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A more transparent slogan would be, "Let's build cities for walking and bicycles rather than cars." Or maybe "Let's build cities for walking and subways and electric scooters." Or whatever. But whatever means of transportation you optimize for today may be inappropriate a century from now. It was horses in the not-too-distant past, and as much as I like bicycles, I can imagine a figure in which bicycles and bike lanes are obsolete too.

My son used to ask me every morning whether to wear warm-weather clothes or cool-weather clothes, so I wrote a app that scraped some weather data and served it up in a web page as a temperature graph, along with a recommendation for what kind of clothes to wear.

Or this version, read by Bernie Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMu70olQtU

For a government-authored report, that was very readable.

If their revenue comes from ads, a lot of those 800 employees are probably their sales force and customer support.

I’m glad I didn’t have a setup like that when I was a teenager in the 70’s. I’m deaf enough from excessive Led Zeppelin volume as it is.

Oracle should go straight to the top: buy advertising time on Fox & Friends.

Some guy from the UK uses my Gmail address all the time. I once received a British Airlines confirmation for him. After clicking on the link (no authentication required!), I arrived on a page where I could change his notification settings. His phone number was listed there, so I texted him asking that he stop using my email address. He replied back and sounded alarmed that I had his phone number.

I also received a photo of his passport once. Using that, a friend in the UK was able to look up his parent’s home address. I phoned them up and left a message asking that he stop using my email address.

He’s still using it, so I eventually set up a Gmail filter to shunt his likely emails into a separate folder. I’ve changed my password since all this happened, and I don’t get why he still uses my address.

I might have chosen a name that sounds less like Cron, but regardless, I can see how Gron would be useful.

Enjoy it while you can. The Texas executive branch is trying to reverse that ban, along with every other single-use plastic bag ban imposed at the city level. See https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/texas-plastic-bag-ba....

I live about the same distance from work as the writer, and I've been cycling to work since early October. I would have thought that such a short bike ride wouldn't have much of a health benefit, but I feel more energetic and my blood pressure is noticeably lower than it was a year ago.

I use jq frequently. It covers most of what I want to do.

Yup. It's a big leap from "Google has a bug" to "you don't control any of your content on the Internet."

A hundred years from now, when crows run all the major tobacco companies, it will be too late to do anything about this.

Those performance improvements make the code more complicated too. How fast does the yes command actually need to be?

Well sure, but this isn't just a tech thing. At conservative petroleum companies, those who disagree on politics say they're isolated too.

Rather than ascribing this to Google's maliciousness or overzealous use of power, is it possible that the shutdown was accidental?

> the goal is to amass a large base of customers and collect data on viewing behaviors. That information could then be used to eventually target advertisements or other marketing materials to subscribers.

I assume that means more (or "better" ads) before the movie. I prefer to pay extra watch movies somewhere that doesn't show ads, but no doubt there's a cohort who would be happy to watch ads if it means a cheaper ticket price.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique.

I wasn't offended by the political content. I was just more interested in reading about the solar farm because of the article title. If the title had been, "Jimmy Carter was unfairly persecuted, and by the way he built a solar farm", I would have expected the political content.

It's unfortunate that most of the article is a political story about President Carter's reputation. That part should have been about three sentences.

The standard fare of coding interviews is an order of magnitude MORE difficult than implementing Raft/Paxos? I guess my employer uses easier than standard coding problems.

It's wrong to assume that just because gRPC shares some design features with CORBA that it shares every CORBA feature or every CORBA shortcoming.

There have been technologies to generate stubs, skeletons, and protocols from specification files for at least 30 years. Some of the older designs sprung out of a client/server world, whereas newer designs deal with today's reality, e.g. interoperability with today's web and the need for horizontal scalability.

What hasn't changed is that it's still useful to describe a communication protocol in a declarative way and then rely on a code generator to provide the code to work with that protocol.

Google protocol buffers offer advantages beyond that, but you may need to look beyond any preconceived CORBA biases to appreciate them.

And Eclipse is even bigger.

I see the main developer works for System76, and System76 says RedoxOS is his "personal project", but does that imply System76 is sponsoring RedoxOS? Or does it mean they have an employee who works on RedoxOS at home?

Yes, it really is. Automated UI tests are notoriously fragile.

I'm not sure IT is their core competence.

Maybe Aphyr can test it out between whiteboard interviews.

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I understand that Canonical proposes Snaps as a standard, but can you be specific about how they are trying to force it on everyone else?