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I'm not going to say that we should all be in cars, but I used to ride my bicycle everywhere-

I ride motorcycles now, and I still get a lot of the upsides- open to the environment, a physical activity (though more mild than biking at a hard pace), and my stress levels are lower.

But it has one more huge upside; back when I bicycled all the time, I'd always arrive everywhere hot and sweaty. Workplaces can install showers, but what about the supermarket? The library? Classrooms? Your girlfriend's house? (which of course has showers, but back then her parents would NOT have approved)

If you're going to build a city with all of those things a few blocks away, then it's an easy ride and no big deal, but that's a pretty major overhaul. I don't see it working in existing cities. Plus, besides problems with showers, the time commitment in existing cities is pretty big. I live rather close to my job, and it would still take me 1-2 hours to get there by bicycle.

Once again, not that I love cars everywhere all the time, but it's a pretty darn big feat to switch to bicycles in many American cities.

disclaimer: I do love my bikes, I'm kind of a petrol head.
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What's the U-Bahn's policy on taking along bikes?
We host both for our users, and use Riak for our own datastore. They're both awesome, but quite different.

Here's a pretty thourough comparison: https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Compared+to+MongoDB

Note: written by the authors of Riak, but MongoDB contributors chimed in on the comments.
Agreed. I would love to see this developed further, it has significant game-changing potential. If one could save arrangements on pages whose elements were consistently labeled, then people could swap their save files, and that can lead to all sorts of other changes.

The web is in need of a shake up - it's a bit late to write an essay on why, but would sum it up as 'siloed by design'. I think disintermediation offers a way out of this - users should be able to take dynamic subsections from websites, filter and recombine them. Publishers will naturally resist this strongly because it upends a lot of typical web business models (a great many websites run on the same principle as free magazines/papers and suffer from the same faults as a consequence).

The ease of interaction here is what embedding * should* be like. Not sure where it will lead, but I hope we'll find out.
That timezone visualizer is gold.

I live in Europe, and am chronically bad at calculating timezone offsets in my head. Calls to clients on the west coast usually involve at least one moment of panic where I think I've missed it, followed by two hours of waiting because I calculated the time wrong, followed by an apology for calling an hour late.

This is also nice because my clients are even worse than me, and generally have no idea when it might be daytime over here. A nice blue bar would do them some good.
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The author describes his efforts to find the information in existing sources, e.g. the HTML spec and DTD. He didn't manage to, and experts who were party to the original discussions pitched in with comments.

You should link to the search that provides the same results. You can even use lmgtfy.com if you're feeling bitchy. I'd say Ryan Tomayko knows how to use Google; did you do any background on him?

By your logic, Wikipedia should just link to searches too; but then it wouldn't be Wikipedia.
Funny how that works. I have had many many occasions of traveling while soaking wet for miles, and they always make great stories, and weren't all that bad.

Now, on the other hand I've had times where it's just downright miserable, and I was pretty sure my fingers were on the verge of serious frostbite, and that was NOT fun and never will be. But, that's not too common.
Not during rush hour (6-9am, 4-6pm), and your bike needs a ticket (€2.50/day). http://www.muenchen.de/verticals/Mobilitaet/Fahrrad/Rad_U_S_...

That’s not very friendly, I wouldn’t use that except in emergencies. That’s probably why you don’t see bikes on the U-Bahn.
Not exactly the same thing. I'm not aware of the details regarding AddOns in WoW but I don't think you can monetize from them.
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My mind boggles at Quora too. I just don't get how they can even think of launching while Facebook are about to roll out their own Q&A feature.

The StackOverflow folks have the right idea - I think the market can support a bunch of niche Q&A sites with tight communities.

For monolithic Q&A sites on every topic under the sun, you need massive traction otherwise you have the usual chicken/egg UGC problems that we've seen a million times before. Facebook already has massive traction, Quora doesn't. Game over.
I get the point - and I support the development of car-free suburbs for people who want them. Streets safe for children, people saying hello instead of staring from behind closed windows, etc. Less local pollution, more friendly streets, less accidents : all pluses.

I just don't want to see some zealot telling me I can't have a car, and that I am some sort of evil person for having one.

Further, not everywhere is suitable. Someone riding around cities near me have got high humidity and steep hills to deal with : you don't ride a bike without some serious fitness. Those cruisy bikes you see in Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Cambridge are of no use.

