pmccool

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by pmccool 14y ago
IME most workplaces have showers. It pays to ask; they can be well-hidden. Failing that, ride at an easy pace in the morning, wear breathable clothes etc. Cycling needn't be any harder than walking (unless you have huge hills or something).
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by pmccool 14y ago
Some things I just find easier with pen and paper. A pilot V-Pen (disposable fountain pen) and standard printer paper does me just fine. If I want to keep something for posterity, my mobile phone camera has plenty of resolution. If it's som
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by pmccool 14y ago
Michael Kirby, formerly of the High Court of Australia, etc etc would seem to agree with you, and he has for some time. Here's a speech of his touching on this very topic from the '80s. http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeche
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by pmccool 14y ago
Quite right. I see two issues with regexes: funky syntax and some important and non-obvious limitations. If you want to use them, these two things add up to a considerable barrier to entry. There are many examples of trivial pattern-matchin
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by pmccool 14y ago
My experience of the bike-hire scheme in Brisbane (Australia) is that helmet laws are a problem, but not the problem. The legal requirement to wear a helmet is a bit tiresome, and the communal helmets they supply to get around it are a
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by pmccool 14y ago
Also the case in Australia and the UK. Not that the winner gets all their costs back (60% is a figure I've seen bandied around) but it still creates a significant disincentive. Probably a good thing in the case of patent trolls, but not nec
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by pmccool 14y ago
> I very much disagree with your stance on this. I have yet to see a cheap bike that will stand up to more than a few months of daily commuting without various bearings wearing out. Use of non-standard parts makes fixing them uneconomic
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by pmccool 14y ago
"In an interview with Newsgeek, Gafni said that the production cost for his recycled bicycles is around $9-12 each, and he estimates it could be sold to a consumer for $60 to 90, depending on what parts they choose to add." Assuming they're
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by pmccool 15y ago
Bear in mind that this is a decision of a delegate of the Commissioner of Patents. This decision won't bind anyone except, presumably, the Commissioner of Patents. Its value as a legal precedent anywhere else in the world is roughly zero.
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by pmccool 15y ago
>who steals chains??? - apparently the thief had a chain tool handy to break the chain). Reusable joining link? No tools required. As to the point of doing it, well, I had the QR skewers stolen off my bike once. Stealing a chain makes a
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by pmccool 15y ago
I wish people would stop calling this sort of thing "piracy". Proper piracy -robbery, abduction and so forth on the high seas - is a continuing problem. This is hardly in the same league. May I suggest using "theft" instead, which at least
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by pmccool 15y ago
> Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing I myself think the problem is precisely the opposite: people do care about the aesthetics of plumbi
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by pmccool 16y ago
I guess. Having next to no experience of using Fahrenheit, I'm happy to take other peoples' word when it comes to day-to-day usefulness. It seems to me, though, that the relative merits pale into insignificance compared to the potential ben
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by pmccool 16y ago
The more I think about it, the more the 6-mile range sounds like a crippling flaw. Hills and headwinds will presumably knock this around, but that aside, there's just so little room for error. Forget to charge, make a short detour to buy gr
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by pmccool 16y ago
I see electric bicycles as a tool to help people build a bit of exercise into their daily commute. I'm all for that. I'm a bit leery of devices like this, which help people build no exercise at all into their daily commute.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Or the 55 year old started their programming career at age 45. I've seen it happen... Edit: or whatever age would result in equivalent industry experience
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by pmccool 16y ago
I don't understand how this is a step forward; ease of manufacture, maybe? It doesn't strike me as being any more reliable, comfortable or efficient than any other electric-assist bicycle. I do like the thought that's gone into the various
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by pmccool 16y ago
Interesting rant. I do not think that 3-D printing is going to play much of a part, though. You mention an open-source bicycle; this is a good illustration of the problem. The bicycle I rode to work today has: - a frame made of heat-treated
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by pmccool 16y ago
What I don't understand is: how do they move the bikes without damaging the locks?
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by pmccool 16y ago
I was struck by the parallel with blue-black ink (chemical reaction for permanence + dye to see what was written in the meantime).
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by pmccool 16y ago
> Your comment is basically "You're being too informative. Could you break it down for me further, again, one more time? To me, his comment is basically "primary, not secondary, source materials please". Where I come from this is a reas
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by pmccool 16y ago
Ironically, the UCI is pushing to get rid of radios, so the communication side of it is probably here nor there in pro cycling. I suspect, though, that regular punters will be quite keen. I certainly carry my iPhone when out riding; having
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by pmccool 16y ago
As well as what others have suggested (shower at work, don't try hard, etc) there are electric bicycles available that would address this issue. I've not tried one myself, but they seem to have a following. As for the long distances, I've k
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by pmccool 16y ago
From the article: "Employees at legal outsourcing companies in India are not allowed by Indian law to give legal advice to clients in the West, no matter their qualifications. Instead, legal outsourcing companies perform a lot of the functi
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by pmccool 16y ago
The first paragraph then says "Smartphones may soon displace some of the estimated 1 billion credit and debit cards in American wallets." which is a rather different and less drastic change; they're no more replacing credit cards than credi
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Building A Bicycle Wheel(sheldonbrown.com)
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by pmccool 16y ago
Not prohibited != can be done without legal consequence. New torts are invented, albeit rarely. Every so often there's a new duty of care in negligence. There are, I'm sure, other examples and the point is this: the lack of case law wasn't
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by pmccool 16y ago
> There are a very few it is not included in, but these do not have any other editors either. I'm curious: when have you come across an editor-less unix?The vi-less ones I've come across have generally had some bizarre substitute that u
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by pmccool 16y ago
That depends on whether you're talking about statute or common law. With statute law, no law does mean "not prohibited". With case law it does not: the courts can and do make up new law to fit the facts. Lack of case law affords no protecti
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by pmccool 16y ago
> In many criminal cases, the common-law requirement that a defendant must have a mens rea (ie, he must or should know that he is doing wrong) has been weakened or erased. Others have found this a surprising claim, so do I. How has it b

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