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Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not surprised to be honest. In the city I currently live in, since moving here a year ago, I've never even gotten the bus because an uber is maybe twice the price but 10x more convenient and 5x as fast to get to the local train station... To get to the next city along, it's a 15min uber or >1hr public transport commute... However, if Uber didn't exist here, I don't think I'd be taking taxis because they are far more expensive.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Except when you're on the home screen; long press will let you wiggle icons and force touch will let you get app shortcuts.
Comment · 12 years ago
This is what it's like in Scotland!! People here get SO angry, thinking that you have "skipped" all the other patiently waiting people... And then they don't let you merge! And it makes absolutely no sense to me, because they cause one reallllyyyy long traffic jam then...
Comment · 12 years ago
I always thought of The Verge as Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, and Paul Miller... It's been kinda of a so-and-so website in the past year, so I'm not surprised he's leaving before the whole site goes downhill..

Good on him though, excited to see what he writes about. Fingers crossed we get some good podcasts though!

Comment · 12 years ago
I've contacted AirBnB regarding several unprofessional experiences, and I've found that AirBnB themselves were quite amateur. This has changed, and AirBnB are starting to grow up. Hopefully this sort of stuff doesn't happen again...
Comment · 12 years ago
It's just too much work to type it all in all the time...

(Has nothing to do with spreadsheets etc... I also get fed up of calorie counting apps and fitness apps as entering data isn't fun!)

Comment · 12 years ago
I once tried to keep a spreadsheet (Apple's Numbers) for fuel cost / consumption / mileage, etc. for my car. I found Numbers to do the job best, but still got fed up of trying to do it all...
Comment · 12 years ago
I've been looking for a nice Markdown editor on Mac. Hopefully this one will be it.

Are there any others I should look at?

Comment · 12 years ago
(unfortunately) The more I think about this, the more flaws I find... I looked through pastor.py and essentially you're just creating a different password. There's no difference between using this generated password and another password (you could argue that the generated password is harder to brute force, but that's it really).
Comment · 12 years ago
But what I don't understand is, if the password is never stored, how can you allow for logins, etc.? I mean, there must be a way of comparison, or something? I think perhaps I'm having a brain melt, or I'm misunderstanding this completely. To me, this looks like it's creating a password from hashing the pass-phrase and doorID, but that just then generates another password...
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm not sure if I quite understand this - so you're hashing the pass-phrase+doorID, and then storing that? Doesn't that mean that the hashed, well, generated password is always the same, regardless which website you are on?

I like the idea of supergenpass, as it's creating unique passwords on a website basis as it hashing a password+URL to create unique website passwords.

Maybe I've misunderstood this though.

Comment · 12 years ago
The AirBnB logo is far more triangular, if that makes sense. The lines coming down from the top towards the bottom left/right are very straight (EDIT: essentially it's a fancy "A" with very rigid lines), whereas the fash.io/n logo is just a regular (EDIT: rounded and very much not straight-lined) heart...

Yeah, I get it, you see a similar logo and think "ahh they copied ours", but at the end of the day, what do you expect with a single line, minimal logo? There's only so many ways a single line can loop around...

Comment · 12 years ago
Although I've never been an active cannabis user as the study describes it, I tried the drug on several occasions in high school and at university. I've always felt paranoid whilst high, and it's always been an unpleasant experience. My mind always goes into "overdrive" and I start to think far more and feel everything around me tightening in on me. To describe the feeling to my friend, I described it as the scene in The Matrix when Neo, just after choosing the red pill, touches the mirror and the mirror starts to cover up his body and go into his mouth. It's a weird feeling to describe, but it makes me super paranoid. On top of that, I always feel like I start to see everything far more white, and become far more light headed, which in turn makes me even more paranoid...

Maybe I'm a light head, but I don't like the drug at all.

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