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A car license is required when driving or parked but the fine was issued to a parked car without a driver in it. I proved that I was driving the car when the ticket was issued so t…

I used my whatsapp chat history to successfully contest a traffic fine. My parents wanted me to check on their house while they were away. I messaged them on whatsapp when I left m…

Maybe you have to login so they can adapt the paper's conclusions to match your social graph.

Imagine a site with users who are all absolute experts in their chosen field. Mathematicians / Writers / Lawyers etc. The popularity of a post will depend more on how it appeals to…

It got a lot of spam. Not sure if that shows that it doesn't work or if it needs a certain threshold of users before it can work properly. The database is on at the moment so you c…

Built http://www.thealetree.com a few years ago so not related to the current issue. But I'll turn the database on for a few days if people want to try it out. The source code is a…

For something more fun to read than my intro try Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson: https://www.watchwords.tv/read/Q6jQrky0m/Warbreaker

Looking for feedback and first impressions.

GWT 2.7 has incremental compilation. During development, recompile takes less than a second.

Wow the whole xapi project is great, thanks for the link. How much do the threads actually work yet? How slow are they?

Thanks on first glance that looks like a much better solution than gwts' generators.

In gwt, reflection isn't supported because it makes it hard for the compiler to do dead code elimination. Supporting reflection might make it difficult to reduce the compile size o…

The decryption is probably being done by specialized circuitry on the chip. It might perform the operation faster than a much more powerful machine.

More interesting for programmers: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=program.programme And programme seems to be having a very slight resurgence since 2012.

Sorry for the delay in reply. I live in Durban, South Africa. Lots of people speed here and sometimes the fast lane will be moving faster than the limit. But I don't think I've eve…

I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load. Nobody speeds all the time. Even people who speed a lot will try to slow down for speed traps. So everyone who spee…

Thanks Tim, I know it wasn't malicious. The only reason I decided to make the point was because it is a trend. And because I think to half the world it's an invisible problem.

Ok so this is my first post on hn to get so many downvotes. I'm sorry if this annoyed you. To me the continued use of northern seasons for global events is an actual problem. You'r…

Summer of Swift, Summer of Code, Steam Summer Sale. It's winter where I am. Unless your event is local please don't use seasons to denote a timeframe.

That's an argument from survivorship. Just because they've been successful doesn't mean this code shouldn't be improved.

You have a very small chance of being caught if you ride the subway without a ticket. If you are caught some countries will work out what to fine you by multiplying the chance of b…

Looks like they're putting in place infrastructure for an API affiliate plan. To use the API you must display a copyright link whose href points at a url included in the API's resp…

Ok sorry if my question came off as snarky, the first example in your readme shows how mson can be converted to json which doesn't seem to be very useful. I think you should better…

What problem do you have that MSON solves?