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by jarek 14y ago
> What excuse is there for driving directions that direct you to drive on train tracks? [2] Judging by all the cars parked on both sides of the track, there's probably a driveable surface there too. Not uncommon.
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by jarek 14y ago
I do. I'm not aware of anyone I know actually buying anything, we were always searching for the free ones when it was birthday or flirting time. But then again, university students have a lot of time to invest into free. For some reason I'v
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by jarek 14y ago
Thank you.
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by jarek 14y ago
The issue isn't "supporting". They actively went out of their way to specifically add code blocking Opera's user-agent string. It's more work to that than to let it through and let it fail if it must.
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by jarek 14y ago
> then bury you in support tickets After all, Myspace has a commonly-used bug reporting functionality. > complain loudly to their friends Because they won't complain about being locked out?
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by jarek 14y ago
I was referring specifically to khet's statement I quoted. What is Myspace "standing up for" here?
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by jarek 14y ago
These days I have no problem with sites who don't want to support some users, that's their call. I wouldn't recommend suggesting the users must not use the internet very often though.
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by jarek 14y ago
Yeah, " d - You don't usually jump through hoops to get a demo website working in your perfectly capable browser " must have been left off the list accidentally.
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by jarek 14y ago
Not sure if that was sarcasm or not. What that actually says is that they're explicitly blocking Opera by the user-agent string, and haven't bothered blocking Lynx. As pointed out elsewhere in comments here, the page actually works just fin
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by jarek 14y ago
> It takes character and guts to stand up for something. What does showing a message "Our superpowers have detected you're using an outdated browser. That must mean: a - You don't use the Internet very often. b - You're at your parents'
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by jarek 14y ago
Here's another stat to look at. Southern Ontario, roughly up to Algonquin Park, has around 12 million people on about 140,000 km^2. Sweden has around 9.5 million people on about 450,000 km^2. Going purely by area or density criteria, southe
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by jarek 14y ago
Sure, but you don't live in the middle of the Northwest Territories, and neither do the vast majority of Canadians complaining about telecom prices. The population density figure is a bit of a red herring.
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by jarek 14y ago
There's plenty of small remote towns in Sweden
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by jarek 14y ago
Mobilicity's network is even smaller geographically, but both are excellent options for those covered.
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by jarek 14y ago
> The biggest kicker is trying to find a good prepaid with data SIM - in Australia you can walk into any 7-11 and buy a SIM card for $2 and then get on a $2/day unlimited phone/data prepaid plan (i.e. you just charge up and then every d
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by jarek 14y ago
I see the reasoning, but I can't help thinking that any event that would disable two or three well-planned backups is also rather likely to disable the fourth - especially if that one comes with no guarantees. I'm thinking that in the event
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by jarek 14y ago
What if by 2018 "friends only" is no longer an option? Or what if the software extracts this data out of explicitly public Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin posts that were intended by the user to read neutral and employable?
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by jarek 14y ago
Wow, I totally didn't realize Victoria and Kelowna were actually supported from reading the Vancouver list. (I live in Vancouver now.) I know the BC Transit thing is a pain in the ass from naming perspective, but yeah, get that reworked whe
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by jarek 14y ago
If you don't want to pay them you could always process the GTFS yourself.
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by jarek 14y ago
I'm still curious about the inclusion of GRT under Toronto. I realize the region isn't that large but that's not an intuitive classification for locals - unless they go off exploring and check the agencies listed under Toronto, they might t
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by jarek 14y ago
Not sure about Montreal as I'm not familiar with the names of the lesser agencies listed, but under "Toronto" they have listed Guelph Transit and Grand River Transit which are pretty far from Toronto, well outside of urban and metro area. M
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by jarek 14y ago
If your data is important enough that you want a secondary backup just in case both your main source and your backup are both taken out, you would presumably want it to be a reliable service, not a free hobby service on someone's home cable
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by jarek 14y ago
> backup, no guarantees What's the use?
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by jarek 14y ago
That would be why it's being mocked by mullingitover.
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by jarek 14y ago
True. In my experiences scraping Vancouver's Translink, I can get a prediction in about a second or so, but not fully reliably. On the other hand, if there's anyone that could speed up receiving, processing, and retrieving lots of rapidly c
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by jarek 14y ago
There's no universally accepted API for the real-time data unlike the GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) for theoretical schedules. You can approach some commonality with Nextbus API/scraping ( http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/agency
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by jarek 14y ago
> And if each iPhone user reports one problem, the entire POI problem will be solved. When each iPhone user reports one problem, and staff at Apple take a look at them all, determine whether each report is correct, and act on it, the en
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by jarek 14y ago
Unless specifically indicated as live times, Google uses the scheduled times. I've seen live times in Google Maps in only one area, Portland, OR. Scheduled times are coming from GTFS feeds that agencies register with Google. As far as I kno
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by jarek 14y ago
I'd have thought such a basic statement of group dynamics would have been made well before Chicago was founded.
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by jarek 14y ago
If they were planning to stay with their current provider on their current plan, perhaps. Off-contract: Customer: "I'm thinking of switching to provider B as my bills are high." Provider: "I'm sorry to hear that, can I knock $15 off your bi

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