should have very different interview processes, but that isn't always the case.

It looks like something they are already taking into consideration

This seems very different from my experience in Athens two weeks ago. According to Google maps, getting from the city to the airport by car takes around 40 minutes by car and the alternative of taking the train costs 10 euros per person for the same amount of time. Paying around 40 euros seems reasonable for such a long trip if you have more than one person.

I think it's disingenuous to suggest that there's no middleground to between complying with regulations and providing poor service.

There's definitely an argument to be made that the laws should be rewritten to be more conducive to competition while maintaining consumer protections, but let's not pretend that Uber isn't a taxi service and doesn't deserve to be treated as such.

The official Selenium Docker image uses the same technique to run headless Chrome / Firefox.

From there you can just run

  docker run -d -P selenium/standalone-chrome

There's an open source version of ChromeOS that you can install on normal PCs, but I'm not sure if this version comes with Android support.

I think this approach provides an excellent alternative to trains (which Austinites keep voting down) because:

- It addresses the issue where buses are slowed down by other traffic.

- It has the potential to convince people to take buses when total travel time is faster than driving and the cost of the toll is too great to use routinely.

- It has a low financial impact on tax payers, making it more likely to be approved.

If the net effect is that you still show up to work anyway, does it really matter?

Although the core product is still desktop based, they've been shifting to an optional subscription model where you pay $9/month or so for perpetual updates and 1tb of storage.

These would be the biggest threat to Uber's market share since they could easily compete on cost and distribution alone.