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by princess3000 13y ago
They have navigation systems built into the Lyft (and Uber) apps, actually, but it was more of me saying my destination and the guy saying "Should I go left or right to get started?" whereas a cabbie just knows exactly where you're headed.
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by princess3000 13y ago
That just happened in SF, actually: http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/05/21/sfmta-to-designate-hund... A 12-spot trial run was successful and now an additional 300 curbside spots are going to be designated for shared cars. Not bad.
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by princess3000 13y ago
I've taken Lyft twice and both times I had to direct the driver. Which isn't a problem, really, but they are indeed amateurs in the real sense of the word compared to the Uber drivers and most cab drivers. It's kind of neat though since the
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by princess3000 13y ago
If I'm reading this correctly it says you just park the car at the other end and get out? In SF I'd pay a premium not to have to park a car. Parking, in my limited experience, often takes much longer than the actual driving part.
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by princess3000 13y ago
That's true but there is a middle ground, and it's not like indie developers can't get it together and ship great code without being massive. A good recent example that gets thrown around here is the new Tomb Raider, where first month sales
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by princess3000 13y ago
Ha, at first I just noticed that he ran exactly 3.14 and thought "well, that number sounds familiar." Then I thought that "irrational" was a strange way to describe running a longer distance than normal and just put the two together... On h
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by princess3000 13y ago
Also notable is that he ran exactly pi miles. e: AND called that an "irrational improvement." That must be a joke or something...
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by princess3000 13y ago
True but the press/blogs will summarize this and a ton of people will have heard about it by the end of the day. They really want to be the only box in your living room, not just something you boot up when you want to play Halo, so they're
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by princess3000 13y ago
I think that's the point. They're trying to capture a market far larger than people who care about the next Halo, because those people are going to buy this anyway.
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by princess3000 13y ago
I agree, this story as written doesn't have nearly enough information but as this technology gets cheaper and more prevalent it's not difficult to imagine that this scenario, or something very similar, could occur. This exact thing or somet
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by princess3000 13y ago
Kim Dotcom is one of my favorite personalities... he's basically a real life James Bond villain, except that he's kind of the good guy. It's awesome to see him stand up to this stuff and even win against systems that want to see him fail co
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by princess3000 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not thrilled about the change, just hypothesizing why they would have made it from a business point of view.
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by princess3000 13y ago
I would assume that Google Now-type products work better when they have as much information as possible, and making all chats save by default all the time would be a good way to get much more information from people. Still, yes, kind of cre
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by princess3000 13y ago
I was kind of wondering when this would happen. For a very small investment you could mockup a slick iPhone gadget, make 10x your initial request of $100k and then take the money and run. Aside from the morality of it, I don't think there a
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by princess3000 13y ago
You realize that every single thing you enumerated could easily be applied to for-profit insurance companies in America, right? Just checking.
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by princess3000 13y ago
Awesome, thank you 8]
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by princess3000 13y ago
Would you mind going briefly into what "I learned to code" entailed? Did you identify the languages/technologies you needed to learn at first? How did you go about learning them, etc.? There's a ton of info about learning languages out ther
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by princess3000 13y ago
When I say "joke" I just mean that the whole concept appears to be firmly tongue-in-cheek (or pizza-in-cheek, maybe). Though I haven't used the app I suspect that the tech behind it is pretty sound. I feel you on the hyperbolic marketing th
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by princess3000 13y ago
Who said you can't make money from a joke?
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by princess3000 13y ago
You could use a tap handle for beer. Perhaps a tap handle shaped as pizza, even.
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by princess3000 13y ago
This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious. The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" a
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by princess3000 13y ago
Who said anything about corporations? Hiring people to do work has been a basic part of the human experience for thousands of years. Unless you can run your entire business on your own you're going to need help, and so you give someone else
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by princess3000 13y ago
Sometimes the worship of the startup culture gets to be a bit much... there's nothing inherently more valuable about making your own startup than there is in working for someone else, and you also forgot to add "money" to the list of things
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by princess3000 13y ago
This is kind of strange given that the article isn't really about investing at all. If you can cut through the Friedman word salad his point seems to be "a 401(k) world requires you to learn much more about investing in yourself." This arti
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by princess3000 13y ago
Ticketmaster just changed their captchas to this format as well, you enter a captcha like "Who's coming with me" while viewing an ad about their social features. Until a few months ago it was a normal, unrelated captcha.
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by princess3000 13y ago
"Have you thought about getting a job working for better people" is incredibly patronizing, akin to asking a fast food worker why they're not working at a real restaurant or someone at a huge, bulky conglomerate why they're not working for
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by princess3000 13y ago
Well, flowchart software isn't especially sexy, and unlike clothes or music or a game or something along those lines you're probably not going to be intrigued by the prospect of flowchart software unless you're actively looking to make a fl
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by princess3000 14y ago
Yes, you should be professional, the same way you'd probably be respectful at a dinner party that occurred outside of work hours. This is about as puritanical as a coffee shop that prevents you from bringing a guitar and amplifier in and pl
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by princess3000 14y ago
Fallout generally means something negative. If this is related to the PyCon incident (which it might not be, given that Django says they've been working on it for some months) then the "fallout" is simply the adoption of a formal document t
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by princess3000 14y ago
She's going to RPG camp and they finish the game during the camp session. The 10k reward level seems more humorous than an actual attempt to get someone to pledge 10k. I'm doing a kickstarter soon and we have the exact same thing, a huge re

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