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Comment · 7 years ago
In theory, some of them have gyroscope things that can send a signal if they are not upright.
Comment · 7 years ago
Barrier of entry.

Folks like me that haven't ridden a bike since they were a kid are scared as hell of riding around traffic. Scooters are much more approachable.

Comment · 8 years ago
That's because the city has no solutions.

So far they've only tried telling the universities to build more dorms and give up some of the housing they have.

I mean, there's plenty of new apartment buildings going up around Boston, but they're all luxury.

Comment · 8 years ago
Boston does not require a car. Got rid of my car 10 years ago.

Only problem is that rent is more expensive near the subway. But we have buses and many many international workers and students. Very livable without a car.

Comment · 8 years ago
Get out of their job for $5k? I agree I may be used to an area with a higher cost of living, but folks don't win $5k on Wheel of Fortune and think "now I can finally pursue my dream of becoming a poet."
Comment · 8 years ago
Yeah that was also back when Southwest wasn't at Logan but wanted to advertise that they had the lowest fairs "in the Boston area".
Comment · 8 years ago
I've had a PSVR since release.

I don't use it all the time. It takes extra effort and energy to set up and 'get into' a VR game that sometimes I just don't want to expend. And it's a very singular experience.

HOWEVER, without a doubt it has provided some of the most amazing experiences I've ever had in gaming. Get your VR legs and play through Resident Evil 7 and Skyrim VR and tell me that it's just a gimmick. No way.

Comment · 8 years ago
And don't forget the chicken-egg problem. People see it as a fad because the majority of games are smaller 'tech-demo' types, but of course very few companies will invest much money in something available to only 5% of the gaming market.

Resident Evil 7 is the exception, and my God is it an amazing experience.

Comment · 8 years ago
That was my thought too... why not just watch a foreign film? Those even take place in the country you want to learn about.
Comment · 8 years ago
This really comes down to what you expect from the product and what your use case is.

I don't want something to select music for me. I listen to whole albums. I want to be able to search or an album or an artist and listen to one of their albums. Not a playlist that might feature them.

I hated Spotify's UX because it felt like it was hiding all of its music and trying to force me to listen to what it wanted me to hear.

The entire iTunes catalog free for me to listen fits my needs exactly.

Comment · 8 years ago
Break news! Team uses filtering feature of Play Store to avoid installing app on devices where it doesn't work!
Comment · 8 years ago
Alternativev (joke) takeaway: Javascript is as important to computers as machine code
Comment · 8 years ago
I've never worked for a company that said "we are going to use technology that takes twice as long to implement new features."

Even when I worked in a boring industry like advertising and banking they expected things to be done by next sprint and were very accepting of the instability tradeoff.

I'm not saying that they're thesis is wrong: boring but stable software is a Very Good Thing, but it's not just us devs wanting to use the latest and greatest that's driving such quick tech adoptions.

Comment · 8 years ago
Whoa! Whoa! Are you suggesting that the end experience with a programming framework might depend on the details of your specific project and should not be inferred from general blog posts? That's insane! /s
Comment · 8 years ago
Ohhhhh, now I understand why that one ex-coworker that 'follow' stars about 20 projects a week. I always used them as bookmarks and I couldn't believe that they ever were going to use that many things.

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