scott_o

Why not? Its just that for the subjective metrics people will have different opinions and therefore draw different conclusions about which one is "better"

Which is the OPs exact point. While some people value their editor being very light on ram, other people value other things, and that's okay.

It sounds like this was an automatic thing, the host could query the terminal and would get a response without any user input.

So that still leaves me with the question of why the key exists?

What use cases would you have for voluntarily sending the host your "identification"? Was this used for authentication?

I don't think so. Last time I checked they don't do any polyfills, instead relying on commonJS for that.

The founding team did an AMA on reddit that addresses a lot of the concerns people have in here.

I thought they did a good job of giving very "real" answers too, they didn't seem to dodge any topics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3l726c/we_are_nextbit...

parking garages/lots would be incentivized to work with manufacturers to come up with automated ways to check in and out because it directly leads to more revenue for them (and less hassle with accidents I'd bet)

Just availability is already available and popular in some cities, Seattle for instance http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/epark/default.htm

I think you're vastly overstating the complexity of figuring if a parking spot is available and paying for it.

[meta] did anybody try opening this article without adblock? I got two flash ads autoplaying audio in firefox (in chrome they don't auto-play audio), each with the same movie trailer but one was about a second behind the other. And it jacked up my scrolling pretty hard, probably due to the performance hit (the page loaded noticeably slower.)

This provides some more context: http://wyeworks.com/blog/2015/4/20/rails-api-is-going-to-be-...

Am I missing something or is there no barcode scanner? It seems like a no-brainer to me. You wouldn't even need additional hardware, just use the camera as a scanner.

While I think its really cool from a programming perspective, from a web design perspective, that logo was annoying the shit out of me. If you want me to read your blog, let me read it and stop distracting me.

I find it entertaining how people think that younger generations don't know what things are. The majority of teenagers right now could tell you what it is and probably even how it worked.