I think I see these types of click-bait headlines all the time... and come to think of it, they have very small sample sizes.

I think you are right on the money here, friend. Whenever I'm purchasing something online, I'm always curious how that transaction will take place... sometimes so much as just "test purchasing" the item to see what will occur if I actually decide to buy.

Whoa.... Keep talking like that and you may get your self nominated to be elected. Keep on being Human bro. I love the spirit.

Yes and no. Each individual won't have the need or financial incentive to own an individual vehicle like today. There should be less vehicles overall.

Regardless of that, Uber is a mass transit startup, and so is this...

Or people will own one for status and call upon another for various routine tasks...

I am right there with you. I am a little over half way through my 30th year of life. I have "wasted" a lot by having a ton of fun and enjoying myself, while also getting plenty done professionally. I am excited about the future, and also intrigued with this concept of another 30-50 years of productivity, but like you, sometimes I can accept a fate of being 'finished'. It's weird, but not in a morbid way, more like a, "I'm so blessed to have been able to do all this amazing stuff" kind of way.

This ramble made me think of an interview with Steve Jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw

Basically - Everything in life is made up of people who are no smarter than you. And you can help shape reality and improve it.

* varies for different values of "thing" and different values of "you".

You could have been doing this for some time now. I have by using something like TalkATone or GrooveIp.

I did, in fact, use one of them for some time. Then it was discontinued, because Google killed the ability to utilize the number through their API.

Now this is brilliant. I was thinking the same thing, "Man I'd like to play as a real person, before I build a bot." I feel silly now that I didn't think of building a software controller like you did. Also thanks for sharing the code. I'm gonna have to try it out.

I am about to jump from safety of the regular salary, and do something similar. I'll be 30 in a few months and have always wanted to do this. Just curious how did your journey into biz-owner begin, and what was the biggest shock?

I ended up working as a developer for an digital agency based in Toronto. It was relatively small (~10 people, in total) but catered to some huge clients. I realised that, with experience in freelancing (managing my own time and projects), consulting (working with non-technical clients on technical projects) and development itself, my skillset was varied enough that the jump from freelancer to simple subcontracting to business owner shouldn't actually that large a move. Once I thought of that, not doing it seemed impossible. I can't say it's been as smooth-sailing as I thought but I've been doing it for a little 2 years now and we're still here.

The biggest shock was probably the amount of time it takes to simply manage the business. While I was used to a degree of bookkeeping and simple project management from freelancing, I wasn't quite prepared to spend a fifth of my time managing the everyday flow of the business, as I find myself doing now. It's a natural progression, but I still can't say I'm quite used to it. I am better at planning for it though, and ensuring that my time spent project managing is taken into account. Hope that helps.

Seems pretty neat. Sort of like a GWT for .Net. Except with the added benefit of being able to go into an intermediary form of TypeScript.

I see something like this really being beneficial when building a Single Page Application, or porting a Desktop Application to a SPA.

I get you can port some code,but you're not going to port your xaml code to javascript with this.How do you write dom manipulation in C# then compile it directly to usable javascript?