Readit NewsHowever, the ideal transportation if you're visiting is to simply walk around. It's amazing how easy it is to walk everywhere in SF.
For Alcatraz, just grab a lyft/uber to the pier and take the ferry. By the way, if you have time the longer, late evening tours are quite interesting.
- http://www.edge.org for long emails about interesting topics.
- A few Stack Exchange weekly newsletters (stackoverflow, programmers, workplace, superuser, stats, data science). The signal to noise ratio can be pretty low but they're easy to skim through.
- Local tech / machine learning groups.
- This week in swing NYC (http://thisweekinswingnyc.wordpress.com/).
I used to get a lot more through rss until Google killed its reader. After halfheartedly looking for alternatives, I decided it wasn't worth it and simply gave up.
"Oh, you're three minutes from home at the local starbucks that you go to every day? Here's the navigation card so you know how to get home."
"Oh, it's 2am, after a concert venue you've been to once, 50 miles from home? No navigation card for you. Instead enjoy this story about a basketball game that ended seven hours ago."
When it pops up the right card at the right moment it's awesome, but then you're frustrated when it doesn't, and there's no clear way to convince it to learn the right thing.
"Oh, you temporarily do not have a connection because T-Mobile's coverage is horrendous? This sounds like a great time to wipe all cards you had up and attempt to download them again."
"No, I can't let you set reminders because you're not connected to the internet."
And I'm not even talking about things like online-status 'missing' (it's a design decision on their end), but more the general experience of using hangouts.
As far as I can tell you're still not able to mute the new message sound, without turning off notifications all together (hangouts in Gmail). Chatter picking up in a hangout and you want to mute it for a while? Again, not possible. Turn off all notifications for that hangout and chances are you'll completely forget you were ever part of that conversation (snoozing notifications hangouts-wide makes sure you miss all other personal messages sent to you as well).
Uploading a photo on a slow network is a pretty terrible experience: it'll start telling you the upload has failed and it's retrying (no progress to be seen anywhere). If you delete the message and try again, you'll probably end up with two of the same messages in your conversation, because often it doesn't appear to correctly 'receive' your deletion request either.
When you've received a photo that you need to save to your gallery (maybe you want to zoom-in a little, or share it with someone else?), be prepared to hit that save button for a while until you finally get a confirmation that the photo has actually been saved.
Stuff like this is not a problem when it's your first release, but 4 months on you'd expect a company like Google to be able to iron out quirks like these. But no, we get extra emoji as one of the few updates to the hangouts platform.
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At first, I'm tempted to think "oh that must be from this year then", but I'm often wrong and it's just a floating date.
Hopefully the <time> element catches on, so I can make my browser display dates however I like.
Long commutes make me miserable, so I decided to live closer to work than most of my colleagues. It's a manageable 10 minutes by car. It would be ~30 minutes by bike, but this part of NJ is unbikeable.