I don't get why all these electric bikes have you sitting in such an upright position.
The racing position is favoured by people who race bikes. Those people wouldn't want an electric bike.
The upright position is preferred by most people going to work, school etc by bicycle -- there's a better view, and it's more comfortable. Most people aren't bothered by the slight inefficiency, especially if the motor is helping.
Worse still, because of the "peaky" nature of commuter traffic, you have to spec your mass-transit systems to handle the peaks and accept that they'll be pulling around mostly fresh air for at least 18 hours every day.
This is equally true for roads.
It's actually better for railways: off-peak tickets can be priced cheaply, to make better use of the capacity and reduce road congestion / pollution etc.
(London's Congestion Charge Zone means it costs ~£8 to drive in the centre between 7am-7pm, but not many cities do that. The time when peak transport fares apply is much shorter, 7-9 and 16-19h, I think.)
London is a terrible example. Population density is far higher in the centre. Employment density is also relatively even -- London's businesses are spread over many large areas.
Except for finance, London does have "small-to-medium sized business conglomerations around a city". And the bankers can afford to live close to the City / Canary Wharf anyway.
I don't understand the need for excuses. In Belgium if we want to drink/sell beers on the campus, we just do it.
Obviously, the excuse is only needed in the US.
Like all (or almost all?) universities, London South Bank University already has a proper pub within the student union. It might have one not run by the student union, but that's probably less likely, since there will be hundreds of normal pubs within a few minutes walk.
I don't think a set figure makes any sense. You'd need to identify the risks places have in common and work from there.
I live in a metropolis, not too far from the river. Flooding seems like the only disaster that could also affect buildings further than, say, 1km from here, and only if they're also near the river.
So, I think I'd be fine so long as the backups are >1km from here, and perhaps not on on below ground level.
(Within 100-1000m I still can't think of many risks two buildings have in common. Arson after a riot?)
My manager has never asked me to do overtime, although I think we have a similar arrangement.
However, sometimes I work late, particularly if I have no plans for the evenings, the office is quiet, and I'm busy concentrating on something. I leave early later that week, or if there are enough hours (like if the weather is really bad), take an afternoon or day.
I'm not sure what would happen if I didn't take my holiday. I think nothing, so long as I've taken the legal minimum (20 days in the UK, though I get 32).
But other fields like law, medicine, finance? The common perception is that when you're starting out as an intern or assistant, the way you get ahead is working 12 hours days or weekends or whatnot.
An "intern" (not a very British word) at a bank in London died recently, perhaps from overwork after working 72 hours straight.
Before the industrial revolution, "according to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, the medieval workday was not more than eight hours".
"Detailed accounts of artisans' workdays are available. Knoop and jones' figures for the fourteenth century work out to a yearly average of 9 hours (exclusive of meals and breaktimes)[3]. Brown, Colwin and Taylor's figures for masons suggest an average workday of 8.6 hours[4]. "
You missed the point: this was southern Britain, where most cities can keep all the salt/grit they need in a few heaps somewhere. It might snow once or twice, maybe 1-5cm. It hasn't snowed so far this winter.
When it snowed for two weeks, across the whole island, every city, town and village wanted more grit, and there wasn't enough available. Why would the grit-selling company have a 5 year supply on hand?
(Colleagues described the weather today is "bloody freezing". It was 10C. YMMV.)
I've only ever lived in neighbourhoods that have had all-buried utilities for decades and decades, and none of it has ever exploded. I can't remember a power cut lasting longer than a couple of hours; normally there's a brief interruption (seconds to ~10 minutes) every two-three years or less.
However, I don't live in the US, and probably pay 2-3x what you do for electricity.
I use the rsync app linked above. I already had a server (low-power ARM thing), so it took a few minutes to create a username and public key. The app has a list of defined rsync commands, I run it every so often.
Aren't bugs impossible to avoid in programming, especially in complex projects?
No, you just need to pay a lot. Examples: railway signalling, air/spacecraft, industrial control equipment,...
Not complex, but low-margin high-volume equipment -- a recall is very expensive. One of my tutors at university had worked for NASA, proving some systems on the ISS worked correctly, and an appliance manufacturer, proving washing machine software worked.
I live in west London. Off-peak, I can travel to the centre of London for £2.20 (5 miles), or to Heathrow Airport (furthest west) for £1.50 (15 miles), or to the furthest point east for £3 (25 miles). At peak time, the fares and differences are all higher.
