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I used to use drupal and it was a nightmare. I switched to Django just because of python and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in regards to web development.

I've you've ever spent significant time in Europe, or more specifically, the Netherlands, you will see people of advanced age have no problem getting around on bikes and public transport. In fact, I can't help but smile every time I see someone who is clearly in their 80s/90s biking down the Amsterdam streets in fantastic health.

I feel that if people are used to moving around their lives, they can continue to do so even in old age, like taking stairs every day on a 4th story walk-up with bags of groceries and goods.

Anecdotally, I feel the rise of the automobile coincided with the fall of general health and mobility of senior citizens.

I absolutely agree. I've spent significant time in Madrid and also in other cities that are starting to ban cars like Paris. Getting rid of these machines is better for everyone. Paris is now even contemplating giving the metro away for free. This is a much more efficient use of space and will increase the health and well-being of the citizens of these cities.

I am with you on this. I find DDG completely unusable. The kinds of things that I search for are generally daily or weekly recent items and DDG never gets this stuff indexed quickly enough. Not even from the largest papers.

I am sure it’s fine for more evergreen content like SO, but for current news it’s awful.

That’s what you get when you have lawyers on retainer with nothing to do. They look for someone to sue to make money. Every time the lawyers write a letter they also write a bill for services.

It’s amazing to me in this day in age that there are no actual videos of the collapse. Not even from a car camera. I’ve searched everywhere and it would really be a very useful piece of information to have in order to diagnose what really happened.

I’ve automated a bunch of tasks thanks to selenium. It’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I’d totally recommend.

Seems like this could be a net neutrality issue?

Yes, but because of the highly asynchronous bandwidth we have available trading an even little bit up upload bandwidth can be extremely detrimental to internet performance.

I was so upset when I found out I had. 486SX and not a DX. The math co-processor was required! I had to upgrade my CPU with one of those “evergreens”.

We were just talking about this same thing on /r/seo today. The search results are getting poorer and poorer and pbn’s are eating relevant search results.

I agree. There are way too many projects with the name sonar in them. There needs to be a rebrand.

This looks fantastic. Though some labels would be nice. It's difficult to find out what all the colors and the numbers mean. Adding an audio library would be a nice addition.

I use NewsBlur as well ever since the demise of Google Reader. The native apps are fantastic and it’s been dead reliable. I feel the small amount I pay for it is totally worth it and is definitely one of my most used apps. I don’t think it gets enough love.

Like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87D4_uc2Oc

Their acquisition of Waze really gave them the edge here. Waze has been getting better and better at predicting times. I find that in most situations it is rarely off by more than a minute or two.

That's not because of the cement but the geology of Pittsburgh itself. Limestone bedrock and the "underground river" contributes to potholes and other geologic anomalies. If anything, adding bioswales and having a way to put the water back into the ground would stop the potholes from happening in the first place.

I also use NewsBlur as my RSS reader of choice. It's great!

Truncated articles are a big problem with RSS I think. Sites are trying to get you to jump to their page so you can consume their advertisements. Unfortunately, this has the opposite effect as I stop consuming the site's news and rarely click the links to the page. The small blurb for the feed doesn't give me enough information to want to jump to the page. Often, inline photos won't show up either, so I am less likely to find the article worth a visit to the page.

Wow, just logged into my 6 digit ICQ for the first time in years. I can’t believe I remembered my password.

I’ve been using Autogenics to help with my really bad insomnia. I guess it is a form of mediation and it really works. I am surprised at how well and how quickly it helped.

http://www.guidetopsychology.com/autogen.htm

Strange, it is working now. Chrome Mac.

But yes, it is subtle.

The video wasn't very good at explaining the system, and the website itself didn't even use the same effects that were used. For instance, there was heavy use of parallax scrolling in the video, but the website didn't have it at all. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Maplets is a really good iOS app for searching and using maps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maplets-the-offline-maps-app...

The USPS shut down Outbox for this same service.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/12/08/usps-l...

Still, though, I would really like this service. I travel quite a bit and I would hate to miss important pieces of mail.

Chase's website is just awful for just about anything.

It's particularly terrible if you are ever trying to use award points. The site is painfully slow, even on the fastest of connections.

10 years ago I discovered this site. To this day I still use the Ian quick knot as my go-to. I still shock people when I can tie a perfect bow knot with any material.

I would volunteer to put it in my back yard. YIMBY. Please.

This is great! I was looking for some new playlists.

I have been listening to the "Perfect for coding & Design" playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1210359955/playlist/3hk5Ln17wR...

Thank you!

Seriously, if AirBNB were a free market (and it is), what these listings are doing is allowing more people to come into the city and spend their own money on services throughout the city. This is a boon for all businesses in the city. It increases the availability of units and lowers the cost of other hotels throughout the city.

What people are afraid of is that they see all these units available on AirBNB and assume they are empty? They are not, they are being rented out pretty regularly. Which means they are being used and filled, with real live human beings.

If people didn't like empty units in the city, they should be complaining about the high-end units like One57 and 436park that are removing available units for the city and creating high-rise ghost towns.

I don't believe for one second this increases the cost of rental and/or condo units in the city. Since what is really happening is that the units are still full. AirBNB allowed us to see that there was a very real apartment shortage in the city.

I lived in NYC, and even I had to move out because of high rents. But those high rents weren't because of AirBNB. It was due to a lack of smaller units being put on the market.

As the units consolidated from 1bd to 3 or 4bd apartments, the sizes of the apartments grew, and all new buildings were for multi-million dollar residences. The middle class got squeezed.

Now we are blaming AirBNB for the problems. And that is simply not the case.

That's what I was thinking.