rdwallis

The article lists climate change as the cause of the rise in rat populations in major cities but wouldn't cat neutering and spaying campaigns have a more direct impact? The huge reduction in feral cats over the last few decades seems a more likely direct cause, not just in how big the rat population is but also in the visibility of the rats in major cities. Rats don't have to hide as much if there are fewer cats around.

A car license is required when driving or parked but the fine was issued to a parked car without a driver in it. I proved that I was driving the car when the ticket was issued so the claims made by the metro officer about how they issued the ticket were not true.

My car was licensed at the time and the license was displayed correctly. I was not guilty of the offense and the whatsapp messages allowed me to prove that the officer who issued the ticket was lying.

I used my whatsapp chat history to successfully contest a traffic fine.

My parents wanted me to check on their house while they were away. I messaged them on whatsapp when I left my house and then again when I arrived at theirs.

A month or so after my trip I was sent a fine for not displaying my car license while my car was parked on a public road. I had driven down the road where the fine was recorded during the trip. Using the timestamps of the whatsapp messages I was able to show that there was not enough time during my trip for me to have stopped to park.

Maybe you have to login so they can adapt the paper's conclusions to match your social graph.

Imagine a site with users who are all absolute experts in their chosen field. Mathematicians / Writers / Lawyers etc.

The popularity of a post will depend more on how it appeals to the majority than how it appeals to the experts. So the most popular mathematical posts may be posts that the actual mathematicians find mundane but that the writers / lawyers are able to understand. And this is true for all topics in which the non experts out number the experts.

So even though all the people on your site are experts the actual content on your site will be at non expert level, which will attract non-experts to your site who will then tend to vote on content that is at an even lower level.

Eventually the experts find all the content on the site mundane and are driven out.

Abandoned the Ale Tree because I don't think it is a solution to the problem. But there are definite problems with a pure majority vote system. The underlying concept that led me down this path was the difference between a republic and democracy. The Ale Tree was meant to act more like a republic where you elect representatives who vote on issues for you instead of voting on them directly.

It got a lot of spam. Not sure if that shows that it doesn't work or if it needs a certain threshold of users before it can work properly.

The database is on at the moment so you can try it out. I'll only turn it off if the spam comes back.

Looking for feedback and first impressions.

GWT 2.7 has incremental compilation. During development, recompile takes less than a second.

Wow the whole xapi project is great, thanks for the link.

How much do the threads actually work yet? How slow are they?

Thanks on first glance that looks like a much better solution than gwts' generators.

In gwt, reflection isn't supported because it makes it hard for the compiler to do dead code elimination.

Supporting reflection might make it difficult to reduce the compile size of the javascript code in the future.

Or does c# reflection work differently from java?

Looks great by the way.

The decryption is probably being done by specialized circuitry on the chip. It might perform the operation faster than a much more powerful machine.