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Do you have more info on the con job? It'd be good to know some things to look out for when using AirBnB.

I use tadalist for this (I have my movies list, my books list, my restaurants list, and my travel list there) but I'll admit this looks pretty slick. I'll add it to my apps to try list. ;)

Cool. Where are you getting these deals? I stumbled into Casino Royale a month or two ago and got one of their fun books. The problem was that the only way to cash out was if you got one of the jackpots. So your expected value is > 0, but of course the chance of winning is very low. My email's in my profile if you feel this has now spiraled sufficiently off-topic.

On iOS, Apple made it so the app has to get permission to access the phone book. (Interestingly, Google Image search turned up this for a query of "ios address book permission": http://i.stack.imgur.com/MHF0p.jpg)

Did OP give this permission? I'm not defending Path (at all!), just trying to get full details. I've in fact accidentally given address book permission to apps by tapping too fast.

Update: OP is using Android, which is different.

So what data is Google Maps using for its predictions then? It's definitely not the same as nextmuni (at least last time I checked), and in fact seems much worse. I had always assumed there was a schedule and that Google was using it.

MUNI buses, except perhaps first thing in the morning, are essentially never on time. You can't go by any published schedule (which I assume is why Google Maps predictions are essentially random numbers)--you have to go by the NextBus real-time data.

Awesome. In that case I amend my statement. I'm surprised the Examiner didn't mention this in their article!

FlightCar (along with Uber, Lyft, etc) has been issued a C&D by SFO airport: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/transportation/2013/04/sfo-t...

Surprised that the article didn't mention this.

Just had to go back and check my receipts. I have express and all my orders were over $35 since January so no bad surprises for me.

I wonder what's going to happen with Instacart. Some days I love it. Sometimes it just seems so expensive and frustrating. We were driving home from Sacramento on Sunday and wanted to make a pasta dish for some out of town guests. It seemed perfect--get our shopping done while we were stuck in the car. But what ended up happening was every item was "commonly out of stock" and so we're supposed to pick a replacement. But the suggested replacement for, e.g., asparagus was broccoli. Other items were similar. And at least on iphone, we didn't know how to pick a better replacement. So we ended up scrapping the order and stopping by Safeway on the way home.

Writing this, I wonder if a first-class concept of recipes in Instacart would improve the situation.

And since I'm babbling, I'll just add that although I haven't tried it yet, I'm excited by the idea of ordering Instacart to someone else's house (say, I'm at a dinner party and we need some ingredients.) Of course the minimum for free delivery does make this potentially less useful.

How does this compare to Chartboost?

I've been to a couple of these: http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/ They take place in San Francisco and seem pretty good. Next one is on March 20th.

Nope, I'm wrong. I think actually nytimes has been changing stuff recently, but I just reproduced a case where I was blocked even by emailing myself the link. Pasting the link into Google still works tho.

They should probably update this header:

This is where we post about new features on Posterous Spaces. You can get a Posterous Space just like this by emailing post@posterous.com or signing up for a new account.

Nitpick on the NY times stuff: In my experience at least, they do not paywall you for links that come from an email, as the author claims. It's only links that originate from clicking to articles when you are already on the site that count against your monthly limit of 10. Links from Google, Twitter, email, etc all take you straight to a paywall-free article.

I was excited about this project when it first came out. But I needed offline access, sharing, and mobile for it to be useful to me. I'll admit I assumed the project died, but glad to hear it's alive and kicking! (And that all my initial complaints are addressed.) I'll definitely be checking this out.

Not saying you're wrong, but in my experience I only hear this phrase from technical people, and my understanding is they always mean base 10. Which was surprising to me cause in my CS education I was basically taught to forget base 10 and only think in 2s).

I saw Alex speak at a Unity meetup in San Francisco on October 17th of this year. He demoed Code Hero, and (I thought) he said it was available for purchase. I thought he came off as passionate about the project. I wasn't convinced that this would necessarily be a good way for noobs to learn programming, but nevertheless I thought it was a pretty impressive demo. Just my 2¢. (I'm not a kickstarter backer of the project, and this is the first I've heard of these allegations.)

Interesting. From today's page source:

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Times have sure changed: http://web.archive.org/web/20050331050049/http://ycombinator...

Potentially, yes. You want products you like to have a business model so that they are kept alive.

Correct. I heard from a Unity rep that it's definitely coming in 4.x, but he made it sound like it was still about 6 months away.

Yeah, I'm a fan of Routesy too. Thanks for the app! Definitely looking forward to seeing what you do for routing...

I tried mapping a trip with Transit, but I couldn't figure out where to see alternate routes. Maybe I should look more closely at it.

No San Francisco MUNI, huh? What are iOS 6ers using for this?

Question about measuring weekly growth rate: A lot of YC startups are centered around an iPhone app. If it rides up the charts, it will likely get a huge bump in whatever metric you are trying to measure. But the bump's very often temporary, since more than likely the app will slide back down the charts in a week. How do you measure growth when this happens?

Totally agree. I use Google Maps for "route ideas" if I don't already know. And then switch to Routesy ASAP for the live arrivals.

Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone in SF who rides public transportation agree that Google's Map directions in terms of time predictions don't work? Like they're almost always completely wrong. I wonder if they use scheduled bus times instead of actual ones.

Anyway, I was hoping to be able to plug in something like Routesy to iOS 6 maps, and then I'd be a happy camper.

But there's no way app.net is going to be Twitter without ads if you have to pay $50/year for it. It may be Super Small Niche Twitter, but it won't come close to being actual Twitter in numbers.

Seeing those big squares was startling (in a good way). It was like, of course! Why have tiny little horizontal cells on a tablet spreadsheet? And with calendar widget datatypes, images, iPhone data entry... Lots of clever happening here.

I didn't see any formulas though. Not even a sum. I wonder how that's going to be in Grid.

I like the one called Mayday (http://www.apple.com/mac/videos/#tv-ads-mayday). The awkward delivery of "I'm a genius" comes off as sincere modesty, in contrast to the condescenion of Justin Long's "I'm a Mac" character. This is actually charming.

The task in the commercial (creating a video from lots of raw footage) is something a non computer pro wouldn't expect to be easy. Being able to do that in "27 minutes" sounds impressive. And the fact that a Genius could show you how to do this in that short amount of time is appealing. This isn't portraying Macs as having lots of problems--it's showing that mere mortals can do impressive things with them.

Finally, the guy the Genius helps first actually gets up with the Genius to go help the guy in 21F. The commercial ends with him saying, "Let's do this." The Genius gave someone such confidence in their Mac skills that he feels ready to become a Genius-like helper himself.

The other two suck though.