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There is a circle around Boston (that include Manchester and Nahsua, NH) that is very different than a lot of the rest of New England.

I moved from Boston to Nashua, NH (a 90k+ person city less than 50 minutes from Boston) and was right at home; yet there are rural parts of New Hampshire I would feel entirely out of place like it is a different country. But at the same time, I feel there is a sense of unity in most of New England. A shared heritage and creativeness ("Yankee Ingenuity") that binds the region together.

Sometimes I think about moving to the West Coast (usually around the fourth foot of snow in the Winter) but I do like it here.

Evernote has very good PDF support but you need a premium subscription to make it actually useful. I clip PDFs to Evernote and annotate them all the time.

Nice job.

I used to have the solutions memorized... it helped me get a job offer once because the hiring manager left to get some water and came back less than a minute later with the cube on his desk solved. When you don't know the tricks it can be impressive when someone does that. If you know the tricks it is just a silly time waster.

It's a neat thing to learn. Of course some people like to try to figure out the patterns on their own. :)

I use Pivotal Tracker for my personal life. I haven't been able to get my wife to use it, though.

A human would drive too fast on in icy conditions... if the computer knows there are icy conditions and it doesn't slow down before it even senses trouble then the car was programmed to be going too fast. If it is so dangerous there is no way to remove these scenarios (like a blizzard) then a human should be forced to override the system in which case the human is at fault.

I trust sensors to detect icy conditions better than a trust myself.

[edit] Most bridges where I am have signs that explicitly warn that bridges freeze over. And people intuitively know... bridge + recent precipitation + cold whether = slow down. I don't know why a computer wouldn't know that.

Under what situation would that happen? It happens with human drivers because they are driving too fast to stop in time. It's very simple... if you need 50 feet to stop you make sure at minimum you have 50 feet to stop. If there are things obscuring your view to the left and right you drive slower to reduce your stopping distance and make sure if something jumps out you still have enough time.

Now, if you are to consider that something jumps out in front of your car (say a deer) which reduces your reaction time, the car should do the same thing a human would do. Slam on the breaks to reduce impact speed.

(d) The car would stop because unlike human drivers, a self-driving car would be programmed to avoid going so fast that it can't stop if a sudden obstacle would appear (aside from maybe something falling from the sky).

As someone who has run a couple sites like this I can give some insight to that.

You don't necessarily need permission to display an offer but you do need a relationship to get a commission on the sale. These relationships can either be brokered through so called "Affiliate Networks" (most common) or when a site gets big enough they could be direct business development deals with the commerce site's marketing team.

It is a low profit business segment as it is (you have to generate a lot of volume to make serious money) so diluting it by including non-commission websites is not very common.

It is, however, somewhat common to list higher commission products near the top of the list. This is a poor user experience so usually it is only done if the two offers have the same price.

You might want to check out https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Loc...

I wrote http://www.collablunch.com/ for this purpose. The team uses it pretty regularly. And yes, way over engineered. I have it on my todo list to rewrite it in Meteor since a lot of the Web Socket code I wrote Meteor would have handle automatically.