50-60 minute commutes are very common among my coworkers. My boss commutes over an hour each way.
Long commutes make me miserable, so I decided to live closer to work than most of my colleagues. It's a manageable 10 minutes by car. It would be ~30 minutes by bike, but this part of NJ is unbikeable.
Lyft and Uber tend to have better prices than cabs. I keep both apps around because the difference in price can jump around quite a bit - sometimes up to 2-3x.
However, the ideal transportation if you're visiting is to simply walk around. It's amazing how easy it is to walk everywhere in SF.
For Alcatraz, just grab a lyft/uber to the pier and take the ferry. By the way, if you have time the longer, late evening tours are quite interesting.
- A few Stack Exchange weekly newsletters (stackoverflow, programmers, workplace, superuser, stats, data science). The signal to noise ratio can be pretty low but they're easy to skim through.
I used to get a lot more through rss until Google killed its reader. After halfheartedly looking for alternatives, I decided it wasn't worth it and simply gave up.
On top of that is Google's habit of making things that assume your mobile connection is 100% reliable and always available.
"Oh, you temporarily do not have a connection because T-Mobile's coverage is horrendous? This sounds like a great time to wipe all cards you had up and attempt to download them again."
"No, I can't let you set reminders because you're not connected to the internet."
Oh god, the notifications. There doesn't seem to be any intelligent targeting for them. Whenever I receive a message, every single client I have gets notified regardless of what I'm doing. If I'm actively typing into my android hangout client, chances are my tablets and my gmail tabs don't need to beep to let me know there's a new message.
Equally frustrating is when dates are displayed without the weekday, especially when trying to schedule an event. "August 30 2012? Wait, is that a Tuesday or a Wednesday?"
Hopefully the <time> element catches on, so I can make my browser display dates however I like.
Long commutes make me miserable, so I decided to live closer to work than most of my colleagues. It's a manageable 10 minutes by car. It would be ~30 minutes by bike, but this part of NJ is unbikeable.