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by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#TS3F)
Locks are tricky; I thought today I’d talk a bit about some of the pitfalls of locking that you might not have seen before. As you probably know, the lock statement in C# is a syntactic sugar for the use … Continue reading →
from on (#V1RF)
I am not a hacker or IT professional, yet I use Linux because it is better and more ethical. There are a lot of us evernoobs out there. This is a review and some guidelines for using Digital Ocean to set up a WP blog.
by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#V3HZ)
In the previous exciting episode I ended on a cliffhanger; why did I put a loop around each wait? In the consumer, for example, I said: while (myQueue.IsEmpty) Monitor.Wait(myLock); It seems like I could replace that “while†with an “ifâ€. … Continue reading →
by Tom Fucoloro from on (#V45P)
It’s a world (online) premiere! Seattle Bike Blog is happy to host the online release of Microcosm Publishing’s Groundswell #7: Gentrification Response Team. For years, Elly Blue and Joe Biel over at Microcosm Publishing have been touring the country visiting … Continue reading →
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#V4E5)
New Link maps percolating through the fleet (see picture above). Reaction here. Tacoma Housing Authority planning 40 to 50-unit mixed-use development near future Tacoma Link station. Kirkland holding meeting Nov. 19th about BRT. Buried in this article about new buildings at UW ($), this little example of how our transportation money goes astray: “The Nanoengineering & […]
by Tom Fucoloro from on (#V863)
A man driving a pickup truck in Everett struck and killed a man biking Thursday evening around 6:30 p.m. The identity of the man killed has not yet been released. Our deepest condolences to his friends and family. Few details … Continue reading →
by Frank Chiachiere from Seattle Transit Blog on (#VAG7)
Martin and Frank discuss Madison BRT, open vs. closed bus systems, BRT creep, rail bias, bus branding, and Sound Transit’s new CEO. https://media.blubrry.com/seattletransitblog/s3.amazonaws.com/stb-wp/wp-content/podcasts/STB_podcast_6.mp3
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#VCVP)
from Hacker News on (#VSQP)
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by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#VTY7)
The cost of zoning. “…the increase in [housing] supply is slowing down rent growth.†Supply and demand has not been repealed. Sound Transit seeking bids on $400m contract to build Lynnwood Link from Northgate to N. 200th St. Portland Streetcar circulates infographic showing how great it is. The latest iteration of the plan for the Mount […]
by Oran Viriyincy from Seattle Transit Blog on (#W3DH)
by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#W73X)
Good Monday morning everyone; I hope my American readers had a lovely Thanksgiving. I sure did! Well enough chit-chat, here’s a problem I was pondering the other day. We know that doubles introduce some “representation error†when trying to represent … Continue reading →
by Guest Contributor from Seattle Transit Blog on (#WA5X)
by SEATTLE SUBWAY ST3 is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Let’s make it great! As you sit in a car or bus stuck in ever-worsening traffic in our region, do you ever imagine what our region would be like if we had approved Forward Thrust in 1968 or 1970—a system that would have […]
by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#WHF8)
A couple of years ago I developed my own arbitrary precision natural number and integer mathematics types, just for fun and to illustrate how it could be done. I’m going to do the same for rational numbers here, but rather … Continue reading →
by David Lawson from Seattle Transit Blog on (#WHHQ)
(UPDATE: Metro’s Victor Obeso has responded, saying Metro is “actively considering†this change. Mr. Obeso’s full statement is below the story.) By now, everyone is familiar with our dismay over the lack of a meaningful Link restructure in Capitol Hill, and in particular over some of the major losses that Metro’s final restructure package is […]
from Hacker News on (#WKBW)
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by Tom Fucoloro from on (#WP5V)
It’s time for the Bike News Roundup! Lots of good stuff floating around the web these days, so let’s get started. First up, this 1995 video by the Seattle Department of Engineering (now the Department of Transportation) is a pretty … Continue reading →
by Oran Viriyincy from Seattle Transit Blog on (#WTXD)
Chicago from the “Lâ€. I enjoy the view from elevated trains. A Ride In The City from RYANJBOLGER on Vimeo.
by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#WXYD)
All right, we have an arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic type now, so we can do arithmetic on fractions with confidence. Remember the problem I set out to explore here was: a double is actually a fraction whose denominator is a large … Continue reading →
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#X5FA)
Judkins Park Station plan wins national award. Tacoma Link design concepts. Metro rolling out TripPool program to organize carpools to park-and-rides. Your guide to the new federal transportation bill. Seattle Times shows precinct maps for Seattle’s last election. City of Tuwkila has a new survey out on transit improvements. Community Transit approves a 2016 budget. […]
by ericlippert from Fabulous adventures in coding on (#X9A5)
I said last time that binary-searching the rationals (WOLOG between zero and one) for a particular fraction that is very close to a given double does not really work, because we end up with only fractions that have powers of … Continue reading →