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Where's the hit counter? Mind pointing me to it. Can't find it anywhere at TFA.

> The title is misleading, the emotional "It's crazy how much Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data" The title: What Transport for London can learn about us …

After Brexit, is GDPR relevant to London transport anymore? I'd guess that UK now probably has their own version of GDPR?

I am making no such assumption. I am only expressing my gripe against those commenters who are not happy that this grant is like 1 month's salary. So I am only making the point tha…

Of course, I don't get to decide it. That's exactly my point! You seem to be restating my point. Each company is free to decide for themselves how much they want to contribute.

> Hooray. That'll pay for one developer for one month. If 20 more companies did this, then it would pay for one developer for one year, don't you think?

This! What all these ungrateful nerds seem to disregard is whether one company should take the responsibility of paying the curl author enough to match a year's worth of salary? Or…

I remember Twitter in early days. Developers loved its REST APIs. They were already building integrations for custom dashboards, email, Yahoo chat, IRC and what not! Users could ch…

Are function tables really all that cleaner? Honest question. If I can offer a counterpoint a function table requires us to code some function dispatch routine that looks at the in…

> everyone can see it on issue tracker I don't think this is necessarily true. If an engineer is blocked on a difficult problem for a day they don't have time update issue tracker …

For me Lisp enlightenment was when I realized everything is lambda all the way down (except of course for lists and atoms). I mean we don't really need all the various fancy let, l…