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Hi, I'm the author. I made this itch-scratcher for myself and now I'm seeing if people want, or even understand it.

I have 3 calendars (personal and 2 work ones) and I often find myself copying events between them. Copying holiday between them.. flights.. early starts etc for the people who look at my calendars (family and colleagues). Keeping these events in sync is occasionally super annoying.

This lets you sync events between them..

Only Google calendars for now. I'd probably tackle Microsoft calendars next if people actually use it.

Any feedback very welcome!

Well.. the DuckDuckGo and Google implementations are a little different but on both sites the ads are designed to blend into the organic results. If we weren't talking about the icon we could talk about the background colour, font, text colour, layout, URL in green etc. I don't begrudge DuckDuckGo, they have a very large competitor on their hands and wish them a lot of luck.

If this is predicting electric bikes that can keep up with the current speed of the roads, I don't think it sounds meaningfully different from light motorcycles in terms of infrastructure. The vulnerability of the traveller sounds the same. But perhaps the lighter vehicle and environmental benefit will help it reach a critical mass where change will happen..

I think we're generally headed for slower roads in built up areas. It's the cheapest option. 15mph roads will probably be safe enough for cyclists and I personally believe stopping distances have got to come down a lot if we're ever going to let the robots drive cars in towns.

This one remains the most important principle and it’s not without reason. Well paid focus groups have shown that the very first thing a user wants to do when visiting your web site in their web browser is to install a mobile application.

_hangs head_

Goodbye, EdgeHTML 8 years ago

I tried to move from Chrome's profiles to Firefox's container tabs. I prefer Chrome's take on it where sessions are shared across all tabs in a window rather than across similarly styled tabs in the same window.

.. I just went to find the github issue for other people with a similar need[0] and found someone has posted a link to an extension called sticky containers. A new tab opens in the same container of the last one. It's actually pretty close to what I'm after..

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-contai...

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

"Did anyone actually expect that building more roads would lead to no increase in road usage?"

I think that's exactly it.

Perhaps all road building initiatives should be publicised as short term congestion relief and long term preference of cars over other forms of transport.

Why Homejoy Failed 11 years ago

I hope my next failure will be documented with an animated metaphor of a robot failing apart.

The money does go back to the tax payers.. Its redistributed amongst the tax payers. Its pretty much the core concept.

You thought that I thought they just sent the cheques back in the post? That would be bizarre indeed!

"250M people contribute $20k. 300M people receive $16.6k."

It’s the redistribution that you’re missing.

300M * $20k does equal $6 trillion but it is returned to the tax payer who stumped up the $6 trillion.

The 50M who aren’t contributing tax represent an actual cost of $1 trillion. The remaining $5 trillion is redistributed.

250M people contribute $20k. 300M people receive $16.6k.

300M * $20k - $6 trillion == $0

Developer here!

Honesty.io is an experiment to pass on the Humble Bundle style "pay what you think it's worth" mechanic to all independent publishers (not just games).

No attempt has been made to create a marketplace. I am undecided. I see the value of a marketplace to a new publisher but I believe the future of publishing is niches.

Minimum prices and disabling the charitable donation and tip are features I've considered but am concerned they dilute the altruistic message?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!