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151.
by enf 16y ago
Looks like him.
152.
by enf 16y ago
"Next to downtown Mountain View" is giving it too much credit -- the Googleplex is two miles from downtown, and is nigh-unwalkable. But it is a matter of degrees -- Google's location is bad but the Sun campus's location is awful.
153.
by enf 16y ago
They can submit their schedule data to Google but not let anyone else see it. AC Transit is another agency that is in Google Transit but does not give the general public access to their GTFS schedule data.
154.
by enf 16y ago
Being able to solve someone's problem (including my own). Walking around in San Francisco.
155.
by enf 16y ago
Wow, is it that bad now in Hyde Park? Back in my day, there was the Co-Op, Mr. G's, and Village Foods, plus University Market and the produce store on 53rd.
156.
by enf 16y ago
Making a window the full width of the screen is nearly always wrong.
157.
by enf 16y ago
The reason you will never see any six-story buildings built is the building code. Four stories is the tallest you can legally build with wood framing; higher than that, you effectively need steel framing, and the code requirements for thos
158.
by enf 16y ago
Their illustration of a rotary dial phone has * and # on it! They also don't realize that 411 and 911 were originally 114 and 119 and were changed when long distance direct dialing was introduced and 1 became the code to introduce it.
159.
by enf 16y ago
It is very old. Control was next to A on the Teletype Model 33, the first ASCII keyboard.
160.
by enf 16y ago
No, it increases the number of jaywalkers. If you know that the light is on a timer and you will have your turn in 15 seconds, you have little reason not to wait the 15 seconds. But if you have to press a button for something, you deserve
161.
by enf 16y ago
Most copy machines these days are actually scanners, and can do an 11x17 page at 600dpi in about a second.
162.
by enf 16y ago
It sure does look like an Apple III. It's not the US model because it has a >< key (in the modern Backspace location) where the US had a \| key. Actually probably German because it has the M key to the right of L. I'm pretty sure
163.
by enf 16y ago
You would be amazed how many people apply for programming jobs who seem to have no ability whatsoever to write software.
164.
by enf 16y ago
The word was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, but I don't know when it became well known.
165.
by enf 16y ago
Who fills their whole screen with a web browser? Browser windows should be about 700 pixels wide.
166.
by enf 16y ago
I originally posted 40 and then added the others in response to requests.
167.
by enf 16y ago
You could ask, you know! Yes, it is block-level data.
168.
by enf 16y ago
San Francisco was prevented for several years from making any bicycle-related improvements to any streets because of a lawsuit filed by Rob Anderson. The injunction has finally been lifted and the city is now working through the backlog of
169.
by enf 16y ago
Embarcadero station is built in landfill, but it does make things more difficult. None of the San Francisco subway plans of the past ever attempted to serve Russian Hill very well. A line on Geary (or Post or O'Farrell) was the inevitable
170.
by enf 16y ago
It was always optimistic to think that BART would ring the bay. Santa Clara County was never part of the District to begin with. San Mateo County dropped out because they already had the SP commuter service (today's Caltrain) and didn't t
171.
by enf 16y ago
I already hate nickels. The dime is the smallest useful coin.
172.
by enf 16y ago
A map of where in San Francisco people succeed in catching taxis in practice, if you want it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4956860071/in/set-721...
173.
by enf 16y ago
Some other manuals for the 704 are at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/
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by enf 16y ago
It's not even all that rare to lack sidewalks within traditional city limits. The street where I grew up had sidewalks, but here is Street View of the street a block away, which does not: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&#38
175.
by enf 16y ago
You can download the bounds of each US county (and many other political subdivisions) as shapefiles from the Census TIGER/Line repository. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
176.
by enf 16y ago
The typewriter business was an acquisition! (Electromatic was the name of the previously independent typewriter company.) Time clocks and scales were the other original lines besides tabulating.
177.
by enf 16y ago
It wasn't network bandwidth actually, it was printing speed. When your terminal can only print ten characters per second, terseness is even more of a virtue than it is on a slow network.
178.
by enf 16y ago
OK, I shouldn't have dismissed it so quickly... there are some real issues there too. But I have spent a lot of time there without worrying about my safety.
179.
by enf 16y ago
Have you seen the one that plots crimes as if they were elevation? http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...
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by enf 16y ago
If you want more details, sanfrancisco.crimespotting.org has them, or you can download the raw data from datasf.org. The hot spot at 16th Street BART is drug dealers and in practice there is no reason not to go there.

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