tommaxwell

Has to be some real shit 'bout to go down

Episode #399 of This American Life discusses this.

Will do, thanks!

Awesome, thanks a ton!

Great thanks, I'll let you know when I'm around!

Thanks!

I, like others here, have Glass. My girlfriend dumped me and I lost all my friends but hey now I can wink to take a picture so it's all good.

SEEKING WORK - remote, based in San Francisco, California

I'm a web developer that can make fully-responsive websites using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (jQuery, etc). I have also made Tumblr themes before, here is my personal blog which I designed from scratch: http://blog.tommaxwell.me

Contact me at tommaxwell95@gmail.com

http://tommaxwell.me (I also built this site)

Thank you, your comments mean a lot to me. I agree that when I'm in social situations I'm not comfortable with, like parties, I tend to pull out my phone and move away from the center. Writing is the way I choose to try and cope, but the only way I'm going to ensure I stop dwelling on the past is by doing as you've said and walk through the fog of fear.

Thanks again

Uber just announced that it has struck deals with auto manufacturers to chop $100-200 off monthly payments for those that are approved to drive for them.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/24/uber-driver-car-financing/

Thanks! Much appreciated.

It'll get phased out. They'll find a way.

Yup, public transit in areas like Outer Sunset is pretty bad. I've never lived there, but I did stay in a hacker house there once while searching for an apt, and it takes a good 40 minutes on a crowded bus to get to Market St. Also I rarely ever find an Uber or Lyft nearby.

I use an older HP 14" Chromebook for my web development (Rails, JS, etc) and enjoy it. Most of the time I use Nitrous.io, but it annoyingly disconnects a lot. Other than that love the simple setup.

Hi,

Not sure who this is, assume this is the house in the Castro with Brackin and others? Really would love to, I'm working on Chakra (http://angel.co/chakra) as a side-project, and would love the opportunity to hang around the area. I write Rails, and have experience in a plethora of front-end JS frameworks (D3.js, Backbone, etc).

Able to relocate immediately, and applying to the Thiel Fellowship so it'd be great to meet current fellows.

tommaxwell95 at gmail [dot] com

Not working on my HP Chromebook, sadly.

Got accepted, and requested to be added. :)

No Chromebook support? Interesting.

Definitely a cool concept. Now build it!

Ooh, I could use this in a project I'm working on. Thanks!

Very solid points. As someone that also enjoys JS as-is, it really frustrates me when people use CoffeeScript in JS answers and tutorials.

Don't think there's anything that fits these requirements right now. I've stayed at ChezJJ, StartupHouse, AND Rise and I agree, the price does seem sort of ridiculous. I think these houses believe they can charge such high prices for the potential collisions and connections gained from others in the house, but I think it's BS.

Great, thanks. New to all of this so need help along the way.

No good reason in particular, someone recommended I do it.

Investors won't want to invest in someone that isn't fully committed to their vision. Just imagine if someone asked you to invest your hard-earned money in them, but they didn't even believe in their idea enough to actually leave their day job. Would you be comfortable with placing that bet?

I stopped caring since they're so exclusive.

I use a Macbook Air, but spend most of my time in Ubuntu. I've just come to like doing all my development work in it. I use OS X in places where I run into services that don't support Ubuntu.

It does feel relatively fast from basic usage, but as long as Apple doesn't let me change my default browser I'll have to pass. Clicking links anywhere else just opens Safari, which is a bummer.

As for the fact that they send my web activity to their own servers for pre-processing, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'd feel a little more comfortable if their servers were outside of the US (are they? I don't know).

I actually find myself buying more and more ebooks lately. I find it really convenient for various reasons, including Whispersync (which is quite useful). Also I travel a lot and am in the process of finishing multiple books, so it's obviously convenient to not have to carry giant books around.

I think a lot of factors are influencing this trend, but I don't buy that DRM is the problem. As rude as it may sound, I doubt most of the general public even knows what DRM is. Well, the data itself shows that the majority of consumer book sales are going to paper, so that argument may be moot anyway.

Newer generations probably won't purchase nearly as many paper books (or digital, even) as older generations. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. The market will probably shrink and be taken over by short-form work designed for tablets and e-readers.

Before I started building my first web app in Rails, I didn't even know how to write Rails! I had only previously been a front-end developer, but I can say I learned a TON. Am I a Ruby on Rails guru? Nope, but I know how to traverse the stack with the knowledge I do have and get as much done as possible.