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coldshower··on Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks
Waterloo region (including Cambridge and Kitchener in Ontario) is supported, as is Guelph. These aren't big cities by any stretch.

I see a part list here: https://transitapp.com/region and more cities listed here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thetransit...

coldshower··on Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks
This is a smart use of crowdsourcing. From the app you can know the number of people who are waiting for the bus and relying on your reporting. Kind of gives you a sense of community. I hope this takes off.
coldshower··on Dropped (2014)
That's the funniest first paragraph I've ever read. I'll probably be laughing for days. Great stuff.
coldshower··on Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
Great idea, and I like the approach. Something like this can be tricky to pull off.

I did something similar, but as a 30 day meditation challenge: http://tinyurl.com/gskmt7d

Note: my site isn't operational at the moment.

coldshower··on Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
DDG is my default search engine because I'm addicted to the !bangs. For example, I use !pf to quickly convert an article into a PDF.

I maintain a blog where I "showcase" the best bangs for the Duck: http://duckgobang.com/

coldshower··on Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
Similarly, I sold the IP of a game I developed: http://tinyurl.com/sale-of-ip

It was hard to let go, but had to because of personal debt. A bit more backstory here: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bc7fdf29a4610b493fd5b278...

coldshower··on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees
Sounds fair enough.
coldshower··on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees
Dang, I'm interested to know why you shadowban some accounts (obviously without warning, or else it wouldn't be a shadownban) and yet give others advance warning in a very public way.

Is there a criteria or policy you follow?

coldshower··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?
I just finished recommending 1491 by Charles Mann in a previous thread, and I'll do so again here: http://amzn.to/2hKn6Ly

Surprising how innovative and densely populated the people of ancient americas were back then.

coldshower··on Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
Reminds me of the Devil Tree (Triplaris americana) found in South America[1]. Anything that touches its bark (bird, insect, human) is ferociously attacked by colonies of venom squirting red ants.

Learned about this fascinating tree in the equally fascinating book "1491" by Charles Mann[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplaris_americana

[2]http://amzn.to/2hKn6Ly

coldshower··on Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
Glad you brought it up. The Joseph Smith controversy is the most interesting and perplexing story never told.

Despite the sensation and spectacle, the Book of Mormon continues to blow my mind. Nothing compares.

coldshower··on Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that.

However, my initial comment still stands.

coldshower··on Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
Read the Book of Mormon. It's the closest thing to having a personal one to one conversation with God the Son.
coldshower··on Ask HN: How would you develop your next “big idea” if you were alone?
If your idea isn't worth failing spectacularly for, then it's not worth doing.
coldshower··on Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
Looks like a great site for solopreneurs. Thanks. I signed up.
coldshower··on How to keep doing the right thing?
I'm a Christian (Latter-Day Saint) and also adhere to Buddhist precepts. I meditate two hours a day. I don't eat animals and regularly pick up litter in my neighborhood.

I do these things because I decided to be a good person. That's the kind of man I want to be and my actions make it reality. No matter what happens in the world around me, with God's help I'll always be a good person.

It's like the Zen saying about the mountain and the cloud. The blue mountain and the white cloud depend on each other, but the white cloud will always be the white cloud and the blue mountain will always be the blue mountain.

TL;DR: Don't let the world tell you who you are and how to act. Ask God for wisdom and let that be an anchor for you.

coldshower··on To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done
A hybrid of TODO, scheduling and contextual seems to work best for me. I'm using Nozbe and it's about perfect: http://nozbe.com/a-jasoncomely
coldshower··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
I took Carl Jung's Association Method and turned it into a simple psychoanalytical tool using cards. Works like a charm: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/critical-stimulus

Downloadable, printable version is here: https://payhip.com/b/TFIi

coldshower··on The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time
Piotr Janeczek (aka Ashaneen) should be on that list somewhere. I suggest his album aptly entitled Ambient Music. Check out "Return to Home" for a sampling.
coldshower··on Ask HN: How would you “monetize” this site?
Not sure I'll have enough traffic to appeal to advertisers. I'll check out some alternatives to Adsense. Thanks.
coldshower··on Let’s Be Honest with Ourselves
Not a book, but a deck of 100 cards. It's psychoanalysis by word association, based on the Association Method by CG Jung.
coldshower··on How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
The article is a mind dump from his blog Half an Hour. The tagline should explain it all: A place to write, half an hour, every day, just for me.

URL: http://halfanhour.blogspot.ca/

coldshower··on Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?
"How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly" by Stephen Downes: http://www.downes.ca/post/38526
coldshower··on Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
I use the DuckDuckGo bang !pf to convert webpages into PDFs (got the tip from here: http://duckgobang.com) but your tool converts to multiple file formats which is even better.
coldshower··on Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
The issue was something to do with the software being slow. You said it was probably my server. When I asked for a refund you politely refused. Again, this was several years ago and I don't remember the exact details. I just moved on and made a mental note never to buy your software again.

BTW, thanks for the offer but I'm happy with what I'm using now. Best of luck to you.

coldshower··on Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
I purchased Duet a few years ago and it was unworkable. When I asked for a refund you denied me.

No hard feelings, but you didn't back your work (or even offer to troubleshoot the problem) so I won't be buying again.

coldshower··on Show HN: Price changes alerts for any store
That's a great domain name. Did you register it or have to buy it from someone?
coldshower··on Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee
Creating fictional outcomes is pretty common (it is for me), but this game has definitely helped overcome that: https://is.gd/GAbuN6
coldshower··on A list of Free Software network services and web apps that can be hosted locally
Two github repos I don't see on this mega list are Wheatbin (project management software) and RSSPBRRY feed reader.

A handy list regardless.