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Achieve some level of financial security (say 6-12 months savings), then just do whatever you want.

The hard part is the former. Once you've done that the negotiation bit is trivial because you don't really need to care - you can just take it as a given that eventually you'll be paid more (unless you're taken ill and stop/slow down working).

welcome to zombo coin

the only limit is yourself.

Hi HN,

We've just gotten finished pushing out a new mobile interface update for our tube map and thought this would be a good opportunity to show it off!

We're using hammer.js for pinch zoom, html5 canvas to draw the map and a wodge of js for routing and drawing.

Best on desktop due to hover effect, though works very well on mobile now too (we hope!)

Looks like the ad network I was using was being naughty and included popunders randomly (which hadn't been caught during testing). Removed now and should work fine.

Hello HN!

I made this as a test of what can be done locally in the browser without a backend, and because I was frustrated with certain things missing from traditional maps.

You can draw routes around the tube network, get time heatmaps from any station, use alternate maps, disable lines, etc.

It should work in latest Firefox and Chrome desktop, Chrome mobile, and hopefully Safari (though I couldn't test it myself yet). IE definitely doesn't work until I've had more time to play with it, it doesn't support maps/sets without polyfill...

I'd really appreciate screenshots from Safari if anyone feels particularly helpful :P

Pieter,

Thank you. For everything. I'm sure the rest of the community shares my opinion that you've contributed so much to the field.

For all that it matters, I wish you a pleasant departure.

Many of these discussions seem to leave the elephant in the room of what is 'enough'.

If your company can only extract 50K per employee, and a home costs 500K in the region, then I don't think you have a legitimate business, and I don't think it should be surprising that people leave for pastures new.

I've spent far too long trying to improve companies' profitability to the point that they can actually afford to pay my mortgage - it's looking likely that I'll be lounging on 10 hours / week for the indefinite future.

Burn my youth so I can rent a fancy apartment? No thanks!

This looks cool and the price is appealing. For me personally, the range is a bit short and 30mph doesn't cut it - in some cities it'd work, London is full of 50mph roads.

I'd love to buy a Zero (linked lower in the thread) if I had a safe place to store it or some good insurance (motorcycle theft is common in the UK).

WRT weather and other concerns - frankly, the time saved by riding a motorcycle in a congested city blows that out of the water, IMO. In conditions other than gridlock you can maintain an average speed ~50% higher than all other traffic.

I'd love to see electric bikes go mainstream because I think they address almost all of the concerns people have about cycling (sweaty, no good for the unfit/disabled, etc).

You can park 4-5 scooters in a car parking bay, tuck them away at the side of footpaths and in front of stores, if the roads became populated with them it'd possibly double or triple throughput for single riders.

I currently own a 125cc motorcycle and it's a godsend. Especially in the summer months it turns commuting into a joy, and reduces the time taken to perform errands by 5x over public transport (there are plenty of places I can ride to in 20 mins or take a combination of buses and trains to get to in 1.5 hours).

I think living in a large metro area for an extended period of time would be unbearable for me without owning a motorcycle. Most cities have radial transport networks - concentric journeys outside of the core have ridiculous routing as a result.

Maciej (HN handle 'idlewords') has an interesting take on this that I'm struggling to find in my history right now. The basic idea is that all of the data these companies collect is still ultimately useless in practice. We still don't have advertising that is even close to being relevant.

But the data retains its toxic qualities (of being a database of every action I take on the Internet and some in the real world).

I fire up the YouTube homepage and all of my recommendations are for UK daytime TV. Celebrities, 'Jeremy Kyle' (the UK Jerry Springer), etcetera.

YouTube sends me adverts for female hygiene products and dog food. (I am male and I own no dog.)

Even when I get advertising that's not selling me stuff that would require I buy something else first (sex change, dog) it's invariably for something vastly overpriced or some sort of megabrand.