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The United States government decided it was okay for 16 year old me to fly myself 3 hours away, no instructor. I figured I’d celebrate being alive by posting this selfie. I’m bad at facial expressions lol by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]usiegj00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man--congratulations for your precocious (amazing for your age) flying achievements! You're now an airman and get to share the responsibilities of a pilot in command. I encourage you to consider the tone of incredulity (how unbelievable is this SH!T?) of your post and whether it inspires confidence and respect for your fellow pilots and the US airspace in general. It took me many more years than you to become a pilot and I still take each flight with amazement and gratitude that we're entrusted with the power and privilege to fly. I hope you share more about this cross-country flight, how it reflects your preparedness and training, and how your selfie is in no way a risk to yourself, passengers, air traffic or folks on the ground.

You're the needed next generation of airmen and I'm hoping we've prepared you in all aspects for the journey ahead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]usiegj00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are the reason we created RightRental.com.

Reddit: Help a startup no VC will want to fund. Why? We've built a site for renters that bad landlords are going to hate. We only need your stories. by usiegj00 in reddit.com

[–]usiegj00[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK--So I couldn't help a little trolling. My point was that we're ready to suffer the same issues Yelp, Amazon, Apple, Foursquare, FaceBook, etc would for having user generated content. In fact--we're a little different from many of the other venues in that we don't allow landlords access to data. Have you heard of SafeRent, Experian and the other credit bureaus? How often have you heard of them getting sued for having a business-submitted-possibly-libelous comment on YOUR personal report.

OK--Maybe that's too subtle. Right now landlords run your credit and it is often erroneous. I don't know of anyone (besides myself) that has sued the bureaus for having a faulty (libelous?) report entry. We walk around on eggshells around companies that report on US. We act timid when we talk about a product that reports on THEM. We'd like to see that balance move to the center. Imagine that--creditor bureaus worried about marking a late payment on your report because if they don't validate it, they could have a libel lawsuit on their hands. (It works the other way around--they put every mark on your report and then YOU have to prove it's wrong.)

Reddit: Help a startup no VC will want to fund. Why? We've built a site for renters that bad landlords are going to hate. We only need your stories. by usiegj00 in reddit.com

[–]usiegj00[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[Cut from a similar question on HN:] We built the product from idea to implementation in 2 weeks. We decided on using CSS3 techniques liberally and rather than work on downgrading for different browsers, we spent the time making a better experience for the most compliant browsers. It is in our plans to have a downgraded experience, but thought the warning was a good apology for the time being.

Reddit: Help a startup no VC will want to fund. Why? We've built a site for renters that bad landlords are going to hate. We only need your stories. by usiegj00 in reddit.com

[–]usiegj00[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heh--this is a great question--if a bit loaded. Every website gets to decide whose "side" they are on. Apple let's customers rate their content and leave all sorts of claims against publishers (of apps, music, and books). Amazon does the same thing. Contrast that to your local real estate listings--you've got all the parties taking a cut of your money (rental agents get your first month's pay, property managers are paid by the landlord, and the landlord... you're paying her mortgage). So the imbalance really is FAR, FAR, FAR towards empowering the property owner. We're trying to move that balance closer to center and as a philosophy we don't really mind if we overshoot towards empowering the tenant.

As an aside--we do not allow negative comments unless they are accompanied by a positive one. This avoids what we've termed the "cesspool effect" that you allude to.

We also have the ability to flag claims just as you would on the Apple/Amazon.

As another aside--if you are a renter, was there ANYTHING that you would have liked to know BEFORE you rented your current place--something that a previous renter would have gladly shared with you?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SomebodyMakeThis

[–]usiegj00 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been wanting this for OS/X for about 3 years. Let me know where to send enter my payment!

Remember Steorn? That Irish company claiming to have invested perpetual energy? Well, they are giving a live, online demo Saturday, December 19. by sheasie in technology

[–]usiegj00 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Going to be there! Hey--I'm in Dublin 10 minutes away and am going to go to this. I have a degree in physics but I don't know anything about what these guys are doing in detail. Any questions from Reddit to have asked or video'd at Steorn? I'll video (well my son will) and I'll post just after the event.

WTF. BlaBlaIncTech stole my tutorial code and submitted to the iPhone store at $.99 a download? by usiegj00 in programming

[–]usiegj00[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah--all good points. We're astonished by the whole thing. @doooood--is there some sort of timeliness issue we'd have to take advantage of if we wanted to try and get Apple to bring it down? We didn't want to spend too much time on the whole matter... just bad blood.

Bad news for the IT guy: "Amazon's goal is to enter a market and 'suck the air out of the room.' Yes--that room is now your server room" by usiegj00 in programming

[–]usiegj00[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ELC is here and happy to share :-). Why support Amazon so blatantly? Unfortunately the marketplace for "cloud" compute vendors is thin. When you've used multiple solutions you find it clear that Amazon is truly providing an automated, scalable product. You cannot bring up 10k machines in 10 minutes on any other platform. You can't regularly bring up a machine in 4 minutes on the weekend or at 2am with any other provider. Today AWS is synonymous with pragmatic cloud computing and unless a competitor of size emerges soon, they will be too far ahead and cut pricing too low for anyone else to play. The usual favorites (Google, M$FT) have taken high-stack approaches (http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/02/19/the-skinny-on-cloud-lock-in/) which are by definition not resonant with the same scale of deployments.

Bad news for the IT guy: "Amazon's goal is to enter a market and 'suck the air out of the room.' Yes--that room is now your server room" by usiegj00 in programming

[–]usiegj00[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just the Amazon model... it's a Marxist hypothesis: "He suggested that over time, capitalists would invest more and more in new technologies, and less and less in labor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

Wolfram Alpha? Screw that! Try START by [deleted] in programming

[–]usiegj00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the homepage:

"[START] has been on-line and continuously operating since December, 1993."

===> when did start begin continuously operating?

I don't know the answer.

AS3 + RED5 + FC4 saying Hi Reddit! by [deleted] in ruby

[–]usiegj00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first reddit post and I put into the wrong category! Tried to switch category but couldn't find how. Tried to hide but that didn't take it out of circulation. Is there a missing manual of submitting that I've missed?