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I should say, my post was more about web components and less about Polymer. Polymer is just one way to do it right now, and you're right, it is opinionated.

You don't need a library at all if that's what you prefer.

The polyfills are there now and they are solid. Webcomponents.js is small and effective. The simple click-and-select-stuff(...) that you are referencing about are probably specific to some bloated Paper elements. That's not what I'm talking about here.
With all of the happenings in the middle-east, I'd have to say Dune [0].

[0] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234225
Everyone is relating this mostly to autonomous vehicles. I think this might take uber/lyft straight out of the game.

Ubers advantage/most is the network. Its hard to beat a network advantage. They are installed and plugged into a lot of people's creditcredit cards. That works just as well for self driving cars. But the advantage of the driver network is straight out the door if autonomous vehicles replace humans. Networks become a much easier problem to solve.

I don't see it happening within 10 years but if I we're uber or lyft I wouldn't want to.
I, on the other hand, couldn't give a damn. Nothing is more annoying than some notice telling me they're downgrading my video. Couldn't care less to know.
I believe OP was trying imply that the cancer drug was the miracle cure for the (struggling) company... not cancer itself.
> (4) Switch cell carriers

Do that, and end up with metered bandwidth for more money.

T-Mobile gets a pass from me because they have unlimited bandwidth and better prices. If that's what they need to do to make it happen, I'm all for it.
I spent a little time this morning reading thru the vixra sections for some fields I'm familiar with, and it's pretty much all cranks (some of whom have dozens of papers). Like look at this: http://vixra.org/abs/1512.0336 or this : http://vixra.org/abs/1509.0249 or this : http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0227 or even this: http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0134
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> Its just that establishment big companies dont get the respect that startup companies do.

Ummm... Apple? Google? Goldman? They get "less respect" than Uber and Airbnb and Pinterest?
Too bad we don't have a saying like that for driving cars.
Does this work with the new react router that was just released?

And did you try using Immutable.js ? From my understanding, it doesn't work so well with simple router.
As a candidate you might have better luck with companies that embrace Holacracy [0]. On the recruiting side, I have a hunch that the best way to get more Product Engineers is to have the Product Engineers in your org conduct interviews in addition to the pure technical ones. A requirement for this is that the Product Engineer's title is made explicit, otherwise "wtf, why is this person always doing the interviewing."

[0] http://www.holacracy.org/how-it-works/
I see how programmers can mistake mutable closure references for immutable, but if we imagine that this confusion is solved somehow (for example, closures copy values by defualt and reference only with a special keyword), how is it bad?
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Heck, you can get a $1500 iMac with 5120x2880. That still seems insane to me. Granted the Iris Pro would have a tough time rendering 60 fps 3D for that, but even for 2D graphics it's crazy.
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I've been thinking about Gattaca a lot lately too. It's interesting to me how in the film the mechanism for controlling genetics was to create a bunch of zygotes and then to pick the best one. But what seems to be happening now (the creepily named CRISPR and all that) is that people are editing existing DNA and controlling how DNA functions in living people.
Yeah, additionally React has a serious paradox of choice problem.

Which of the dozens of CSS solutions should I use? Inline styles or not? Which of the dozens of Flux libraries? Isomorphic/universal or client side? If Isomorphic, Express or Koa? Does react-router work with the choices I've made? Webpack or Browserify? It goes on and on...

I love React, but the environment and best practices are unclear to say the least.

Just look at how many starter kits there are and how big they tend to be: http://andrewhfarmer.com/starter-project/

Can only imagine how many of the choices made are going to be deprecated in a couple months.

Edit: Heh, and now that I've read the article, I see they hit on this issue. :)
> SJWs aren't really getting away with anything here

But not for lacking of trying. Really hard.

We need to make sure they don't get away with such abrogations of justice.
And then you pay per byte?

It used to be that way, people hated it.
And the month before that they did an episode with aphyr :) http://www.se-radio.net/2015/11/se-radio-episode-241-kyle-ki...
In the DK2, my glasses don't fit. Which completely ruined the experience for me. Additionally, the output appeared calibrated to the lenses to avoid color shifting, but to me that ended up causing little halos of colors at the edges of objects. Hard to say for sure why it happened, but because it was so "smart", I found the 3D much less realistic than Playstation VR, which has a simpler, more permissive headset that worked better with my glasses on, with no color shifting that I could notice at the time. It was lower quality, but better, because of it.

I look forward to seeing reviews on the Oculus Rift from those with glasses ;-)
Well, I heard about it from T-Mobile directly and from several other sources as it was splashed over the mainstream news, on here, on Reddit, and in other media. They aren't keeping it a secret. And in every article they mention that you can disable it; so if you care, you can.

I strongly care about net neutrality, too. And I wouldn't personally care if they texted me with a "reply with 'disable' to disable Binge On" text message, but too many people with no clue of the ramifications might disable it.