What I'm saying : there should be no laws against this type of thing, and no laws saying you should do it. Entirely personal choice all round.

For my part I have a large car but work from home, so it gets driven maybe once per fortnight. There's no way I would part with it : it's my ticket to freedom when I do choose to get out and about. And I enjoy it thoroughly when I do.
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Also, the threat of being competed against may never materialize. Facebook can build so many apps, but they won't build them all.

This, I think, leads to the real litmus test for me: how sure are you that the company is 100% committed to being an open(ish) platform rather than building out its product? The parallels with Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook are quite interesting to explore.
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Not to mention MUDs.
I understand that the stated value proposition is to find out where your kids are when they get abducted. What I'm saying is that 1) that is not the perceived value proposition to the vast majority of its customers, 2) that is an entirely irrational concern to begin with, and 3) that even if it's bought with the intent to use it that way, it will be abused by almost every parent.
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I think the first step is not to name your 'company' Tweet something.

Secondly, Ask yourself who controls the future? All these Tweet Co's that are running for the skies could have created something that integrated with multiple platforms and could create value independently even if not on a large scale (ala Zynga).

What amazes me is that most of these feature businesses do not have even the email addresses \ of 'their users'. In my book, no email, no acquisition.
First thing to do: Put source code on the webpage. That is the primary thing to do.
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I think that adding more VCs and Angels to the ecosystem would actually make me less likely to consider raising money.

The first year of a startup can be incredibly cheap. Cheap enough that you simply don't need any outside cash to make it happen. For me, the only reason I'd ever consider taking VC if for the side benefits that come along with the money.

When you have an entity like YCombinator backing your thing, you get a huge boost from their connections (and the fact that they're inclined to use those connections for your benefit). That's orders of magnitude more valuable than the lousy six grand they give you, and if I could get that help without the money attached or the requirement to move to the bay area, I'd jump at it for my latest project.

Now imagine the scenario with Random No-Name Angel with $100k to give you. All you get out of that deal is money. No influence. No guaranteed TechCrunching, no introductions to Important People, no Inc Magazine cover story about you and the latest crop of young entrepreneurs. Unless you actually need money (which if you're smart, you shouldn't), there's just no advantage there.
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1-2 hours away by bicycle is not "rather close", it's downright far.

Why not find a place where you can cycle to work in 10-15 minutes? I did it and it works great. It gives you lots of free time (short commute) and money (no car ownership). So much so that I started a freelance shop on the side.
It's actually a good treatise on marketing language -

>Because breastfeeding is the biological norm, breastfed babies are not "healthier;" artificially-fed babies are ill more often and more seriously. Breastfed babies do not "smell better;" artificial feeding results in an abnormal and unpleasant odor that reflects problems in an infant's gut.
I'm not sure what makes me sadder: the fact that people don't just automatically know this, or the fact that I'm so old that I do.

It's probably the latter. Everyday it seems something that I've just always known enters the realm of obscure and arcane. Soon I'll be having a hard time keeping up with the new. Oh well.
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4th one down "hypertext reference ..." unless I guessed wrong?
In coastal waters.

Otherwise when you want to slow your boat relative to the wind you use a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anchor , the most common use of which is in heavy weather.
So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory.

Try to imagine that same sentence with "to read a book" substituted for "to watch television, or, um, surf the internet". Hard, isn't it?

This is anti-technology bigotry. Pretty surprising at singularityhub.com, huh? That's how pervasive it is.
Thank you, I really needed that. :(
Heh, the highest temperature ever recorded in Sweden is 100F/38C. Looks like in most parts the average winter temperature is warmer than Chicago. Sounds like you guys have it pretty easy.
> What's your point exactly?

That davidu is not exactly fair in his declaration.

> As someone else said, if you just cruise at a conservative pace, you don't even sweat very much.

I'm the one who said that...
There used to be sold addons at one point (it's possible but piracy is extremely easy), but Blizzard made paid addons a TOS violation.
Coverband is right. People need to READ the patent. They aren't patenting Where To, just showing how their patent could improve it. Apple has a legal team and surely understands the concept of "Prior Art" basically if an invention is "disclosed" or revealed to the public the inventor has one year to file a patent. Even if Apple tried to patent that app a patent examiner would not grant it because the app predates the patent application.
Try observing people not at school, e.g. pre-school (literally) children, or unschoolers, Sudbury school students, etc.