If the fare outside the centre wasn't so cheap, the massively underused capacity (train every 150 seconds) would be even more underused, and there'd probably be more traffic (and air pollution).
If the fare in the centre were cheaper, it would be even more crowded (trains are pretty full for much of the day -- standing room only). I suppose they could do that, but it would make journeys less reliable.
Most German metro systems are smaller, but seem to have "short trip tickets", which are a usually about half price and valid only for 3 or 4 stops. I like that idea too.
People in London do, although I doubt it's the most important thing for many. Property listings (especially commercial ones) usually say what fare zone the nearest station is in -- of course, that's also another way of saying how central somewhere is, i.e. time/distance.
It can cost £200-400 more for an annual ticket to be the wrong side of the zone boundary. (Zone 1 only: £1256, Zone 1-4: £1800, Zone 1-9: £3256.) I've known people working low-paid jobs who'd take the train to the last station in Zone 2, then either walk or take a bus into Zone 1. (Zone 2-4 inc. bus: £1040).
However, the 'crappiness' of the neighbourhood isn't really connected to the transport price -- it's easy in London to walk for 30 minutes and pass from a dodgy area to a luxury one, to a nothing-special one, and still be in the same fare zone.
The standard advice in the UK is to put your hand over the keypad as you input the PIN, which also protects from criminals who modify the ATM to record the magnetic strip, add a hidden camera for the PIN, and send the details to their associates in the US to use in an ATM that doesn't support the chip.
There is no difference between NFC, a chip, a magnetic strip, etc. It's just your credit card number supplemented by a PIN.
The chip uses a cryptographic algorithm (RSA?) to sign the transaction. That's much more secure than a magnetic strip. You can't get the PIN out of the chip.
There have been lots of ideas for software, but none for hardware.
Last year I bought an Odroid U2, which is roughly a smartphone board with ethernet and USB. The power consumption is minimal -- 0.2W idle, 2W under load. Mine is running Debian, but Ubuntu and Android are also officially supported. I have a 1TB external drive connected. This has been running my website, and a family photo gallery, without any problems.
Last month I bought an Odroid U3, which will be in my house. As well as the server stuff, I have a touchscreen (HDMI + USB) and will make some little apps to use it.
This guy has Hadoop running on an Odroid, which is probably more complicated than is worthwhile. (Hadoop has a distributed file system.)
We have 130GB of photos, which until very recently was far too expensive to store on a cloud service. SkyDrive apparently costs $100/year for 200GB, so that could save a lot of effort if it provides what you need.
The worrying this is you don't consider what you describe normal.
I've been unable to even find the stairs in American buildings sometimes, which is particularly annoying if my hotel room is on the first or second floor.
My office is on the first floor, the kitchen and toilets in the basement. No one grumbles...
Assuming a similar pattern across science and engineering graduates at Cambridge, Oxford, UCL -- isn't it disappointing that 15% of the best graduates apply their skills to ethically-dubious problems? These people (mostly) aren't working on consumer banking, but things like high-frequency trading.
Of my six closest friends from my CS class, who I still meet up with regularly, four work in investment banks (and one at Google, one in science). One is a trader, three write trading software. Considering CS alone, 40-50% of the class works in finance!
It was. The original developer had left, the code was barely commented, and was written in a single Perl file. There was very little structure -- just some procedures and functions. There were lots of regular expressions. It was a CGI web application, but there were no templates, and no use of the CGI HTML functions -- just HTML elements in strings.
I think the supposed requirement was something like "The CS department use this, we want to roll it out to the rest of the university". Therefore I'd anticipate a lot more changes being made in the future, so rewriting it before it's used more widely made even more sense.
(It was a semi-serious assignment. The year after I graduated they switched to some commercial software, and the students I knew all grumbled about it. The Perl system, though unmaintainable, had been reliable and functional for over a decade. The web server still seems to exist, though I can't authenticate... maybe they did redevelop it.)
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I don't get why all these electric bikes have you sitting in such an upright position.
The racing position is favoured by people who race bikes. Those people wouldn't want an electric bike.
The upright position is preferred by most people going to work, school etc by bicycle -- there's a better view, and it's more comfortable. Most people aren't bothered by the slight inefficiency, especially if the motor is helping.
What's odd is that Google runs the buses. Why doesn't the city public transport system run buses to somewhere like Mountain View?
