al_gore

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by al_gore 12y ago
It's too bad he died, because I'd love to see him shoved into the back of a police car for his wage fixing. Meanwhile, Schmidt walks alive and free. Ah, life for the rich.
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by al_gore 12y ago
HEET turnstiles?
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by al_gore 12y ago
I get what you're going for, but it's pretty much openly legal to kill pedestrians with cars (in the US, at least). "No criminality suspected"!
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by al_gore 12y ago
This is just plain old C (which, yes, Objective-C is a superset of).
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by al_gore 12y ago
or just != 0
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by al_gore 12y ago
There is nowhere that I particularly want to live that I could possibly afford to buy in, though.
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by al_gore 12y ago
> Auto-updating rather than re-cloning and dragging files back into your project That's the least usable way to do it, though. Use static library projects in submodules and a workspace/nested projects, and updated submodules wi
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by al_gore 12y ago
I don't know if agents would work - they work in movies because you shoot one, then wrap and move on to the next one. An agent can be constantly looking out for new films to work in. Unless you're exclusively seeking short-term co
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by al_gore 12y ago
100 years ago, you could use cut and cover without enraging a bunch of UES rich people. Oh well.
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by al_gore 12y ago
I think the MBTA is better than Muni + BART, the percentage of proper heavy rail rapid transit is much higher in Boston (just the meh Green Line, compared to every meh Muni line).
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by al_gore 12y ago
Billions of dollars of "studies" and such, I'm sure. NIMBYs hate cut and cover, so we end up digging absurdly expensive deep tunnels that are just worse to use once finished (they take forever to get into, compare deep stat
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by al_gore 12y ago
The Green Line in Boston runs down a protected center path in the road for a significant portion. Is there a reason that SF can't carve out those lanes for exclusive Muni use?
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by al_gore 12y ago
This is true, but there's no reason that San Francisco itself couldn't have proper rapid transit instead of street cars. Even just removing cars from those streets and creating dedicated lanes (these exist in some places, of cours
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by al_gore 12y ago
The common argument against overnight service in non-New York cities is "only two tracks! no time to do maintenance!": http://www.bart.gov/guide/latenight This seems to just completely ignore the existence of
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by al_gore 12y ago
I'm not crazy about referencing self within the block to create changes. On OS X, NSObject supports keypath-to-keypath bindings, which can be processed with NSValueTransformer (a relic of the pre-blocks era, I suppose). Something like
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by al_gore 12y ago
There's an absolutely massive custom scrollbar (why?!), but clicking in it doesn't do anything?
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by al_gore 12y ago
> Hey Sudheendra, Do you know Vivek? With 2.5 years of experience in PHP he seems like a good fit for our next big startup . Thanks to LinkedIn, I noticed you are his 1st connection. Would you mind connecting us? Wow. "Uh, no"
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by al_gore 12y ago
Doesn't seem to recognize bridges - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.7104202,-73.9608626/40.71... is considered "mostly flat".