I owned a 2009 Golf TDI and loved every minute of it. The car was simply a blast to drive. In the 18 months I drove the Golf I didn't have any issues with high-torque. In fact, the turbo lag guaranteed you wouldn't slam into the car in front of you unless your foot was firmly planted for multiple seconds.
The fantastic fuel economy was the icing on the cake.
What can I say? I was pretty late to the internet show. Never really got deep into the BBS scene, though I do remember doing some exploration of several.
This brings back a lot of memories: the family Apple IIe and TRS-80 (Trash 80), Compuserve and external modems. Good times! I don't think I ever owned a Hayes external modem though. IIRC my first online experience was with a 9200 baud internal modem.
Looks like the crows' intelligence can go both ways! I suspect that your disguise would not have fooled them though. I've watched some amazing feats of Crow problem solving (thanks Sir David Attenborough!) so they probably would have just watched which house you went into and carpet bombed ALL the cars in the driveway.
I recently had to replace my front chainrings after about 7000 km because the chain was jumping when I applied lots of pressure. The rear cassette was also replaced because the old chain (5k km) had damaged the cogs. So gears do indeed wear out, but it takes a good amount of riding.
I'll ask you the (serious) question then: if the cost of the experience of playing with those people was a permanently injured knee would you still say it was worth it?
I get that sports are about relationships as much as the game, but I don't understand how the potential trade offs are worth it in the big picture. This is not me trying to push my views on anyone - I'm simply curious.
What's sad to me is to read that the writer is happy to have a permanently damaged knee in exchange for a few years of playing football. Personally I can't see how it would be worth it. I need to walk, run and cycle every day for the rest of my life. I don't need to play football.
I've had exactly the same thoughts. Swype is a godsend for me and generally just works. It knows how I type, and gives excellent suggestions so a significant percentage of the time I tap a suggested word rather than have to swype it out.
Is your insurance deductible $2500? If you had full insurance, as I assume you would from your comment, why not claim it? After all, it's there to protect you too. You can substitute cyclist for uninsured driver and the situation would be the same.
Registration is the bulk of the "needless paperwork" I was referring to. Cyclists get that hurled at them pretty frequently (just this weekend to be exact), with the idea that rego fees cover road costs. And of course it's simply not true over most of the world. The bulk of money for roads comes from non-registration related sources.
And just what would be the point of bike insurance cover? Car insurance is primarily for property damage and/or medical issues. When's the last time you saw a bike cause serious property damage? And it's obvious that short of a cyclist hitting a pedestrian (rare but it happens) it's the cyclist that's going to need the medical attention - not the car driver.
It's an unpopular idea because it makes no sense. It's needless paperwork, expense and bureaucracy for no real world benefit.
This was fascinating to me. It feels like a major failing that I could register routes for address space I don't control. Kudos to the authors for explaining things in a way that a novice networking guy like myself could understand.
I had the same initial thought about (a), but the comments mentioned that CloudFlare issues a certificate you can install on your origin servers which will allow secure connections with CloudFlare.
If I could ask an unrelated question, what are you using to power 2 external monitors on your MBP? I have a 30" monitor at $work, but a pair of smaller monitors would be even better.
Even if you're not a perl programmer, attending a presentation by The Damian will be time well spent. He's not only brilliant and insightful, but very entertaining!
I was present for a talk at a YAPC years ago where I think he first introduced programming in Klingon. Most of it was way over my hear, but it was brilliant nonetheless.
There's plenty of tricks to allow you to watch Netflix outside their official countries, like the DNS services. But I agree with you that I'll first look if something is available on Netflix and only then look for alternative options.
I'm also in Australia and use the same DNS tricks to access Netflix. A couple of days ago I started watching Orange is the New Black and am enjoying it immensely so far. House of Cards is also on My List too but I need a few more hours in the day to get to it.
The most frustrating thing about Netflix is that so often I hear of a movie I'd like to watch but it's not on Netflix so I often download it instead. Sometimes it will be available via Roku's movie service (M-Go), but even then sometimes the movies are Buy only with no option to rent. Why do the studios make it so hard to give them money?!@?
The whole of Massachusetts is brighter than the surrounding states, and grows brighter the closer you get to Boston. I wonder where all that data came from. Was it a corporate or state data donation?
I applied for a job with athenahealth in Boston many years ago, but sadly didn't make the cut then. It sounded like a fantastic place to work, where you could make a difference in people's health as well as make good money.
I don't think that node is bad, but it's simply another dependency you have to worry about. Most devs likely won't have node pre-installed. Having a no-dependency binary is a great thing.
I've been using an HP MicroServer (the N54L to be exact) + FreeNAS with great success. My outlay was <$300 since I used disks I already had lying around and the performance is much better than the cheap home-grade NAS products.
I played around with the demo map and the scrolling was indeed super quick, along with zoom level changes. If they could do the same thing with WebGL so that we'd have vector maps in the browser (like Google maps) that would be awesome. The competition would be good for everyone.
I've been thinking long and hard about upgrading my Macbook Pro with a hard drive to an SSD. Which this kind of performance and value, it's looking to be a no brainer. The main thing holding me back was going from 500 GB HD => 256 GB SSD (based on price). With the MX100, I can have it all!