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Re: Electrek’s ebike of the year is the 33mph Juiced HyperScorpion

Avi Flax — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:45:15 -0000

FWIW, although clearly I was wrong and some of the Juiced bikes can support a passenger, the Scoprion at least wouldn’t work for me; as per that passenger kit accessory page:

…does NOT increase the 275lb weight capacity of the e-bike.

I weigh 250 and my kid is around 75 pounds now — and growing — so I’ll be looking at the RadWagon and the Tern options.

Re: Electrek’s ebike of the year is the 33mph Juiced HyperScorpion

Avi Flax — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:39:17 -0000

Huh, not sure how I missed that. Thanks!

Re: Electrek’s ebike of the year is the 33mph Juiced HyperScorpion

Avi Flax — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:39:12 -0000

Huh, not sure how I missed that. I guess just eyeballing the bikes, they didn’t look to me like it could work. Thanks!

Re: Electrek’s ebike of the year is the 33mph Juiced HyperScorpion

Avi Flax — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:09:56 -0000

The HyperScorpion looks great. What I personally find a little puzzling is that it doesn’t seem to support a passenger. I’ve never owned a “utility” ebike, but when I think about the category I look at the RadRunner and its ability to (optionally) support a passenger and it just makes a ton of sense to me. It’s even more puzzling that Juiced doesn’t seem to offer a single bike that can support a passenger — this seems like a gap in their lineup, to me.

Re: LGTM.in »

Avi Flax — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:42:56 -0000

This oppresses women. Please delete it.

Re: A new Nissan LEAF group buy in Texas brings the price of the electric vehicle down to $11,500

Avi Flax — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:03:21 -0000

Someone do this in New York!

Re: Using Clojure's core.cache - The Codebrickie

Avi Flax — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:20:48 -0000

Thanks, but if so, then when am I supposed to call hit and miss?

Re: Happy New Year!

Avi Flax — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:56:57 -0000

I’m still reading! Gotta love RSS!

Re: Using Clojure's core.cache - The Codebrickie

Avi Flax — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:10:58 -0000

Thanks for this! Very helpful. I’m still a little confused, though, on how to ultimately really use a cache instance. Since hit and miss return the new “versions” of the cache, this seems awkward to integrate with a call to actually, you know, return the desired item from the cache. Am I missing something? Or is it just awkward by necessity?

Re: The Travis CI Blog: 10 Things I Do Every Day To Stay Productive

Avi Flax — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:50:04 -0000

Great post! This really resonates with me. In fact, I recently wrote my own little app for capturing and archiving my daily three things: http://3things.aviflax.com/ — I’d love to hear what you think. The story behind it is here: http://aviflax.com/post/two...

Re: Google Google Tradutor

Avi Flax — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:52:35 -0000

Awful. If you don't get an effusive apology in writing you should stop giving them your business.

Re: bitquabit - The fighting's been fun and all, but it's time to shut up and get along

Avi Flax — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:01:25 -0000

Your passion is compelling, but as a partner at a development firm which still uses Subversion, I'm left with some questions, so I'm still teeter-tottering on the proverbial fence.

Can anyone point me to some resources which clearly explain how and why Git and Mercurial are so much better than Subversion at branching and merging?

I don't understand why you say that Subversion doesn't support branching and merging; we do those things with it. I know that prior to 1.5 it had terrible support for merging, so I wonder if that perception is possibly out of date.

That said, while we do occasionally branch, we tend to avoid it, and we're not all that comfortable with merging — it still feels kinda iffy, hard to explain why.

So I'd love to understand why and how Git and Subversion are so much more conducive to branching and merging, because I get the impression that this can enable all sorts of more flexible, efficient, and safe workflows — I'm about to take over a huge project where this could be of great value. But I really need to understand why something is better before I adopt it — I can't just take everyone's word for it. And I haven't had much luck finding good resources which explain this.

BTW I am using Mercurial for a side project, but so far I use it like an offline-capable Subversion.

Thanks!

Re: December 11th - National Backup Awareness Month

Avi Flax — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:07:18 -0000

Good post, but it'd be great if you'd flesh out the National Backup Awareness Day idea a bit more, and maybe help push it into a kind of a movement. Although it occurs to me that something like this might already exist.

Also, re: paper backups. This is a very good idea. I'm curious about the pros and cons of printing backups using compression. Explored in many places, one of which is here: http://www.dansdata.com/gz0...

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME

Avi Flax — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:20:16 -0000

could there be a less compelling way to present a list like this?

Re: EtherPad Blog: EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced

Avi Flax — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:41:37 -0000

Oh hell yeah! From a terrible plan to a great one — well done!

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - How much longer is the average person/business in...

Avi Flax — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:14:52 -0000

How much longer? Until the average person/business perceives a viable alternative. For now, many of us feel trapped with a limited set of bad choices. But when people start seeing viable alternatives which cost less and deliver comparable or better outcomes, they'll switch.

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - Google PowerMeter

Avi Flax — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:56:51 -0000

Jay, I totally agree! I'm thinking the Fitbit is something like this for our health. Check out the screenshot. I'm thinking about getting one but I don't know...

Re: Why our healthcare system looks like CBGB's bathroom.

Avi Flax — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:33:04 -0000

Amazing, wonderful rant!

Re: I just finished watching The Wire...

Avi Flax — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:25:00 -0000

Wow. I lived most of my life in far-NW Baltimore, but it was right on the county line and may as well have been the county, insofar as my experience had essentially zero exposure to any aspect of the world depicted in the wire. Looks like you were much closer to it.

I also recently finished The Wire, and I agree, it's an incredible series.

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - JAY PARKINSON + MD + MPH

Avi Flax — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:42:00 -0000

Jay: I really like the information architecture of your new site. The visual design, however, is a little... I don't know, cold maybe. It could use something. You take great photographs, maybe consider adding some photos somehow?

Re: Making Web Applications is Like Building a Bicycle.

Avi Flax — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:01:19 -0000

its a good analogy!

Re: Turning Notifications Off

Avi Flax — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:38:55 -0000

Me too!