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by alxndr 13y ago
The prevailing notion that "roads are made for cars" is self-fulfilling, as people use it as justification for making roads further unsafe for bicycles (and other road users).
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by alxndr 13y ago
> Contrast this with the east coast where a car will stop... You've seen cars stop on the east coast?!? Not me...
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by alxndr 13y ago
...wow. Maybe you shouldn't be driving.
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by alxndr 13y ago
> It's pretty obvious when a bicyclist is at fault and they are often held responsible when they cause an accident. In the case of most city accidents, police routinely pull video from nearby buildings to establish fault. This is co
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by alxndr 13y ago
> The roads were built for cars. This is untrue. "The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use
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by alxndr 13y ago
...both car's passengers are surrounded by a metal cage that is trying to protect lives.
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by alxndr 13y ago
> ...if the idea came to him in today’s Google, he would leave the company and build it on his own rather than put it at the mercy of Google leadership. I wonder how much this rings true for anyone currently at Google.
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by alxndr 13y ago
Ah, is that why I've been seeing more and more of those notices lately?
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by alxndr 13y ago
See @charonn0's response.
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by alxndr 13y ago
+1 for the word "aleatoric"
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by alxndr 13y ago
Wow, it's loading 30 pngs to be frames for animations. No longer impressed by the animation...
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by alxndr 13y ago
Edit: ah, now it's loading. I mistook ten seconds with a white background to be a fatal error, not noticing the hundreds of files it was trying to download... It's hitting files named "test.php" and trying to grab an &qu
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Obama's climate change plan infographic(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by alxndr 13y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 13y ago
Some folks from New Relic gave a talk at RubyConf this year about upgrading their old-for-Rails project from 2 to 3, I found it pretty informative http://www.confreaks.com/videos/2425-railsconf2013-changing-...
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Bundles: new torrent filetype that requires interaction to unlock content(blog.bittorrent.com)
2 points by alxndr 13y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 13y ago
Ah, that is a good point. Retaining a significant amount of the original design probably goes a long way towards keeping the icon quickly-recognizable.
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by alxndr 13y ago
> like limiting the field length to 16 characters Or worse: requiring the spaces. Or maybe they want dashes.
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by alxndr 13y ago
I completely disagree on the dynamic icons. When I want to play some music, I know I'm looking for a two-eighth-note icon on a pink-orange background, and I don't want that background to change to black cause I listened to Dark Si
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by alxndr 13y ago
Whoa, that game is a blast!
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by alxndr 13y ago
http://www.discourse.org/ ?
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by alxndr 13y ago
> "Logged-in" should actually be a spectrum of at least 3 states, not binary. And there should be better messaging for that. For the last year or so I've been amused and then frustrated by ebay having a "Welcome, username" message in th
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by alxndr 13y ago
On Reddit, a comment explaining how you can purportedly cancel your account without incurring early termination fees: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ewszk/att_just_...
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by alxndr 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ewszk/att_just_...
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by alxndr 13y ago
Wow, glad he's okay!
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Better Single-Table Inheritance(nathanmlong.com)
1 points by alxndr 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Coins(amazon.com)
1 points by alxndr 13y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 13y ago
This is pretty cool too, the Dictionary of American Regional English: http://dare.wisc.edu/
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Vim regexes are awesome(briancarper.net)
3 points by alxndr 14y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 14y ago
> I started reading Poignant Guide with the aim of improving my Ruby knowledge Well there's your first problem.
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by alxndr 14y ago
Quality of the videos, and like begets like?

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