I heard pressure testing of the carbon fiber wasn't done. They relied on sensors to detect delamination instead. In software engineering, a component is both created and unit tested with tests on relevant functionality. Delamination sensors are poor compensation for a missing test. They probably didn't test the delamination sensors, either.

As the article mentions though, one of the issues with using carbon fiber for this is that unlike titanium, it weakens with each pressure test.

Also that you can't very effectively model a composite materiál the way you can a solid single material.

It keeps being said: you must eat only what is needed to fuel your body for the activity you are doing in an average day.

By the time someone acquires the maturity to accept this, their lifestyle has been too deeply established for change to be possible.

Personally, I feel the difference between alcohol and marijuana intoxication to be so different, it doesn't necessarily follow that the same rules should apply.

Anonimnity is fake. Assume your conversations in Slack are reviewed, don't be mean and sneaky, and you're all set. If you're a true dick irl, Slack will only serve to magnify that fact.

> and you're all set

Except the desire for privacy isn't limited to the rude things you say.

None of us truly wants to live in a world where a third party can secretly review a permanent record of our communications.

The system isn't ready for prime time, but apparently it's a great way for CS to advertise!

I'm not accusing... but I'm struggling to see how this isn't just an ad.

For what it's worth, I upvoted the 'story' because I never heard of such a thing and it looks really cool. While I'm a little sad to read that this kind of thing doesn't actually really help, it's not that unexpected. Still, it looks neat, and once the price comes down (I didn't see any prices but I'm guessing it's hundreds for a few metal parts), I might want to play around with such a bike to see for myself. It's a little like other gadgets/gimmicks. (Some gadgets have use, others don't really.)

Cities are so varied, and have such complex contextual traffic flow variations, that comparing two is an unhelpful oversimplification. What works for the Netherlands will not work for Boston. What works for Osaka will not work for Bangalore.

I think that's an incredibly defeatist attitude to take, and the perfect excuse to not improve anything or try to learn from what others have done.

Frontpage, the tool of choice for boss's sons and nephews to help save money on a website design.

Don't direct people to bullshit bureaucratic snakeholes.

Even as someone who had abysmal interactions with mainstream banks when getting my mortgage, I don't think your response is charitable to the parent commentor, even if you don't think it's worth your time to provide feedback to a business entity, which is well within your rights.

If I as a dev for a large company see people online complaining about my product, I'd _probably_ tell them, in good faith, that if I had no direct touch to help, what channels they MIGHT be able to touch to have an impact, even if it's only post-factum.

What would you rather the business do? Have 0 receptivity to any channel of communication? Yeah, ticketing and support often sucks. But I see no reason to bite the hand that's trying to help you, both when they're going out of their way to try and give information that might move the needle, and when I'm hard pressed to give any more actionable advice. (at least for parallels within my space.)

I certainly would have liked to know I had _any_ recompense after BoA left me high and dry on some last minute mortgage detail and my agent went AWOL right before signing, even if it wasn't going to necessarily help my situation.

> as a dev

I've had a number of devs, when receiving feedback, tell me that I should instead seek out their bug tracker, register with their feedback system, open a support ticket, give detailed instructions about how to identify and fix my problem, and then wait for a decision about how I'm wrong.

I've done that maybe twice.

I have so many problems of my own that I have no time or interest to fix theirs. If they are blind to their problems they deserve what they get.

Glad this is happening. It's not fair to use DMs to form alliances against colleagues in order to increase one's bottom line. That is exactly what I've observed in agencies that run on Slack. If life is a game, this is a backdoor worth closing.

Your problem is with people, not slack, they can just go to skype or whatever tool they want.