I am afraid that one day I will come across an answer so comprehensive I will forget how to ride a bicycle.
Anyway, if it were a useful skill, I think learning how to handle reversing handle bars could be made faster with two changes. A longer, more forward front wheel fork, would make the amount of force more apparent to the rider. Second, much larger wheels would be slower to react with failure, so the rider gets a few extra fractions of a second to learn how to react.
I would have taken this guy's $200 by simply lining the bike up, keeping my eyes on the horizon, and giving the pedal one solid enough push. I would probably give it back too since I violated the spirit of the challenge. :-)
Interesting video. It's funny how countersteering is a seemingly innate ability, but if you explain it to people they will deny that is how a bicycle works.
I for one get frustrated at work, using git on windows, when I try to create a .gitignore file or something of the sort and windows bitches at me saying "You must type a file name". At least there are easy workarounds for it, but explorer is just retarded.
Imagine you are in standing in a bedroom, and someone asks you, "Why are you in this bedroom?"
Does you answer look like this?
"I walked in through the front door, passed through the living room, down the hall, then used the door to enter this room."
Or like this?
"I was feeling kind of sleepy, so I figured I'd come in here and lie down on the bed."
The former is not a perfect analogue for the Superuser answer, but perfect analogues are difficult to come by.
This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this…
> This differs from what ls on Linux (the one coming from coreutils) does.
> I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old.
Straight from the guidelines,
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I found it interesting, as the behavior surprises me, and I had no idea BSD ls did this.
Actually it mentions how this comes from BSD, which is a direct descendant of Unix.
> This differs from what ls on Linux (the one coming from coreutils) does.
Linux is not Unix.
> Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
It's amusing that the default behaviour of ls would be interesting to hackings.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
-A List all entries except for . and ... Always set for the super-user.
