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Without society, individual A would not be able to earn same higher amount of money.

Wow, I guess 10 years ago - if I said Mr Gates would be walking around with a Linux device as his most often used 'computer' - no one would have believed me.

What next ?

"spastic" Are there not better words ? Uncoordinated ? Glitchy ? clumsy ? awkward? blundering?

Thanks for agar.io - it cools. Any chance of a AMA or similar ? Would be really interested on the technical aspects (only 1 week! to minimal viable product) ? Also on the ad revenue ? (where it is not commercially sensitive ?) Also the fun stopping bots playing the game ? Your view on the great trick moves (and youtube videos), are these fake or are people really that good ? Do you play it much yourself ?

:)

never thought I hear the loading sound of a ZX Spectrum again. Love it, Love it.

Incorrect, It is used in London on thousands of junctions, hundred of 4-way intersections.

Maybe that why only 10 people used it.

<quote>Most potential users are elderly and often wary of relying on unfamiliar technology. “We had to approach them one-on-one and show them how the app worked on their phones. Once we did that they were keen to get involved, but the barrier was very high. We held a presentation and put an advert in a local newspaper with a circulation of 2,000 and 10 people came forward.”</quote>

Puffins are good, but detection is always hard and central co-ordination is reduced.

How about Countdown at junction or at standalone PedX ? http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/4572.html

Similar apps I seen, only connect via bluetooth to light not general internet. Making flooding much harder.

That covers standalone pedestrians crossing, junctions is TSRGD. But same principal pedestrians must reasonably cross, but Green -> Only Go if the way ahead is clear..

Zebra or horrible in terms of accident statistics. (Roughly an extra 2-3 serious per year more than traffic lights) Multiple Zebras crossing/Junctions can not be co-ordinated for either pedestrians or traffic. There are only a very few situations were Zebras are better.

Also drivers can get very aggressive with a slow moving pedestrian at a Zebra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing

Countdown helps. Traffic Signals in London, an amber numerical countdown display, indicating to pedestrians the time remaining to cross the road. This discourages pedestrians and cyclists to start to cross.

Re: Jay-walks then crossing. Some crossing and junctions skip the pedestrian stage when there is no one waiting even if the button was previously pressed. They have crossed in a gap, demand/button cancelled by detector.

The problem is curtailing the "Walk light" is that no detector is 100% reliable, so (say) if a visually impaired pedestrian is crossing and not detected, it raises as big safety concern.

Fixing the light timing is harder than it sounds. Too long for pedestrians (When there is no demand and lots of wasted time), encourages drivers to not fully comply with the signals. At least with this app, it minimised the extended crossing time to only when needed. The drivers can then see the mobility impaired pedestrian crossing and confidence remains with the timing.

You can split the crossing, so that the pedestrian does not have to cross the Northbound and Southbound at the same time.

From an UK perspective, their crossing are way to wide. If you have a shorter crossing, the crossing is less of a factor, (also shorter total cycle times).

The problem, is that you holding up all the other traffic for one pedestrians. Get the crossing length correct, have the elderly person cross at the start of the green then the time is sufficient.

Also changing the timing as one junction intermittently makes the coordination between set of traffic signals harder and can be big disbelief.

Notwithstanding, the wide junctions allow more space for cyclists.

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Well in UK there is no Jay-Walking Law (Pedestrians have right of way).

The crossing time is set at 1.2 m/s, to complete the crossing from the end of the Green.

TIL - Microsoft now uses git for the Windows code base. The blogs.msdn artcles linked by hackernoon was terrible, but hackernoon one line summary was good.

Maybe there have changed ?

Being able not to use windows at Microsoft is a surprise.

Having to call 999 this week. I did not think 112 or 911 would work. Its the adrenalin that kicks in and 999 is just engrained to us in the UK.

Further inspection, looks like terrible prices, the advertised rates are based upon such things as 7 people sharing.

"Don’t make decisions unless you have to. Whenever possible, allow the team to explore ideas and make decisions on its own."

Spot on, a good leader does not make all the decisions. It is counter-intuitive to popular culture, but this is stop on.

I would go on to say minimising your decisions, also helps to spend more time on a key decision when it is really necessary.

BBC reports ransom ware

This is very cool. Whats is the technology behind this ?

It feels like guacamole remote desktop https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

What is the tux password (sudo) ?

Simple solution: UK traffic lights, leaving Amber 3 seconds.

thanks - worked.

Shame - I have no facebook account and can not view. Any other sources ?

However the mighty Wimbledon, (now AFC Wimbledon) play a passing game of football now, time moves on.

"cross pedestrian inhibit"

As the are in affect two different crossing, with a stagger between them. The guidance is to avoid a pedestrian having to wait a whole cycle in the middle or tempted to rush both parts. One cycle wait, breaks down a bit for heavy used crossing. But the cycle time should be lower, if ped flow are up.

In an ideal situation, you could set the order of each part to be tidal - if near for example a station exit.

> The same are used in Ireland. Does anyone know why they choose to use these, as opposed to the same as the UK?

Different legislation. Most of UK: tsrgd 2016 legislation, including the North of Ireland. Most UK one with have the tactile on the bottom, especially on the right hand side, as the visually impaired person normally has guide dog on left.