I met some folks in a RV park in Mazatlan. They had a cruising sail boat. They sold it because the cost of a night or so in a yacht harbor was too extreme and the worry while they were traveling in the area was too great. They had a van and seemed content.
I am from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which was mainly a Puerto Rican and Dominican neigborhood when grew up there in the 1970s. Custom cars were just that, custom! With painted hoods akin to the back panels of Levis Jeans jackets with rock star or salsa or gang pictures. I now live in East Java, Indonesia, and have traveled in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam to name a few for the past 9 years as an expat.
The Philippines is certainly up there on the crowded spectacle meter of buses and other transport vehicles. I remember seeing three people standing on a bus bumper holding onto the roof as we drove behind over a bridge. The paint jobs, detailing, added hardware (bumpers!) was fun to look at. But one pothole, a loose grip and you are not showing up to work that day.
I am always amused by what seem like cross-cultural similarities to the colorful, blasting stereo vehicles in each location. I guess the colors are inspired by the tropical climates' flora, and other cultural influences.
Indonesia has its becaks or moto-becaks (bicycle or moto-powered rickshaws), but it is more conservative here with regards to transport both outside and in them, but people pile in.
Thailand has the tuk-tuk and motocabs.
I am stirred when seeing a family of 4 or 5 on a 125cc scooter here in Java. No helmets, kids sleeping on the back with their school knapsacks, and a kid standing in front, no eye protection or helmet, squinting at the road.
I have two older children back in the US, and a newborn girl here. I always have to adjust to car seats, and transportation in general when I return for a visit, and NYC traffic now looks so tame to me.
This happens in learning new languages as well , often speaking quickly the wrong way is counter productive. Speak very slowly at first and focus on being correct
its interesting to look at keystone components in mobile. AFAIK it looks as though identity is the predominant keystone API . if you own identity then you are leveraged across both mobile apps and web.
I'm not so sure identity in that sense is that important. It's important to advertisers for sure, but where's the value to Jane or Joe consumer beyond being able to claim a piece of cloud data as her or his own?
The mistake, in my opinion, is to insist on connecting identities across devices, and across meat space and cyberspace. I don't have any answers, but do know that Kim Cameron's seven laws of identity[1] are the best story I've heard on this.
I'm not sure I should fear or applaud Apple's TouchID. They just made a massive Sapphire investment: how long until every Apple Device comes with TouchID? How long until third-party devs can target it as an API?
Apple's fingerprint integration is convenient enough to be dangerous: once you enable it, it is hard to go back.
Identity is key, but whoever controls the identity with a credit card connected to it...that's a useful one.
(Although actually to take a step back...owning the credit card channel still leaves the field wide open for the billions of people who don't have credit cards)
They also tend to word much of their social outreach in ways that imply they are releasing it, not the community. I know they have some talented people who work hard on core, but their marketing is pretty slimy and purposely misleading in my opinion.
well I don't have anything to say regarding the marketing group, but Ben and Bert are legit. the contributions to node-inspector are great and the scaling work is much appreciated.
i think is a great thing! communities flourish when they are support by companies with effective ( preferably transparent) revenue models. exciting times . npm inc , best of luck !
agree , give the story . what was the command in the script that failed. to error is human to blog honestly about it is a story I want to read. there is no room for fear in good content , show the true story.
