Why Hashtags Are the Worst
One time I hired a friend to help me with a writing job. Then I fell hard for her. Then she got pregnant. Then…
“It’s like a man riding a lion. People…
(This tutorial is meant for beginners in Go)
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This is a piece I wrote for Quill Magazine (The magazine ofSPJ)
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Jedes Tech Startup kommt im Laufe der Zeit an den Punkt, an dem es die IT-Strukturen und -Prozesse hinterfragen…
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My wife owns a farm house in Iowa, so we periodically make the drive from Seattle and spend 4 to 6 weeks there. This gives her a chance…
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We all buy and sell things. Things that you use may end up in the hands of someone in the other corner of the earth. Likewise, you might end up owning a black t-shirt with a sepia graphic of Master Yoda riding a…
Here’s the 8 big trends I keep seeing all around. These are exciting trends that I believe will be a huge part of our future. At Packt we want to help tech professionals build this future. What do you see?
Twenty-three Gummi Bears are missing today. That makes 268 Gummi Bears since last Friday. The company is in a state of panic.
How many were lost before Friday we may never know. This is what we do know: On Friday it was discovered that our snack budget, already quite generous…
Check out how far Blueprint’s Spring 2015 projects have come, and see what our partners are tackling next! (Part 1…
Loose Tube or Tight Buffered Fiber Optic Cable?
Fiber optic cable is available in many physical variations, such as single and multiple conductor constructions, aerial and direct burial styles, plenum and riser cables, etc. But there are two basic styles of fiber optic cable construction: loose tube and tight buffered. From…
People often think of music, label, and technology executives as disconnected and greedy, but a report out yesterday from Billboard shows they might not think as differently as consumers.
Behind most of our interactions today is a complex process that gives us a new day-to- day…
This is the first profile of the 4 pioneering women in STEM who feature in our #confidencetotry video (launching Friday…
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In line with our commitment to transparency, to data-driven decision making, and to building products that connect people, today we’re starting a dedicated blog to better communicate with the…
This is a tutorial to create a your own dedicated Linux server.
In this post this is exactly what we are going to cover.
Hiring is a daunting experience no matter which side of the table you’re sat on. About a year ago I got my first taste so I’m by far no expert in this area but I wanted to share the lessons learnt anyway.
Last year my girlfriend and I traveled to San Francisco with one objective in mind: take in as much human…
Dear Megan, I really dont understand your Maths.
You were consuming 23 gallons/week. With a big dirty Nissan Frontier 4MD Pick up (17 miles per gallon) it means that you were doing 391 miles per week, lets say 20 drives of 20 miles.
Come September 8, Tech in Asia will be holding its signature two-day conference in…
There isn’t one answer here.
When I moved from Los Angeles to join my sweetheart in New York 8 years ago, I sold both my cars. I was doing the math in advance. Commuting by subway and having no attached garage were big changes. We only needed a car on weekends. So I joined Zipcar. I located nearby Hertz Local and Avis…
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Many comments here make it clear that this is not so much an argument for Uber as an argument against owning a car in a big city, which many urban dwellers have known for years. A bicycle, taxicabs, Lyft, or a decent public transit system all convey the same benefits at similar or lower cost. Uber is being singled out here because it is convenient…
Right now, no one knows. This is partly because many would consider the very idea frivolous. But it’s…
With the 12th of september in mind, we want to release afterglow as soon as possible. 17 days to go and there might be a slight chance to see a stable release just in time.
I believe that programmers are, at our core, problem solvers. When you boil it down to its essence, the craft of programming is building tools to solve problems. Those problems may be questions that need answers (parsing and distilling text or numbers), they may be physically based (controlling a motor to move a robot’s arm or autonomously pilot a…
In your case, the annual consumption of fuel was 23 gallons/week *52 weeks = 1,196 gallons of fuel. Assuming 17 mpg efficiency, that’s about 20K miles annually.
Meanwhile, Uber charges $1.3 per mile in SF. So even if we do not take Uber’s base fare of $2.2 into account, your expense on conversion of your driving to Uber…
We decided to put together a simple guide to make sure our early supporters get the best value out of HandStack. A sincere thank you to wonderful organizers who helped mold HandStack in our pilot program.
