goneyukon

Awesome list!

Also: - Circa - heavily summarized news. Great for short reading. - Instapaper - clean read later service. - HackerNode - gotta get the Hacker News on the go. - TimeHop - a "this day in history" for your social networks. - Droplr - really simple file sharing service. - Tweetbot - really clean Twitter app.

And the public transit isn't great either. No subway and a very limited light rail/streetcar system.

It's really easy to get help from strangers. If you're lost or need a tip on where to go, you can stop and ask a local. Networking is easy too--plenty of tech networking events in the city. Spontaneous idea exchange at a coffee shop is probably a bit more difficult. As other commenters have noted, the Seattle Freeze is a real thing.

You could use read receipts, but those are super annoying for the person receiving the e-mail.

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but as a business-side person with an interest in "hacking", I find Codecademy to be extremely valuable. You can learn all kinds of programming languages there.