You'd really need to force people to learn something that 98% of T-Mobile customers don't care about -- and I would find it annoying to be forced to learn something that I personally find obvious.
This is exactly where they start to loose, why pay the premium for a feature you only use occasionally?

The car industry has spent a fortune developing the concept of the car as a status symbol, the idea that you need a truck to haul stuff, a big V8 to prove you are a suitable mate, an executive saloon to show your well up the corporate ladder.

The taxi industry hasn't done this and couldn't, utility trumps status when you are cold and wet and waiting for a ride.
I can't speak specifically about Uber (not sure what is fair to disclose or not) and definitely not about Rocket. However, I can speculate on what I learnt from both. It's not (or not "just") about "communication methods" but an organisational problem.

In the hypothetical case where I'd be running a company like that, I'd want a small team of people who are both technically and operationally extremely able, and personally likeable and politically capable; preferably people who have proven themselves and have credit internally (or such achievements as to reach the same reputation even as an external hire).

I'd task them to overview everything that is happening globally, coordinate trials and experiments so that several hundred could run at the same time globally, and share back information and results across the world. They'd be in effect the repository of knowledge of the company, the institutional memory (so much wheel gets reinvented!) and they most crucially wouldn't be based in HQ in the Bay Area, but a distributed global team constantly roaming and meeting all the local teams. They wouldn't have or need authority to "get things done" by steamrolling over the local office (as the IBM Black Team did [1]), instead convincing them that it's a good idea to try.

They would include specialists in every discipline that is important to the company from finance to statistics, to make sure that there is always at least one team member that can be on the same level as a local specialist (both to avoid taking stupid decisions, and to be credible in conversations).

[1] http://www.t3.org/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html
And Mescaline.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/aug/12/sciencefictionfa...

Dick was a true seer.
> ISPs should just be dumb pipes. Route my packets to and from the internet. Charge me for traffic and be done.

You can do that if you want. There are tons of services that charge you per byte.

They cost more, and people hate them. But if that's important to you, go for it.
> Note: Replying to applicants takes top priority over every other responsibility I have.

Although I don't care for his example rejection letter, I like that they actually respond to applicants whether they interview them or not. It's nice to get feedback that your CV was actually read and reviewed by a human.
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Google Glass is coming back
Steve Jobs is listed on 323 patents.
Pickpockets have been a perennial concern on the DC Metro system. One of my coworkers had his iPod pulled out of his hand, resting on his stomach, while he was sitting with his eyes closed. Transit isn't somewhere I'd want to be blind to what was going on around me.
I think it should be pointed out that automatic upgrades tend to break things and potentially introduce new security vulnerabilites when updates haven't been QAed properly. Its good advice for the average user, but bad advice for environments where things need to be change controlled. It can also cause alerts in certain host based intrusion detection systems if not coordinated so its really best to be wary of that.
> This was a few months ago, things may have improved.

Polymer improved substantially with the 1.0 release. It was basically a full rewrite so if you checked it out before then, you'll have to re-check.
Perhaps this is because there is no (obvious/singular) Tesla to Jobs' Edison.
Do people think the product engineer can be trained? One issue I run into is one of expectations. I think product engineers are treated like some sort of unicorn (a designer/coder).

I can see why that might have been true in 2000. But a lot has changed since then.

For one, being a product engineer could be considered a hack for picking up tech skills quickly. It's often much easier to learn by doing and product engineers define themselves by the product they're trying to build.

Plus, software got so much easier to build. What is your reaction to that? Do you go deeper and more esoteric than you used to be able to go? Or do you go broader?

Broader makes sense to me--that's the product engineer. But to what end? Do you go broader in order to save on team size? An engineer/designer means you can skip a design hire. Or do you go broader because you can have more autonomy?

To me, product engineers are the natural outcome of software getting easier (and design to some extent). People can have more autonomy because you can develop the skills to get more done on your own.

But I don't think management has caught up. There's still an assumption that these skill sets don't go together. Autonomy is killed when you have specialist designers and specialist engineers.

And that's why I led with the idea about training product engineers. I want to be able to create a culture at my company that assumes that you're a product engineer. Junior product engineers just work on smaller problems.
Natasha Richardson and talk-and-die syndrome
I guess the train driver is an small percentage oft the cost of running a train compared to the cost of a truck driver.
Well, the recent shift in proportion to more obese people than starving people is at least someone relevant.
"But value-added!" (an universal term meaning something that has absolutely no value whatsoever, but is the newest invention designed to rip customers off)
Building a car is 5-10 years out. It's a long, slow process. And you need to clear dozens and dozens of safety protocols.
I'm not sure you could do what this does and give the members of the struct a user-supplied name though.
>doesn't autonomous automobiles and AI based routing mean these people effectively get eliminated?