Agreed, everyone should do the math. If you drive >10k miles per year, in most cases the math will tell you owning is more convenient/cheaper than renting. If you own 2 cars, you can find you can own one and fill the gap with car sharing. If you have a family with young toddlers you can discover owning will grant the right amount of flexibility…
I have children in San Francisco and don’t own a car. I have a cargo bike that I can carry both children and four bags of groceries on. It takes about the same amount of time to shop for groceries on the cargo bike and it is much less of a hassle, because parking is so much more convenient. I have a pretty good grocery store half a block away, like…
Really good article. I am happy to work hard but all too often we don’t get to live well enough. In London it’s all work work work. You even have to battle to get to work. Then it’s a race to cook/eat. And after 15 years I intend to earn well for another 15 years or so, and then maybe I can relax — if my pension is work anything by then..?
Rubbish article. He was paying $4200 for a parking space at his apartment. Here in the UK the vast majority of people pay absolutely nothing to park their cars at their own home. So there’s $4200 of the $10,281 that can be instantly discounted there. That then makes the cost of doing 2500 miles by Uber only $1426 cheaper however as he says, he had a…
The best way is to look at the version number at the lower part of the Navigation Drawer. See below, the version number is highlighted (in smaller text) and also has the text “beta” after it. Public released version will not have this “beta”…
Every single day we hear of new apps that claim to be the solution for all our problems. From basic stuff like…
There are only 3 cars:
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I did the math for São Paulo (Brazil). I Sold my car and start only using public transport and Uber. Since public transportation in São Paulo is not nearly as good and ubiquitous as London, I use Uber a lot.Still, it’s way cheaper than the TCO of my old car. I owned an expensive and I drive a few miles per day, so the numbers may not be the same for everyone, of course.
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Staff appraisals in the cloud! Introducing Appraisals App by Toru Interactive Ltd.
Toru Interactive Ltd. today announced the launch of Appraisals App — a web app that allows for businesses to schedule, carry out & analyse their staff appraisals from any computer, tablet or phone.
Car ownership is relative to where you live. In an urban setting where local transportation is great, it’s always better to not own a car. In a rural setting, the opposite is true.
However, I personally can’t wait for self driving cars. Those will essentially eliminate the whole concept of car ownership.
I haven’t owned a car in LA for 3 years. It has given me peace of mind! I walk, cycle, metro and Uber when I have to. UberPool is amazing and I have already saved over $60 on rides.
I really love that you ran experiments and learned from them quickly. If it works do more of it and if it doesn’t shape and shift your strategy to create a different experiment. I also like that you grew organically without the need for outside capital. Many founders think they need to rush to angels and VCs. I always advise to grow organically…
I am livecoding.tv/IcarusChris and I love broadcasting!
I find the staff at LiveCoding.tv very supportive, and everyone of my viewers is encouraging, helpful, and posses background with all sorts of languages and experience in game development/software development which is very important as I'm developing an MMORPG which…
Yep, so true. Cities are full of people wasting money. I experienced the same in Paris and NY. But sometime it’s because they like it… A bit sad that the article look like a promotional piece for Uber, actually very similar math apply with any car service or with using car rental companies and cabs.
@MeganQuinn this is a great article. It is always so exciting to read about others taking on a personal challenge to drive less and replace their need for a car with alternative transportation methods. I live in Downtown Los Angeles. I primarily commute by the Metro light rail and on my Brompton folding bicycle. Having the folding bike is a game…
Very very interesting. This couldn’t have come at a better time for me (I’m planning a drive-through Europe jaunt — with dog; and the family car wouldn’t, probably, stand the strain. I shall certainly be ‘doing the math’. Thanks ever so.
The only caveat is that, here in Europe anyway, protests are gathering speed, and it…
Well, Being a new person in a new city (New Delhi, India), for me it makes more sense to rely on such services. India is a really really competitive market and this makes the prices go down to minimum possible. Also Parking, buying (one time huge cost which don’t want to afford anytime soon after moving into a considerably expensive city) and trouble…
Interesting post. Heh, don’t know if I’d trust Voltaire with the last word though. After all, he had poor Candide er, amicably bludgeoned into arriving at that conclusion.
