drewblay

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>There is a fatal virus in the US that claims 3,000 people every month. And it's a nasty one. It's the #1 cause of death for teenagers. That virus is called a car accident, and the fact we're complacent with that is what scares me.

I don't think you understand the word "virus".

So you want me to pay you $10,000 to loose my freedom to drive my own car? Not a chance in hell. Look, I am sorry that 3,000 people die everyone month, but I would rather live in a world where 3,000 die in car accidents and people have the freedom to drive then live in world where computers drive everyone around.

Also to add to this criticism, change your logo design completely. Blue background with white text, looks too "facebookish".

>there is a large subset of potential users who can not be bothered to sign up for your site via email

There is a simple solution to this. STOP ASKING USERS TO SIGN UP! Do your REALLY need to collect the users e-mail? Do REALLY need them to have an account at all? If you do, then when they register don't ask for their e-mail address if it isn't necessary, or at least make the e-mail address an optional field. Hacker News never asked for my e-mail, because there is no need for them to have it. I probably wouldn't have made an account if it did require an e-mail address.

I still have to disagree with you. I don't buy into your "street person" argument at all. I don't think you give people enough credit. Just about anyone born in the U.S. (or any first world country) in the late 80's and after will probably know how to customize a tool bar in a web browser. Even if they grew up poor and didn't own a computer it would be hard to not have this knowledge after going thru a public school system. If your "street person" happens to be a baby-boomer, then maybe.

>That's true. So it's even more important to retain them by having sensible defaults.

Not really. What is wrong with having a product that caters to a power user, or a niche group? Why does everything have to be dumbed-down for the "user on the street"? If you want dumbed-down then use the browser that came with your OS. If want something that isn't dumbed-down then you most likely have the know-how to customize your toolbar.

> Most users-on-street don't want to customize either.

Most users on the street aren't on the hacker news forum. Also if you are going to play the "most users on the street" game, then most users on the street aren't going to install a browser that didn't come with the OS.

Seems like a cool product...too bad the website has some terrible grammar mistakes.

"Now, You real can do your daily works on it"

"BananaPi has same GPIO and circuit layout like RPi, But it got control button and TTL interface. BananaPi work perfectly with Debian. With this powerful hardware, This easy to set up an great internet service platform on it."

"Easily move your Raspberry Pi parts or modules to Banana Pi without any inconvenient."

Forget baecamp. Setup a webserver throw Colalbtive on it. Now you are in control of your data (you are now also responsible for the uptime).

Colabtive: http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/

Not sure about that. But if it isn't against the current TOS you can bet your ass it will be against the TOS by tomorrow.

I a agree the title is very misleading.

>pets = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Hamster']

>for pet in pets:

> print('A', pet, 'can be very cute!')

This may be nit picking but I prefer output like this:

print 'A %s can be very cute!' %(pet)

>When I read:

> if name and pets and owners

>I have no intuitive idea of what that means, of what's going on in the program.

I agree with you, when I read that I think if name and pets and owners, what? All equal each other? Seems like an unfinished statement.

>And I've found no benefit to Celsius's 0 and 100 coinciding with water's state changing.

I agree, I like how Fahrenheit degrees are smaller and therefore degrees in Fahrenheit are more exact.

>If I have 1.73 miles, I have to do the math to figure out how many feet that is, 1.73*5280~=9134, which is not something that's easy for me to do in my head.

How often do you need to do this in reality? Most people in their day-to-day have no need to these conversions.

>If I copy and paste from a web browser, sometimes I want the formatting

The default SHOULD be to lose the formatting of the original and to use the font/style that is in Word. I would think that 99% of time anyone is copying and pasting into Word this is their intended result.

I agree with the other post, it is incredibly stupid to have it keep formatting from the original by default.

I couldn't agree with you more! I used to be (a long time ago) a avid Windows user, and scoffed at Mac's. I then got into the publishing world where everything is Mac. The keyboard shortcuts are by far much more consistent and easier on OS X. I am scratching my head wondering how anyone could ever come up with a different conclusion, the difference is night and day.

I would like to jump in here and agree you. You can program some really cool stuff with a very minimal knowledge of math.

Anything beyond understanding some basic Algebra and Geometry concepts isn't required in order to program.

Most of the stuff (at least that I have run into) is just organizing data into a visual (like a report or graph) that will allow someone to make informed decisions. This only requires basic math (averages, percentages). If you can filter data, perform basic math functions on that data, spit it back out onto a report or graph then you can program for the majority of business needs.

The only time advance mathematics would be needed is if you are coding for scientists/mathematicians that want to apply advanced math to their data.

The article reminded me a lot of this blog explaining why he doesn't sign NDA's with start-ups.

http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...

Didn't Saab go under? Or was that just their automotive division?