chadgeidel

.plan wars. Oh the memories!

Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.

I really miss the "Q&A sites" like The Conversatron from the late 90's/early 00's https://www.everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

Hours of enjoyment from a very simple concept.

EDIT: Oh, who can forget the Purity Test sites! https://everything2.com/title/Purity+Test

You had to upgrade to a X when a 8 or a 7 was available - or even a new battery for $80?

As long as there have been cellular phones, they have been "fashion accessories". We all joke about the business guy with the giant phone, but that was the "iPhone X" of the 80's.

When I was at <fairly large financial research website company> they had a prototype VR research project that was shown to a few people. Never seemed to gain any traction, and I didn't hear why.

Probably because a large percentage of their customers don't actually care about expansion. I don't know - I don't have access to Apple's sales demographics, but I would be hard-pressed to think the reason was "malice".

Bob Lutz is almost the Steve Jobs of the auto world. At least in his own mind. :-)

Yeah, I wasn't super clear about my scenario. I have a "all skills" resume and I pare that down for each job.

That's essentially what I do. First page is all I expect the interviewer to read. My resume is 2 pages for >10 years of experience.

I agressively delete unrelated skills and promote related skills based on the job description.

Some ideas I've had luck with: Have one actionable item per email. State a question in the subject. Expect a clear answer (not quite "yes/no" but something definite). Spend a short time (one or two paragraphs describing the question in detail, but don't make it longer than that.

End the email with the question in the subject asked again.

EDIT: If you find that you need to have a conversation, either walk over to their desk or pick up the phone.

I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.

I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.

I believe the merging Sam is referring to here is augmenting human intelligence with non-intelligent (but better) machines. Kurzweil talks about this as well, and was one of the original options in Vinge's "Singularity" (https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html)

I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard for our mighty machine learning systems. I'm not going to merge with any technology that is worse than my stupid mush brain.

[edit - why am I still editing the spelling and grammar on this post?]

That line was a lot lower than I imagined! Surprised that Denver is “too far north”.

I don't know your background but "taking an Excel workbook and using that as requirements to drive an implementation" is not speedy. I've done this several times in my career and it's very, very difficult. Not because there is any "idealization", but because the reason the spreadsheet works is because a human is doing half of the work. These spreadsheets are not some "hello world" easy to understand product - they are the result of months/years of effort by a team of individuals which has grown beyond Excel's ability to handle. Translating that into code is not "quick and speedy" even if one is doing a like-for-like implementation.

Every single push-button start car I've driven has the ability of "engine off, radio on". On the downside my current car (2012 Mini Cooper S - push-button start) will only play the radio for about 10 minutes (??) after the engine is turned off.

Take a look at this video from Kyle.Engineers (a practicing aerodynamic engineer) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzlp6TxqM5o

I'd take this one step further. I love cooking, but not for every meal. Some way of automating the entire calorie delivery process with the correct amount of macro/micronutrients. Similar to Soylent - except tailored for me personally.

I'd still cook a few meals a week and I'd still go out to dinner, but it would be a rare occasion.

At the very least the regulations in place granting local monopolies should be immediately rolled back. If a municipal entity wants to provide broadband, any lawsuit against that should be dismissed.

This is so true and something that is confused all the time by “free speech advocates”. It’s quite frustrating actually.

I’m not happy about the amplification of speech that social networks offer, but l’m even more unhappy about the attitude of “smart” techies who shrug their shoulders and say “free speech - cant do anything about that”.

We can do something about that, but that would mean solving hard problems and not creating another way to type a few hundred words into a text box.

I don't see why it's not an endorsement. Money changed hands. The content of reddit's many forums is well known. No one is blind to this.

"I didn't give the killer money for a knife, I bought him lunch!"

It's fairly easy to do this in Entity Framework. Obviously if you have a giant query it's going to make some "optimizations" that you don't like but if you have a good understanding of your object model and how your database is architected you can usually create nice SQL.

Even if I use a million sock-puppets to amplify my voice? I generally agree with the idea that one (physical) person's stated opinion shouldn't be squashed, but we are dealing with scale here.

It's about 45-55 minutes door-to-door in my experience. Doesn't really matter if I drive or ride.

I'm 15 miles (24 Km) home to work. I would guess that's a little further than average, but probably not much. That's farther than I would care to ride my bicycle, but the train makes it a quick commute.

No offense, but have you considered a bicycle? Two miles wouldn't get you sweaty and temperatures are generally mild throughout the winter and summer. Obviously July/August aren't good times to ride in the afternoons. You can buy a lot of bicycle for the cost of a year of daily Lyft rides.

Streetsblog has extensively covered the Denver parking issue. https://denver.streetsblog.org/category/parking/

Even reducing the number of free parking spots would help. IMHO free parking isn't actually free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U.

The company I work for is building a large new parking structure in my office because people have complained about parking for so long. Do they offer transit options? No. It seems shortsighted.

EDIT: I see you are being downvoted. I assume that's because of your "charge tolls" recommendation. Most folks I talk to think they "pay their fare share" with taxes and roads. They are surprised that road and gas taxes only pay for about half: https://uspirg.org/reports/usp/who-pays-roads