What plans are there to modernise the New York subway?
Travelling around the world I see some modern subway systems, either because the were recently implemented or they decided that they needed to modernise, or fall apart.
New Yorkâ(TM)s subway system feels outdated in many ways and the fact it manages to cope with so many travellers is impressive. The feeling I get of NYCâ(TM)s subway is one where they are so busy trying to prevent it falling apart that they canâ(TM)t even consider modernising, unless a new specific budget and city mandate comes it?
Does anyone know what is keeping the system in its current state?
There are indeed alternatives and unfortunately some require a life style change:
- thin, but sun blocking long sleeved clothing
- spend more time in the shade
- loose clothing, such as sarongs (seen in Asia and Pacific) or robes (seen in Middle East)
- avoid the mid-day sun
In many ways western culture is a bit crazy: go out in the mid day sun, with maximum skin exposure and make sure that is compensated by being in the sunniest location. I must admit I have been guilty of this too.
Is this not a form of eminent domain, but at TLD level? Also, France is very big on pushing for control over regions as trademarks. For example, unless you are in the region of Champagne you can't user that as a label for your sparkling wine.
In many ways the guy owning the domain should have probably seen it coming and had a backup domain name? Do I think the people who decided to force control, instead of providing warning and discourse, aren't probably arrogant a holes? I do, but as the little guy what can your really do except make noise and just marketing a new domain. Hopefully he wins his case, but I am not too optimistic.
Maybe we need to start creating boiler plate or set of common named terms & conditions? While there would still be the usual legal jargon, at least there is a community built around understanding what the contract is trying to achieve, since it is reused in other places. Think Creative Commons, GPL and MIT licenses for example.
Maybe a checkbox system, where you specify what you want from the contract and then the legalese would be generated, but at least there would be a similar high level view to the user?
Car companies want to sell cars. They don't need the government forcing them to build cars to specifications - many of which customers do not desire. If a customer wants a specific type of car, you can bet car companies will do their best to create it. Regulations only constrain their ability to do so while raising prices to the consumer.
You may want to look at the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, since it probably requires a number of things that you take for granted:
Also, crash safety is also a federally regulated requirement. I am sure many executives would have been okay not getting anywhere near them, if it they weren't required, since after all that's the driver's fault?/s
Surely this change in regulation would do more to hurt US car companies that help them? If they don't design and build for efficiency, then surely this would limit their ability to export to any market that cares about efficiency or where fuel costs are already high? This feels like another short term action, just like trying to protect the coal industry, that will end up hurting more in the long run, than doing any real good.
Security experts have the job of breaking things. Most other people have deliverables, so iterative QA misses this. The ideal situation is having your own internal team trying to break any product when ever they please. Maybe Apple already has a security team dâ(TM)oà g exactly this?
If you want to start reducing federal expenses, then start with the military budget, which accounts for 50%.
As for regulation it is the to reduce the risk of corporations doing any shit they want, impeding on the rights of the citizens of the land. Would you want a NFL or NBA game without rules, well thatâ(TM)s what removing all regulations would be like? Also, it is better for a corporation to have to deal with one regulation at federal level, than dozens spread out amongst different states.
When it comes to trusting the government or mega corporations less, then I am torn. Then again corporations do a better job of influencing the government these days, than the average US citizen.
By accepting the likelihood of regulation, Zuckerberg has at least some opportunity to shape it. Better to capitulate and retain some leverage than to fight it and have regulations imposed.
Exactly. He also knows that is going to come in from other territories, so trying to ensure it matches what is already there makes it easier to implement. Financial institutions on the other hand, often have to deal with conflicting regulations, leaving them in position of needing to comply with them in a way they incur the least penalties.
He might be uncomfortable with it, but he probably accepts it is better PR and business just to go with it. At least this way he can have a meaningful conversation as to what appropriate regulation is?
How about they donâ(TM)t care about the real purpose of the 2nd amendment, as long as they can fill their coffers with money from gun sales? Sometimes it feels more like a religious cult that has far too much power and influence.
Definitely a bad precedent, though Twitter could change the terms to make clear that that embedding is acceptable and the nature of the beast.
Twitter could also add a no embed options to profiles and in then add provide an option to ignore profiles that donâ(TM)t want embedding? In other words: You donâ(TM)t want visibility: weâ(TM)ll provide you the option, but it comes with potential consequences.
Use another OS and then boot into Windows only when you need to play games? A pain, but one way of avoiding stuff you don't care about. Of course the one down side is being bombarded by an endless update cycle if you skipped a month of gaming.
Given this was a first launch of something so complex it is amazing more didn't go wrong. Sure simulators have vastly reduced the risk (probably not a Kerbal Space Enterprise Edition;) ), but simulators are still not a good replacement for real world testing.
If it was only a lack of ignition fluid, then that seems like an easy fix, compared to all the other variables they have to deal with.
