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Such development might help "normal" tires improve in durability.
I can imagine this is something that happens in a lot of area's. Pushing every part to the extremes might help make them more reliable under normal usage.
Ultra high speeds also require efficient aerodynamics, which in turn helps reduce drag/fuel usage.
When my daughter of three weeks old was in the hospital she needed to get some checks at night. Some doctors would walk in with a little flashlight, do the checks and leave the room without waking her up.
Others would switch on the ultra bright hospital lighting waking up the little one, only to do checks which take 10 seconds but kept my daughter up for hours.
This sounds like a good solution, but I'd probably miss out on a good alternative to Sketch or Zeplin which is an important part of our development workflow.
This way the store can give you a "lowest price guarantee". Find it lower priced elsewhere, and we will pay you the difference!
Easy to give such a guarantee if you're 100% sure no other store sells the exact model.
If I recall correctly the EU prefers their members to choose this because most people prefer more daylight at the end of the day.
I hope they do, I don't mind the darkness in the morning but that extra hour of light at the end of the day helps me go outside after dinner instead of turning on the telly and doing nothing all evening.
My home is equiped with what would translate to a "heatpump". Its a system that uses the warmth deep in the earth to help heating up the home in the winter, but also cools it down in the summer storing excess heat in the well drilled underneath the home or garden.
What it does in summer is basically run cold water through the underfloor heating system.
We've had some very hot days for our climate recently (35 to 38 degrees centigrade, which is around 95 to 100 Fahrenheit) and the temperature inside remained steady at a comfortable 23 degrees centigrade (around 74 Fahrenheit).
The system uses a lot less energy than air conditioning.
Toxins move up the food chain, and with humans being pretty much the top of that chain we shouldn't be dumping medicine into livestock just to keep them from getting sick.
For me there are two big positives to the earlier movies; the original trilogy was amazing because it was something new and it was my introduction into Star Wars.
The prequal trilogy was the movies I grew up with; less amazing than the original trilogy but what I absolutely loved about it was how it managed to give you an idea of the scale of things.
Like when in EP7 the new republic government solar system is instantly destroyed by starkiller base... who cares? Billions of people died in that moment, but none of them were introduced, the movie didnt allow us to develop a bond with them. The prequal trilogy did a better job in building a world around the main characters; they were part of something much bigger.
The new movies lack both; they don't do anything new and they don't build a world around the characters. It feels empty, and I couldn't care less for most of the cast if they make it or not.
Maybe its also the timeframe we live in; every movie needs to be full of action and movies rarely take the time to build up to something grand. I miss the much much much slower approach to movies like The Godfather had.
In my country (The Netherlands) police sometimes check all cars passing a temporary checkpoint. They check if you have open fines, paid your taxes etc. When really expensive cars pass those checkpoints they verify that the owner actually has a job to afford cars like these and if the owner doesn't they can impound the car on suspicion of being paid with criminal money.
Statistics have shown that the highest "risk" group of those crime paid cars is with young foreign male drivers.
A few years ago a (black) rap artist was stopped at the side of the road by police and they basically admitted that this was racial profiling.
The artist made some fuss about it on social media, and it appeared in all news broadcasts and talk shows. People were expecting some big commotion about it; but it turns out that the majority of people actually approved of this method.
It wasn't racism at work here, it was statistics and people were fine with it. It is a thin line though, because to the people on the wrong end of the statistics it really can feel like racism. So where should police draw the line?
However; that would make me lose all playlists, stored music and I'd have to move my subscription around. Too much hassle at the time.
Going to try the trick you just posted.
The developers who don't log extra hours don't have to be less motivated, sometimes they are just a lot better at prioritising their work.
The main difference is walking out of the room with a pull-request setting up the structure in code instead of walking out the room with a photo made of a whiteboard.
In the early stage of starting a project you need to set up the structure of the application you are going to build. The architecture, and rough outline of where what needs to go.
By using mob programming we've been able to get an entire team ready to go at full speed in no time. Everyone knew the thought behind every decision made, and everyone had enough knowledge of the structure to hit the ground running.
That is way better than having the lead dev or architect do that work on his own and then having to spend time to explain it all to the rest of the team.
Mob programming has its advantages, but I wouldn't want to use it too often.
For some reason I've never been able to wrap my head around this. Anyone know a good explanation for this stuff?
Rotterdam is a lot more direct than Amsterdam.
I have always expected Valve to come up with Half Life 3 to boost one of their new toys. For example, release it for Steam Box with VR support and something new/cool in the gameplay; having the portal gun in a more open world game would be awesome...
Never releasing Half-Life 3 won't be because Valve is lazy, if they cancel it I think it would be because the current generation of gamers haven't even played Half Life 2, so the market for it might have disappeared.
Personally I wont stop using f.lux, what I really like is that I can set custom colours and get a more orange screen even during daytime. I really like the softer colours, even when the sun is up.
Easiest way to show ads in a native app on iOS... oh wouldn't that be iAd service in which Apple gets a cut of the profit?
If the money would be divided more fairly the changes between the topteams and backmarkers would be a lot smaller, and teams like Manor might actually find themselves somewhere in the midfield of F1.
The concept this guy drew looks nice, but I don't think it is realistic. He says F1 should have more simple rules so designers have more freedom in designing beautiful cars. Problem is; they don't want to design a beautiful car. The teams are only interested in fast/efficient cars. Give them more freedom and they won't come up with the McLaren in this post but probably with some horrific looking car just because it gains them a few tenths of a second.