bigfoot13442's comments

I did some back of the napkin math of my own and this is way of base. I don't live anywhere even close to somewhere that uber operates so it doesn't really matter but it made me think, "am I really spending that much on owning a car?" The per mile number is what got me so I came up with a number myself and I'm way closer to $0.50 per mile.

I have a Chevrolet cobalt that I bought 5 years ago for $6000. I will have this car until it dies so depreciation isn't really a factor. Instead I just divided $6000 by 5 years. I live in Canada and gas here is the equivalent of about $5.29 per gallon. It's been a good car and has only cost me about $2000 per year in maintenance (I do some minor stuff myself). Factor in registration, license, insurance and at 12000 miles per year at my measured fuel efficiency, I come in at a little less than $0.50 per mile.

If it was going to cost me $2 per mile I think I would have to just stay home.

I am rebuilding a 1981 Suzuki GS750E. I find it really helps to get away from my desk once in a while.

I have never done any mechanical work before and I am having fun and learning a lot. I highly recommend it as an alternative to starting yet another project.

When I don't feel like working on that or am waiting for parts, I am building an original arcade game. Its in the really early stages but I hope to house it in a traditional coin operated arcade cabinet painted with original artwork from a local artist and put it in a local coffeeshop or something.

I don't have a site to point anyone to for either of these projects.

As a developer with a production mobile app that uses Facebook for more than just sign in, I hate this. It changes a lot of the fundamental things that we use in a way that is detrimental to our user's experience.

Before, login with Facebook provided a better and more convenient user experience. Now it just seems clunky. Without the information that we get from Facebook for a user that decides to sign in with Facebook, we don't even have a user.

In my part of Canada we do. Or maybe I should say did... until the snow plows got them.

I live in Prince Edward Island and they were put in in some especially tricky areas just last summer and already they are mostly gone. They were the type where they cut a little dip in the road and install them so that they are even with the height of the pavement and that didn't even save them.

The glow in the dark paint on the other hand would be a huge improvement and not susceptible to damage. Not to mention no installation required.

Canadian parent here. You are absolutely right and it's ridiculous. Kids are extremely sheltered these days and it's ruining them. I find the problem is that there always needs to be someone to blame. Well, sometimes kids just do things that get them hurt. It's part of growing up.

If you don't know what it feels like to fly down a ice covered hill on a piece of plastic, hit a jump, and run smack into another kid, you did not have a proper Canadian childhood.

Given that the number of posts dips over time, that's a difference of approx 8-10 posts in that 85 day period after the relationship begins. Seems pretty negligible.

I doubt it. The Maple Syrup Mafia has control over that.

I built something similar to this at a hackathon in 2011. The source is has been on github ever since. No one has come after me yet. Don't understand what the big deal is.

I get 20. Care to elaborate?

I don't want to sound trollish but the domain name makes me think penis enlargement.

>What assumption does atheism make? None.

Atheism makes the assumption there is no God (read creator).

Creationism makes the assumption there is a creator.

>There is no assumption being made; it is simply an unanswered question, about which we are unsure we will ever have a useful answer.

Atheism tries to answer the question without the use of a creative being and creationism tries to answer it with the use of a creative being.

There is no difference between the two. Both make assumptions. Both have the possibility of being incorrect.

"This realization is part of growing up for many people. One learns to deal with it and find happiness where one can."

I guess I'm just not willing to accept that. I've always been stubborn.

"Why not be a Buddhist or believe in some other religion then?"

Maybe I stated it a little too simply, but I think you got my point.

"This precious life, even with it's ups and downs, is awesome!! And, as far as we know for certain - as it's happening right now - it's all we have. The fascination with a possible after- or next-life is a dangerous one that twists many people's actions and motivations."

I agree with you mostly. Life is precious. And the thought of "after-life" does drive some people to do some terrible things. But the same can be said for some people who believe they have nothing to live for. The "religious fanatic" argument only really works with religious fanatics and the unfortunate part is that they are usually the only ones that make the news. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left shaking our heads and hanging them in shame because of the senseless things that are done "in the name of < insert religious figure head here >".

But this has gone way off the topic of the article. The fish still looks cool and, as someone else put it, like a turtle fish. I wouldn't want to get into a fight with it.

The definition of faith is, "Complete trust or confidence in someone or something". It has nothing to do with whether or not there is evidence supporting the thing you have faith in.

I'll assume your question was not meant to sound condescending (because I don't think it was).

Christianity, in its purest form, is not compatible with evolution. Christianity believes that the Bible is the infallible word of God and therefore is complete truth. The Bible says the world and everything in it was created in 6 days and so is incompatible with evolution. That being said, there are lots of denominations of Christianity that have accepted evolution by "reading between the lines" of the creation story and assuming things that are not there. Catholicism, for example has made an official statement (by the Pope) that there are no incompatibilities between the two.

But, your question and the statement that follows are not related. I am not a Christian because I don't believe in evolution. The converse is also true; the reason I don't believe in evolution is not because I am a Christian. I am a Christian simply because I believe there has to be something more to this life. I am a Christian because having hope that someday everything that has happened here on Earth will someday be worth it is what makes me get out of bed in the morning. I couldn't imagine going through life believing that this is all there is. IMO it would be a miserable and mundane existence if there was no purpose to life.

(And yes, I do consider myself an intelligent developer)

The last thing I want to do is start a flame war, but I don't see anyone on here criticizing you for putting your faith in science. I would like to have thought that the Hacker News community would be above unwarranted comments such as this.

Yet another thing I would do if I was rich: buy up the unfortunate circumstances and forgive them.

I understand how it would be hard for the government to implement a policy to do the same, but this situation is ridiculous.

This is awesome. Yes, there are some usability problems, a few bugs, and tonnes of missing features, but I already like it better than Basecamp. I started dev on a product like this a long time ago, when Basecamp was relatively new, but I didn't complete it. I was going for a Redmine-esque feel and that's what I get out of Ubercamp.

Keep it up. I hope you will stick it out as you have some big competitors.

It would be nice to see the full task edit options when adding a task too.

Great idea. I've needed this for a couple years now. I signed up.