I can almost picture how this started. Zuck: "I'm tired of having to leave facebook to read my emails. Make them show up in my message feed. In fact, do that for everyone. I don't care how, just take their username and add facebook.com to the end."
And this, everyone, is why Craig's most brilliant move is to not allow integration. The only way anyone beats them is to "also have that too." In this case, "that" being the craigslist user base.
Those phidget boards are pretty great. I bought some flashing lights from woot that we had kick on via the USB phidget interface anytime our pingdom checks failed. Now everyone hates the yellow lights :)
I swear I don't work for phidget corp, but they have some spiffy LED displays as well. Think scrolling signs letting you know the status of the latest CI build and the commiter...
This is great. Just literally gave up searching CL for a new car after ten minutes of click/back/click/back and saw this here. Timing couldn't be better, and it's quite intuitive.
I'm with you on secondhand sales being a poor correlate for actual ownership. It's completely reasonable that more for-sale listings indicate cities or places where people don't want their fixie anymore. Additionally, Priceonomics only looks at sales taking place on eBay, Craigslist, etc. So, not only are the numbers skewed toward areas that have more active internet users, the buyer may not even be in the same region.
This is why data shows fixies selling so often in Manhattan: it's all the hipsters that moved to Manhattan, who found less use for their bike, and then sold it back to somebody else in Brooklyn.
My first thought was that more used fixies for sale might mean the trend was over in those cities, and the hipsters were all trying to get rid of theirs so they could buy glow-in-the-dark parkour shoes (I just made that up).
One thing that bothered me about instant, and will probably annoy me about this, was when using chrome to test REST api's. Hitting my local development server in debug mode with half constructed URL's used to drive me crazy. In general for surfing around - I think the feature is great, but I would love to be able to exclude a given site from pre-fetch/instant.
You could setup another profile and disable it in the options (or just disable it in the options while developing / testing and enable it back afterwards)
