a simple hello world app should not have that many dependencies, on the other hand, a javascript web app is a gui and that alone is going to bring in a ton of crap.

I just got done moving a provisioning app (fed by xml, not a gui) to a new machine and had to deal with a seemingly endless bunch of dependencies - xml, database connections, service interface libraries etc. It's a nightmare, and yet the alternative is custom code in each app, which is a completely different, and much worse, nightmare.

I am too, that was basically a metaphorical message...it doesn't even depend on the satellite eating batteries - you will want to make sure the phone actually lasts through your time in the hinterlands and isn't dead just when you need it...

...that you always have a solar charger with you: "Help! I'm at<battery dies>"

I created an account to check it out, but hardly ever login, so I don't count myself as a "user"

Makes me glad I always use Lyft instead.

I was thinking of the Andromeda Strain myself...

Clearly we have different tastes; Impossible comes the closest, but even it just isn't as good as the real thing. Beyond is a distant third - to my taste buds.

"compounded by the fact that in the post-DVD digital age, viewers may never be able to access the shows again." ...people torrent shows. Plus, local media players generally work better than streaming controls.

"with web counters, flashing text, floating banners, auto-playing sound files"

Yes, that's why I avoided geocities sites like the plague it was...

all the more reason to keep your distance to minimize their opportunity to do so

All you have to do is turn the phone so it's not recording the officer when they get close; if you're a bystander and closer than 8 ft and I was the cop, I'd probably charge you with interfering anyway as you're definitely getting in the way.

Indeed - I've often *wanted* this feature, but didn't think it existed. It doesn't have to be privacy invasive if the location info stays on the phone.

I only use coinbase for buying bitcoin to spend - it's immediately transferred to my own wallet...never trusted exchanges, especially after mt gox...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I find them graceful and interesting, but at least that is a valid point of view, unlike most of the arguments against them.

The noise argument is the most annoying as I've stood at the base of one while it was operating and even there it was only a quiet "woosh woosh" sound; you didn't have to go very far to not hear it at all.