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by jarek 12y ago
> Bitcoin wallets are far easier to create than bank accounts. That might be so, but transferring real-world money into one (a requirement until value stabilizes †) is not nearly as simple. > It's by design that so few people in
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by jarek 12y ago
> Doesn't change the fact that working on something revolutionary is a lot more fun than working on something iterative. It's also more accessible to individual entrepreneurs whereas iterative progress is more of a bigco domain
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by jarek 12y ago
> All progress is aimed at the rich Oh what tosh. Most of brand new inventions might be aimed at the rich. After that, most iterative improvement is aimed at making the invention cheaper, more reliable, and easier to manufacture - i.e.,
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by jarek 12y ago
While I feel for the grade crossings, freight traffic does not necessarily prevent good service. To give one example, North London Line of the London Overground has freight trains in between every-15-minutes service outside peak hours.
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by jarek 12y ago
Not to mention a sufficiently motivated deliberate actor could get Twitter to hand over your account - particularly easy if it's completely unused...
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by jarek 12y ago
I got thrown into a machine shop as part of my engineering degree at a university-in-name-but-practically-a-polytechnic in Canada and in retrospect I am super glad. It was an excellent widening of perspective and gave me appreciation for ph
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by jarek 12y ago
Then someone registers @XNot with name XorNot and you're no better off.
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by jarek 12y ago
> I also now only require one charger for my GPS and MP3 player. microUSB?
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by jarek 12y ago
Sure but what's the point? Releasing, hosting, and maintaining a second app that doesn't have your USP?
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by jarek 12y ago
Can't speak for MTA but in London the Citymapper service updates are pretty great. It tells you what's closed, notes disruptions when showing trip suggestions, and you can preview upcoming weekend's disruptions. About the onl
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by jarek 12y ago
Yeah, it doesn't really get all the tiny things that you have to know the system to know. For example, on trips where multiple lines travel on the same tracks, the average wait calculation looks to use only one line's frequency (L
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by jarek 12y ago
You could probably spin something about cheapening the brand with insufficiently awesome experience. Of course the actual reason is probably that they don't want the hosting or support overhead. Cynically, if the app supported SF no on
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I found that occasionally their Javascript won't load, at least in Firefox. Usually works after a reload or two.
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by jarek 12y ago
Scaling a useful real-time transit app across cities isn't simple. Google Maps, after 10 years, now has GTFS for pretty much anywhere, but real-time data hasn't converged to a standard yet. Not to mention many systems that do publ
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by jarek 12y ago
> Would you mind elaborating more on this? More specifically about the cost the North American suburbs are starting to experience. Infrastructure to serve the new developments is paid for by the developer, more or less directly ("de
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by jarek 12y ago
If you're not the next Google, I'm not going to cram things for an interview with you. Sorry. "Competitive programming"... if I get hired, am I going to be evaluated through "competitive employment"?
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by jarek 12y ago
I've lived in Niagara (above the escarpment) for four years, it has the same climate as Toronto. Maybe a bit more snow due to lake effect. Most definitely not as mild as Vancouver.
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by jarek 12y ago
I read that as a reminder that this isn't a new article but rather the older one some of it might have read before. It's fair enough to submit it since some might not have read it though. HN has gotten in the habit of adding year
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by jarek 12y ago
Absolutely - finance uses hours the same way software uses open-source projects created in your spare time. "Passion", "culture fit", etc
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by jarek 12y ago
> but as soon as you have certain responsibilities True, kids in suburbs aren't cheap
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by jarek 12y ago
If you splash out for enough PV, you can quite likely generate enough electricity to power a DC, cool it, and have some left over. That's before trying fancier stuff like solar chimneys and the like.
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by jarek 12y ago
1989 was also only a 7.1. Go up almost an order of magnitude to a 7.9 or 8.0 and it might look a bit different.
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by jarek 12y ago
A year ago in Vancouver, I was paying $28 a month for cell, $30 for wired broadband internet, and $81 for a transit pass ($91 now). But if you want to spend a lot of money, cars and Canadian telecoms definitely make it easy.
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by jarek 12y ago
Is Google going to keep its HQ in an area newly bereft of non-collapsed infrastructure and non-dead significant portion of employees? Are the hipsters going to be as attracted to SF when their favourite restaurants go up in gas fires and th
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by jarek 12y ago
Ah, Santa Clara: all the affordability of Bay Area and all the excitement of a suburban business park
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Maybe they can put some really fragile components in a computer people carry around? Have them be really shiny and look great to help marketing too.
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by jarek 12y ago
http://mark.tel (and about.me mentioned in another comment) is a prime example of a problem with using given names/last names to form URLs to share contact information. Say you get http://smith.tel - this is gre
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by jarek 12y ago
Yes, this is common, due to lack of use. Though you should notice that you have much less trouble reading and listening than writing and speaking. I immigrated right around the "easy"-language-acquisition barrier age and frustrati
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by jarek 12y ago
> Can't get a 2 bedroom for less than $750,000. Sure you can, maybe not in the tiny downtown peninsula. Mid-rise along Mid-Main or Fraser, or some of the towers around Joyce goes for $500k. (Still a lot, but not that lot. I'v
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by jarek 12y ago
Shhh, innovation

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