Yup. 10 commits, first commit was just 4 days ago. Same with their public website & docs. On Github, it's all barely 4 days old.
Brian Lovin has released his work under the MIT license. AFAIK I believe this leaves it open to others to take the code and just run with it.
Even so, looking at their value proposition, it's just a landing page that leads to https://nymhq.com/join where you can subscribe to a "waiting list" to join a server. They claim "Nym is currently in private beta with limited servers, but is accepting waitlist requests now."
The "showcase" on the front page are just content fodder (AI? Web 2/3/5?) with quick, unstyled instances of their blogging software. The rest of that landing page seems to contain a lot of fluff as well.
Frankly, I'm extremely apprehensive about supporting this.
Had this happen to one of my projects. Someone decided to remove my name from the LICENSE file on their fork. I called them out on it, and they put it back, saying it was a "mistake".
The only thing in the original commit was removing my name. Hard to believe that could occur accidentally.
I've just come back from Europe (Spain) for the the first time with my operator and their new free roaming plan - it was amazing.
I pay Three £15 p/m for unlimited data, lots of intra-Three calls and some messages/calls to other networks (in the country I'm in at the time) and can now do that not just in the UK but in Spain, the US, Australia and more (http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home). That's cheaper than most local operators and a much better example than whats offered here.
I'd wager it won't be long before Three sims are being picked up by tourists and used as their main operator back at home.
Yes, the Feel At Home from Three UK feels like the future!
The experience is very, very good - invisible.
Assuming you are visiting one of the 16 destinations they cover, you don't need to do anything. No signups, no opt-ins, nothing. You just go and use your phone like you would in the UK.
I also never felt that they were throttling the connection in any way, but I never really tested this.
Plus you don't even need to be on a monthly plan, any PAYG has all the same benefits.
Its £16 (€23) per month - you get 6GB of data good in most European countries and for some reason South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Afterwards it just slows down, no insane roaming charges.
You can also reserve local numbers in most of those countries for a small fee to go fully native but I just used Google Hangouts/Voice for the odd phone call/text.
Your plan and mine seem eerily similar so here's hoping more providers start white-labeling this deal.
I'm using Three too with the same plan, but when I'm in a Feel At Home destination, I still pay if I send a texts to a local number. It is not included in my general texts allowance. Am I doing something wrong?
The data itself is free though, which is the most important for me. It is definitely better than having to go to a phone store and get a cheap sim.
Yes, this is annoying. However the fees are way less than calling from UK->country.
EG: when in the UK calling the US costs 56.2p minute, which is a complete ripoff as it should be cheaper than calling a UK mobile (virtually nil cost to do these calls). However, when actually in the US it's 15.6p. Same price differential for SMS.
Feel At Home basically means that your mobile will act the same as if you were in the UK.
Sending a text from the UK to a (for example) Spanish number incurs a cost outside of your allowance.
So that same text would also incur a cost when you are in Spain.
I've set up Google Voice -> US SIP -> UK SIP -> 3 Mobile. This gives me a US number to give out to Americans (who don't want to dial my UK number) that they can text/call. I can then make calls when on Wifi or using a Phonecard app which automatically dials my UK SIP and forwards the call via the US SIP provider. I don't have to switch SIMs or give up my UK number.
This works well for me (since I travel between the US/UK often)
When in the US, I found I have to disable "automatic" and force AT&T -- using T-Mobile blocks data for some reason. I don't know how to configure my iPhone to just block the provider (so I obviously have to disable it when returning to the UK or Europe).
In my experience (as a domestic user) both AT&T and T-Mobile can be acceptable or can suck, depending on exactly where you are in the country, and sometimes even within a city or suburban area (for example, in the city where I used to live T-Mobile sucked at home, but was great at work, while AT&T was exactly the opposite). Those nice homogeneous-looking maps of "coverage areas" are lies, to a very large degree. :-)
If you're traveling for work, maybe ask the people you're working with which carrier is best at their site.
At the speed we run, it would make no difference I would imagine. The benefits of shaving your legs only really come into effect for cyclists at the pro level ... those of us who can manage a steady 25km/h see far less benefit.
I always thought it was an urban myth that it made you go faster, and that the real reason was that road rash was easier to treat.
I am not a competitive cyclist but remove the hair on my legs with a depilator in the Spring because my leg pelt retains too much heat in the Summer. There is a noticeable improvement in cooling after it is done.
While not the most pleasant process, it avoids stubble and the delayed regrowth means the new hair is sufficiently long to begin providing warmth just in time for when cooler Fall temps arrive. I always considered that to be the real reason why the pros do it with road rash being of secondary concern. Those with shorter leg hair just went along and copied their hairier peers.
It's against the HN guidelines to editorialize in titles, even when the editorialization was done by somebody else.
This one was particularly bad because the submitted title ("Did TomTom founders just kill the postcode?") caused the post to receive a barrage of user flags.
I'm assuming you don't live or visit the UK often, as that poster is everywhere and is used in various forms by huge numbers of companies. There is absolutely no political subtext to its use anymore.
I think it's funny to see people use things in apparent ignorance of their historical context; for example I was totally bummed that http://www.gophercon.com/ wasn't about the protocol.
I'm not an accountant (about as far as could be from it) but in a discussion with an accountant friend of mine he suggested that there really is nothing that can be done about these avoidance schemes. He posited that the only real way to ensure all tax is paid for is to have no 'income tax' and then add a steep tax (30-40%) on everything that people buy. It seems like a hell of a large percentage to add on to everything, but then at least all money spent in a country would stay in the country.
Interesting that this is written by one half of the Analog Folk/Fictive Kin co-op.
These guys are responsible for Mapalong, a (formally great) mapping service that they abandoned early last year and for which they ignore any requests for exported data (I've been asking for a .KML file for a year to move my points somewhere else).
Mapalong is still in private beta, but it's otherwise alive and well. It's a huge bummer that you think otherwise. I'm sure you're not alone.
We have had to pause development, but not only is your data still there, you can still use it. New users can't join, but that's about it.
As soon as we're able, we want to finish it and launch it. As part of this, we'll make sure people can get their data out in useful formats. (Perhaps a GeoRSS feed per URL? A KML file per user?)
I genuinely respect you for holding us to a high standard, but I think it's a little unfair to criticize us for an unfinished app.
I'm sorry if you feel it's unfair, but it's hard not to jump to such conclusions when the Twitter account is dead and nothing (visibly) changes.
It would certainly make people feel better if, with slowly progressing software, it was made easier for these testers to feel like they could properly test such software with the full knowledge that they can get their investment out in the form of a reasonable export function - they are after all providing a service to you by testing the software and providing feedback.
It's cool. Like I said, I'm sure you're not alone.
Also, you make a very good point. We never expected to have to pause, but we should have put more focus on making sure people never felt their data was trapped, even in the very beginning.
In fact, you've managed to convince me that proper data export should be the very next feature we add.
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