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Full-stack Developer and, yes, it's pretentious but it pretty much sums up what I can do. Well I'm not that good at pretty front-end designs.

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confcodeofconduct.com 8y ago

Conference Code of Conduct

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blog.datascienceheroes.com 8y ago

Data Science Live Book (open source) – new big release 200-pages

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cyclebath.org.uk 8y ago

Local Authority considering city wide day parking zones

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medium.com 8y ago

Illinois has the single worst license plate in the country

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Slaughterbots

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www.tomtom.com 8y ago

TomTom Traffic Index

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Tesla electric semi truck possibly spied in new photo

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Before and after Hurricane Irma

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citiscope.org 8y ago

How a city in Spain got rid of its cars

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github.com 8y ago

Meta: merge the TSC and CTC back into a single entity

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99percentinvisible.org 8y ago

Hostile Terrain Tank Traps, Fake Towns and Secret Tunnels of the Korean Borderland

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swapi.co 8y ago

SWAPI – The Star Wars API

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

THE ENDLESS TOY TRAIN ROBOT HALF LOOP

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cyclingindustry.news 8y ago

Electric bike trials in Australia see 50% purchase and change transport habits

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www.dispatch.com 8y ago

Program approved to give free bus passes to Downtown workers

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cyclingindustry.news 8y ago

Danish study outlines economic savings made by building a safe cycling network

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www.wsj.com 8y ago

Barcelona Bans Cars and Boosts Tech

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systemicfailure.wordpress.com 8y ago

Tesla car doors have a mind of their own

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www.wired.com 8y ago

The Triumphs and Blunders That Have Led to Tesla’s Model 3

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www.citylab.com 8y ago

Edward Way's Photos Capture Japan's Vending Machines Hiding in Plain Sight

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blog.adafruit.com 8y ago

Bridge over river: Tongji University unveils China’s First 3D printed bridges

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

World's first floating wind farm emerges off coast of Scotland

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road.cc 9y ago

Road tax proposal based on distance, weight and emissions wins £250k Wolfson prize

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www.eurogamer.net 9y ago

Fans Find Mysterious ZX Spectrum Easter Egg in OK Computer's New C90 Cassette

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www.nature.com 9y ago

Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality

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www.fastcompany.com 9y ago

If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Take Away Parking Spaces

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www.theverge.com 9y ago

Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from price checking

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medium.freecodecamp.com 9y ago

Google Chrome might have broken your tests without you even knowing about it

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medium.com 9y ago

Adopting Flow and TypeScript – Thinkmill – Medium

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medium.freecodecamp.com 9y ago

Node.js Child Processes: Everything you need to know

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I've been with the company almost a year now and really enjoying it but my experience will be different to yours as I work with the team out of the UK developing some of the program visualisation tools. The Santa Clara office, where most of the jobs are based, is rather stunning, but my experience of US start-up offices is limited to just that one.

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One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are probably going to continue to work well into your 50s.

I love my job, but I'm now involved a lot more in the political arena, knowing I can make a difference there, but being held back. 'Having' to hold down a job is getting in the way.

I'm at peace with the choices I made but I also recognise I could not be working now if I'd been a bit more prudent.

Generally no, but it didn't start out that way. I just highlighted the oddity that a political party that relies on old people was implementing policies that were accelerating the death rates of their core voter group, and that this seemed to be an odd thing to do.

I was then accused of making a shameful statement. Data is data. Policy decisions have impact.

For example, when the government introduced mandatory seat belts, there was a rise in the number of pedestrians killed. People wearing seatbelts felt safer driving faster.

I watch what the USA is doing with healthcare, and I see this type of model being foisted upon the UK, and it's terrifying.

I recently got into a twitter spat suggesting that it was foolish of the Conservatives to be reducing spending in social services and the NHS as this was directly attacking their voter base as 70% of pensioners vote Conservative and a poorer NHS directly impacts pensioners more. There have been some articles indicating an extra 120,000 people have died in the UK due to austerity measures. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deat...

So the question is, is this a deliberate unwritten approach to try and kill off 'costlier' members of society? Is it better to encourage people to be fat and die off quicker, than to exercise, eat healthier, live longer, and create a long term social care cost?