Contrary to the GP, I think London is an example of a city with spread-out employment. See http://luminocitymap.org/Emplo...
However, that doesn't mean people necessarily live close to work -- living close to work for one job might mean living far away for the next.
This is equally true for roads.
It's actually better for railways: off-peak tickets can be priced cheaply, to make better use of the capacity and reduce road congestion / pollution etc.
(London's Congestion Charge Zone means it costs ~£8 to drive in the centre between 7am-7pm, but not many cities do that. The time when peak transport fares apply is much shorter, 7-9 and 16-19h, I think.)
London is a terrible example. Population density is far higher in the centre. Employment density is also relatively even -- London's businesses are spread over many large areas.
Except for finance, London does have "small-to-medium sized business conglomerations around a city". And the bankers can afford to live close to the City / Canary Wharf anyway.
I don't understand the need for excuses. In Belgium if we want to drink/sell beers on the campus, we just do it.
Obviously, the excuse is only needed in the US.
Like all (or almost all?) universities, London South Bank University already has a proper pub within the student union. It might have one not run by the student union, but that's probably less likely, since there will be hundreds of normal pubs within a few minutes walk.
I don't think a set figure makes any sense. You'd need to identify the risks places have in common and work from there.
I live in a metropolis, not too far from the river. Flooding seems like the only disaster that could also affect buildings further than, say, 1km from here, and only if they're also near the river.
So, I think I'd be fine so long as the backups are >1km from here, and perhaps not on on below ground level.
(Within 100-1000m I still can't think of many risks two buildings have in common. Arson after a riot?)
My manager has never asked me to do overtime, although I think we have a similar arrangement.
However, sometimes I work late, particularly if I have no plans for the evenings, the office is quiet, and I'm busy concentrating on something. I leave early later that week, or if there are enough hours (like if the weather is really bad), take an afternoon or day.
I'm not sure what would happen if I didn't take my holiday. I think nothing, so long as I've taken the legal minimum (20 days in the UK, though I get 32).
(Inequality in the UK isn't that much better than in the US: http://inequalitybriefing.org/... )
But other fields like law, medicine, finance? The common perception is that when you're starting out as an intern or assistant, the way you get ahead is working 12 hours days or weekends or whatnot.
An "intern" (not a very British word) at a bank in London died recently, perhaps from overwork after working 72 hours straight.
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
(Respect for the banking industry has fallen so far, I'm not sure there was much sympathy...)
You aren't going back enough.
Before the industrial revolution, "according to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, the medieval workday was not more than eight hours".
"Detailed accounts of artisans' workdays are available. Knoop and jones' figures for the fourteenth century work out to a yearly average of 9 hours (exclusive of meals and breaktimes)[3]. Brown, Colwin and Taylor's figures for masons suggest an average workday of 8.6 hours[4]. "
You missed the point: this was southern Britain, where most cities can keep all the salt/grit they need in a few heaps somewhere. It might snow once or twice, maybe 1-5cm. It hasn't snowed so far this winter.
When it snowed for two weeks, across the whole island, every city, town and village wanted more grit, and there wasn't enough available. Why would the grit-selling company have a 5 year supply on hand?
(Colleagues described the weather today is "bloody freezing". It was 10C. YMMV.)
I've only ever lived in neighbourhoods that have had all-buried utilities for decades and decades, and none of it has ever exploded. I can't remember a power cut lasting longer than a couple of hours; normally there's a brief interruption (seconds to ~10 minutes) every two-three years or less.
However, I don't live in the US, and probably pay 2-3x what you do for electricity.
I use the rsync app linked above. I already had a server (low-power ARM thing), so it took a few minutes to create a username and public key. The app has a list of defined rsync commands, I run it every so often.
Aren't bugs impossible to avoid in programming, especially in complex projects?
No, you just need to pay a lot. Examples: railway signalling, air/spacecraft, industrial control equipment, ...
Not complex, but low-margin high-volume equipment -- a recall is very expensive. One of my tutors at university had worked for NASA, proving some systems on the ISS worked correctly, and an appliance manufacturer, proving washing machine software worked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
I live in west London. Off-peak, I can travel to the centre of London for £2.20 (5 miles), or to Heathrow Airport (furthest west) for £1.50 (15 miles), or to the furthest point east for £3 (25 miles). At peak time, the fares and differences are all higher.