Most assuredly and it can't happen soon enough. We need to run headlong into automation, eliminating as many jobs as we can. The sooner we eliminate industries, the sooner we enter the post-labor era.
Thanks for making this a 'thing' as I figure out how best to position myself.
I see it as GM (or whoever) makes the car. Lyft (or uber, google, whoever) makes the software to call up the car, which includes a huge amount of data analysis for routing, so they are more than just a middle man. Also, GM just became a major investor and board member in Lyft, so both parties are clearly interested in partnering: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-lyft-gm-...
They are progressive by their implementations, and by the definition of the word progressive.

What it sounds like you are trying to say is that it's not "progressive" enough for your liking. And then you turn the definitions upside down and label it "regressive".
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What Are Google Shopping Campaigns?
There is also a lack of best practices, combined with constantly breaking changes. Every tutorial before the last month is already outdated, and everybody has a different way of setting up webpack / isomorphism / templating.
It's probably also worth noting that a lot of the time when people say "NYC," they really mean Manhattan--and, more specifically, they're really thinking Manhattan below 110th Street or so. I imagine the number is significantly lower if you remove the other boroughs.
Reading this I'm wondering what the difference is between a "Product engineer" and a "UX Engineer"?
I would like there to be options — 1) "Internet" which means IP traffic, cap it or throttle if you wish, but without "better" or "worse" providers of content and all the other options, which do whatever the marketing department thinks the customers will bear.

I really don't see how it follows that "no one would have any bandwidth for anything".
In frontend? Not 100%, but pretty much.
As long as cars aren't prohibitively expensive and remain symbols of personal freedom and identity, then people will pay for the luxury of not riding in public transportation.
Begin with the end in mind
i tried Immutable, but it adds lots of tangential stuff, way too much for a React/Redux beginner (like me).

and, using react-router from a couple weeks ago, so this is using the "old" 1.x version.
Better to capture the biggest share of the smaller pie than to ignore the sea change. Blockbuster ignored a similar shift bcause it wasn't as profitable.

Plus the downshift won't be as great as some predict. You'll still need enough cars for long commutes. And cars lifespan are measured in miles not years. Autonomous cars might actually increase the number of miles driven (commute while sleeping, alternative to public transit, or driving instead of flying).

A car sitting in a driveway will last longer than one doing stop and go traffic 23 hours a day.
> Linux support is on the roadmap post-launch, Mac support is on the roadmap post-decent Apple hardware release, whenever that is.

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/674311865023918080
I actually thought that's what was happening here. Why not make both brands more recognizable? Have GM cars with special "Lyft" paint jobs such as painting the pink mustache on the front. I think it's an interesting angle beyond just creating some taxi pods.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...), the jump from NYC (56% car free) to the next most car-free city (38%, Washington DC) is pretty massive.
Edison invented the lightbulb? I thought it was Humphrey Davy or maybe Warren de la Rue.
This might be useful if people generally understood the rational behind Citizens United. As of now? I'm skeptical.
Can't avoid it sometimes with distributed teams. I have a meeting at 3:30 AM Pacific tomorrow morning (I kid you not) because there are people in the meeting from 5 wildly different timezones (and I drew the short straw since I am the only one in Pacific timezone)!
Yes I'm not sure why there's no search. You get that thing filled up with hundreds of games and people are going to want to use an onscreen kb and find the game, even to where it might display results organized from multiple systems.
"consider re-applying as your skills and contributions to open source projects grow and expand."

It's not us - it's you. I'm surprised they feel the need to blame the candidate, especially since I'd guess experience isn't always the issue.
This is a good point. That's why we recommend either a robust CI/CD system (with good test coverage) or manually applying updates to a staging environment where you can test if the updates broke anything end-to-end before you roll them out to customers.
Not saying your conclusion is necessarily accurate (though I don't disagree), but anecdotally my own experience was similar. I interviewed for a design position with Automattic 3 or 4 years ago and made it to the contract stage, and ultimately had to decline because the $25 contract gig was just so off-putting. Not to mention the super-intimidating terms and intellectual property agreement that came with the trial gig.
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Completely agree with pairing. If possible, with more than one developer, to avoid possible biases.

In addition to those reasons, I also like pairing because it also reveals what kind of team player you are, and going to be if you're hired (are you just redirecting blame, are you taking any initiative, what kind of questions do you ask...). Which is one of the most underrated skills when hiring, IMO.
In Manhattan it's 23% (http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-cars). This is quite scarce relative to the rest of the USA and indeed even relative to the suburban boroughs of the greater New York City metro area. For the US the last average I saw (World Bank data http://web.archive.org/web/20140209114811/http://data.worldb...) was 81%.
I thought most ISPs were just dumb pipes, and the move away from that is still pretty limited and proceeding fitfully. As far as I can tell, both my wired (Verizon) and wireless (AT&T) ISPs work that way right now, for example.