I suspect epidemiological analysis the impact of this sort of policy has on a society demonstrates it kills the weak and infirm as well as the financially 'weak' members of society.

Think Norway got it right. Find a resource, tax it and place the tax in a pension fund. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... Every resident of Norway is now a millionaire in terms of the social care available to each individual.

Prohibition is one of the most pernicious ideas within our society. It enables people to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.

Governments should be recognising this base behaviour and ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately. Treating drug addiction as a medical condition and not a criminal activity is the first step. Something many countries fail to even recognise.

The war on drugs is a complete failure.

Honestly this is now the way I see Ikea staff. Benign and friendly, encouraging you to spend your money during the day, malign and evil after the store closes, hell bent on murdering you. It's probably what makes those Swedish meatballs taste so good. :D

Unsure I'd agree. It looks like Amplify is providing you with all the components you need to build on top of all AWS cloud services.

I particularly like their approach which makes it easy to use AWS but the ability to move away from AWS should you want to.

"AWS Amplify is a JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers building cloud-enabled applications. The library is a declarative interface across different categories of operations in order to make common tasks easier to add into your application. The default implementation works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources but is designed to be open and pluggable for usage with other cloud services that wish to provide an implementation or custom backends."

https://github.com/aws/aws-amplify

I have a habit of playing a F2P game to understand how easy it is to advance. They really do understand how to get you hooked, and then put you up against players/AI where you either have to grind for the next 10 weeks or handover money, and even then I suspect you'd hit another wall every 10 or so levels. I usually end up uninstalling very quickly at this point.

More interestingly that is simply a maturity issue. React told people the official API and people still used hidden features as it was easy and clever. Thankfully Facebook did the right thing, kept the API sacred and refactored all the hidden APIs breaking the world.

People got bloody noses and red faced and the React ecosystem is a better place for it.

Tesla Semi 9 years ago

I've been making the point that fuel duty and car taxes (if your country has them) need to be removed and road pricing brought in.

Price per litre of diesel in the USA is about $0.75 vs $1.64 in the UK. Given that Tesla stated that the truck would pay for itself within 2 years ($200,000 in diesel savings), we're talking 11 months in the UK.

The implication is that eHGVs will radically reduce the tax revenue of countries that have focused on fuel duty creating a significant problem for road maintenance.

Dynamic road pricing, based not only on time of day, but also vehicle type, is probably the only way forward.

I would agree that my interest only mortgage is storing up trouble for my future. However given I bought my 1st house in 1996 with no deposit, the reality is that interest only has worked well given that I have leveraged the housing market over 20 years and have now have a mortgage that is around 40% of the value of the house and is probably enough to move somewhere significantly less expensive and retire.

However I recognise that my gain is also a problem for my teenage daughter who will struggle immensely to get on the housing ladder. In the UK, it really does not help that housing is considered an investment opportunity. I have a feeling rent control is the only way we will ever get to the point where we remove this 'investment' opportunity.

More interestingly, it's within landlord's interest to work with developers to ensure whole developments are primarily bought up by landlords to maintain the value of housing stock.

I was lucky. I remember being 18 years old and putting the money for my bus ticket home into a slot machine because "it had to pay out this time". I lost and had a 5 mile walk home. I have avoided the machines ever since. Meeting a programmer of these devices some years ago and him explaining a lot of what they did re-enforced my view to stay away from them.

I've played with Firebase but have been exploring GraphQL services recently. Initially http://www.graph.cool/ and https://scaphold.io/

Graph.cool just released their development framework so I may investigate.

I realise Firebase and GraphQL are very different beasts but I think they serve the same market. It would be good to see Firebase at some point offer a GraphQL interface but the data structures are very different.

I suspect Gerrymandering isn't uniquely a US problem. I do a lot of UK Census spatial analysis and the district centroids that are used create problems. In the article the 'ear muffs' shape would create a centroid for the voting district outside of the district, given that the shape of the district was designed to give a certain ethnic group a voice, whereas the process for creating districts in the UK are done usually on the idea of 'belonging' to a town/village/area and are decided and audited at a national 'neutral' level.

