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It's too bad he died, because I'd love to see him shoved into the back of a police car for his wage fixing. Meanwhile, Schmidt walks alive and free. Ah, life for the rich.

HEET turnstiles?

I get what you're going for, but it's pretty much openly legal to kill pedestrians with cars (in the US, at least). "No criminality suspected"!

This is just plain old C (which, yes, Objective-C is a superset of).

or just != 0

There is nowhere that I particularly want to live that I could possibly afford to buy in, though.

> Auto-updating rather than re-cloning and dragging files back into your project That's the least usable way to do it, though. Use static library projects in submodules and a works…

I don't know if agents would work - they work in movies because you shoot one, then wrap and move on to the next one. An agent can be constantly looking out for new films to work i…

100 years ago, you could use cut and cover without enraging a bunch of UES rich people. Oh well.

I think the MBTA is better than Muni + BART, the percentage of proper heavy rail rapid transit is much higher in Boston (just the meh Green Line, compared to every meh Muni line).

Billions of dollars of "studies" and such, I'm sure. NIMBYs hate cut and cover, so we end up digging absurdly expensive deep tunnels that are just worse to use once finished (they …

The Green Line in Boston runs down a protected center path in the road for a significant portion. Is there a reason that SF can't carve out those lanes for exclusive Muni use?

This is true, but there's no reason that San Francisco itself couldn't have proper rapid transit instead of street cars. Even just removing cars from those streets and creating ded…

The common argument against overnight service in non-New York cities is "only two tracks! no time to do maintenance!": http://www.bart.gov/guide/latenight This seems to just comple…

I'm not crazy about referencing self within the block to create changes. On OS X, NSObject supports keypath-to-keypath bindings, which can be processed with NSValueTransformer (a r…

There's an absolutely massive custom scrollbar (why?!), but clicking in it doesn't do anything?

> Hey Sudheendra, Do you know Vivek? With 2.5 years of experience in PHP he seems like a good fit for our next big startup . Thanks to LinkedIn, I noticed you are his 1st connectio…

Doesn't seem to recognize bridges - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.7104202,-73.9608626/40.71... is considered "mostly flat".