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by pwthornton 15y ago
Mixed-use zoning is making a comeback, and it really fosters walkability. You can have a dense area that isn't that easy to get to things because its zoned too rigidly. Zoning originally came about for a few reasons. One was that industrial
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by pwthornton 15y ago
People own collapsable shopping carts that they walk to and from the grocery store with. A lot of times a grocery store or market may be on your way home from work, making it not a big deal to stop in and get some fresh food. How often woul
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by pwthornton 15y ago
This is a supply and demand issue. A lot of people do want to live in dense, urban areas, but there isn't enough housing stock to meet demand, hence the expensiveness of urban living. But if you factor in your transportation costs into livi
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by pwthornton 15y ago
A 30 minute walk to work is great. It ensures that you get some exercise in before you get to work. If it's a nice area, you can drink some coffee, listen to a podcast and enjoy the walk. I'd much rather have 30 minute walk to work than a 1
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by pwthornton 15y ago
I grew up in an exurb and know the feeling of freedom that finally having a car can give you. There wasn't much in my town and without a car, I couldn't even see most of my friends from school. The greatest freedom of all is the ability to
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by pwthornton 15y ago
If we stop building free parking (or rather requiring it, as most city and town codes require) and stop subsidizing roads and car travel, this issue would naturally sort itself out. Most people are car dependent because our government polic
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by pwthornton 15y ago
You'd be quite surprised how mobile disabled people can be in a walkable area. It's night and day how many disabled people you see in a walkable area versus the suburbs. Areas that make it easy for people to walk are also very friendly for
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by pwthornton 15y ago
Search is the only reason to keep it around. It's a great way to search through your Gmail. The built-in mail app doesn't search that well, especially stuff on the server. Beyond that, I find the built-in mail app to be lightyears better th
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by pwthornton 15y ago
It's an important part of Apple's story. It shows that Isaacson didn't get the important of NeXT to Apple and how the NeXT purchase saved Apple. It was more than just getting Jobs back. A big question I'd have is, why did NeXT have so much
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by pwthornton 15y ago
That's the passage. How could he not challenge Gates on that? Or clarify it. I'm not sure if he gets 100 percent what Gates is saying. This passage is just not accurate. OS X's importance to Apple can't be understated. Apple, the company th
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by pwthornton 15y ago
I disagree. If Isaacson can't get these details right, which other details are wrong? And if he doesn't know the facts, does he know the right questions to ask? I'd argue that because Isaacson doesn't understand OS X and how much different
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by pwthornton 15y ago
No, there is more than that. I don't have the Kindle version, so I can't easily search through the book. But he talks a bit about Avie Tevanian and that essentially that is what NeXT gave Apple. If I get some more time, I'll try to find th
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by pwthornton 15y ago
It may have been Siracusa's finest hour. He should start a book review podcast series called "OCD Book Reviews."
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by pwthornton 15y ago
This is really it. For a journalist, I would have expected him to ask my questions, push back at Steve more and do more research.
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by pwthornton 15y ago
It's written in the bare prose of a journalist. It's not bad writing, but it's not the kind of writing that is enjoyable to read for the sake of how well it is written. It reads like a string of a newspaper or magazine pieces strung togethe
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by pwthornton 15y ago
The complaints are not that the book isn't nice enough towards Jobs, but rather that Isaacson doesn't know enough about technology to make this interesting or insightful, nor did he try to educate himself before writing this book. Isaacson
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Even Obama wants to cut Post Office delivery. What was Netflix supposed to do?(interchangeproject.org)
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by pwthornton 15y ago
You can now get a Mac Mini with discrete graphics. If the hard drive can be replaced -- unlike the iMac -- I'd be tempted to do a Mac Mini with discrete graphics, 8 GB ram and an SSD. Apple now offers a SSD option, but it's a $600 upgrade.
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by pwthornton 15y ago
Is anyone here surprised? I downloaded the app -- like a fool -- and tried it for a day. It wasn't clear at first that my photos were public to everyone. Beyond that, no one had photos within my geographic area. It was the worst social netw
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Apple attempting to redefine Pro with FCPX(interchangeproject.org)
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Google+ needs to pass more than the geek test(interchangeproject.org)
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by pwthornton 15y ago
Google Docs is a limited suite of Web apps trying to mimic Microsoft Office. iCloud has an API that 3rd party developers can use for all sorts of applications. Neither Microsoft Office nor Google Docs is anything near the caliber of using O
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by pwthornton 15y ago
The biggest correlation is between upfront expense and long-term durability. Good shoes can be resoled, which is fairly cheap and can be done quickly. A good pair of leather shoes could last you 10 years. All you'd have to do is get them re
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by pwthornton 15y ago
There is a cost to just throwing things out, even if its externalized. This cheap stuff has to be landfilled and much of it doesn't break down for thousands or millions of years. Many of it is also harmful to the environment, impacting and
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by pwthornton 15y ago
Source please?