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IME most workplaces have showers. It pays to ask; they can be well-hidden. Failing that, ride at an easy pace in the morning, wear breathable clothes etc. Cycling needn't be any ha…

Some things I just find easier with pen and paper. A pilot V-Pen (disposable fountain pen) and standard printer paper does me just fine. If I want to keep something for posterity, …

Michael Kirby, formerly of the High Court of Australia, etc etc would seem to agree with you, and he has for some time. Here's a speech of his touching on this very topic from the …

Quite right. I see two issues with regexes: funky syntax and some important and non-obvious limitations. If you want to use them, these two things add up to a considerable barrier …

My experience of the bike-hire scheme in Brisbane (Australia) is that helmet laws are a problem, but not the problem. The legal requirement to wear a helmet is a bit tiresome, and …

Also the case in Australia and the UK. Not that the winner gets all their costs back (60% is a figure I've seen bandied around) but it still creates a significant disincentive. Pro…

> I very much disagree with your stance on this. I have yet to see a cheap bike that will stand up to more than a few months of daily commuting without various bearings wearing out…

"In an interview with Newsgeek, Gafni said that the production cost for his recycled bicycles is around $9-12 each, and he estimates it could be sold to a consumer for $60 to 90, d…

Bear in mind that this is a decision of a delegate of the Commissioner of Patents. This decision won't bind anyone except, presumably, the Commissioner of Patents. Its value as a l…

>who steals chains??? - apparently the thief had a chain tool handy to break the chain). Reusable joining link? No tools required. As to the point of doing it, well, I had the QR s…

I wish people would stop calling this sort of thing "piracy". Proper piracy -robbery, abduction and so forth on the high seas - is a continuing problem. This is hardly in the same …

> Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing I myself think the problem is precisely the o…

I guess. Having next to no experience of using Fahrenheit, I'm happy to take other peoples' word when it comes to day-to-day usefulness. It seems to me, though, that the relative m…

The more I think about it, the more the 6-mile range sounds like a crippling flaw. Hills and headwinds will presumably knock this around, but that aside, there's just so little roo…

I see electric bicycles as a tool to help people build a bit of exercise into their daily commute. I'm all for that. I'm a bit leery of devices like this, which help people build n…

Or the 55 year old started their programming career at age 45. I've seen it happen... Edit: or whatever age would result in equivalent industry experience

I don't understand how this is a step forward; ease of manufacture, maybe? It doesn't strike me as being any more reliable, comfortable or efficient than any other electric-assist …

Interesting rant. I do not think that 3-D printing is going to play much of a part, though. You mention an open-source bicycle; this is a good illustration of the problem. The bicy…

What I don't understand is: how do they move the bikes without damaging the locks?

I was struck by the parallel with blue-black ink (chemical reaction for permanence + dye to see what was written in the meantime).

> Your comment is basically "You're being too informative. Could you break it down for me further, again, one more time? To me, his comment is basically "primary, not secondary, so…

Ironically, the UCI is pushing to get rid of radios, so the communication side of it is probably here nor there in pro cycling. I suspect, though, that regular punters will be quit…

As well as what others have suggested (shower at work, don't try hard, etc) there are electric bicycles available that would address this issue. I've not tried one myself, but they…

From the article: "Employees at legal outsourcing companies in India are not allowed by Indian law to give legal advice to clients in the West, no matter their qualifications. Inst…

The first paragraph then says "Smartphones may soon displace some of the estimated 1 billion credit and debit cards in American wallets." which is a rather different and less drast…