GreenNight

1) Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down.

I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page.

But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way.

And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way.

Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.

Great book, it's a shame it doesn't have sequels...

P.D. Yes, it has sequels, written by a different author with a focus that seems the opposite than the one on the first book. Not recommended.

>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.

You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game.

Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).

For me it depends.

On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.

For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.

With friends we do the same when we meet to LAN play. We copy the games into a USB stick and pass it around. It's waaaaay quicker than downloading from steam, and quicker than copying through the local net.

If you know the right folder you just copy it there, buy the game if you didn't already have it, and just wait a little for it to check the integrity of the install.

This article has me almost wishing to start a data courier service. Flying around the globe transporting data.

Even if it's "bigger" than just placing the [turn right] it's faster if you do a:

if not wall right then turn right

instead.

And it's already corrected in there:

>One way we save energy is by keeping the temperature on our server floors at a warm 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Either that or I'm seeing a different one.

Not for me. For me that's a brand new old car.

Yes, it has all the parts of the old car, and only those pieces, but it was assembled anew from zero.

A more difficult dichotomy would be: what if we exchange parts between two cars until each one is the other one. That's hard to decide.

You have an old car, and you want to renew it. If you buy it brand new and toss the old one, you are destroying the old one. If you keep changing pieces of it, testing them to see they work, and keep going until you have replaced the whole car, it's still the old car, just brand new.

There's not much difference at the end, except that you can consider that the second way of doing things will let you still use the old car, only it'll be new.

I too thought about their car technologies, but to me it doesn't mean drive like a floppy disk drive, it means drive as in hard disk drive (HDD).

Google Storage would have been a more descriptive name, but it'll be a while until we get rid of our C: and D: drives.

Could be useful IN a startup, but not AS a startup.

AFAIK YCombinator is for creating startups, not for letting outside people be a part of one.

You want to prove your will? Ask your neighbours, parents, friends, people you find in the street, ask them for what troubles them, what little things they have to do what would rather not. Find a way to solve it, charging money, low enough that they would rather pay, high enough that you cover costs.

Then you either have a nice startup of your own or at least you have some experience that you can share here. Repeat until success or bust.

It's been in Steam for years, I bought it long ago.

And while it's a great game I don't think this brings anything to the discussion (at least unless you elaborate).

"page 867" means nothing, but so does scrolling down for half an hour. And the first one is faster.

You pay for designs, not for the final product. It's not different than buying programs for your computer.

Of course at the beginning the products will be sold assembled from shops with 3D machines for rent.

Timezones are not an ugly hack.

When you travel to a different timezones you just have to adjust your clock and, without asking, you know that shops open at 8~10am until 4~8pm with or without a midday stop for lunch (12~3). You have dinner at 18~22, and breakfast at 8~10. All the divergences depend on the country you are in but you can get good aproximations that work for 90% of them (breakfast 9, open shops 10, lunch 13, close 17, dinner 20).

But, if you go for an universal timezone, you've got to learn the different times for the different activities again and again and again. You change a one step correction (change time on your watch) to a constant struggle.

With universal timezone: You wake up when travelling, it's 17:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? You start to calculate and... too late to decide, you are already woken and could not get back to sleep even if you wanted.

With different timezones: You wake up when travelling, it's 2:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? No, time to sleep some more.