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Modern tech needs to stop changing user interfaces every 2-3 years.

Imagine if every few months when go to your faucet, someone decides to switch which side cold and hot are. Or perhaps the acceleration and brake pedals in a car get swapped because "our testing showed x".

Software is a tool for people and they build up muscle and spatial memory, so changing the interface can be a user hostile act.

That's not to say there shouldn't be improvements, but we should be scrutinizing these changes instead of frivolously treating the interface as this year's latest fashion.

This is where a membership to the local museum comes in handy. Then there's no pressure to see all the exhibits because you could always come back next week.

You're right. It's reflective of the neighborhood itself.

It's in the name: stadtpark, city park.

In defense of Berlin's Tiergarten, it was originally a hunting preserve for deer (and Hasenheide was for rabbits), so it's big and intimidating. But there are still facilities in it that serve the neighboring residents. And throughout Berlin there are multiple volksparks, people's parks, which have everything the author mentions.

In most cities, parks evolve to serve the residents.

> The kids' guide to piracy

> It is only my intent that the advice offered here be used to download media that is in the public domain.

Then call it the guide to torrenting?

And yes, a VPN is a requirement. It's reckless to present a guide without a stronger emphasis on this.

> What might make me switch?

Google Maps will always have better POI data because they have a larger userbase and they've gamified adding POIs with the "Local Guides" badge.

The main reason to switch is to have an offline-first experience. Google Maps does not provide offline maps everywhere, e.g. South Korea. And if you've ever tried using the Google Maps app on a weak connection, it's frustrating because it still tries to download remote tiles instead of using the ones you've downloaded.

Lastly any contributions you make in OpenStreetMap will show up in Organic Maps / CoMaps for everyone.

Personally, I use Google Maps on a daily basis, but have Organic Maps and regions downloaded for travel and just switch between the two. It's good to have a reliable fallback.

I believe MapsWithMe (now Maps.me) was released about that time, but I personally didn't get an iOS device until 2013.

Asking you to name a book or two to continue the conversation is fine, but 10 is ridiculous. That interviewer literally pulled the "oh you like _____ band?! name 5 of their albums" meme on you.

Yup! Sonic.net

`whois sf.ca.us` will give you the email of the registrar (thanks cogitosum).

Just saw your other comment here. That's a bummer. I've been lucky to have never dealt with GoDaddy.

For some reason, I was using ICANN's lookup (lookup.icann.org) which came up empty. But yes, a simple whois from the commandline gave me the right contact. Thanks!

That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us.

I checked www.whois.us and oakland.ca.us is administered by locality-support [at] about [dot] us

Try sending them an email?

A few years back, I looked into registering a *.sf.ca.us locality domain and Sonic was the registrar back then.

Now, I'm trying to recreate how I found that, and I can't. But if anyone is interested, try: hostmaster [at] 50N1C [dot] net (spell sonic correctly).