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Unacceptable in that people shouldn't be living outside, on city streets. Unacceptable that there there is such a lack of mental health care, support, and facilities available to these people. Unacceptable that the city seems to have no solutions or plans in place. Unacceptable that the politicians live in Pacific Heights away from where the majority of the problems are so they are not affected by them like the actual citizens of the city. My exhaustion is not one of observation, I am exhausted that a modern, high tech, wealthy city looks like this.
As someone who has never lived in the bay, what is the "investment banking mentality" you refer to?
Minor clarification: LinkedIn primarily runs on Java not Scala.
Another. Plenty of things aren't great about SF and the Bay Area, but on balance I really love it and am raising my family here. For all those people making comparisons to NYC in the 80s or 90s, it sounds like you just weren't living there then, or you would know the differences.
unhappy...! Fuck Microsoft....

u know what iam not in the mood / energy/... to talk about this right now...(at 2:50 am at my country)
u shuld get it...
Pretty much Orman's thesis the past 20 years, especially early books
Why do you think open source is so much more accessible and popular today?
Well, the value would seem to be somewhere below $3b, so that's a good place to start for assigning the average value over those 95k patents...
Examples would be nice, because I've never seen it in 25 years.

No education

No relevant experience

No resources

No connections

Bullshit.
Meh… I became so excited seeing the title, thinking it might be some (maybe even self-hosted?) alternative to Evernote. But turns out it's just some "alternative" desktop client for Evernote, not even sure why "on steroids". Well, maybe not today…
400k is absolutely achievable, with no crazy breaks.

Get a job at Google or your choice of big tech company. Work there 5-10 years, doing a regular amount of nonexceptional work.

There. You are making 400k TC, and should have saved enough for a down payment on a single family home.
That is fascinating, and reminds me of the plot of Marvel's Infinity War film.
No point in increasing wages. Any increase will immediately be captured by the landlord.
> in many years my amount of downtime due to Debian's unattended-upgrades is exactly 0. The same cannot be said of Windows updates.

A few years ago I turned on my windows machine to see the dreaded upgrade. Being in a rush I went to another machine and the exact thing happened. I blew my top and replaced all windows with Ubuntu. I would have preferred Macs but I couldn't afford the Apple tax (high prices and not working on my existing HW).
It’s amazing that in a such a demonstrably corrupt and unequal society as America in 2018, that people cling to these insane narratives about the most vulnerable people in society.

I guess if you’re going to side with the rich in this ongoing class war, this is the kind of stuff you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.
If I may ask: where are you now? Do you think there are places that remind you of what you lived through before?
The GP means they were neutral with respect to the tech giants' ecosystems. They didn't favor Amazon or Microsoft or Google's tech. Consider that Apple, Google, and Microsoft all had GitHub organizations and hosted code there. That's what they're talking about
Consider the role of luck and risk. If you go to Vegas and gamble, your returns are pretty much luck. But for the casino, the quantity of bets makes their profits a virtual mathematical certainty, even though the outcome of each bet is luck.

Transferring this idea to the stock market, outcomes from an individual stock have a high degree of luck, but an investment in an index of stocks reduce the luck factor by quite a bit and move towards mathematical inevitability.
Or a basic income....
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But important to remember we're composites of organs, tissues, and cell types/structures.
Is Github actually hurting for money? It has to be sitting athwart one of the most reliable rivers of gold amongst the independents.
Yes. We need a two part solution. For the first part, the city should offer all the medical (mental and physical) care they could want, as well as any help they may need to get off the street. For the other part, the city needs to arrest and prosecute those who do are clearly mentally stable and just enjoying a drug filled vagabond life on the city streets.
Is there too much to change on a blog engine? Besides rewriting it every couple of years.
Do you live in San Francisco? His narrative is far closer to reality than yours.
Ok understood. Apologies.
"Nearly half" being 46%, which seems high, but is a fairly normal rate. Consider this past Gallup poll about people wanting to leave their state, where the lowest rates were 23%: http://news.gallup.com/poll/168770/half-illinois-connecticut...
I wonder if there will ever be a de facto API wrapper for LLVM. As it is, I'm aware of smaller efforts here and there, but other than SPIR-V [1] I'm not sure any are big enough to have long-term survivability potential. And even with SPIR-V I'm not sure if the momentum is really there or not.

