The editors realize that Russia spans 9 time zones right? I think they meant to say Moscow Time. Can you imagine if an article was posted referring to American Time as a time zone?
I do not share this experience. Typically, when the seat in front of me is pushed back, it collides with my knee-caps, sometimes in a fairly painful manner. After that the flight becomes a few hours of my legs being restricted to one fairly uncomfortable position.
You're nuts. I've been driving a manual transmission for my entire life and was *never* told to put the hand brake on at a red light. In fact, I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green. As for putting it in neutral, usually not. I leave it in 1st, with my foot on the clutch. That's a safer stall than leaving the car not in gear at all: if my foot slips from the clutch, the car will lurch and stall completely, and the engine will keep it from moving further until I turn it back on. My other foot is on the brake at intersections, btw.
There's a definite difference in this respect between North America and the UK - the UK has an amber "prepare to go" signal on traffic lights, North America does not. I'm pretty sure, just not quite 100%, that this applies to other European countries where I've driven. This is presumably a difference due to the prevalence of manuals in the UK (where some warning to get the car in gear etc. is useful), while the US and Canada have a majority of automatic transmission cars, so the extra signal is not as useful.
In any case, in countries where you are taught to put the car in neutral and turn on the handbrake at junctions, you are given fair warning to get the car ready to move again before the green light.
The parent to your comment was talking about album sales, whereas you're talking about single sales. That album sales are down and single track sales are up has been known for a while now, and all it really indicatesis that people are consuming music differently now: in single track chunks.
Ditching Darwin for Austen seems a little sad, though Charles has had a good run. Removing Smith in favour of Austen, on the other, just seems like a scenario with no downside... Apart from for the woman campaigning to get Austen on the banknotes in the first place, of course, who gets threatened just for trying to get a critically renowned author some recognition.
On the one hand it seems kind of lazy. On t'other it shows lateral thinking, reuse of existing code and a good choice of tool for the specific requirements of the assignment.
Not to name and shame, to know who to ask about what they were exactly they were doing when they changed that bit of code. You know, so my fix doesn't break there changes.
Using subversion, specifically 'svn blame' doesn't have such an easy time with whitespace. Sometimes I want to know who changed a line last (and created a bug) and re-indenting significantly reduces the value of that information.
All well and good until you want to travel, which is when I can the greatest appeal of reading e-books: why use all your weight allowance on dead trees when you could take this one lightweight device that has all those titles and more loaded on it? That said, e-readers have their own problems for travel, in that they cannot be left unattended worry-free like their tree-based counterparts. Go to a beach with a book, leave it on your towel to swim. Go to a beach with an e-reader... Hope there's a very low rate of opportunistic theft in the area?
Also, there are still those of us who like to have a device that can last a week or more without charging, like my trusty phone (bought in 2007, still going strong).
Going with '112' breaks a perfectly good standard in a country that at least has a standard phone number format. Try calling India sometime for an example of what a lack of phone number format standards can cause.
So everywhere else in the world should break their standard for the sake of the US? Implementing both seems the only really sensible route.
You can take X days of sick leave with no more than a call to your boss and get paid.
If you want to take more than X days of sick leave, you require a doctor's note to state that you're actually sick and unable to work/it wouldn't be safe/sanitary for your coworkers if you were to go to work. With a doctor's note, you still get paid.
I also quite like what I read elsewhere in these comments about Sweden's system, where you aren't required to be paid for the first day of sick leave, which means the company doesn't (have to) pay for your hangover days.
There's a fairly major difference between "everyday" terms for the general population and those for/. readers. What you've done is somewhat facetiously define a number of terms that one might consider "everyday" for the vast majority of the visitors to this particular news aggregator. SCADA isn't something that most of us deal with, and I think readers could be forgiven for wanting an definition in the summary, especially if they've missed the recent bout of SCADA-related articles.
Yep, it's not difficult in Chrome exactly. It's just easier in Firefox, where the process is: visit page, click drop-down in search box select new search engine, which automatically becomes the default until a different engine is selected.
This doesn't really seem so much anti-competitive as simply different in terms of browser design. The simpler process is really made reasonable by Firefox's search box, the inclusion of which seems very much against Chrome's design principles.
As a case example of how it may occasionally be better in Europe: in England, you can go from Manchester to London in 2h5m, whereas the same drive would take you roughly 3h30m (being generous and assuming that there is no trouble with traffic anywhere along the way). True, the rail travel time needs to have time to/from respective stations added, but there appears to be plenty of spare time for that (1h25m). Maybe certain routes in England are a special cases, due to the density of the population and level of demand, but that said trains in North America have been really disappointing to me, even in the populated bits.
Another point you may be neglecting is that travel time is 'lost' time if you're driving, while you can actually use the time to do any of a multitude of things if you're on a train/flight etc.
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The editors realize that Russia spans 9 time zones right? I think they meant to say Moscow Time. Can you imagine if an article was posted referring to American Time as a time zone?