On average, how often have you had to prune people from your network for “bad/dead-branch” reasons (disappearing after you help, not reciprocating when…
A year or two ago I was watching CNN and they showed two US maps with gas costs on it by state. Alaska and Hawaii were the most expensive with California right behind. No surprises. The second had Texas at or near the top with California in the middle of the pack. The difference? The first chart ranked states by price per gallon and the second by percentage of income spent on gas. Fascinating.
I have written a couple of things about this. They may make no sense. But it’s my attempt to distance myself from growth hacking, by re-establishing the growth mindset inherent in digital marketing (people train for years to do this well, it’s not hacking), and to establish a better layer for how marketing people can talk about what they do, and do…
True. And if you need a car to get to work, you will own one and rarely use other transportation options.
I had a lengthy discussion recently with one of my best buds. He argued the next generation was stock full of idiots. “Learning how to use an iPad before you’re able to walk can’t be good,” he said.
You forgot one cost in your car ownership calculation: the cost of the car itself. Depending on the car model and the payment schedule (comparable to Uber) you could be talking about another four to eight grand a year — especially if your paying interest on a car loan.
Garaj is a group of connected students and professionals creating a platform for innovation and disruption. Our members come from a range of different backgrounds engineering, business and art.
Garaj inspires its members to make something people love or solve an actual life…
Best movies on Netflix
Netflix is an on-demand web-based hire lender, possessing prominent demand in leasing community. The service creates them number one within on-demand streaming. DVD rentals maybe the good selection picked up by people for enjoyment. The web watching of video tutorials maybe completely less complicated…
Great article. Really insightful on many levels — hustle is non-negotiable, tech know-how isn’t everything, but the part I loved most was the fact that you didn’t follow the now expected route of raising round after round of capital and went straight to a sale (when it was right for you). Amazing.
See, so, like, yeah, this is good advice and well-composed. I was just composing a bloggy-wog about how it’s hard to find well-composed and helpful blogs on the interwebz, due to saturation of other kinds of information. I’ll hold off on that one for a bit. Maybe a day or two.
From the sounds of it, he would already have been living in the city even if he did have a car. So that part was already addressed.
I do agree with the rest of your criticisms.
When you have a lot of idea about sports, you truly take it and turns to know about the different news and conditions regarding your favorite team that is time for you to use such particular resource. You need to get it to your advantage; you have to be sure you will…
Good to see the maths behind this comparison.
Great write up! That is pretty odd, kind-of creepy, and probably an oversight on IG’s behalf.
To be fair, that last issue is fairly innocuous. It is a pretty minor UI issue on Instagram’s side.
Optimal Payments Strives To Join FTSE 250
Optimal Payments which earlier this month completed a $1.2 billion acquisition of Skrill, reported its financial…
Did you just say: “Trust the government!?”
Words I never thought I’d hear! :)
That said, I think you raise a really interesting point especially in regards to innovation, and the nature of the services themselves. I absolutely think the services that have been built, that we consume are absolutely…
Google Apps users are going to start having an easier time managing their calendar. With an update rolling out this week, Google Calendar will begin automatically grabbing events that it detects in Gmail — like flights and hotel…
You get me every time! Both on Quora and here! You are brilliant!
Human beings in their essence are highly intelligent beings. Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has always struggled to find more and easier ways to accomplish an everyday task in order to save time and effort. It is in the nature of humans…
by all means! :))
How network sites benefit from DDoS Protection integration
Distributed denial of service attacks have become commonplace and are the leading methods used by cyber criminals to crash a site or steal data. These attacks rely on sending so much traffic to a network site that it exceeds the bandwidth it is allocated. This in…
I love reading something compelling and convincing written by somebody smart who gives a shit purely because they are true believers in their trade. If I were Twitter, I wouldn’t just heed your advice, I’d send you pizza, flowers, cookies, and thank you cards everyday. You give great advice at no personal gain (other than successfully convincing…
Hi Yann,
I really enjoyed your article, and and think you made some strong point on why people are not building the next facebook.
I was wondering (and hoping) if you wanted to share it with The Startup Magazine’s Publication on Medium?
Bryan seems like he has his priorities in place and is living a well balanced life. He’s extremly inspirational and someone I look up too. Thank you for writing this article. It was a great read.
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