I lived in the Bronx-never had a bike stolen (no joke). My first day on campus @ a large midwestern school (Sci LIB) my bike got jacked. Sigh. Now that I am back in NYC, finding a new bike for less than $370 seems impossible. Then tax and accessories.
Article is classic; Its like watching yo gabba gabba with my kid 'don't bite your friends' --- Appreciate the recommendations. Especially Strava. I need games to be productive.
Great feedback. I definitely am going to consider buying a cycle computer. Do you have any recommendations? I wonder if any services exist to transmit my stats? Say how many miles I do in a day or other riders. It could be a game.
The other problem with buying a bike online is that the bike will probably come only part-assembled & if you don't know what you're doing you can really make a mess of things. A proper bike shop will be doing this assembly for you: it's one of the things you're implicitly paying for when you buy a bike from them. Decent bike shops will almost always offer a free "tune-up" service which you will otherwise need to do yourself. Again, if you know what you're doing and are happy to do it yourself then great: go for it. If you don't however then you're likely to end up with a bike that just doesn't ride right after a month or so & you won't know why.
(A UK consumer advocate program once bought a bunch of cheap bikes online: universally they were either poorly put together or in some cases actively unsafe. One bike had the forks on backwards!)
Thanks for the insight. And I agree with you. HN is a stream of consciousness. I read a post describing a project 'Coders who Care' and said to myself -'I almost missed this and its pretty awesome'...I figured there were others who were doing similar things or felt the same way and wanted to test the waters - thanks for the feedback.
I think its an interesting idea. Never saw anything quite resembling that in the wild. Might it be that open source code != open source design? Both groups collaborate, but what does it say that designers fawn over sites like forrst (which is walled) and coders like Git? Perhaps a different question needs to be asked - like what tools would a designer use to not simply outsource but open up the design process?
Same here. Thanks for the links. I am specifically interesting in learning Ruby THEN Rails. The other way feels backwards, but that might just be me.
I digress-I have a basic, I mean real basic question-what is a recommended environment to start coding ruby projects? I use XAMPP and Aptana for my front end coding (CSS/HTML) and then render in browser. How do I do replicate that work flow with Ruby source (and integrate it with my front-end code)?
Lame, I know. But hey stupid questions are the one's you don't ask.
UPDATE: rubykoans answered my editor question. Ruby resources still appreciated!
If you don't plan on taking money-save time and opt for fiscal sponsorship. It boils down to an existing non profit allowing your operation to borrow its federal EIN and you getting the benefits of being a non-profit. You will still need to create a board and do all the other stuff-just later. They also charge. I've worked @ "projects" that were sponsored that charged 7-10% for the sponsorship. It often included all the back-end stuff.
I'd opt for an LLC and then consider becoming a "B-Corp" (look it up). It sounds like the technology may have a business model in the future. If you want to be part of it as a founder-and not an employee-don't opt for the non-prof route.
