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Re:New and improved bike routing, with low stress options on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:01AM (#15088832)
I ride in London, and love https://www.cyclestreets.net/. There are versions for the web, android and now iPhone. It has a 'quietest route' option which I love. Android version gives you voice navigation. I put the phone in my shirt pocket and have it talk me through quiet streets avoiding the hassle of traffic. Open source. Runs on Openstreetmap data. Needs funding and promotion.
Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:09PM (#11947343)
[Earlier](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945254) you mention "good models of processes" and [elsewhere](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940688) about model building. Which models have been the best for you? Have you read [Robin Milner](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/Bigraphs-draft.pdf)? Do you consider his work to be a good foundation for processes? If not, who do you consider to give a good foundation?
Re:Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:13AM (#7514349)
Ashton Tate made a tree editor called [Framework](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate#Framework) which I used to write my thesis in the late 80s on a DOS machine. I loved it. It had intuitive keystrokes, using the numeric keypad to zoom in (+) and out (-) of the tree with an easy way to collapse the tree branches (enter).

Each frame held other frames, or could hold text, a spreadsheet or a database.

It wasn’t a DAG (directed acyclic graph) which was frustrating sometimes.

I think you could program leaves to link to other leaves, but I wasn’t any good at programming. It had its own programming language FRED.

The people who grokked it loved it.

I think there is still a [closed source](http://www.framework.com/) community supporting it, last time I looked.

I hope you will use markup with something like YAML or [JSON-LD](http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2/) to store your links.

Re:Archiving URLs on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:56AM (#6507275)
I used to use [Furl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl). I would periodically download their zip archive of my urls, until it became 2GB. I now use [Zotero](http://www.zotero.org/) which takes a snapshot of the url I am on and puts all files into a folder. I realize that this is proactive work: taking snapshot when I find an interesting page, rather than later.