amarka

If you're loosing $20 worth of coins out of your pocket somewhere on the street on a yearly basis you're either dealing with a hell of a lot more coins than the average person or you're one clumsy individual.

I'm in the same boat, I really like touchid. I have CAPS LOCK mapped to ESC and have rarely if ever use anything but the function keys on the touchbar. I wanted to like it and use it, but it just doesn't work well for me.

My guess is that your joking, if not then you must be one of the few touchbar fans ("there are dozen's of us...dozens!").

Goodbye Larry, see you in 5-10 years when OOP is back in style!

I don't have a list that I can easily share, but you can curate your own off of https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Well, the spreadsheet is for "hackers".

Which monopolistic city laws were hurting your personally before Uber came to the rescue?

I don't get it, is this hiring like a PR stunt?

I would thinking creating your own maps and autonomous driving platforms is already fairly ambitious, but flying cars?

I'm sorry but I just can't agree; brake performance is not binary, brake fade from continual use is only one factor to consider. How the brakes perform in different weather/temperature/riding conditions is also critically important.

It would REALLY suck to find out that some cheap brakes that worked great on the sunny+mildly warm day when you installed them but end up failing miserably the next day when it's a bit wet and they have a bit of mud on them. Maybe the city environment I usually commute in has more obstacles than most, but investing so heavily in your ability to accelerate + maintain high speeds and then sacrificing braking is an incredibly poor decision.

You lost me at `If you’re going to cheap out, brakes are the first place to cut corners.`

Cheap brakes + 30mph = a bad time

To be more specific, "BlackBerry owns the next autonomous driving platform".

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/blackberr...

I agree with your assessment, based on my limited experience. I'm a fan of Alexa, I even bought a couple as gifts within the last year, but last weekend I saw a bilingual 30 year-old (with a PhD from UChicago) struggling to get it to play a song. He had a song playing on his mobile phone and wanted Alexa to either continue playing that same song or play any song by that artist. It was a bit comical to watch; OK G had no problem understanding him.

It looks like voice will be one of the next big things, but calling Alexa the winner is a bit premature in my opinion

Maybe they're not shills, just folks trying to expose themselves to new ideas and possibly caught out by some that upturn their current views.

Sometimes they might not understand, so they reach out and converse with others: "I don't understand why anyone would X, because Y has always worked for me." What's so wrong with that conversation and assume they're shills?

I hate to admit that I sympathize with the slightly critical comments, I was left with a feeling of "really, that's it?" from the demo. I think it's just a case of managing expectations though, I would have been impressed if this was done by a couple of college kids, but I thought that FB was betting big on VR and was going to wow everyone with something new.

I'm probably just being ignorant and not appreciating the amount of effort that went into the app.

>Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity

I thought most researched suggested the opposite (ex http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/)

Yea well, that's like, your opinion, man.

Can confirm that doing a search from the homepage search bar (before 9AM EST) threw a 500, seems to be back up.

At best it's an ok working class job; for Amazon, it's more of a stop-gap until delivery vehicles with auto-pilot are more widely available.

I like ReachMail - they have a free tier and easy to use API

https://services.reachmail.net/