ryanwanger

Airbnb intentionally obscures the exact location - for privacy reasons, I believe. It makes much more sense to do this for a suburban neighborhood.

If the rentals number in the search results is correct, Boulder, CO has 1,864 listings on Airbnb. The population is somewhere around 104,000 people, with around 42,000 households.

That is insane.

Not sure how many hotel rooms there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 1/3rd the number of Airbnb listings.

This is particularly true in sports. There is a chapter in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers all about it.

Are you talking about this TED "presentation"? http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass?langua...

Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for 5 minutes, telling you how isolating it is to whip out your cellphone. With Glass you can keep your head up, something he cannot seem to demonstrate himself - choosing instead to come across as isolated from the audience, distracted, and unprepared. 2 million people have watched this for some reason.

I've got a Roku HD (model 2500X) and just did some measurements:

Starting up: 3.5W

Sitting idly on menu screen: 3.15W

Sitting idly on screen saver: 3.3W

Streaming Arrested Development: 3.45W

Also worth noting that when not in use, it goes to screen saver mode. It never actually powers down at all.

So basically, it uses the same amount no matter what you're doing with it. And really ironic that the screen saver uses more power than the menu screen. I guess the appearance of saving power is more important?

I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.

Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax. Individuals get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income (plus Airbnb charges the guest 6%-12% and the host 3%).

If they're going to charge 14% hotel tax to people renting out rooms on Airbnb, wouldn't it be more fair to tax that income at the corporate rate instead of the individual rate?

(Yes, I understand the taxes go to different places in each scenario. But from the "take home" perspective of the person/entity doing all the work here, hosts on Airbnb are already having their transaction taxed significantly more than any hotel chain).

MapQuest - Denver, CO

Looking for junior/mid level Rails & javascript developers. 9-5, great benefits, & excellent team.

Email: ryan.wanger@mapquest.com

Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people like you in the world."

Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.

You won't use a site that doesn't have a favicon?

...assuming that thieves will actually be punished.

It blew my mind when I learned about d-pad patents for video game consoles. Ever wonder why Playstation had to use that awkward combination of 4 arrow-like things pointing towards each other? Patents.

I don't understand why people think it's fair to criticize a move like this without offering a plausible alternative that will sustain the business. Sure, letting other people build on it got them to where they are today, but where exactly is that? With massive infrastructure and engineering costs, but little income.

Twitter doesn't owe anybody anything. We owe them. If they don't find a way to monetize, then everyone loses.

In a support email, someone demanded that we refund his money because our app was a piece of crap. The app has always been free. I told him this and he retorted that he had jail broken his phone, and doesn't pay for apps.

I'm sure there is a market for this, but that saddens the non-consumer in me (that someone would feel as though they can't wear the same piece of clothing more than once).

If you seek only comments to agree with the post, go to Reddit. If you seek only comments that disagree with the post, go to Hacker News.

Frankly, both have been a HUGE turnoff for me lately.

Just saw this one: http://www.missilebases.com/denver

It was flooded for years (isn't currently), and would be insanely expensive to refurbish.

Can you elaborate on what isn't interesting to you about this show? What you described is nearly the same thing, only following YC instead.

Also, in a lot of costal cities, you can get on a scheduled floating casino, sail 7 miles out to sea, and start gambling.

Interestingly, a lot of people who were making a living from online poker WERE paying taxes on that money. Come April 15th, the IRS doesn't care how you got it.

Boulder, CO

Not sure if this is appropriate here (please let me know if not), but over the last two weeks I put together a page of over 50+ jobs in Boulder across 20+ companies. Most are engineering, but there is also design, marketing, etc.

http://boulderstartupweek.com/boulder-is-hiring/

Incredible. I thought you were going to link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awK0NrgHUbk

I assumed that this was going to be gathered from twitter and facebook statuses, then shown as an overall average of the current mood.

An interesting aside: plenty of people (myself included) have been saying things like "the people at Twitter can't figure out how to monetize".

This is true but it assumes that there is some easy monetization, they just haven't discovered it. Yet - I haven't heard anyone else come up with a reasonable plan to do so, and it's not like twitter doesn't have thousands of people who are intelligent, experienced at this, and want desperately for them to succeed.

Sure it might look like they are flailing, but lets not keep implying that it's because they don't know what they are doing, don't have the right people in charge, aren't savvy enough to figure it out, etc.

If you let google personalize your results, then this probably happened because "code" usually means programming...for you.

I want to like Girl Talk, but that's just too many samples per track.

He's been flying his whole life and never knew this. Why? Because it had never happened to him before. Why? Because booking a round-trip ticket, then finding an alternate way to get to your destination, and still wanting to come back on the return flight is an edge case.

They should have sent him an email letting him know the return flight had been canceled, so he had more advanced warning. End of story.

How could Facebook be so much higher in terms of satisfaction? Maybe it's too casual?!?

Am I not using Facebook like everyone else is? I've never had anyone post anything inappropriate on my wall, or tag me in a photo I'd rather not be tagged in. If it ever happens, I'm removing that person as a Facebook friend. Not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.

Are all tech meetups like that? At the Boulder New Tech Meetup, every company is asked how they will make money. No one boos - it's acceptable, and completely expected.

I think it's a common misconception that every web company is innovating, when most are just using existing tech to solve a problem (or provide a solution that is better than the existing ones).

If you're developing some new technology that will change the world for the better, then I don't care if/how you'll make money. Otherwise, it matters.