Ah, well, I guess business insider is to blame then. The way this title is written initially gave me the very strong impression that change.org has deceived people by pretending to collect donations for one purpose and then keeping them for itself. But in reality the story is people are so dumb they will click to donate $3 without paying any attention to a sentence or two describing what the donation is for -- and then get mad when they find out later.
I played around with the scooters in San Jose during WWDC last week, and I have to say that I preferred the Bird ones. While the Lime ones did have a faster top speed, they were also slower to accelerate. When driving on the sidewalks there's a lot of slowing down, so getting back up to speed quickly is more important in my opinion. Plus ~12mph is fast enough IMO, it feels dangerous to go much faster than that.
With a top speed of ~12mph, the scooters are way too slow for the road. It's much safer on the sidewalks. The sidewalks in downtown San Jose are also quite wide, so there's plenty of room for pedestrians and scooters to share.
I'm going about that my speed on my bicycle, much of the time. "Too slow for the road" has a meaning on the interstate highway. Someone who says that about city streets needs to go back to driver's ed. It's fine that the speed limit is 35mph. If you can drive that and safely pass slower traffic, do so. If you can't, slow down!
Perhaps the argument amounts to "driving a scooter on the road makes me feel unsafe, and I'd rather make others (pedestrians) unsafe to make myself feel safer." Seems typically selfish.
12mph is way too fast for a sidewalk. (Thus these scooter sharing startups will die.)
If an olympic athlete who runs at 12mph did his daily run on a sidewalk, people would be really, really angry. 12mph is fast. A police officer would stop him.
Bird slowed down their scooters to maintain battery life and because it was part of the terms of their settlement with Santa Monica. I assume they simply applied that software update fleetwide.
But, seemingly, only the newer ones with the paddles for both the acceleration and braking are limited to 12mph. The old ones still go faster in my limited experience.
Being single and working from home for me was isolating and I found myself gradually becoming more seclusive while wanting to be social. When I was living with family I found myself wishing for more seclusion. In the article I try to write more of the abstract :)
Proxy is nice but the scope is very limited if you tend to avoid metaprogramming.
One use I've found is for library maintainers - a way to expose a large API without taking a hit for requiring the whole thing. We use it to consume parts of that API without having to require all the dependencies and subdependencies.
Love Apollo - they're a great team with many of great open source offerings. Apollo link state excites me because it unites remote and local data under a single source of truth. As a long time Redux fan, it will be nice to have one less layer and dependency to debug. GraphQL as a uniform layer for accessing that source of truth is in my mind, a Redux-killer.
Bragging about first response metrics is a little disingenuous when most of those are automated replies. To answer the question, support is still a disaster and why I left Coinbase last month.
Yes, the 95th %-ile of time-to-resolution would be a far better metric, although you would need to correct for the fact that open unresolved cases are right-censored.
Yeah, I got a first response within a few hours...... To a message about a critical accounting error Coinbase reported to the IRS. I sent the message in early March and -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- I haven't heard back since. It's cool, though. It's not like all of this paperwork is due like, in less than two weeks or anything.
Modern PHP is great but it still has the same inconsistent API. I did PHP for many years and had to look up the manual all the time because functions have different conventions for arguments.
It does have a very large and inconsistent "stdlib", I agree. On the other hand, you very rarely have to look for 3rd party libs. Is node.js better because you have to trawl throgh npm for highly variable quality (and equally inconsistent) add ons (that typically pull in a spiderweb of other dependencies) ?
I disagree and actually like it in principle. Languages of any kind change, and this to me feels just like spoken language change.
If enough people establish convention - why break it? A proposal that goes against convention is already under such scrutiny. I don't believe "smoosh" in this case is any better than "flatten" but I agree with the motivation and that's far more important than one function name.
Why is this a surprise? Google's has shown a pattern that they don't care about your Android hardware since they partnered with HTC and released their first branded phone.
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