People are naturally curious. School kills curiosity.
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I get these might lead to bad things, but it is also a very useful tool - you can discard a lot of ideas this way without having to examine them in detail (which takes far too much time) and you loose very little.

As for elitism, I never had much issue with that - who would you rather get advice from - Kissinger or Sara Palin?
I don't see any good reason to include a highly recognizable likeness for a third party's app in the patent without their consent, however. There's a reason things like example.com, NorthWind etc. exist.
It is well-known that all countries has been spying on other countries for a long time. The USA is not special here. Just about all countries spy on each other and have done for millenia.
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"that means they are busy".
I've had some amazing experiences getting drenched too.
But I'm not sure that it would be that amazing on my way into work. (Likely carrying a laptop).
Yes, but whether it is an illusion is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion. And to wander off into more philosophical territory: if you say it is an illusion, you suggest that there is an intrinsic, below-the-veil-of-illusion, goodness in people. That warrants a huge discussion in itself. I would argue there is no such thing: what we are talking about here is 'the' goodness of people. There is no illusion. That they don't behave equally good in different circumstances is not because they are intrinsically less-than-good: it's because the exact same human characteristics simply give rise to different behavior in different circumstances. The motivation/inclination of people to behave in a certain way is not due intrinsic 'goodness', but due to a variety of other intrinsic characteristics, such as 'fearfulness'.
I was arguing against the "better". For the record - I catch the train. But even when I lived close enough to ride - I caught the tram or train -- more protection from weather and much less sweat.
+1 from me on that. Although we all know that Apple will never adopt a primarily M$ technology as their own.
Well, it's only 15-20 minutes by motorcycle, but I live in mountainous terrain and I'm not one of those crazy bicyclists who can maintain 20mph up a hill. If it was 15-20 minutes away because of stoplights and traffic it'd be bicyclable, but it's 15-20 minutes of highway through the hills.

I can't exactly just pick any 'ol other job; I'm in school and that is extremely limiting.

Also, if I suddenly had more money, I'd spend at least some of it on (motor)bikes because that's my hobby, so "you'll save money on transportation" doesn't work.
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False equivalence. Because there happen to be two parties in the US does not mean there have to be two groups trying to censor Digg. Also leftists could never agree to this shit, we're not organized (pun intended).
It Handles The Money

Or is critical to generating money not more than two removes from balance sheet.

I don't define most CRM as the above, but count CRM as a funnel. Reason: good sales bods used to do that in their head. So, for a sales app to be critical ("enterprise") you have to get to the bits an old school sales team can't do. It doesn't include lead search or credit analysis front of house. Critical in sales would be an engine which prices product in a way you secure sales over competitors. But that might be such a fluid piece of code, you'd never hard-wire it into any billing system.

If you're selling a service, that's obviously enterprise: no service, no money. But i think you were talking about internal apps here.

I dislike entrprise search / discovery being classified as entreprise. Archival matters. But you can always restore to a search server if you must, for legal e.g. later. If you need to use full text search to find line of business information, i think you've got a messy practise, to put it mildly. Yet, there sure is a lot of money in that space. My take is that such search utility is more a distraction, and at worst if used it ought to be rationed.

I started with my Razor, so i'll save typing any more expansions. I said 2 removes, to emphasise that in a enterprise sized company, if you go much further you have a very big graph to reduce as to what's important.

Seems everyone else here is going for Computer Contradictionary style answers. I'm trying to say that enterprise software is what you can't take away without losses. My org bonuses those in that trench in line with front of house / sales. Sometimes i think that enterprise software is deliberately arcane so that median salary employees can be "trusted" with apps near to the money because they'll have to be geniuses to know how anything works, and if they are, they'll leave. Whenever i get that feeling, a vendor gets shown the door.
Interesting comment "Google is a pretty big shill for the Democratic party"
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I think that there is another variable at play over here. Google needs to prove to Wall Street that they are a "serious" company. They have received a lot of rubs over their engineering culture from investors, and business onlookers. I've read people write stuff like " when did you last 'wave' someone?" etc. If for some reason Google faces a lean time, then such practices will be viewed as an excess by them and it will deprecate their evaluation.

So, what could appease almighty Wall Street better than this signal that Google is willing to kill a product, no matter how exciting, if it doesn't meet its bottom line?

In a way this is a really clever compromise, but taking such decisions may in fact hurt Google in the longer run by diluting its culture. Sometimes, the most promising of technologies is not economically promising in the shorter run, but who'll explain this to Wall Street?
Alt. answer, Contradictionary - style:

Where management is prepared to spend a double digit % of revenue to achieve something. That "something" might be "anything".

