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sonar_un··on Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
Shared BNB's are out of the question, especially if you prefer to cook or have a partner. Extended stay hotels are hundreds per night.
sonar_un··on Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
So if I have to stay in NYC for 3 weeks, I am screwed.

Thanks Cuomo, you just made me have to cough up double the price for a shitty hotel.

sonar_un··on Tyson Foods Invests in Startup Beyond Meat
Maybe Tyson can help Beyond Meat use their distribution channels to supply more stores. I find that BM products are always out of stock in Whole Foods in certain regions.
sonar_un··on The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google
I subscribed to the RSS Feed too. I would really like to see full stories as well.
sonar_un··on Browser Bloat (1996)
Oh wow, VRML, I totally forgot about that!

I still remember trying to find all the VRML sites I could find, in all of it's few polygon glory.

sonar_un··on The Telescope of the 2030s
Well, I think that the moon wouldn't be too feasible since it does rotate. If you land telescopes on the moon, you wouldn't be able to observe the sky for a long period of time, like the hubble did with the deep field (50 days of time).

It also doesn't make sense to geosync the telescope behind the "dark side" of the earth for the same reason. Long exposures wouldn't be easy since the earth does move around the sun, so the sky moves with it. Eventually you will have to face the sun to get the same shot of the sky.

So, the only way would to be to have the orbit around the sun so the telescope can always face away from the sun. that way you can at least create the long exposures they need.

sonar_un··on Remote Year: Travel with interesting people while working remotely
AirBnB has been useful for me. There are other companies like VRBO that work quite well also.
sonar_un··on Remote Year: Travel with interesting people while working remotely
This is what I have been doing for the past few years and one gets used to it. The internet is useful for keeping connections with family members and friends over long distances.
sonar_un··on Introducing HelloSign for Google Docs
My only comment so far is that the sign-in button doesn't conform to the Google+ Branding Guidelines.

https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines

sonar_un··on 1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really.
The EU was even worse at 66% of those surveyed got the answer correct.
sonar_un··on Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6
Funny how I said to pydanny (on Reddit) a couple days ago that i'd buy the new Two Scoops as soon as it came out. Little did I know that it would not be a digital release.

In the conversation, pydanny did mention that nearly everything in Two Scoops 1.5 should apply to 1.6, and it does (as I went through the book with a fresh 1.6 install). So for those of you contemplating the books for current use, I'd say, go ahead!

You can definitely count me out for this new version of Two Scoops, I have no need for a print copy of any programming book. I just recycled some old PHP and Javascript books I had laying around for years unused. It seems useless to me that in 2014 we'd forgo printing this kind of book when the coding and reading/learning are happening on the same screen.

So thanks pydanny for Two Scoops, but I've unsubscribed from your mailing lists and will be opting out of this release.

sonar_un··on DjangoAdmin 2.0 - rewrite of django.contrib.admin
Ok, I just installed it and took a screenshot!

Here you guys go!

http://imgur.com/AmKrYDN

sonar_un··on Google Maps One-Hand Zoom on iPhone
This is great, because you know the most annoying feature of google maps? When pinching to zoom, it also rotates.

The map not rotating is great!

sonar_un··on [dead]
Why should they? It seems like a ridiculous thing to be angry about.
sonar_un··on Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha
For me, my Macbook 1,1 can't install 10.7. :(
sonar_un··on Google Drive
I ran into similar problems. a 32MB file would stop the syncing service completely and not resume.
sonar_un··on Amazon Supply
I spent a year developing a website for an industrial supply company. (in it's many iterations). You are right about the low margin and the fragmented market. It can be a tough sell to the mom and pop stores that are trying to compete with Grainger or Northern Tool in the same marketplace.

I think the biggest problem with Amazon is it's hands-off approach to selling products. The reason why there hasn't been any innovation in this sector is because of the interconnected relationships between managers of firms needing products and the salesmen that sell the product. More often than not, the firms have no idea what they actually need, and the sales people have the knowledge to deliver exactly the part they require.

I think that unless Amazon has a very large, and more importantly knowledgeable staff, what you will find here is a lost leader. The only thing that I see amazon bringing to the table is their warehousing.

sonar_un··on Apple TV "single core" A5 actually has two cores, one is off
I had one of these (The SX), it was AWFUL! I couldn't even play games that required the math co-processor. I ended up upgrading the processor to one of those Evergreen ones. Worked like a dream. I wish I can remember which game wouldn't run. I believe it was the original Demolition Derby?
sonar_un··on Notepad++ 6.0 Released
The biggest reasons are being able to open projects and view all of the files in the project (and search through all of them) at a quick command. I really liked the themeing functions. Multiple OS compatibility (I regularly switch between macOS and Windows), so I needed a client that is used basically the same on both OS's. And one license is for all of the computers you use, and on all operating systems.

The more I use it the more I like it. Sometimes I have files that still open in N++ and I quickly switch out of it into sublime. Oh, did I mention at the command line (in OSX) you can open files using the subl command (Very awesome).

sonar_un··on Notepad++ 6.0 Released
I love Notepad++, but when I started using Sublime Text 2, I purchased it, and never looked back.
sonar_un··on Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search
Quick, someone send this to Toady One!
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