In certain cases it might be, just like chauvinism and any other standpoint taken to the extreme. In the end we should be treating all people with the same respect we would want for ourselves, no matter their biological, religious or cultural differences. Those who seek to make a negative example of someone's differences is not a very respectable person.
- user doesn’t have much control over the behaviour of their OS or browser in many cases
- it looks fine in Slashdot’s preview view, but then gets corrupted on submission
Still an answer that does not enumerate what is perceived wrong with the language and sounds fairly ignorant.
I’ll tell you why I am programming in nodejs at the moment and not Java (I have been a Java programmer for over a decade):
- The first reason is we needed to get a web oriented MVP to market quickly, without getting bogged down with over-architecture. It needed to be good enough. I have been an early startup using Java and doing things the right way hurt the evolution. J2EE be damned. - We felt that if needed startup minded people nodejs fitted the culture of the available people, since good majority of a Java developers appeared to be targeting corporate. - Many successful startups started off with interpreted languages and then evolved to more corporate friendly language later on. - It needed to be OS agnostic. Our developers use macOS, Linux abs Windows, but deploy to a Linux server. - There are many hosting platforms that are nodejs ready - Native JSON support, which is great for REST type applications - We can use the same set of developers on both frontend and backend.
I am aware there are a good number of challenges, like the large number of dependencies; it isn’t typed (though Typescript can help here); the asynchronous one threaded model.
All languages have trade-offs, but in the end what matters is that it gets the job done. There may be better languages, that correspond to certain criteria, but in the end if your team is failing to deliver, then that is when a poor technology was made.
While I do feel Apple can be too eager in breaking backwards compatibility, I also think Microsoftâ(TM)s model is equally absurd.
In many ways I imagine the better model would be to to break backwards compatibility and then run legacy apps in a transparent VM. Maybe something like Wine for Legacy Windows?
The irony is that a good number of cases comparative working conditions arenâ(TM)t really possible. This is because for a manufacturing process that provides work to apparently cheap labor in a China then it is often just done by robots in the US. Now we have the question of which is worse: mediocre working conditions or no job at all? - Neither are great options. If you want good working conditions and jobs it sometimes means driving the cost of the end product, though there are other cases where top management taking a cut would be better.
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What plans are there to modernise the New York subway?
Travelling around the world I see some modern subway systems, either because the were recently implemented or they decided that they needed to modernise, or fall apart.
New Yorkâ(TM)s subway system feels outdated in many ways and the fact it manages to cope with so many travellers is impressive. The feeling I get of NYCâ(TM)s subway is one where they are so busy trying to prevent it falling apart that they canâ(TM)t even consider modernising, unless a new specific budget and city mandate comes it?
Does anyone know what is keeping the system in its current state?
There are indeed alternatives and unfortunately some require a life style change:
- thin, but sun blocking long sleeved clothing
- spend more time in the shade
- loose clothing, such as sarongs (seen in Asia and Pacific) or robes (seen in Middle East)
- avoid the mid-day sun
In many ways western culture is a bit crazy: go out in the mid day sun, with maximum skin exposure and make sure that is compensated by being in the sunniest location. I must admit I have been guilty of this too.
Is this not a form of eminent domain, but at TLD level? Also, France is very big on pushing for control over regions as trademarks. For example, unless you are in the region of Champagne you can't user that as a label for your sparkling wine.
In many ways the guy owning the domain should have probably seen it coming and had a backup domain name? Do I think the people who decided to force control, instead of providing warning and discourse, aren't probably arrogant a holes? I do, but as the little guy what can your really do except make noise and just marketing a new domain. Hopefully he wins his case, but I am not too optimistic.
How long before the autopilot will need to detect a driver, in the driving seat, before engaging?
Maybe we need to start creating boiler plate or set of common named terms & conditions? While there would still be the usual legal jargon, at least there is a community built around understanding what the contract is trying to achieve, since it is reused in other places. Think Creative Commons, GPL and MIT licenses for example.
Maybe a checkbox system, where you specify what you want from the contract and then the legalese would be generated, but at least there would be a similar high level view to the user?
Car companies want to sell cars. They don't need the government forcing them to build cars to specifications - many of which customers do not desire. If a customer wants a specific type of car, you can bet car companies will do their best to create it. Regulations only constrain their ability to do so while raising prices to the consumer.
You may want to look at the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, since it probably requires a number of things that you take for granted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, crash safety is also a federally regulated requirement. I am sure many executives would have been okay not getting anywhere near them, if it they weren't required, since after all that's the driver's fault? /s
Surely this change in regulation would do more to hurt US car companies that help them? If they don't design and build for efficiency, then surely this would limit their ability to export to any market that cares about efficiency or where fuel costs are already high? This feels like another short term action, just like trying to protect the coal industry, that will end up hurting more in the long run, than doing any real good.
