- Mubadala Investment Company: United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund
Couldn't these also be considered strategic in the regional/political/regulatory sense? Access to people with strong connections having skin in the game.
Here in Perth, Western Australia we have quite reasonable pedestrian right of way laws.
But if you read the recommendations, you will notice the language talks about how it's basically still on you to not die.
For example, pedestrians have right of way when crossing a street where a car may be turning in to, so there should really be no need to check across your shoulder for traffic.
Most drivers don't seem aware of these laws, I get honked at regularly.
NYC has plenty of "laws" but the volume of people makes it impossible to thoroughly enforce. Plus we have so many people visiting from elsewhere. Our mayor adopted Vision Zero a few years ago and we're making improvements but we still have quite a lot of fatal accidents.
> But if you read the recommendations, you will notice the language talks about how it's basically still on you to not die.
Well it makes sense, given we still have not figured out how to legislate people back to life and have recognized that making something illegal does not make it impossible.
I don't know if this is true everywhere, but in my city in the US, cars are supposed to stop at crosswalks (not talking about at intersections necessarily) if a pedestrian is crossing even if there is no stopsign or signal beyond the white paint on the road, but this is NEVER observed in my experience. Thankfully it seems like most pedestrians don't know this either so we don't get people trying to challenge cars to make a point at risk of their own lives.
The alternative is that you could end up with customers who constantly hit false positives in the fraud detection, and it becomes impossible to charge that person unless Stripe implements a way to "force charge" someone, and then you have to hope your 3rd party Stripe integration also supports and exposes that to you...
I am personally immensely frustrated at the game. It feels pointless to me farming act 1 Inferno over and over just to buy 1 piece on the AH.
I think it's intended though, soon as the RMAH rolls around all us terribly frustrated people can just buy our way into progression, without even having to farm for the gold!
It's not just the gold farming that bothers me though, I feel like it is gimmicky, not genuinely difficult (as compared to Heroic WoW bosses anyways). Blizzard learnt through WoW that 1-shot deaths, even on tanks, was a horrible prospect and toned down burst damage a lot. They really need to figure out a way to make D3 more difficult without the monster just killing you because you looked at it.
True - not everyone bought from them though. In your case, it sounds like you are talking about PVP more than PVE progression.
D2 may have had hacks/issues/farmers - but it was more fun.
The AH here though assumes that having to buy from chinese gold farmers was an issue which everyone faced, and now makes the AH an issue for everyone to face.
People may complain about Craiglist or a Bloomberg terminal, but at the end of the day, they still use and love them. Similarly people may complain about D2, but they still loved it.
I bought Game of Thrones on iTunes the other day after reading a bunch of comments here on HN recommending it. It really bugs me that with all the connectivity I have already, it's still not enough to get it on my TV.
My Denon receiver has AirPlay, but audio only. My PS3 can steam DLNA, but that doesn't work because of the DRM.
So basically, I have to either go buy long cables to hook up my PC (10m+), short cables to hook up my Air (which would only ever be used for DRM'd iTunes content), or an Apple TV. Not very convenient when I could just pirate it.
The biggest problem that I have with Sass is that the file/line references in your developer tools point at the compiled CSS files, and so you don't have any real reference to where in your Sass files that style is defined. Any solution for this?
There actually is; SASS has built-in functionality that will actually inject the source filename/line-number in to the generated CSS. Additionally, Nathan Weizenbaum (one of the HAML/SASS maintainers) released a Firefox/Firebug add-on that will read this and display it in Firebug like it does for traditional CSS.
Yes, Sass provides a setting that prints the source line numbers with the compiled CSS for development. I think this is on by default, but you can turn it on in the config file with:
Sass::Plugin.options[:line_comments] = true
# or with compass:
sass_options = {:line_comments => true}
Sass compiles code like this:
/* line 138, sass/screen.sass */
#navigation a:hover {...}
I guess it can be a problem sometimes, but I don't usually have issues with it and find that the organizational benefits outweigh the drawbacks by a long shot.
For me, at least in my rails project using Sass (scss): Development mode also creates inline comments in the generated CSS which describe where, in the original scss, the information can be found.
- Mubadala Investment Company: United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund
Couldn't these also be considered strategic in the regional/political/regulatory sense? Access to people with strong connections having skin in the game.