What a load of hyperbole. This has nothing to do with the right to remain anonymous online and everything to do with proving that the reviews are fake. This may even relate to some of Yelp's alleged unscrupulous business practices: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2012/08/16/think-yelp-is-unbiased-think-again/
I do not share this experience. Typically, when the seat in front of me is pushed back, it collides with my knee-caps, sometimes in a fairly painful manner. After that the flight becomes a few hours of my legs being restricted to one fairly uncomfortable position.
You're nuts. I've been driving a manual transmission for my entire life and was *never* told to put the hand brake on at a red light. In fact, I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green. As for putting it in neutral, usually not. I leave it in 1st, with my foot on the clutch. That's a safer stall than leaving the car not in gear at all: if my foot slips from the clutch, the car will lurch and stall completely, and the engine will keep it from moving further until I turn it back on. My other foot is on the brake at intersections, btw.
There's a definite difference in this respect between North America and the UK - the UK has an amber "prepare to go" signal on traffic lights, North America does not. I'm pretty sure, just not quite 100%, that this applies to other European countries where I've driven. This is presumably a difference due to the prevalence of manuals in the UK (where some warning to get the car in gear etc. is useful), while the US and Canada have a majority of automatic transmission cars, so the extra signal is not as useful.
In any case, in countries where you are taught to put the car in neutral and turn on the handbrake at junctions, you are given fair warning to get the car ready to move again before the green light.
Just because the UK doesn't like to pay for music doesn't mean it's a failure.
From the Wikipedia page you linked to:
...it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 163,000 copies in its first week.
What are you talking about? I mean is there any need to bring nationalities into this, when they're cleary irrelevant?
The parent to your comment was talking about album sales, whereas you're talking about single sales. That album sales are down and single track sales are up has been known for a while now, and all it really indicatesis that people are consuming music differently now: in single track chunks.
Ditching Darwin for Austen seems a little sad, though Charles has had a good run. Removing Smith in favour of Austen, on the other, just seems like a scenario with no downside... Apart from for the woman campaigning to get Austen on the banknotes in the first place, of course, who gets threatened just for trying to get a critically renowned author some recognition.
I've joked about the same thing: that github is my social network of choice.
Unfortunately, my less technically-inclined friends took that to mean that I had joined a network exclusively for curmudgeons.
On the one hand it seems kind of lazy. On t'other it shows lateral thinking, reuse of existing code and a good choice of tool for the specific requirements of the assignment.
Yeah, I didn't make it clear in my original comment. Especially because I used the 'svn blame' command, as opposed to the less loaded 'svn annotate'.
I need to learn to be clearer in my wording, especially on the Internet, where nobody knows you're a dog.
Not to name and shame, to know who to ask about what they were exactly they were doing when they changed that bit of code. You know, so my fix doesn't break there changes.
Most diffs can ignore whitespace...
Using subversion, specifically 'svn blame' doesn't have such an easy time with whitespace. Sometimes I want to know who changed a line last (and created a bug) and re-indenting significantly reduces the value of that information.
All well and good until you want to travel, which is when I can the greatest appeal of reading e-books: why use all your weight allowance on dead trees when you could take this one lightweight device that has all those titles and more loaded on it? That said, e-readers have their own problems for travel, in that they cannot be left unattended worry-free like their tree-based counterparts. Go to a beach with a book, leave it on your towel to swim. Go to a beach with an e-reader... Hope there's a very low rate of opportunistic theft in the area?
Also, there are still those of us who like to have a device that can last a week or more without charging, like my trusty phone (bought in 2007, still going strong).
Going with '112' breaks a perfectly good standard in a country that at least has a standard phone number format. Try calling India sometime for an example of what a lack of phone number format standards can cause.
So everywhere else in the world should break their standard for the sake of the US? Implementing both seems the only really sensible route.
Isn't it as simple as this:
I also quite like what I read elsewhere in these comments about Sweden's system, where you aren't required to be paid for the first day of sick leave, which means the company doesn't (have to) pay for your hangover days.
There's a fairly major difference between "everyday" terms for the general population and those for /. readers. What you've done is somewhat facetiously define a number of terms that one might consider "everyday" for the vast majority of the visitors to this particular news aggregator. SCADA isn't something that most of us deal with, and I think readers could be forgiven for wanting an definition in the summary, especially if they've missed the recent bout of SCADA-related articles.
Yep, it's not difficult in Chrome exactly. It's just easier in Firefox, where the process is: visit page, click drop-down in search box select new search engine, which automatically becomes the default until a different engine is selected. This doesn't really seem so much anti-competitive as simply different in terms of browser design. The simpler process is really made reasonable by Firefox's search box, the inclusion of which seems very much against Chrome's design principles.
As a case example of how it may occasionally be better in Europe: in England, you can go from Manchester to London in 2h5m, whereas the same drive would take you roughly 3h30m (being generous and assuming that there is no trouble with traffic anywhere along the way). True, the rail travel time needs to have time to/from respective stations added, but there appears to be plenty of spare time for that (1h25m). Maybe certain routes in England are a special cases, due to the density of the population and level of demand, but that said trains in North America have been really disappointing to me, even in the populated bits.
Another point you may be neglecting is that travel time is 'lost' time if you're driving, while you can actually use the time to do any of a multitude of things if you're on a train/flight etc.