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Intimidation. I dealt with that a lot when riding the bus in my city, was a problem back in 1998, was a couple of years ago, and from my understanding still is today. Perhaps my city just sux though.

http://wfpl.org/charges-dropped-tarc-stabbings-downtown-loui...

http://www.wlky.com/article/tarc-adding-security-measures-in...

Yep this has been my experience with public transportation in the U.S.

I like the wavelength formula because of it's simplicity and practicality.

  λ = c / f

It is a cool way to demonstrate the importance of the speed of light to figure out the optimal length of an antenna for a given radio frequency.

My son, when asking why knowing the speed of light matters, was impressed when I showed him we could make our own wifi antenna by using this to figure out the length it needed to be. Of course antenna design can be complex but this was still cool to show.

I am glad to know I am not the only one. I cannot tolerate reading news anymore I'm so sick of this stuff. It is making me a depressed fearful hermit. Helps to know I am not alone.

Prob C++... At least that is the only thing that I believe will meet your requirements exactly.

I ended up (a few years back) going with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) in C# targeting .NET client profile. Of course you still need .NET, however, the client profile is a much smaller install than the full version and I have no problems going from .NET 4 to 4.5. No specific version is needed unless you want to use new features.

In regards to your needs here is a couple of reasons I like WPF: -The entire GUI can be written in markup XAML (an XML based markup language) so its kind of web like. You can use the GUI if you like but doing it in XAML forces good design patterns and IMO is easier. -"Click Once Deployment" allows you to publish the app build to a network share which can be run directly over the network (no local install). There are various options so if you choose to run locally you can. If you update your app, you simply publish again, and when the end users launches the app again it will be updated.

You can bundle dependencies so the first install would include the large (41MB) .NET client profile but after that it would just be the size of your app. This has worked well for me to allow users to install/update the apps over slow VPN connections.

In regards to games, you may also want to look at alternative stores than just Google/Apple.

https://itch.io/developers

There also seems to be a healthy market for game assets (3D models, textures, etc.) and multiple stores you can sell them in.

http://www.turbosquid.com/ https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/

In regards to tutorials I have noticed many people using Patreon. Some seem to be making a decent passive income.

https://www.patreon.com/catlikecoding

Just what low income students are looking for.

Sigh indeed...

Perhaps I missed that then because I found no mention of intervals and chords. They seem to explicitly say that they captured pure tones (220Hz for A). This sentence also made it sound as if they were generating a pure note (frequency), "As each note’s unique vibration induced its characteristic pattern into the water, Brown captured it with her camera." Then they went through the chromatic scale capturing each note.

I do wish they posted more about how they set this up. It sounds straight forward and if using pure tones should be easily reproduced...

Actually I am surprised in todays climate we do not see more of this. Scott McNealy should have been there as well. I share his sentiment that the worst CEO will make a better president than the best politician. Wish I remember where he said that to source it - think it was an interview on Triangulation on the TWIT network.

Speaking about Ghostbusters. Remember the 2nd movie where the mayor says "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right." And before that he said "What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be nice to each other?" LOL, I totally agree with this. Why is Twitter trying to be the nice police?

In general this is my prob with society today. Why do we have to be nice to people? Why do we have to show empathy? Why can we not say hateful things? No violence/assault no harm.

Amazing that we still do not have true competition today. Why are male/female still separated? Not related to this article but it is interesting that we have this form of segregation today - NBA & WNBA, etc. Is this and testing in itself sexism?

This list is exactly why I think developer bootcamps are crap. Touch typing? Really? That is something anyone who uses a computer regularly should already do.

Sorry, this is not a useful comment on the article. I am so tired of hearing the 'learning to code' crap. Don't learn to code. Code to learn.

Yep, just had this actually happen to me. Blew up on someone in the company parking garage and did not know he was a friend of the firm. He in turn told my boss who then brought it to me. Ended up filing an 'incident' which will prohibit any raises and limit bonus for the next year.

I did not loose my job or end up poor but I bet that guy is thinking "what an idiot, what were you thinking" not knowing how this did impact me.

Prob a poor anecdote but damn did I learn my lesson. Especially since it impacted me financially.

We all make mistakes, financially or otherwise. The point is that we should learn from them and not keep repeating them.

Well this article nailed one thing "apathy". I just don't give a shit anymore. College burned me out with preaching about diversity and the media and SJW's are burning me out on hearing about this shit. As a white male that grew up poor and has paid for everything I own and struggled to finish an undergrad (which left me in debt), I do not feel privileged. I feel tired... and I'm only 34. So now I am a selfish bastard that only cares about the needs of my family.

"If our society has reached a point of guilt, where we can no longer acknowledge that all lives matter, and doing so is 'racist,' that means blacks (and allies) will have become the new de facto racist group."

This took a minute to sink in. Everyone should contemplate this statement for a minute. For me the phrase All Lives Matter seems very guiltless and brings feelings of unity, while Black Lives Matter brings feelings of division. Just seems like it is doing nothing to unite people on the cause... like a bad marketing campaign trying to guilt people into joining a cause.