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Yeah, in the US Charles Schwab provides most of this stuff (they refund all ATM fees so you effectively can use whatever ATM you want, they have an app w/ check depositing, etc) and has for a long time. Don't really get it.

The "instant signup" page says I have to wait one day for underwriters to assess the app, is that normal?

"seats upholstered with the tanned skin of Scandinavian virgins"

Ew?

I'm so glad the chances of San Francisco hosting the olympics in the near future are basically 0

"I don't much care about the successes of the developers if they come at the cost of the tools I've invested time switching into"

It's a bit silly to say that you don't care about their interests, if they come at the expense of your interests, but you think that them having what is arguably a milder version of that same attitude (i.e. that they value their own financial interests over your time invested in their product) is a "dick move".

What law entitles users to bug fixes for major issues?

MyGengo has built a fantastically useful tool which has saved me a ton of time and money. I don't know anything about the addressable market size, but they have <i>nailed</i> the product.

Strongly disagree with this. Minecraft's graphics are a direct consequence of what the game IS (i.e. a world made out of large-ish blocks). More realistic (that is, less stylized) textures look strange on top of huge blocks, and anything that obscured the block structure of the world would have made Minecraft a worse game.

Thanks. That doesn't appear to be the latest HN though (no search for example)

Would you mind explaining what the alternative is? (that is, what non-market-based approach to web publishing is better than the status quo?)

All of you who are saying things in judgement of Kevin Rose's behavior, have some perspective. This is the planet you live on: http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/earth-1.jpg

It has lots of problems, waiting for good solutions. Instead of explaining the nuances of your latest opinion of Kevin Rose, get up, and start fixing things!

I'd be very interested in a description of how italian coffee shops handle a rush

Yep, we targeted 10k for this project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tocguide/toc-guide-to-sf...) and with 24 hours to go we have 15k. We certainly don't have any name-brand power!

Why is there no link to information about the team under About?

Yikes.

I'd be interested in seeing that. Someone did make it in Wolfram: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MiuraMapFoldingAndUnfoldin...

Actually, the same professor (Miura) who invented the fold I talked about in that note came up with another way of folding (that also involves binding part of the map) that does "reference a portion" much better than the traditional way manages. You can find it if you google for "Design of portable maps enabling longitudinal access" Miura, 2006

Err, if you can issue me a pardon here, that was meant to be a footnote but I got the markdown wrong. The footnote should read: "By conventionally folded I mean folded first horizontally and then vertically such that each folded unit is rectangular."

Beautiful app.

Your map styling looks really great, nice job!

fixed, ha

disclosure: i'm currently selling a printed map (kickstarter.com/projects/1147214836/toc-guide-to-sf)

I think social data is much more useful as a filter for a curated list than it is when used on the set of ALL establishments in a city.

If the list is prefiltered to only include establishments that are at least excellent examples of whatever they are trying to be, social data is a useful way to figure out what to show the user.

Seeing what places my friends have been going to is much much less useful to me than a carefully assembled list of excellent places. For a great example of this, see "Tokyo by Tokyo." _much_ better than any social algorithmic solution can currently do.

Yep. I didn't get to mention the purely tactile reasons we went with a printed map, but it was definitely a big factor.

If you have a look at the "Fold" section on the kickstarter page, we put up two diagrams from the original paper describing the folding method we used, that shows a light-traced image of how one's hands move when unfolding a conventionally folded map vs. a miura folded map. The latter simply <i>feels</i> much better!

I really like the mnemonic value of the examples in this post. Having a concrete example and a picture for each aesthetic principle makes them easy to recall later. As a designer, having the words to describe a form or situation in a specific way is really useful!

You should write (essays, or tweets, or blog posts, but please, not "content") because you have something you'd like to say. Maybe it's a new idea, maybe it's a comment on someone elses idea, but it shouldn't be thought of as a product.

Think of the better writers on the internet (Maciej Cieglowski, Paul Graham, Glenn Greenwald maybe?) None of these dudes create "content"

The company was Scoopler. Please keep in mind that all you have here is one persons account of what happened--still, let's not beat around the bush.

http://tqft.net/wiki/Maneki_Neko may provide a bit of a hint as to what we're doing, but don't take it too literally :)

Posted on Aug 26th, 2011?

Why is the issue of parole not particularly interesting to you?

The meetup will start at 8:30PM, directions in this post

Format will be the same as last time (so, informal hangout) but we will have a projector for anyone interested in showing off interesting projects. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by replying to this email! Of course please feel free to bring as many friends as you like.

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-If you're coming from the DaWangLu subway station: Take the B exit, make a right upon exiting and walk to the corner, make another right at the first entrance (you're essentially just walking around the back of the same building the subway exit is in.) Go in the first building, take the elevator to the 35th floor, WainWain is on the northwest corner of the bldg.

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