Alt. answer #2:

When your Big Four accounting company junior uses vendor's name in familiar, knowing terms. Optionally, when any business novice tries to explain it to you in breathless excitement.
I believe this is great. I have one comment (really one wish) to make. It would be absolutely fantastic to see some screencasts of HNers in action. In particular, how you get the skeleton of a project up and running. I, for one, would pay for content like this.

By the way, I haven’t tried PeepCode. Do you guys recommend it? Again, along the lines of getting things started. I look, for instance, at the App Engine documentation and (even though they offer a launcher) I wonder how professionals give the first brush strokes in less than several hours. How can I avoid constantly going back to the documentation?

Thank you, and sorry for the ramble!
yes! you won't ever look back. I've been on dvorak layout for almost 10 years now and really, I cannot understand why anyone would want to stick with QWERTY.

Took me about a month to get into it and back up to my QWERTY speed. After two months I was faster and more accurate than with QWERTY.

I didn't bother to switch the keys around, instead I used the fact that the keyboard no longer represented what I typed as an opportunity to learn to touch type with the dvorak layout - I printed the keyboard layout and taped it to the bottom of my screen as my visual clue and then chucked it away after the second month.

Also, I have to admit to a minor amount of schadenfreude whenever someone else tries to type on my 'puter.
How is that those questions get answered through Google searches? Because people took the time to write posts that answer a specific question just like this one.
No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem
The disk is encrypted, access to the OS is impossible without the decryption key.
Why is that invalid?
I was assuming that Apple knowingly tried to patent prior-art. _That_ I would consider Evil™. But apparently, this may not be the case.

Now, looking at the claims, this patent application could probably be attacked from another angle (such as obviousness).
I would highly recommend PeepCode... very high quality screencasts and a good range of topics as well.
That probably wouldn't have been enough. I paid more attention to the article than to the title itself. I would have been fooled anyway.
i was thinking about the same thing. killing project is extremely tough, although many underestimate this. So I am very impressed on how effectively google does this.

another thing here is money. google is a public company that has to make money. most of these companies they kinda lost (4sqr, twtr, you name it) yet have to prove they really have business model, by making say 1% of what google makes. and its never late for buyback as google is one of most active buyers in SV MA market
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I'm sure US cities have a relatively long way to go, but biking in Austin is feasible and safe. I don't own a car (and neither do many of my friends) and it's great.

Just live in Austin (the actual city) and not Round Rock, Pflugerville et al. Leave a few minutes early and take roads meant to accommodate bikers.

It can be challenging when it's 100+ degrees, but you learn to adjust. And with the new car sharing program (Car2Go) you can always drive if the need arises.
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Stop thinking about how to scale. Startups die from not having customers.
Articles on alistapart are often that long and if it is of use you would probably read it.

I didn't really find much use in this article so I thought I better use my time better.
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Contrast that with cycling in the states where you're derided and people throw stuff at you from passing cars (beer cans seem to be a favourite projectile).

In the cities it's still somewhat doable but outside it's simply impossible. No separate lanes, cars passing you within inches, risking you being clipped by a mirror.
I don't think it's fair to class riding a motorcycle as a physical activity, if riding a motorcycle is then so is riding a car. Yes, I've done my bit of biking and yes, it's more of a 'workout' (if that's even an appropriate term) compared to riding a car but it's nowhere near the exercise you get on a bike, either by duration or by distance travelled.

Also, most of the memories I've got from riding motorcycles long distance are that you arrive stiff as a board from not moving for that long.
> Their problem I think
I dont think they have problems here. Its normal thing that every startup does - trying all kinds of things. They are no different except they can afford(read: have money+courage+feelings) doing this on a HUGE scale. Its so huge that many of ordinal ppl fail to see the big picture and call a fail.

PS. Google recently purchased Slide for pennies. Nice move. Right on.
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Does app naming not matter very much when it comes to the App Store? It seems like their original name was a lot better with ChildPulse. Also, did anyone notice how they alternated with the misspelling of "Wherescope" and the correct name?
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To be ironic, you should have said 250 billion :).
The difference is probably mostly due to the windspeed, not due to the amount of water that fell on you.
Wall Street, or more accurately, Google is a public company with shareholders demanding good results consistently. This is a very different game compared to a startup.
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