slight | 8 years ago | on: Don't Over-React to the Facebook Patents License
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slight | 8 years ago | on: New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK
I'm not trying to talk for anyone else, just giving my experience. I now live in Barcelona and have a 4 year old son. Most of the furniture in our flat is from Ikea. So while a car would certainly make things easier at times, it's not essential in many cases. Depends where you live of course. In the country with kids would be a lot less manageable I agree.
slight | 8 years ago | on: Breakthrough: solid-state alkaline batteries a viable alternative to lithium-ion
In racing and acro drones on the other hand you're lucky if the lipo hasn't puffed or burst into flames after 20 cycles!
edit: typo
slight | 8 years ago | on: New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK
I lived in the UK until I was 28 and never had a car. I lived mostly in small towns and the country, never had a car, wasn't a problem.
The UK has a reasonably good public transport network though it's horribly over-priced since privatisation, especially trains.
slight | 8 years ago | on: Fluent Design System
Xubuntu is a distribution not a desktop. Distributions have all sorts of settings that affect GTK and Gecko.
slight | 9 years ago | on: Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel
Also if you're in the EU remember you have a statutory 24 month warrantee for non-consumables. (The standard example of the sort of thing not covered is an oil filter which is expected to have a shorter life)
slight | 9 years ago | on: What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
I mostly work with PHP in my day job and I've been following Rust so had an idea about its constraints but hadn't written any.
I decided to port a personal web project I've been working on to Rust as my first attempt at the language and was able to port the core classes and get some other initial stuff up (web framework mainly) in about a day.
It was a lot simpler than I expected. With the IDEA plugin and a bit more experience I think I can be about as productive in Rust as with PHP, and that's coming from about 17 years PHP experience.
Edit: With the caveat that the number of available libraries and SDKs is still low, but in the case of PHP that was the case until the last couple of years anyway after Composer and Packagist came along.
slight | 9 years ago | on: Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
There are plenty of scooters in Barcelona but honestly I've never noticed generally worse behaviour from them than anyone else, except maybe starting off from lights early, but it seems everyone is guilty of that here.
Aside from that however, as a cyclist from the UK, I've been very pleasantly surprised by the lack of aggressive driving since I've been living here. I very very rarely feel threatened by other road users on my bike, except by Bicing (city-wide bike rental/'sharing' scheme) users, and I think that's just because Bicing is used by people that don't cycle regularly so aren't very experienced.
Also there are already an increasing number of semi-pedestrianised streets in the centre of town and they work fine, cars, scooters and bikes go down them too but very slowly and usually only if they really need to because there are faster routes if you're through traffic.
slight | 9 years ago | on: Why I’m Suing the US Government
It's not hijacking this stream, it's allowing the legitimate user of the stream to modify it with an overlay while viewing it, at home for example.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Experimental Qt and QML in the browser
That IMGUI demo is awesome. I'd love to be able to drive it from regular JS, it would be really handy for all sorts of things.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Invent two thirds of a new alphabet and then get distracted by the idea of creating new numbers and promise to complete the alphabet "real soon now"? ;)
slight | 10 years ago | on: Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
Not OP but I found Lollipop pretty laggy and that it didn't add much I wanted, most of Google's updates come via Play now anyway. So also no reason to upgrade to Marshmallow either.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Velocipedia
Men's bicycle and women's bicycle in the UK.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
> What they could argue is that by ceasing to publish the canary, you're committing the crime of communicating something you're not allowed to communicate. That, however, skirts dangerously close to forcing someone to lie.
This was my point, but the issue seems to me not about them forcing you to lie but rather about you setting up a system that you know will either force you to lie, or to break a court order by communicating something you were ordered not to. The only point of a warrant canary is to try to bypass the intention of a potential future court order.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
They wouldn't force you to lie, they'd punish you for communicating something you've been ordered not to. 'You' didn't have to set up the canary in the first place.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
I'm using Prosody 0.10 with MAM and carbons with Gajim on Linux and Conversations on Android. Working fine.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
143.50€ here... (Spain).
slight | 10 years ago | on: The Guardian goes all-in on AWS public cloud after OpenStack 'disaster’
It means cheap commodity servers as opposed to iron which is beefy expensive servers.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
You don't have to have a literal monopoly afaiui, I think leveraging a strong market position in one area to benefit a different market can still apply. Not a lawyer though.
slight | 10 years ago | on: Ethical Adblocking
This site has a problematic design.. I couldn't see anything but a logo and a searchbox on my laptop (720p-ish).
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It seems like you'd have no patents grant then anyway and you'd already in the position you're in now if you sue Facebook for patent infringement (and are using React).