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by enf 16y ago
Things will start going wrong with your body in your late 30s. I wasn't expecting to be immortal, but I was expecting it to happen a bit later than that. Don't ever move from a place that you like to a place that you don't, because circums
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by enf 16y ago
Hi, whoever you are that knows me! I was the one who plotted these.
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by enf 16y ago
If it's taking you 45 minutes to go a mile, you should be walking instead.
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by enf 16y ago
I think a lot of these were also cleaned up for use in Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of Unix, so you might find that more readable.
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by enf 17y ago
The conventional wisdom is that people are generally willing to walk about 5 minutes. I think that is probably a little too low, but I don't believe people will generally walk 20 minutes (1 mile) except in the most interesting of places. I
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by enf 17y ago
OK, it sounds like we may be in violent agreement then. University Avenue is a good place and the only trouble is that places like it are too few and too far apart.
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by enf 17y ago
It doesn't sound like either of us is going to convince the other of anything. I think what you can see from a moving car, especially from an elevated freeway, is irrelevant to understanding what life is like in the city, because the essen
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by enf 17y ago
I think that it gives as accurate an idea of what suburban life does as driving into the city to work gives of what city life is like, which is what I was responding to ("You're forgetting that many of the suburbians see cities every day be
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by enf 17y ago
There are an awful lot of city people too who have to see the suburbs every day for work and are relieved when they get to go home to the city. I am thinking in particular of all the San Franciscans who work in the South Bay.
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by enf 17y ago
470,333 vehicles registered to San Francisco residents according to http://www.sfmta.com/cms/rfact/documents/SFFactSheet2009_Nov...
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by enf 17y ago
If you want text instead of video, http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/03/29/san-francisco-first-cit...
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by enf 17y ago
There are prototype meters in some locations (mostly near the Embarcadero) that use central fareboxes instead of individual meters. They get around the printed receipt problem by having you specify the parking space number when you pay and
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by enf 17y ago
Oh interesting. I had assumed that the transition to zip codes always added digits at the start (like San Francisco, which prepended 941 to the old codes) and didn't know there were places that inserted new digits in the middle instead.
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by enf 17y ago
Oh, that's great that you have a tool. I should have said that my reply was for the eTrex *X series that store the maps and logs on an SD card and that things might be different for different models.
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by enf 17y ago
The GPS logs are in GPX file format, which is XML based but also easy to parse from whatever your favorite scripting language is. The map format (.img) is proprietary, but has been reversed engineered, so, for example, there are tools for c
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by enf 17y ago
Fortunately you can pretty much ignore the Garmin software and just mount it as a USB drive to get maps on or GPS logs off.
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by enf 17y ago
David Byrne had a recent piece about writing music to be heard in particular environments, which seems related: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/02/021410-valentines-day....
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by enf 17y ago
Looks like the original author actually chose to post to scribd, so the reposting isn't to blame: http://twitter.com/pamelafox/status/9873479432 But I'd always rather have a PDF too.
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by enf 17y ago
Parking within buildings is still lousy because it is very hard to build buildings that have the necessary doors and ramps for car access and still have any space left over for an active-use ground floor. Without active uses at sidewalk le
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by enf 17y ago
They didn't have wagons. Only businesses that needed to haul things, or the very rich, could afford the space and money to keep animals in cities. Everyone else just lived in places that were compact enough that it was practical to walk e
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by enf 17y ago
I think what's going on here is that the local variables in a function are directly adjacent in memory to the arguments, so if it wasn't declared to have that many arguments, the local variables would start at the same location in memory as
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by enf 17y ago
At the time that any of the Android people were at Danger, the Sidekick had its own custom OS written from the ground up. There was talk of switching to NetBSD in the distant future but it hadn't happened yet.
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by enf 17y ago
The original paper published about it was called "The Fortran Automatic Coding System". They did realize, though, that they had created a language as well as a compiler: "It has two components: the FORTRAN language, in which programs are wr
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by enf 17y ago
I cut that cover off the magazine at the time and have it in a box somewhere.
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by enf 17y ago
Lots and lots of books are available used, but the ones at the end of the "long tail" aren't and probably never will be, and that's the most exciting thing about this for me. I have actually done as he described and traveled to Chicago, Mi
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by enf 17y ago
NAVTEQ's map of San Francisco has a street called "Submarine Bells Way" that doesn't exist in real life. Tele Atlas's map of Oakland, CA, includes a made-up street name "Del Norte Drive"
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by enf 17y ago
You might also want to check out http://historicaerials.com 's aerial photos. In addition to 1956, they have 1948, when it was pretty much all agricultural, and 1968, when it had all been built over with suburbs.
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by enf 18y ago
If you want locations of zip codes or US cities, you can easily get that from the US Census's TIGER data.
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by enf 18y ago
Pac Bell was part of the Pacific Telesis branch.
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by enf 18y ago
The classic IBM/Lexmark/Unicomp buckling-spring keyboards. I especially like the PS/1 version without the number pad.

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