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poooogles··on Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal
>Now Crossrail, THAT'S something.

On time and on budget. Yet they still won't give the green light for Crossrail 2.

poooogles··on France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
>but you don't tend to see things that blatant as much anymore.

I think you stilldo. Chatroulette and similar services were besieged by them a few years ago.

poooogles··on Redis Streams and the Unified Log
>And you can get Zookeeper and Kafka running on one machine, but it's such a pain and there's nothing to help really in the docs.

What sort of thing are you after? Like a getting started for production without creating footguns style how too?

poooogles··on Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online
>If the browser can do it what's stoping a headless browser bot from evaluating it all the same?

The vast majority of crawlers aren't that smart, headless browsers used to be painfully slow so no one used them.

poooogles··on Consul 1.0 Released
ZK 3.5 brings this.
poooogles··on Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack
That is incorrect. The SEC regularly pursue people for insider trading [1]. It's one of the things that's normally pretty clear cut and hard for politicians to lean on.

1. https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-212.html

poooogles··on Uber London loses licence to operate
What's required and reality are sometimes very different. I know I've been told the card machine doesn't work, then magically after saying I have no cash it'll start working a minute later...
poooogles··on Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds
>My understanding is that trading on non-public info isn't a crime unless both parties benefit.

Trading on non public information for a gain is going to land you in hot water with the SEC.

These two lines on the SEC site [1] define this.

>Corporate officers, directors, and employees who traded the corporation's securities after learning of significant, confidential corporate developments;

>Friends, business associates, family members, and other "tippees" of such officers, directors, and employees, who traded the securities after receiving such information

1. https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html

poooogles··on UK survey: 40% of respondents pay more than 50% of their incomes on rent
>What's Sadiq's?

Worryingly he doesn't have one.

poooogles··on Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
>it's interesting Confluent is supporting Kafka being used in this way.

If it earns them money, I think they'll pretty much support anything. Jay has rubber stamped it on SO [1], but he's got a bit of a vested interest on selling Kafka.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17708489/using-kafka-as-...

poooogles··on The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant
Our winter vegetables are great as well. Leeks, Parsnips and Chard are all delicious.
poooogles··on UK survey: 40% of respondents pay more than 50% of their incomes on rent
>Do you think the transport system can handle increased density of upward building?

Depends if the rate of take up of cycling increases IMO. The year on year increases have been pretty consistent and don't seem to be slowing down. Sadiq putting on 'hold' (read cancelled) any new cycling infrastructure is likely to put an end to that though.

Don't forget we've got Crossrail coming later this year as well. That should take some strain off the central line in the mornings at least. Quicker Crossrail 2 get's off the ground the better though as the Northern line is a living hell in the morning. Getting on at Clapham (anywhere) and going north just is a 5 to 15 minute wait.

poooogles··on It’s not that London is too big, but that other large UK cities are too small
>for a city that has an insanely high cost of living, then why would people go to London instead of San Francisco or New York?

Because that's even harder. The American visa system is even more insane than the UK one. I'd love to move to California (if only for a couple of years) but it seems to be totally impossible when it comes to a visa.

poooogles··on UK survey: 40% of respondents pay more than 50% of their incomes on rent
Or we need to build higher density housing. Once the greenbelts have gone, you won't be able to bring them back. Ever.
poooogles··on UK survey: 40% of respondents pay more than 50% of their incomes on rent
Pretty much. Hilariously the rate of house price increases in London is almost outpacing the rate I can save for a home.

So even if you can save up, you still can't buy a house.

poooogles··on We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon
Same reason that BBC Worldwide does.
poooogles··on Tesla's 'long-haul' electric truck aims for 200 to 300 miles on a charge
FYI it's much closer to 1.6 km, it's 1609 meters. So for most maths, just times by 1.6 is close enough.
poooogles··on Dangers of Sitting
You bought in a Swiss ball and it got taken away? Can you expand upon this, I've been looking at positions there any input on this would be great.
poooogles··on A note on programmer salaries
If cost of living stayed the same that rules out London.

Past that it's normally Berlin, Paris or Barcelona?

poooogles··on EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request
>Is the website address itself under copyright?

No. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#domain

poooogles··on Why I’m Learning Perl 6
I mean core async in Clojure works the same, would you say it's the same?

It might not be under the hood, but as perceived to the programmer it is?

poooogles··on Unix Time 1500M – Friday July 14 02:40UTC
All posts incrementally increase as posts accumulate on a board. Gets are normally reserved for when you approach a milestone. Example here http://new3.fjcdn.com/pictures/Fj+gets+banned+from+4chan_660....

Classically you'd say something is true if you get dubs (the post id ends in doubles)

poooogles··on Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground
The deep level lines don't no. Only the sub surface cut and cover style lines.
poooogles··on Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground
In the cars it gets hotter [1], the humidity is what makes it worse.

1. http://londonist.com/2015/07/itd-be-illegal-to-transport-cat...

poooogles··on The EU’s new roaming rules
I pay £0.1 per MB when roaming. Any change from this frankly obscene price is good news.

Sadly I feel this deal won't last for long when the UK leaves the EU.

poooogles··on Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms
Agreed in most, however...

>other than maybe traffic for a couple of blocks??

Yeah you're underestimating the impact here, I live half a mile away and it was carnage yesterday. They've closed one of the major routes out of London (the Westway) and two tube lines which affected most of central London.

Thankfully things have _mostly_ returned to normal now.

poooogles··on The Gilectomy – How's It Going [video]
>The people from Golang have had some more recent successes with their concurrent garbage collector, which, as I've heard, is really efficient.

Haven't they just sacrificed throughout for pause time though? Not a GC expert at all, but that's what Ive got the gist of from speaking to people.

poooogles··on The Gilectomy – How's It Going [video]
>Or that a python process never really releases memory back to the system, just within itself, so the process slowly grows over the course of a few weeks.

This just isn't true anymore. Create a list with range(1000000) then delete the list and you can see the memory freed.

poooogles··on Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
Enumeration through 32 bits of bcrypt doesn't sound that feasible to me.

Given a GPU farm however I'm sure it might be feasible. However at that point surely you just add a salt?

poooogles··on Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
>IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information.

One way hashed (that can't be rainbow tabled) are not however PII afaik however, so it's quite easy to turn an IP address into a "net location ID" or something similar that can't be tracked back to a physical IP for analytics.

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