nanidin

If you follow the link, you'll see:

> Not to be confused with Murphy's law.

The Coursera class is all recorded from whenever the course was first run. I'd imagine the whole thing is automated based on the timing of the emails and such.

It's slightly pathetic that when viewing the website with Google's own browser, the font in the "SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST..." block is rendered incorrectly with stray pixels on top of the S's, O's, and G's.

I'm assuming it's not intentional since zooming in causes the artifacts to disappear, but they come back when zoomed back out to 100%.

iBeacons is bluetooth though (you interact with them via the core bluetooth framework)... FireChat does apparently also use wifi though since they use the multipeer connectivity API.

See also, FireChat[0] - released a month prior to Shortwave.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8

Genuinely curious, what kind of metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness of a change like this?

Even in cases where you are terminated for no reason, you have recourse for things like unemployment benefits if no valid reason can be provided in court.

Someone seems to be systematically downvoting posts like this. Just wanted to let you know that I feel your pain - I had an entire Google account shut down without explanation or warning. Lost all access to email, calendar, contacts, etc with no recourse and only a form to fill out that is never answered.

I believe the account was banned for a ToS violation that occurred 2 years prior. But I'll never know, just like I never got any of my data back.

Funny considering one of the original kings of user generated content is Youtube, which is owned by Google, and presumably runs Google ads.

I lost an entire Google account like this. Email, calendar, etc - poof, no explanation, no recourse.

I'll check this out - I had a similar idea last summer while attending large festivals. That it would have been nice to see what people were posting on instagram around me. I'll give this a try next time I'm in a populated area!

What's next - cell phones should only call people and nothing else? Watches should only tell us the time?

It's not about saving bandwidth or space by compressing the images - it's about removing the step of combining your images into one big image then using coordinates inside of that image to find your original images.

Sure, you can build the spriting into your build process, but I don't know how to do that (I'm sure there are tools) and you can't exactly use normal css since the coordinates of your images may change within the sprite sheet.

Using the zip method saves you some of that headache/overhead with the tradeoff of having to package your images into a zip and unzip them on the client side.

Potential use case: instead of using CSS sprite maps (putting all of your images into one image to reduce the number of http requests generated by your page, then using css magic to select regions inside of that image), image files could be zipped into an image package that is delivered to the client, who unzips it and uses the images inside. This would cut down on the number of requests made, but allow the images to be used as normal images instead of as images within a sprite sheet.

I guess I just prefer my tools to stay out of the way

You can't submit text with a link.

It would worry me if I were Phabricator, or if I were trying to get others to buy into using it in a professional environment.

When I read the page I couldn't tell if it was serious or some sort of April Fool's joke that someone forgot to take down and almost immediately dismissed it as something that people would actually use.

The poster is attempting to incite our fear for the children as a reason to fear the legalization of marijuana. He neglects to mention that Colorado has a 21+ policy, just like alcohol. He's ultimately arguing for a nanny state since he feels he is incapable of raising his children without them consuming the drug.

In short, he's sensationalizing, and that's not doing anyone any good.

Not that he can use the service in the first place, or is able to even know what is going on without finding them on a third party message board...

Amazon already does some refrigerated deliveries for limited areas with Amazon Fresh[0].

[0] https://fresh.amazon.com/

You mean Rosetta Code[0]?

[0] http://rosettacode.org/

MapsWithMe[0] lacks routing, but it is an iOS app that provides fast, detailed offline maps with POI's. Data is downloaded by region (for the US, it's by state, for most of the rest of the world, it's by country) and the data is updated pretty frequently. When I was trekking in Nepal, even obscure trails were marked on the maps, which was terrific!

[0] http://mapswith.me/en/home

It's nice to know our system accounts for cases like this. Thanks for the detailed info!

Interesting question - is the author's transcription a derivative work of the video? And if so, is he actually allowed to release his transcription into the public domain (without the permission of the author of the video)?

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with driving fast or hunting/shooting guns - I'm just saying there is a context in which those activities are not acceptable, and that context is when you are acting unsafely and subjecting other people to unnecessary risk.

Note when I say park, I mean a city park, not a state park or wildlife park or wherever hunting is actually permitted.

Then why not speed on a track, or some other closed environment?

I imagine that shooting guns at targets is fun too - but most people wouldn't find that to be an acceptable excuse for shooting guns at targets in a public park.

How much time do you save by speeding? To me, speeding significantly, especially for short trips, is futile.

Say in a 20 mile commute, 14 miles is on the highway with a speed limit of 65mph, 3 miles is on a road with a speed limit of 45mph, and 3 miles is on a residential road with a speed limit of 35mph. Furthermore, to simplify this, let's say you only speed on the highway. Going 65mph will result in 12.9 minutes on the highway, going 80mph will result in 10.5 minutes on the highway. By speeding, you exposed yourself to financial risk, and yourself and others to physical risk in order to save 2.4 minutes.

Now, let's say you encounter 6 stop lights on your commute, each with an average red light time of 1 minute. Let's say on average, you get caught in half of them each time you make the trip and that there are no backups requiring you to stay at any given light for more than 1 cycle. So your average red light time per commute is 3 minutes.

You've now spent more time waiting at red lights than you have saved by speeding on your commute.

On long trips, speeding can save you hours instead of minutes, so it seems more justified. But for a savings of 2.5 minutes that can easily be negated by red lights or other drivers? Why put yourself and others at risk for such a small reward?

OK, but imagine this situation: I have affixed a monitor with a webcam to a robot that represents "me" in an office. It is able to sit at a desk, attend meetings, etc. I work from home in some place with a lower cost of living and use the robot proxy for interaction with my peers. Should I be paid more or less than other people working in that same office, producing the same output?

I don't think the house comparison is a good example - a house in Palo Alto can only be utilised in Palo Alto. A remote worker could work from anywhere and produce the same output, regardless of location.

Pay levels based on location seem like a good way for companies to "save" money by providing a convenient excuse to pay someone less for the same work.