The data scientist in me wants centroids around circles with fuzzy edges. If we could all agree that fuzzy circles is the way forward we could solve gerrymandering over night.

The reality is though, that I create these amazing pieces of analysis then have to explain away why that district is odd, y'know, cos the shape is just weird.

Locally they are redoing the district boundaries which is giving me an opportunity to submit my own district shapes that work better with Census data :D

I do wonder sometimes if the UK needs a "Stop the child murder" campaign similar to the "Stop de kindermoord" that occurred in the 70s in the Netherlands. https://www.dutchreach.org/car-child-murder-protests-safer-n...

It's had a profound impact on their society. That's not to say the country does not suffer from congestion, just most journeys under 7km are done by foot or bicycle and the health benefits are huge despite their rather calorific diets ;)

The level of child travel independence alone in the Netherlands is almost alien to other countries.

It's an interesting idea that roads are what they are due to a vehicle that most drivers despise being in their way.

What is more interesting it that designing 'out' the bicycle from the road is a relatively recent thing. In the 1930s if you wanted to build a major road in the UK you had to provide separate cycle tracks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/0...

More interesting is that the attitude of motorists had developed to be anti-cyclist by the 1950s https://twitter.com/MartinPorter6/status/912717455503642624

Yet one western country currently sits at 10% obesity and is estimated to go down to 8.5% by 2030. The Netherlands. Given the UK will be at 35% obesity by 2030, 27.5% now, the implication is that the UK's transport policies are going to be responsible for 75% of obesity by 2030.

I recently did some analysis of travel methods from the 2011 Census looking at 112 cities and towns in the UK. 6M drive to work, 2.5M live within 5km of work (20 minute bike ride), 1M live within 2km of work, a 20 minute walk. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nDCkK0LvkxqHLeYfd6wS...

Now we could berate these commuters, but those people honestly feel they may have no choice and also include some with disabilities. We can talk about 'forcing' people out of cars, but unless we redesign our road space to provide good cycle networks, what do we expect people to do?

The canary in the mine is how many kids cycle to school in your area. There is a school in Oxford, UK, where 60% of kids cycle to school. They have traffic free routes into their communities.

More interestingly is that Highways England has now recognised you cannot share space safely between vehicles with very different speed profiles and developed design standards for delivering better road networks that support walking, cycling, and driving. http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/ha/standards/ians/pdfs...

If you want people to not drive, you have to give them really good active travel choices that enable people to make that choice of their own volition. If an 8 year old kid can cycle to school on their own and the parent can see that the kid will be safe all the way, you have yourself a great area to live.

I really don't see this as screwing over Mac users. The guy has a v4 (released Apr 2014). The new v5 (released Jun 2017) has been around for some months. This really is not 'screwing' over Mac users. You've made a choice to upgrade to High Sierra which breaks numerous applications. You are using a 3 year old piece of software (although 4.7 came out Dec 2016).

Also to suggest that High Sierra is a simple maintenance update also dismisses the large number of apps that no longer work with Mac OS. This is a big big change and you need to decide if you should consider updating given your reliance on Bria 4.

I really do think the OP is blaming the wrong people here. Apple has a lot to answer for.

Many countries already have a form of age restricted UBI.

The state pension.

I know many pensioners in the UK that work as the state pension does not provide 'enough'.

I think you mis-understand UBI. UBI enables 'survival' within the country. It will just about pay for a room and basic food. You want to eat steak, you will need to get a job.

Chickens are the answer my friend ;)

Seriously they are brilliant and the eggs are just this great bonus. The more insects they eat the tastier the eggs! You do need to visit them at least once per day, however auto-feeders and automatic coop openers do mean you are only going to collect eggs and maybe refill water. They also have amazing characters.

If you have a good relationship with other allotment holders then they can also collect eggs and look after them for you if you go on holiday.

If you do consider getting some, get point of lay chickens as they will give you a lot more eggs in the long run. Rescue chickens are a friendlier than some of the pure breeds but you do not get the variety of egg colours.

You do not need a cockerel but do expect hens to crow after laying. They love shouting about it.