moberemk

No offence but, “if you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again write a script for it” isn’t exactly novel thinking in the software field…this was the same process when it was a human doing it, we just measure that in time instead of tokens

Thank you! I immediately had the same reaction and was disappointed no one else pointed it out, though I'm guessing it's because most people just read the headline before commenting

My first thought looking at that first "new suburb" photo was: where's the sidewalk? And the second photo has sidewalks but no visible amenities.

Sure they're denser, and townhouses are at least less materials-intensive to build, but I'm curious how this is otherwise an improvement on the old planning model of swathes of detached homes?

As someone shopping for a PHEV in Ontario right now: yeah it's dire. The Prime I've consistently heard is a 2-3 year wait, with the dealers saying Ontario is getting somewhere around 12 for the province because they're all going to BC and Quebec (higher provincial incentives there) and even there it's years out. Kia is the fastest right now but even that's a 10+ month wait for their most comparable PHEV.

The only one that seems easy to get is the Outlander, but that car is also way too big for my needs among other issues.

I agree with you everywhere but here:

> IMO Molly should be getting public good funding from the ETH ecosystem for being such a good & reliable source

It's a generous thought, but it's very bad optics to take a bunch of money from someone that you report on. Yes I know this happens all the time in bigger media circles, but they're big enough that it's either not going to be a dominant revenue stream or the appearance of integrity is irrelevant (the ur-example being Fox News and their claims of being "entertainment")

> There are no moats to being a plumber, a baker, a restaurant...

This line is interesting to me, because actually I think there _is_ a major moat there: locality. I don't disagree with the rest of your comment, but for those examples specifically a lot of the value of specific instances of those business comes from their being in your neighborhood. If I live in Toronto, I'm not going to fly a plumber from Manhattan to fix my pipes; if I want a loaf of sourdough, I'm not going to get it from San Francisco, I'm going to get it from the bakery around the corner; I might travel out of town for a particularly unique and amazing restaurant, but not every week, I've got solid enough options within a ten minute drive. Software is different because that physical accessibility hurdle doesn't exist.

Rest of this is spot-on though

From my experience, extrapolating retention like that isn't really particularly valuable. It's basically the same as making something up whole-cloth past a certain point--feels more like lying than projecting.

(I also read the OP's story as the investor asking to see actual numbers, and not projections--if someone asked to see those kinds of numbers my first thought would be that they were asking for historical data)

Lived in London during and slightly after university: it's not. City's pretty much dominated by cars, there's technically a transit system but it was slow and infrequent, and the way the city is laid out with three major N/S and three major E/W roads makes it hard to get around during constructions season. Downtown is...kind of walkable, but it's bordering on a food desert with only one (expensive) grocery store at the edge of the core.

I generally agree with all your points, but I also remember the forum posts and I find that SO has at least one big advantage over those: it's really quick to pick out a good answer compared to a long thread. Just the fact that a) answers are clearly demarcated vs comments and b) the author can select a "correct" answer makes them way more skimmable than, say, a phpBB thread where every post looks the same.

Here's a screenshot of the original posting to restore context: https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/899760806551666690

Two big things: 1) it's a lot faster to send to Pocket with the button > mark as read than managing bookmarks IMO but the real killer feature for me is 2) the offline saving of articles. Pocket is killer when I'm commuting or without Wi-Fi because it means I can keep reading things without worrying about finding a hotspot or wasting my (very limited) data.

You should check again; it's tucked under the labs section but there's an HTML5 audio player available as a Flash alternative. Doesn't work in Safari though.

Why pay for review though? If you're working on open-source stuff you can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ for help, or reach out to some trustworthy people in your network as a fresh pair of eyes.

An example of this: One thing that Windows versions up to at least 7 have always had issues with is that when you rename a file to be the same name with a slightly different case, say after changing an uppercase letter to a lowercase one, Explorer doesn't seem to pick up on the change until a refresh is manually triggered.

I like this. Ever since I adopted Lodash/Underscore as part of my workflow I've been finding even basic functional programming techniques to be a huge timesaver and this is a nice, simple toolbelt for that kind of work.

Like other people here have pointed out, this isn't exactly an alert replacement as much as it is a more limited form of modal dialog. And honestly if that's what you need, there's better solutions out there, even in the form of the HTML dialog element (whenever that comes into mainstream support at least).

Generators are up there with the let keyword in the list of "things I wish I had (native) access to already" because there's just so many use cases for them. This is definitely one combination I haven't thought of before though, so thanks for bringing it up!

I'll have to look into that; offhand would you happen to know if there are any similar laws in Canada currently?

Probably the most interesting part of this article (and the linked article on developing a URL structure for broadcast radio) is the argument in favor of not making human-readable URLs. A part of me really likes the idea of URLs which can be read and understood by a layman without deep understanding of the system. But technically that's challenging to maintain, and as the article points out, challenging to keep consistent automatically. And arguably it's better to offer users something which you know won't ever break than something more convenient which quite likely will.