Image Archives - Mathew Kiang (.com) Yes, with one "t". Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:11:35 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://mathewkiang.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png Image Archives - Mathew Kiang (.com) 32 32 New MetroCard rates and the dreaded “dead zone of change” https://mathewkiang.com/2015/03/23/new-metrocard-rates-and-the-dreaded-dead-zone-of-change/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:25:56 +0000 http://mathewkiang.com/?p=1146 esterday, new MTA MetroCard rates went live in New York. I visit often enough that I thought I’d put together a little chart to figure out the best amount of money to put on my MetroCard depending on the number of rides I need — thus helping me avoid the dead zone of change and a stack of useless MetroCards. The chart shows you how much to put in (by the number of rides you need) and in parenthesis tells you how much change you will have after using all the rides. If you live in the city, $22.30 is ...

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]]> Yesterday, new MTA MetroCard rates went live in New York. I visit often enough that I thought I’d put together a little chart to figure out the best amount of money to put on my MetroCard depending on the number of rides I need — thus helping me avoid the dead zone of change and a stack of useless MetroCards. The chart shows you how much to put in (by the number of rides you need) and in parenthesis tells you how much change you will have after using all the rides.

If you live in the city, $22.30 is the sweet spot with 9 rides and zero change at the end of it.

My parameters might be a little outdated, but when I lived in New York, deposits had to be in $0.05 increments. As far as I know, you don’t get a bonus until you deposit at least $5 and the bonus is now 11%. Code is here — adjust as needed.

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]]> Boston’s brutal winter https://mathewkiang.com/2015/03/11/bostons-brutal-winter/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:00:19 +0000 http://mathewkiang.com/?p=1126 hose of us in Boston just wrapped up an almost historic winter1 and it was particularly painful. Likely because we were lulled into a false sense of security by the (comparable) lack of snow relative to the last few years. Until the end of January — then everything changed. I wrote and posted a little Gist that shows how to generate the graph above. Show 1 footnote Second snowiest. Just 2 inches off the first place winter. ↩

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]]> Those of us in Boston just wrapped up an almost historic winter1 and it was particularly painful. Likely because we were lulled into a false sense of security by the (comparable) lack of snow relative to the last few years. Until the end of January — then everything changed.

I wrote and posted a little Gist that shows how to generate the graph above.

Show 1 footnote

  1. Second snowiest. Just 2 inches off the first place winter. ↩

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