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This is the place to look for the standards Oslo sets for road safety and cycling infrastructure.

He did what? The pre-existing know-how to build reusable rockets? Are you confusing SpaceX and Tesla?

I understand the transactional requirements but AFAIK most IDB operations are already async. Open for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IDBFactory/... "The …

No mentions of promises? Any reason to rev the spec without promises?

Sounds like you're describing Microsoft Research's CHESS (2007), and a host of related projects (Google's ThreadWeaver for Java). See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/c…

Thanks for that! I knew they'd loosened de-duce up a bit, but this was ~10 hours.

Admins, how did this dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764870 (11 hours ago)?

An interesting companion would be J.L.Austin's "A Plea for Excuses", where he contrasts "by mistake" and "by accident". (Google books link, but the PDF is available widely) https:/…

If you're not familiar with the author, Dan Davies, he's been a contributor at Crooked Timber ( http://crookedtimber.org ). A great intro would be his choose-your-own-adventure int…

I've been working on a virtual table (not for React, but KnockoutJS) that's designed around needed to virtual scroll over a large number of columns (as well as rows). Really in-pro…

So you've just sterilized the Einsteins... The whole premise is that "like produces like", which of course is nonsense. Dumb people have brilliant kids, ugly people produce beautif…

Awesome! Gonna spend a weekend on this. And an easy way to share my personal all-time favorite title sequence, Delicatessen: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/delicatessen/

Have you thought about a Vagrant + Docker tutorial next? I got a few different Docker images running vNext on my Mac; it's great, but not really a development-first solution.

Anyone else wonder why a self-driving car needs side-view mirrors?

Joe Duffy has a really interesting retrospective on his team's attempt to build a STM for .NET: http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on-...

Well sure but compare that workflow with almost any other package manager. NuGet, for instance: install-package jQuery --version 2.0 We haven't had major problems with DT, but I se…

Sure, but that's a bit of a burden for library authors, don't you think? I appreciate all the freaking hard work the definitely typed guys do, but I hunk there's a few structural p…

I've worked on a large typescript project for the past 6 months with 5 developers, and this type of superficial analysis doesn't track at all with our experience. Yes, TypeScript i…