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I know, it just completely boggles the mind. One of the products I lead is based around agency operations - these guys are probably some of the heaviest paper pushers in the industry. And I'll walk into an office and see them creating them with typewriters, by hand, or slowly tapping away at their keyboard into Word, burning through a five-figure annual printer budget. A port call will involve a few dozen documents (B/Ls, customs forms, etc). One of the product modules effectively automates that and it's an incredible impact on their workload.

What's MCS?

The company I work for, www.stage3systems.com, builds logistical web apps for marine shipping and related industries - our software covers the full spectrum of the industry from vessel construction to port agency.

I've been at Stage 3 for about two years and it has been incredibly fascinating learning about the business from the inside. As efficient as they may appear, the day-to-day operations of the businesses within shipping are generally riddled with piles of paper documents and mountains of email. And we're trying to pivot their centuries-old workflows which is an incredibly eye-opening and difficult problem.

I was a heavy user of car2go from Sep-Dec last year (~$500/month) due to commitments that largely required me in two places at once. I have used the service for about two years now, though, and excluding that period of four months have an average monthly spend in the neighbourhood of $150.

In general, I have been overwhelmingly happy with the service. I live in Vancouver and there is always a car within a few blocks. Parking is really well coordinated too. You can park basically anywhere except the downtown core. Within downtown there is a great abundance of dedicated spots which mean you aren't left walking very much.

car2go meets a good inflection point between cost and convenience. Using a taxi would increase the cost substantially and only marginally increase convenience. Owning a car would keep the cost about the same and substantially reduce the convenience.

There is only one true issue I have with car2go and it is with the computers in the car: they are slow, crash easily (and take forever to restart), and the network signal is sometimes touchy. This has sometimes added an extra 10-15 minutes to my rentals.

That said, their customer service is consistently great and very forgiving. Every time the takes-forever-to-end-a-rental scenario has happened, car2go offered to refund the entire trip and throw in free minutes as a bonus. If I was in a rush, they said I could go do what I needed to do and come end the rental later in the day.

All in all, it has been a positive experience with car2go and I will continue to be an active member. My only wish is that I could get some savings out of my usage, maybe with a frequent-driver program :)

We are: http://www.stage3systems.com/

Hi David, first of all, thank you very much for creating sleepyti.me - I use it almost every night when setting an alarm.

Have you ever considered a responsive view of it so you can select your parameters more easily on a phone without having to zoom in?

http://hhvm.com/ seems to work pretty well for Facebook.

The company I work at uses it across all products - Javascript and PHP. It's super handy and has helped us find bugs before our users! Definitely recommend giving it a shot since you can have Sentry logging your Javascript errors in 2 lines of code.

Coming from Canada, I find it amazing that 30% of the top 25 salaries are related to athletics. Really goes to show how important sports are in the US.

1) I was dragged into it - I was 12 years old and a member of a forum that was shutting down. My limited experience in HTML + CSS and a bit of naivety made me think I was an expert in web development, so I offered to take over. I basically had to learn PHP + MySQL overnight and over the course of my 2 month summer I spent late nights reading code to try and figure out what it did (i.e. no books, just trial and error and a lot of Google).

2) Started around the time I turned 12 years old, so June 2006.

3) I started making money in varying ways almost right away. I took over the site and installed Google ads within a few months. I probably started doing freelance within a year. My first full-time job was this past April doing an internship after first year university.

Fun game. Only thing I can suggest is a way to rotate the puzzle so we don't have to crane our necks / rotate monitors.

"You are having a heart attack. Call 911."

I don't think he is.

Ref: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/thelede/posts/susp...

I think the 10 day figure included the time it took to build the machine.

A few points I would like to mention about the interface:

1. Make it easier to find a country. Code an autocomplete textbox or something of the sort.

2. Keep the form on the page after searching. If a user wants to make a second search they shouldn't have to press the back button.

3. There are a bunch of links on the bottom that are very difficult to see with the background.

4. The body is perhaps too transparent. The text on your "About" page blends in with the background a little bit.

Overall, it is a good idea and can be perfected with some simple tweaks. Good work!

This is probably part of the reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

My dorm room is 200 sq ft. I have a reasonable amount of floor space but fitting a kitchen in here would be a stretch.