If the fare outside the centre wasn't so cheap, the massively underused capacity (train every 150 seconds) would be even more underused, and there'd probably be more traffic (and air pollution).
If the fare in the centre were cheaper, it would be even more crowded (trains are pretty full for much of the day -- standing room only). I suppose they could do that, but it would make journeys less reliable.
Most German metro systems are smaller, but seem to have "short trip tickets", which are a usually about half price and valid only for 3 or 4 stops. I like that idea too.
People in London do, although I doubt it's the most important thing for many. Property listings (especially commercial ones) usually say what fare zone the nearest station is in -- of course, that's also another way of saying how central somewhere is, i.e. time/distance.
It can cost £200-400 more for an annual ticket to be the wrong side of the zone boundary. (Zone 1 only: £1256, Zone 1-4: £1800, Zone 1-9: £3256.) I've known people working low-paid jobs who'd take the train to the last station in Zone 2, then either walk or take a bus into Zone 1. (Zone 2-4 inc. bus: £1040).
However, the 'crappiness' of the neighbourhood isn't really connected to the transport price -- it's easy in London to walk for 30 minutes and pass from a dodgy area to a luxury one, to a nothing-special one, and still be in the same fare zone.
The dots aren't redundant:
Dim x
With y
x = 1 ' Which x?
End with
But, as someone wrote up there ^^, you could use a while loop:
$ while true; do
> echo -n "GitShell:"
> read command
> git $command
> done
"gitk" came with MSysGit (when I last used it), and you can right-click commits and choose "cherry pick".
"git gui" also works.
The standard advice in the UK is to put your hand over the keypad as you input the PIN, which also protects from criminals who modify the ATM to record the magnetic strip, add a hidden camera for the PIN, and send the details to their associates in the US to use in an ATM that doesn't support the chip.
There is no difference between NFC, a chip, a magnetic strip, etc. It's just your credit card number supplemented by a PIN.
The chip uses a cryptographic algorithm (RSA?) to sign the transaction. That's much more secure than a magnetic strip. You can't get the PIN out of the chip.
Every ATM I've ever changed my PIN on changes them in the 'passwd' way. If you're worried someone is watching, press "cancel".
There have been lots of ideas for software, but none for hardware.
Last year I bought an Odroid U2, which is roughly a smartphone board with ethernet and USB. The power consumption is minimal -- 0.2W idle, 2W under load. Mine is running Debian, but Ubuntu and Android are also officially supported. I have a 1TB external drive connected. This has been running my website, and a family photo gallery, without any problems.
Last month I bought an Odroid U3, which will be in my house. As well as the server stuff, I have a touchscreen (HDMI + USB) and will make some little apps to use it.
This guy has Hadoop running on an Odroid, which is probably more complicated than is worthwhile. (Hadoop has a distributed file system.)
We have 130GB of photos, which until very recently was far too expensive to store on a cloud service. SkyDrive apparently costs $100/year for 200GB, so that could save a lot of effort if it provides what you need.
The worrying this is you don't consider what you describe normal.
I've been unable to even find the stairs in American buildings sometimes, which is particularly annoying if my hotel room is on the first or second floor.
My office is on the first floor, the kitchen and toilets in the basement. No one grumbles...
Assuming a similar pattern across science and engineering graduates at Cambridge, Oxford, UCL -- isn't it disappointing that 15% of the best graduates apply their skills to ethically-dubious problems? These people (mostly) aren't working on consumer banking, but things like high-frequency trading.
Of my six closest friends from my CS class, who I still meet up with regularly, four work in investment banks (and one at Google, one in science). One is a trader, three write trading software. Considering CS alone, 40-50% of the class works in finance!
It was. The original developer had left, the code was barely commented, and was written in a single Perl file. There was very little structure -- just some procedures and functions. There were lots of regular expressions. It was a CGI web application, but there were no templates, and no use of the CGI HTML functions -- just HTML elements in strings.
I think the supposed requirement was something like "The CS department use this, we want to roll it out to the rest of the university". Therefore I'd anticipate a lot more changes being made in the future, so rewriting it before it's used more widely made even more sense.
(It was a semi-serious assignment. The year after I graduated they switched to some commercial software, and the students I knew all grumbled about it. The Perl system, though unmaintainable, had been reliable and functional for over a decade. The web server still seems to exist, though I can't authenticate... maybe they did redevelop it.)