Security experts have the job of breaking things. Most other people have deliverables, so iterative QA misses this. The ideal situation is having your own internal team trying to break any product when ever they please. Maybe Apple already has a security team dâ(TM)oà g exactly this?
If you want to start reducing federal expenses, then start with the military budget, which accounts for 50%.
As for regulation it is the to reduce the risk of corporations doing any shit they want, impeding on the rights of the citizens of the land. Would you want a NFL or NBA game without rules, well thatâ(TM)s what removing all regulations would be like? Also, it is better for a corporation to have to deal with one regulation at federal level, than dozens spread out amongst different states.
When it comes to trusting the government or mega corporations less, then I am torn. Then again corporations do a better job of influencing the government these days, than the average US citizen.
By accepting the likelihood of regulation, Zuckerberg has at least some opportunity to shape it. Better to capitulate and retain some leverage than to fight it and have regulations imposed.
Exactly. He also knows that is going to come in from other territories, so trying to ensure it matches what is already there makes it easier to implement. Financial institutions on the other hand, often have to deal with conflicting regulations, leaving them in position of needing to comply with them in a way they incur the least penalties.
He might be uncomfortable with it, but he probably accepts it is better PR and business just to go with it. At least this way he can have a meaningful conversation as to what appropriate regulation is?
Or it is approved by people, some of who may be communist? Then again lumping everyone together is probably easier?
How about they donâ(TM)t care about the real purpose of the 2nd amendment, as long as they can fill their coffers with money from gun sales? Sometimes it feels more like a religious cult that has far too much power and influence.
Definitely a bad precedent, though Twitter could change the terms to make clear that that embedding is acceptable and the nature of the beast.
Twitter could also add a no embed options to profiles and in then add provide an option to ignore profiles that donâ(TM)t want embedding? In other words: You donâ(TM)t want visibility: weâ(TM)ll provide you the option, but it comes with potential consequences.
Use another OS and then boot into Windows only when you need to play games? A pain, but one way of avoiding stuff you don't care about. Of course the one down side is being bombarded by an endless update cycle if you skipped a month of gaming.
Given this was a first launch of something so complex it is amazing more didn't go wrong. Sure simulators have vastly reduced the risk (probably not a Kerbal Space Enterprise Edition ;) ), but simulators are still not a good replacement for real world testing.
If it was only a lack of ignition fluid, then that seems like an easy fix, compared to all the other variables they have to deal with.
Feminism is cancer.
In certain cases it might be, just like chauvinism and any other standpoint taken to the extreme. In the end we should be treating all people with the same respect we would want for ourselves, no matter their biological, religious or cultural differences. Those who seek to make a negative example of someone's differences is not a very respectable person.
There are a few issues here:
- user doesn’t have much control over the behaviour of their OS or browser in many cases
- it looks fine in Slashdot’s preview view, but then gets corrupted on submission
Well slashdot does announce "Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8" in its response header, so can't blame the browser here.
Every time I look at a post like this, I wonder when Slashdot will get with the times and support unicode?
To save people trying to find the link to the official page, here it is: https://snapcraft.io/skype/
Still an answer that does not enumerate what is perceived wrong with the language and sounds fairly ignorant.
I’ll tell you why I am programming in nodejs at the moment and not Java (I have been a Java programmer for over a decade):
- The first reason is we needed to get a web oriented MVP to market quickly, without getting bogged down with over-architecture. It needed to be good enough. I have been an early startup using Java and doing things the right way hurt the evolution. J2EE be damned.
- We felt that if needed startup minded people nodejs fitted the culture of the available people, since good majority of a Java developers appeared to be targeting corporate.
- Many successful startups started off with interpreted languages and then evolved to more corporate friendly language later on.
- It needed to be OS agnostic. Our developers use macOS, Linux abs Windows, but deploy to a Linux server.
- There are many hosting platforms that are nodejs ready
- Native JSON support, which is great for REST type applications
- We can use the same set of developers on both frontend and backend.
I am aware there are a good number of challenges, like the large number of dependencies; it isn’t typed (though Typescript can help here); the asynchronous one threaded model.
All languages have trade-offs, but in the end what matters is that it gets the job done. There may be better languages, that correspond to certain criteria, but in the end if your team is failing to deliver, then that is when a poor technology was made.
For morons.
What issues do you see with node.js?
While I do feel Apple can be too eager in breaking backwards compatibility, I also think Microsoftâ(TM)s model is equally absurd.
In many ways I imagine the better model would be to to break backwards compatibility and then run legacy apps in a transparent VM. Maybe something like Wine for Legacy Windows?
The irony is that a good number of cases comparative working conditions arenâ(TM)t really possible. This is because for a manufacturing process that provides work to apparently cheap labor in a China then it is often just done by robots in the US. Now we have the question of which is worse: mediocre working conditions or no job at all? - Neither are great options. If you want good working conditions and jobs it sometimes means driving the cost of the end product, though there are other cases where top management taking a cut would be better.