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For reference, from the 2019/20 TFL Budget, direct operating surplus' are:

Streets -£167m

Buses: -£722m

Rail: -£49m

Underground: £823m

Elizabeth Line: -£267m

Other: £9m

Professional Services: -£560m

Property: £69m

Media: £145m

[0] http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-budget-2019-20.pdf

It's 500 entry level jobs, not all remaining 500 jobs. I presume there are many people between the bottom 500 employees and top 20 executives

I think improved longevity over time is relative to non-caffeinated solar cells, caffeinated solar cells last longer (they don't improve over time)

The explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYwFizhncE

I believe they're not allowed to exhibit either (unless there exhibiting rights where prehaps dependent on winning an award)

we were unexpectedly informed that the administrators at CES and CTA were rescinding our award and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019

I believe it's to do with support columns under the stands. The outer third set of the pitch move outwards before retracting.

Reminded me of this TED talk on femto-photography: https://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_...

Well it works for Tesla's autopilot right? /s

Changing the program compatibility setting 'Override high DPI scaling behaviour' may help with this (I haven't tried with Krita yet, but I had a similar problem with Matlab & Simulink which was fixed by this)

I've heard that these future 'bans' on ICEs are actually just bans on pure ICEs and apparently vehicles with even just stop-start technology are classed as 'Micro-Hybrids' which would be allowed after these 2032, 2040 dates.

Opps, Forgot that: that's how irrelevant it's become.

Email is just for signing up for things and for 'professional' communication (e.g. job offers, work placements, to teachers etc.). I think I only have about 5 of my friends email addresses, mainly just because sometimes I'll need to CC them into something.

I'm a teenager in the UK and Facebook has most certainly not died. it seems to me that people do use it less now but that may just be due to growing up (no more farmville etc.). However, Facebook is still heavily used for setting up events, sharing photos, and messaging people. The reason why facebook is so good at all of these things? Because everyone has Facebook. If I need to ask a friend something, There are several ways to ask them:

- Text: Might not have their number, have to pay, it's only available on their phone, not on their computer

- WhatsApp (or similar): They may not have it, I may not be their contact, only available on their phones

- SnapChat: Hard to hold a conversation with someone

- Instagram: Great for sharing photos, not for communicating

- Facebook: Am Friends with everyone I will need to contact. Easy to use. They receive it on their phone and computer (more likely to see it sooner). Free.

Facebook may lose some interest from people but I'm sure it will be around for a long time, at least until the large majority of people have moved to another platform where they can communicate

Am currently just in the conceptual stages but some sort of device where you plug in a bunch of ipods and then can select a song from any of them to play as well as queuing music etc.

Is cool because at parties etc. means you don't have to continually switch ipods to put on 'That song'

Well, I didn't sign up just to comment on it, You can see that by looking on my comment history: My first comment was about the uses of facebook. Ah well.

I can't tell if you're comment is meant to be sarcastic ('10 minutes is not long enough to review') or not but i'm going to go with not:

I've been lurking on HN for a few months, have recently come back to it after a month hiatus and wanted to comment on something so signed up this morning :)

I love this site, I'm usually a redditor but I find that there is much more interesting and gripping content here whereas reddit is more of a quick laugh. I do find that I can easily waste an hour on the front page here but I just learn so much in that hour! I'm sure that I'll stick around and find out lots of new stuff.

Choose a language. Any language. People will try to convince you that X language is better than Y language but really it's your choice.

Now you've chosen a language, go and find some basic tutorials. Start with 'Hello World' (as per tradition) then work your way up, make a counter, make a calculator, make a clock. Just keep on doing these basic projects.

Soon enough you'll start to get bored. You'll start finding these projects easy. You'll no longer have to look up every line of code to work out what syntax to write, you'll just get used to it. Once you get to this stage, start looking for what other people have done. Look for a basic application that someone else has created and start to work out how they made it, their programming style. Once you've worked it out, try modifying the program. Trial and Error. Try to change what the program does, try adding on new functionalities.

Finally, create a big project from scratch. Start with an idea, it can be simple but try and make it challenging. Work out how each part is going to work, how you're going to code each bit. Then just get programming.

Once your first project is done, you'll most likely have another idea, and another. You'll keep on programming new things, each project learning something new.

That (at least in my opinion) is how to learn to program.

If it works well then I can imagine it would be amazing however it probably uses the accelerometer (I assume) and so I doubt it can be that accurate (Although I may be wrong)

Hmmm. I would suggest maybe listening to some 'new music' so to speak. Put one of the soundcloud 'discovery' genres on and just leave it playing. You probably don't like the shuffle function as you get to a song you don't really like and you want to skip it. Or you get reminded of another great song and that album and want to put it on. With new music you'll just think "it's okay", "this is awesome", "this is bad. hopefully the next one will be better". You aren't reminded of other songs and previous ideas so it doesn't interfere with your work.

I've tried codeacademy briefly before (Spent ~8 hours total on there). After only 10 minutes on codeschool it feels a lot better. It seems like it's much easier to learn it show you 'real life applications' which is one thing that I thought codeacadmy didn't do well.

I'm definetly going to be spending some time on codeschool, seems like a great site.

Yep. Also what's strange is that although I do have phone numbers for many of my 'extended friends' through facebook (synced to android, facebook downloads everyone's numbers to your contact list). I would be much more comfortable contacting someone on facebook out of blue than texting out of the blue. Maybe it has something to do with that they can immediately see who I am on facebook whereas with texting they can't?

In school I once did an experiment with %112 yield.

The most useful thing I find is just to contact friends. If I need to chat to someone then I know that if I send them a facebook message they'll most likely read it and reply within the day.