cballard

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by cballard 11y ago
> Yes, definitely, kick all the people out. Who needs them, right? 3/4s of Manhattanites do not even own a car, let alone drive it in the city as their main form of transportation. Yes, enough with catering to Jersey and LI people
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by cballard 11y ago
> WHAT WOULD A CITY look like if it suddenly needed 90 percent less parking? ...Amsterdam? > Take New York City, where there are roughly 102,000 public parking spaces below 60th Street—taking up roughly 18.4 million square feet, a spa
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by cballard 11y ago
The uproar over web clients using adblockers strikes me as "not my problem". The web works like this: - A client sends an HTTP request to a server. - The server responds with data - The client interprets that data as it is configu
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by cballard 11y ago
Makefiles still work!
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by cballard 11y ago
This reinforced to me that Adblock is a company, while uBlock Origin is just an open-source project. uBlock doesn't need to go to ad conferences and talk to people, it just filters content. https://github.com/gorhill&#x
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by cballard 11y ago
> 1.day.ago So apparently .day multiplies the number of seconds in a day by the receiver, then .ago subtracts that from the current date[0]. However, not all days contain the same number of seconds. This is where "friendly" API
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by cballard 11y ago
> Where Java championed forcefully protecting programmers from themselves, Ruby included a hanging rope in the welcome kit. I don't think this is something to be admired in a language. Java is a bad language to work in because it&#x
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by cballard 11y ago
Yes. First of all, they'll probably just tell you how many shares you get. So, you don't even know what percentage of the total you have! But even if they did tell you, they won't show you the cap table, so there's no wa
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by cballard 11y ago
Yes. If you really care about work/life balance, just offer six or more weeks of real PTO. I internally translate "unlimited vacation" to "as little vacation as possible".
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by cballard 11y ago
From your jobs page: > Unlimited vacation days If a candidate requested a firm six weeks of accrued PTO, would that be granted?
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by cballard 11y ago
let member = BBB() init() { super.init() member.frame = self.frame } ? Note that since this is a UIView subclass, you're actually implementing init(frame:) and init?(coder:), not init(). I usually
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by cballard 11y ago
Facebook hasn't even gotten their SDK working with dynamic frameworks :/
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by cballard 11y ago
I've been wondering - in many startup companies, the engineers own all of the knowledge to run the company (documentation practices are discouraged by management because that's not "shipping"). Why don't we see more
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by cballard 11y ago
Currently? Have people really not migrated to 2.0 yet? It wasn't that bad.
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by cballard 11y ago
So, is this person not going to go to a concert this year, or to a party... unless they're willing to go with <5 hours of sleep that night?
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by cballard 11y ago
This is already the case for any OS update though, because that's a runtime dependency, not just a build-time dependency.
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by cballard 11y ago
Yes, that's the whole point of private APIs - they're not supported, and they can be changed or removed whenever. It's just access control at the framework level. Apple could embed a copy in each application using the frame
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by cballard 11y ago
What's the significance of this? Private things can be removed or modified at-will, seems fine?
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by cballard 11y ago
That's not really what happened, Flux was using private API, and distributing it as a binary blob (!!!).
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by cballard 11y ago
Well, we got the cheap ones apparently, because they're tiny and they wobble.
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by cballard 11y ago
The weird thing is when everyone else doesn't mind these, so you can't catch it with #7. My current job has stuff like: - Open office with music playing, people talk at will (RIP, focus) - Long hours that people just do willing
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by cballard 11y ago
It shouldn't all be older, though - in the time that most of the Asian metros have been built, we've built, uh, the F train tunnel and a 7 train stop in the middle of nowhere? Really?
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by cballard 11y ago
CBTC and countdown clocks are orthogonal (although if you're doing CBTC, countdown clocks are a minor addition) - the A division has clocks, even though only the L is CBTC.
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by cballard 11y ago
Yes, they actually need to run the trains in that case so that the third rail doesn't ice up. They even stopped at all station stops, made announcements, and open and closed the doors. There was no reason not to just let people ride
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by cballard 11y ago
I want seats removed from the trains (456, L), so that people can actually fit .
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by cballard 11y ago
The MTA is not a business, it's a public service. We already generate enough revenue in taxes, but it's sent upstate instead of being used here. NYC subsidizes the rest of the state. http://observer.com/2014/1
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by cballard 11y ago
The wifi appeared in NYC before the LTE, but now that LTE is available everywhere wifi is, I've just stopped using the wifi, because LTE Just Works and is just as fast.
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by cballard 11y ago
This might seem cool to people that aren't in NYC, but it's really not what we need. We need more tracks, more tunnels, and more trains. Second Avenue Sagas, the transit blog of record for NYC, is... more critical. > wifi =&#x2
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by cballard 11y ago
The car service is actually cheaper than Uber for me - I don't do it on the way back because there's reliably 100 Ubers hovering around JFK.
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by cballard 11y ago
Getting to the airport is actually the one time that I still use a local car service, because you can actually schedule them. I can say that I want a car to JFK at 5am tomorrow, and they will reliably be outside my door. You can't sc

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