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Hello! I built a map that generates a heatmap of the most convenient meeting spots between several people, based on public transit travel times. Move the markers anywhere in the ma…

He may have been referencing the choice of Buffer to disclose the salaries of all employees: https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buff... In that situation, he d…

This one specifically had 2 courses for sushi, one for 2,600 yens and the other for 3,100 yens (the difference being more sushi) This was the price for lunch, not sure in the eveni…

I ate at this sushi-ya two days ago. The chef genuinely cares about his craft and will direct you on how to eat the sushi and when to drink sake. It was a great experience trying t…

and our children will marvel that error-prone human drove combustion engine vehicles going 30mph in the places we live.

Mostly people look at self driving cars in the light of "Would I be better driving my vehicle?" I like to look a it from the other direction "Would I be better if everyone had a se…

https://www.getlocalmotion.com/ has a solution with a connected box, which integrates with existing corporate RFID badges to open the car.

An email can take a long time to reach your inbox, which would make it fairly frequent to have users wait more than one minute (up to several hours) to log in.

In foreign languages with a polite form of "You" (such as French or German), there is an additional question: should a website use the polite of familiar form. And it's widely acce…

With the "Alt double tap and hold" keyboard shortcut, you can even remove all the side buttons

As it was stated before, it's not a 10^-12 seconds camera, it's a very short pulse laser cleverly synchronized with a very short span camera. This experiment would not work with a …

Little background here (I'm French and grew up in Paris): MacDonald's branding in France are really different in France than it is in the US, especially in Paris. Food is quite tas…

Recently we got to this in Paris: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/396654_... Quick translation: it's a 3.16 square meters (34 square feet) flat on sale in the …

Elegant solution, but it's not possible if you bundle/minify all your scripts in one giant file, as more and more do.

I'd click the button just to make the arrow go away

Oh come on. There is no secret guild of good software engineers, stop with the circlejerk about programming so much. Being good in software development has little to do with playin…

I listen to electrohouse everyday. I'm not that into dubstep and I tend to not like it outside of coding, but it puts you into the zone pretty quickly, kind of like if the techno r…

While I agree with you, the sysadmin would be able to provide evidence of specific actions that prevented something bad happening. TSA has made zero arrest related to terrorism so …

That "63 years" comes out of nowhere and does not means anything. Those 800m users combined have more than 2 millions years "per day". They spend way more time brushing their teeth…

Nice to know, thanks for the tip Did you try it and can compare it to gmail? Especially on: - linking other accounts (POP and IMAPS) - spam detection

I have read here comments along the lines of "Anyone doing that would be evil, but here it's Google. So it's OK. Google would never do any harm" (it was a post about privacy) The "…