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.

> late evening tours are quite interesting.

And also sold out months in advance.

Fewer than I thought:

- http://www.edge.org for long emails about interesting topics.

- 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.

- Local tech / machine learning groups.

- This week in swing NYC (http://thisweekinswingnyc.wordpress.com/).

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.

There's an option to undock it from the bottom of the screen, in which case transparency could be useful.

Huh, where? Maybe I have an old version? No update request though.

Long click on the "123" number button. You'll get a pop up menu with an undock option in it.

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."

Does anyone know what font that is in the screenshot? It's rather nice (disregard the fact that all fonts look nice at that size).

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.

Personally I think that's an event only argument. I couldn't care less what day of the week a blog post was written, for example.

That's a good example about why there's no one-size-fits-all approach to displaying dates and/or date intervals. I care what day of the week I fly. I care if someone commented on my picture 2 minutes or two hours ago. I don't care about the local timezone of someone else's server.

Great point about displaying event dates. I think there should be some display guidelines based on the type of content the date is describing.