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lingzbon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

It's possible that utilization is lower in smaller cities.

lingzbon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

Yes, I think whether Uber or Lyft (esp. Uber) can pull off such big acquisitions before their IPOs is the big big question on how this market shakes out.

lingzbon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

I really want to try this. I think easy car sharing could be huge and it'd be amazing to be rid of the hassle that is car ownership (monthly parking, insurance, maintenance, etc.)

lingzbon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

Yes, but there's the same risk with conventional bikes on streets today. And cities like San Francisco agree - they are making it legal for adults to ride electric scooters _without_ helmets so that it matches regulation around bicycle helmets: https://la.curbed.com/2018/9/21/17884220/bird-lime-scooters-...

lingzbon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

That is a legit concern. Hopefully, they engineer these scooters to be more durable over time. Also, hopefully user etiquette improves over time as well so people abuse these scooters less, resulting in far longer life spans.

lingzbon What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails

It seems like this article is advocating for Big Brother to watch you...

lingzbon New Walls Aim to Hold Back Rising Seas Off Tanzania

Don't seawalls have a bad track record? I.e. the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and New Orleans flooding in 2005 happened despite seawalls intended to prevent such incidents in both cases...

lingzbon Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Against Applicants with Long Commutes? [pdf]

This is a bummer for people who already suffer long commutes. All the more reason we need Hyperloop and VTOL transit for everyone.

lingzbon Expanding Facebook's Home in Menlo Park

This new building is beautiful and is a great addition to the otherwise plain architecture of warehouse after warehouse around that part of Menlo Park.

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I think this is on point.

Esp. like "Guido van Rossum does not like culy braces and invents Python, syntax choices were inspired by Monty Python and the Flying Circus." Python / Guido have a well-deserved placed in the pantheon of great programming languages.

lingzbon Kids are glued to their screens – but parents are in no position to criticize

Do as I say not as I do!

lingzbon Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

Sounds like Evan is copying Mark this time :p

https://www.fastcompany.com/3052887/mark-zuckerbergs-growth-...

lingzbon The fallacy of DRY

Yes too much DRY can result in the wrong trade-offs. For example, change one line of code and, in certain cases, you may need to test all the places it's used. For UI, this can be challenging in certain cases because UI often has use case-specific quirks.

That said, I think erring on DRY is generally good. It's just that when one is a little more sophisticated, one should be more thoughtful about the trade-offs in certain cases.

lingzbon Wasted hours on Steam

The top name has sunk 115K hours. If a person has 16 waking hours a day, that's almost 20 years of that person's life. WOW

lingzbon Doctors Call for Overhaul of Electronic Health Records

Glad to see doctors want improvements to EHRs as much as patients like I do.

lingzbon Poll: How did you find your current job?

College career fair

lingzbon London museum is livestreaming a key 21st-century artifact: festering sewage

I've always wondered what real sewage looks like. Now I can watch it while snacking on popcorn.

lingzbon Is serverless insecure? Let's find out

A bold test. I like it!

lingzbon Serverless Architectures

Yup, this is the future

lingzbon NASA Spots Structure at the Edge of the Solar System

Hopefully the new satellite spots Planet X soon as well

lingzbon Federal courts now accepting cryptocurrency for bail

Truth is stranger than fiction

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Good list but missing Polychain Capital which is pretty legit.

lingzbon Wonder Drug for Aging (Made from One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth) (2017)

It'll help you live forever! (If it doesn't kill you first.)

lingzbon Text Classification Is Your New Secret Weapon

Good to see research from the 1960s is finally paying off and now almost anyone can use simple libraries for NLP.

lingzbon Using Vim as a Note-Taking App

Where's the article about how to turn Emacs into a note-taking app??

lingzbon Tips for marketing a Kickstarter campaign?

My key takeaway: "The video is the most important part of your marketing strategy."

That's definitely the only thing I look at when I check out a Kickstarter campaign.

lingzbon Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'

I've been wondering about the safety of vaping.

Glad to see it's not as bad as smoking (a low bar) but will still kill you.

lingzbon How to Hire Your First Engineer

Can't agree more about prioritizing personal networks over everything else.

lingzbon Fairytale about performance in web application

Great cautionary tale of JS bloat in the age of mobile

lingzbon Top Programming Languages: Python extends its lead, Assembly enters the Top Ten

Good list but I think GitHub's list matches more closely to what I see people using: https://octoverse.github.com/

In particular, GitHub's list has JavaScript as #1 and I've seen a lot of frontend and middle-tier work moving to JavaScript via React, Node, Angular, Vue, etc.

Also, how is Assembly in the top 10 on the IEEE list??? I get that every machine runs it but I don't see a lot of people programming in assembly these days...