Maybe not carpooling, but proponents of self-driving cars often talk about how their efficiency (i.e. algorithmic efficiency in how they drive) would greatly ease traffic congestion. Much of the issue with traffic is just bad drivers (inefficient merging, accidents causing backups to name a few examples) but also current traffic controls like stop lights could essentially be removed if cars could reliably communicate with each other.
Besides the obvious alternatives in cities, having more efficient cars (i.e., self-driving cars that can algorithmically ease congestion and find efficient ways to carpool) would be a big step forward. Take a drive on any American highway and you'll see the amount of cars with a single occupant is overwhelming -- what a waste!
I wish driving and owning a car started to become discouraged the same way sin taxes and bylaws are discouraging cigarette smoking. Sitting outside on a bench in Honolulu yesterday, I looked around and saw that half of what I was seeing were roads and cars. This space that could be so beautiful (it's Hawaii after all) was overwhelmingly just about being a transportation network.
I love the feeling of driving a car, but I think the cost is too high -- So much financial and mental stress (not to mention so much death -- A classmate from high school was killed in a crash just last week) is caused by these things and they bisect our physical spaces making so much of our world uninhabitable and depressing. I realize people need transportation but I had hoped the rising cost of oil would cause a paradigm shift in how we commute, and that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.
Many universities link these disciplines (and Psychology, and Linguistics) explicitly -- Its called Cognitive Science. I majored in it and couldn't imagine a better thing to have studied.
This has already happened in countless other industries (airlines, banking to name a couple which have moved most customer interaction to the web). There's no reason it shouldn't happen with the food industry, there is just too much inefficiency in the current process.
There's no reason they should -- its either poor application planning or lazy development. Javascript-heavy web apps that use hash fragments or pushState can (and should) use fallbacks to allow navigation without javascript enabled (especially important for search engines). At this stage of web app development, many just don't, but expect this to change as the JS framework world matures (hopefully)!
I've gotten spiderable to work okay but yeah it does kindof suck. According to the Meteor roadmap, MDG is looking for a better solution but its slated for a 1.1 release (i.e. server-side rendering).
The project was based off of the CMS I've been building in my spare time: https://github.com/mcrider/azimuth. There are probably a lot of things I could do to optimize collections with lots of data but i've been focusing more on functionality for now.
Sure, thats Meteor 101 ;) Still, as a developer you need to decide what collections you want to publish (and which parts of each collection) so as to make the application run blazing-fast but also make sure you're only publishing stuff when its needed. This, IMO takes some finessing to get right.
I ran a meteor app as an entry system for a local design awards show last month. Everything went swimmingly well and people loved the fast app-like interface. The only place I had trouble was on the admin side where large amounts of items were sometimes not loading properly (usually a page refresh would clear the problem though). My takeaway was 1) This is beta software people, of course its not going to be perfect and 2) Deciding what should be sent to the client takes some thought and I could have almost certainly made things more efficient. With time, I think both of those issues will be resolved what with the highly active meteor community and MDG making great progress on the framework, and with me thinking more 'meteor-like' and building my apps more efficiently.
Or the remote-transmission chrome plugin, or setting up transmission to watch a dropbox folder for torrents, etc. -- lots of great ways to interact with the transmission daemon.
I do the same (I also use TextWrangler because of its awesome file search/replace features). Sublime is certainly a better editor and feels more lightweight, but the debugging tools in RubyMine are absolutely invaluable.
At first I thought, and don't see why this couldn't be, a scanner that eats through documents and saves a digital copy of them. This form factor would make digitizing large sets of printed records much more appealing.
Great redesign! I've used mailinator for years but honestly the quality of the old site made it seem almost like a shady operation, like they might mine incoming emails for personal data or passwords. This looks much more professional.
I'm personally a little disappointed it doesn't use Bootstrap or Foundation. A lot of developers are already skilled with those frameworks, and as I'm sure modifications will have to be made to the code of any of the new responsive design tools, using a familiar framework would be a big help.
I also hope these new tools allow us to output templated html and css -- there's nothing clunkier than dropping html into a rails project (I know that webflow will be able to output jade templates).
I think this could be used by staff that aren't familiar with github/scared of it (this is more common than you think) to manage issues in a simple and familiar way. I think it would certainly be helpful in my organization, but like GP our repos are private.
I think if you have experience with JS in general and also experience with non-JS MVC frameworks you should be fine. The JS MV* frameworks are new and it would be ridiculous to assume that someone needs to know that if they are an otherwise qualified candidate. Still, why wait for an employer to require you to use them? Start a project (even if its pointless) to teach yourself! Not only does it teach you the technology but employers like to see that you like to do that kind of work for fun and are passionate about learning new things.
Or even better, are there any technical reasons why we couldn't just use email as an IM protocol? I'm thinking an extra header flag to denote that a message is an IM would be all thats needed to keep IMs out of your inbox (and then your mail app can separate IMs from emails). Or is IMAP not fast/powerful enough to handle this kind of messaging?
Its easier if you've a) gone to school there and b) have family/significant others that are Canadian. I'm on my second immigration attempt (the first one was nullified because I moved out of Canada and its a different process depending on whether you live in or out of the country).
I think he's referring to an information architect, which could be its own profession, or fall into the role of a PM or UX person. Architect is somewhat of a generic term, but an information architect is an important role in many organizations.