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Lyft and Uber have wasted so much time and money. This is the problem with VC money focused on growth. There's no pressure to build anything sustainable, no pressure to build compe…

This is a lot lower than I expected. I wish governments would just add this as a tax directly. But seems almost impossible in the current political climate.

A lot of gas stations here ask "Do you want a car wash for $x.xx" directly on the gas pump after you slide your card. If gas stations just added "Do you want carbon neutral for $x.…

This was true years ago, but I think times are different now. Theres a feeling of near panic among many as the effects of climate change become more obvious and the new Trump envir…

I often wonder what is the natural market price of these services? Basically, without massive VC money distorting everything, how much would a Lyft or Uber ride really cost? I have…

I think organics food shows this isn't true. These gas stations would first target the affluent liberal markets. The marketing could be, don't feel bad about buying that luxury BMW…

I wish some billionaire would start a chain of carbon neutral gas stations. I wouldn't mind paying more for gas if I knew it was carbon neutral. There are several ways the gas coul…

The "smartwatch" from Apple and Android is not a good idea. Fitbit and Pebble are closer to the right direction. Apple/Android keep trying to make watch-sized smartphones. But they…

The software field really needs to stop associating "top engineer" with Google interview process. The Google interview process has nothing to do with "top engineer". The only thing…

The plan in the article is complementary, not against public transit. It has the potential to fix the "first and last mile" problem for trains. If successful, it would greatly incr…

I looked at ebikes a few months ago and it's still too expensive. Even the kits for converting a regular bike was almost the price of an ebike. Is it this expensive in the rest of …

I don't understand why Toyota is not the leader in plugin hybrids. They had such a big lead in hybrid tech and the next natural step was plugin hybrid. Imagine a RAV4 or Highlander…

And this is why software today is in such a sad state. Managers think it would be great to have an army of young engineers who don't question and just do what they're told. But any…

Recently I got an email about a job that seemed interesting. It's a well known company that used to be a startup but is now a mature company. I went to the job description page: 8+…

FTA: LA Metro opened up the Expo Line, a light rail between downtown LA and Santa Monica, in May as part of its effort to wean people off car ownership. When it began running, Uber…

Does anyone know how strict is the Google two year update policy for Nexus? It's clear they won't do major releases (such as Android 7.0) for old phones. However, what about critic…

The word "remote" is so general it's basically useless. We need new common terms to describe the different types, such as: - Long remote: When someone is offshore or many time zone…

There is great potential for something like Lyft to fix the rail "first mile" and "last mile" problem. If they can integrate systems with government so that the Lyft cost is part o…

I had no issue interpreting the likely intended meaning of this: This person is saying they have been keeping up with new technologies the past 14 years (such as RoR, NodeJS now, b…

The message is loud and clear for senior engineers (10+ years experience): startups don't want you. They may say they do, but they really don't. And the message from SV big tech is…

Something that annoys me about all this self-driving focus is that they are not targeting the obvious low-hanging fruit: 1) Focus on perfecting low speed bumper-to-bumper traffic f…

Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not und…

Does anyone know if the ECMAScript group is seriously considering adding something like TS? Maybe in ES8 or ES9? TS 2 will be impressive and it seems TS has a lot of momentum (such…

Just a little bit of programming can be powerful. If I were designing an elementary school course, it would focus on two things: 1) How to clean data. Real world data is always dir…

What are some of these companies? A common advice I've seen here and other sites is that the best workplace for developers will be at companies where the software is the main reven…