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by nhf 6y ago
It'll roll out through Google Play Services, not an OS update for Android. https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1248667196722573312
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by nhf 7y ago
Institutional buy-in and support. When your 40,000 student university's administration declares "we are using Zoom for online classes and it's been integrated into our class management system by IT", it just gets used. A
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by nhf 7y ago
Google Maps entirely relies on the data given by transit agencies through their GTFS feeds, whether they be static or real-time. It doesn't do the same type of calculation that the driving navigation does where they average travel time
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by nhf 7y ago
Looks like this is a known issue due to a misconfiguration of BART's transit feed. (Source: I work at Google and located the relevant bug, but I don't work on maps.)
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by nhf 7y ago
Much of the side-to-side jerking is a combination of the poor suspension on the trucks (bogies) of the older Gallery train cars and fast running over track switches. The Gallery cars are the ones that look like steel toasters. If you take a
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What is the best way to sell a train ticket? (2015)(nextcity.org)
1 points by nhf 7y ago|0 comments
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by nhf 7y ago
Kai Bird is an incredibly good biographer. He just released one of Aldrich Ames, noted CIA / KGB double agent.
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by nhf 7y ago
He's rightfully dunking on the Van Ness bus line for some reasons, but it's basically a major utilities infrastructure project disguised as a bus lane. They're overhead power and reconfiguring the street, but they're als
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by nhf 7y ago
Some power user features of ITA aren't available on Google Flights still - for example, it lets you construct specific weird routings or layovers that Google will often optimize away. For instance, if you want a 24 hour layover in a ci
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by nhf 7y ago
There have also been numerous stories from those around him at MIT about inappropriate conduct with students and staff. The flip side of diversity is inclusion and those actions ran counter to MIT's own policies on an inclusive workpla
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by nhf 7y ago
I only met him in passing when at MIT but some of my colleagues worked more closely with him. Everything I've heard is absolutely true. People sometimes get cynical and believe that nice people can't be that nice (á la Mr. Rogers)
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by nhf 7y ago
Apple has done silent updates for Gatekeeper, the macOS code signing/file quarantine/light anti-malware framework ever since Yosemite. These are done silently unless you explicitly disable all updates and only show up as a visible
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Making an App Is a Terrible Idea, but Here's How You Can Do It [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nhf 7y ago|0 comments
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by nhf 7y ago
I think that's just an (northeast) Asian bed thing. Preferences trend firm for mattresses and you can see this in traditional or luxury places that don't cater to Westerners. The most deluxe ryokans in Japan still have relatively
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by nhf 7y ago
Can't wait for the IETF standardization process to finish up! https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-transport.htm...
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Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance(eng.uber.com)
363 points by nhf 7y ago|57 comments
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by nhf 8y ago
My new "only YouTube while on the treadmill or exercise bike" rule has been a life changer
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by nhf 8y ago
This is part of the (recent-ish) history in psychology on the effects of choice. Maybe relevant: "When Choice is Demotivating". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Lepper/publication...
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by nhf 8y ago
For those who aren't FB insiders, what is the read on this? Do the two Chris' reputation in the company have any bearing on how this is read?
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by nhf 8y ago
It's actually not that complicated. Most headless browser drivers have some global JavaScript functions in the `window` namespace that immediately identify themselves. I once ran into a piece of code from the scammy advertising world t
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by nhf 8y ago
An excellent demonstration of how there's often a big gap between having legal remedies available and actually enforcing them.
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by nhf 8y ago
Same in aviation, the ICAO phonetic alphabet is meant to reduce uncertainty over historically poor radio communications. Plus readback to air traffic control and so on is relatively standardized to allow for a few chances to realize you got
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by nhf 8y ago
See also: * 18F and USDS (USA): https://18f.gsa.gov/ and https://www.usds.gov/ * GSA Technology Transformation Service: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/organization/federal-acquisitio
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by nhf 8y ago
It's his job now (he makes money off of ticket booking commissions, plus probably some other stuff). I'm sure he also gets feedback from public information sources, travelers, and train enthusiasts.
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by nhf 8y ago
Or try the A350, which is just full on glass: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RYQL4QdHzFA/maxresdefault.jpg 767s can be retrofit to that state though, and some airlines have done so. This is a rendering of a cockpit retrof
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by nhf 8y ago
I feel like this is a common sentiment: San Francisco is beautiful in the abstract, but disgusting in detail. I feel like this is a pretty common trope for most "grade A" cities—someone will always hate it, people who love it will
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by nhf 8y ago
I think that's more of an economic incentives thing rather than any issue with this particular type of construction. You do a 1+5 building with soundproof doors, varied paint schemes for each unit, real wood flooring (not laminate), an
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action(blogs.microsoft.com)
6 points by nhf 8y ago|1 comments
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by nhf 8y ago
Probably the closest thing in the US would be a Congressional subpoena. In contrast to the UK Parliament's shakier justification, both Congressional rules and the Supreme Court case Wilkinson v. United States have affirmed that committ
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by nhf 8y ago
> And you can get a yearly subscription, giving you all-inclusive usage of the services for 1€/day, billed monthly. This kind of thing is key - make it easy to use transit and lower the marginal cost of doing so. Yearly subscription

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