This could be the beginning of the end for Google. As soon as they start pandering to advertisers instead of users, things are all downhill. People want to find file sharing sites, and if they can't find them on Google, they will go somewhere else.
Prehaps entrepreneurs should stop reading and start doing. Some things are just impossible to learn from a book, and even the things that can be learned from a book can be learned faster and better through personal experience.
OK, I can potentially see where vi(m)'s rectangluar selection would be good for editing config files and such, but I'm pretty sure all modern editors have rectangular selection anyway (notepad is not a modern editor). My IDE has the ability to rename a variable and to comment/uncomment a selection which solves your last two problems.
Why do you have the same 10 characters on 10 consecutive lines? Sounds like that is probably a violation of DRY, at least it always has been when I encountered something like that. Also, if you are comparing vi(m) to something, please don't compare it to notepad. Every editor and IDE I have used in the past few years has rectangular selection. Commonly with alt+click and drag, or shift+alt+arrow keys.
Something thats been on my list of potential project ideas for a long time is a suite of tools built for distributed teams. From this article, I am now convinced that this problem needs solving.
I've been aggregating all my messaging to facebook for awhile, my emails are forwarded to my @facebook address, and I used facebook for communication whenever possible. Maybe Facebook can finally replace the outdated tech that is e-mail and SMS? I hope so.
The ped is travelling perpendicular to the original direction of the car (crossing from right to left from the cars point of view) and is most likely just stepping off the sidewalk.
It's not the average drivers that need help, its the bad drivers. The ones who roll through a red light turning right, but look left the entire time, which is a very common way for pedestrians to get hit by cars. The system in the article would probably prevent tons of those accidents. I'm all for taking control away from bad drivers, even if that means we also have to take control away from the average and good drivers.
I'm afraid this is whats going to prevent adoption of more automatic cars. The people who care about cars don't want the features, but its the people who don't care about cars that would benefit most. And they don't pay attention.
When the VC start to take them seriously and give them money is when we really have a problem. If they are just trying, and not succeding, to get in on it is fine, I think.
I have a feeling that once the novelty of going to a child free restaurant wears off, this guy will regret his decision. Once a family has a favorite restaurant or three, they will probably continue going there even when their kids grow older, and he is removing himself from the pool of potential favorite restaurants. I hate screaming children as much as the next guy, but I think that he should have gone with one of the suggestions in the article and banned kids after a certain time or in a certain area.