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fffrad··on Why do buses bunch?
Buses in LA actually do this. It says "Discharge Only".

If you ever waited for a bus in LA for an hour only to see it come and not stop for you, you would feel differently. Even though a lot of people take the bus in LA, buses aren't really the cities priority.

It has considerably improved in the 10 years I've had to take them but they are hardly reliable. You cannot take the bus without planning ahead.

For the bunching problem, we can't simply add more buses because they will end up being empty. We can't have too few because it already feels like there are too few.

I really hope there is a solution in the near future.

fffrad··on How I could delete any video on YouTube
It's the littlest bugs that do the most harm. Bieber got lucky this time.
fffrad··on How do you get a job without a college degree?
I last worked for a large company, I probably slipped through the cracks. But everyone hired after me were from big name schools.

Thanks for the advice. Since I am trying to find a new field, I will look more toward internships.

fffrad··on Why I stopped selling courses on Udemy (2014)
Every start up that looks like a game changer soon realize that they actually need money.

Their motto change quickly.

fffrad··on Generating PDF files with JavaScript
I posted it because when the question was asked in 2009 it was very hard to do it in js, now the comments says:

> You can easily create files in JavaScript these days. (I'm from the future)

fffrad··on Raytracing a Black Hole
it's not about fairness, that's what we see currently.
fffrad··on Raytracing a Black Hole
One thing I can't forget is a picture of a black hole from telescopes.

We should really call this an artistic rendition of a black whole, because they look nothing like that. At least not as sexy.

I can't find the original but here:

https://thetruthbehindthescenes.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/...

fffrad··on Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)
A bad programmer is one that has worked for many years in the field and fails to help those less experienced.
fffrad··on Net neutrality is a “Taliban-like issue”, says Europe’s top digital policymaker
If I understand his point he is saying, Let's slow down the trivial things like Youtube and games to make real time road assistance better.

How is this related? And I don't see the Taliban connection.

fffrad··on WhatsSpy Public
What happens when the user changes the privacy settings? Whatsapp allows you to stop publishing this information.
fffrad··on Oil Crisis Explained in 3 Minutes
Something I do not understand:

- barrel price went from $100 to $60. That's $40 drop.

- Price went from $3.60 to $2.80 a gallon in my city. That's $0.80 only

I don't get it.

fffrad··on Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats
It was an offensive stupid movie anyway. In the era of youtube and the internet, making a movie is no different then posting a youtube video. See Youtube comments to see what happens when you post something.

You have the right to upload a video, others have the right to tell you what they think of it.

fffrad··on Facebook experiment boosts US voter turnout (2012)
Was facebook the only influence in those people to vote? I understand there was a study behind it, but what would have happened if facebook didn't display the message.

Here is an example, I worked on a website where we redesigned a page. All of the sudden we got an increase in traffic.

I insisted that the reason for the traffic increase had nothing to do with the redesign. More page views could have been a result of another website linking to us. (the real reason was the website appeared on TV) But at the time the business team did not know that, so they just said it's the redesign.

My point is, there are lots of factors that can influence the vote, and with the very little detail it is hard to say that Facebook was the cause.

fffrad··on 3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d
This is amazing. I remember playing this game before and it was all choppy. I am not sure it used threejs before. Good job in improving it.
fffrad··on The Least Free Place in America [video]
Well looks like it has been flagged anyway. Just wanted to share this very instructive video.

I personally experimented this when going to college. I wanted to show the experience of a programmer at school versus the real world and was silenced and threatened.

Of course a pre-approved essay was presented to me later to read to my fellow class mates. I did not.

fffrad··on Switching to open office plan killed more than productivity
The problem is, if you disagree you are viewed as the anti social.
fffrad··on SoundCloud, valued at over $700M, is down. Page loads, no audio
They have been dealing with it for a while now.

> We’re experiencing a large spike in traffic that is slowing service on the site.

http://status.soundcloud.com/post/98424504745/slowed-service

fffrad··on Physically Based Camera Rendering
This is great, too bad the demo was too intensive for my laptop.
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