[1]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf
To me, if it requires an explanation then an explanation would be best. I certainly don't care for explanations of things that don't require explanations.
There are a lot fewer people applying for jobs local to me than there applying to jobs that will let me work remote. By a factor of over 100.
Agreed. It seems like the city does not care. These people need avenues for help but also consequences for defiling city streets.
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As someone in a position who's primary job has [had] little to do with WordPress plugin work, but is at the same time increasingly exposed to that due to sales department directives...

you've understated it.

And while I'm not a huge fan of working in PHP, it has its place— my remark is unrelated to that.
Very good question. A lot of the time "Write programs that do one thing and do it well" really means "I don't understand the difference between a procedure and a program." It is much easier to write procedures than it is to write programs, and it is often easier to turn a procedure into a program than vice-versa (emacsclient does the former especially well). Emacs is much better at "Writ[ing] programs to work together" - Emacs extensions usually work with each other without any extra effort, and deep integration is easy to achieve. "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface" is the reason why Unix utilities do not integrate well.

To provide an example, I use mu4e[1] as an email client and reader, which uses a separate process running mu to operate on a Maildir. The Maildir is synchronized to multiple MDAs by OfflineIMAP, a command line program, which I set up to retrieve the IMAP passwords from an encrypted file using auth-source.el by execing emacsclient. With auth-source, all the credentials I need to access remote machines are in one GPG encrypted file, and Emacs takes care of handling communications with GPG, gpg-agent, and pinentry.

So Emacs provides both a better way to work with other standalone programs, and, via the emacsclient/server model, a better way for standalone programs to work with Elisp code.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
[2] http://www.offlineimap.org/
What? I've worked remote for ten years and at four companies and never had any difficulty.
Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft
I expect Google could be convinced to accept certain files or metadata in a README as equivalent to a 301 permanent redirect, meaning searches will remain effective. That would account for a lot, especially if Chrome begins to honour it.
Build more housing where? Belmont? Woodside? Atherton? The Bay itself?

I loved my time in Redwood City, more housing would certainly not make it better.

If you live in a nice house, the idea of a huge apartment complex next door would not be remotely appealing. That's the only way you can "build more" in the vast majority of the City/Peninsula. I don't blame them one bit.
>I don't think all this crazy shit could evolve in the amount of time that Earth has been hospitable to life. It just feels too complex.

You may wish to compute an estimate of the parallelism available over said amount of time and compare it to the rate of individual contemporary examples of simple evolutionary steps instead of relying on a “feel”ing. :-)
Hop, that's one thing less to do tomorrow! ... of course it was just a matter of time before it happened, github have stood on the other side of the mirror for a long time now, they just happend to have kept that not-for-profit/garage-built-startup image for some time, kinda like twitter. Or reddit and even y combinator. And yet people comment stuff like "let's switch to {gitlab,bitbucket,gogs}". We need to understand that making a self-hostable floss clone of a service that has been designed for a monopoly captive market is not gonna change anything durably. Build something based on small friend-to-friend networks. Something that doesn't need to be big to suceed. That will slowly change the way people think about collaborative tools and get people out of the "giant ad-based ex-startup owned; `free' (as in beer) to use; hosted service" mental model. Please stop building services and start sharing collaborative tools with your peers.
I have a friend whose employer let her be remote, so she and her husband moved to Austin and bought a gorgeous house, dependent on her bay area salary. 8 months go by, employer changed their mind, didn't want remote workers any more. Gave her the option to come back, she was pregnant and they liked their big house, so they said no, thinking she would have no problem finding remote work.

6 months later she's still unemployed, considering giving up her career and just being a stay at home mom. They'll sell their austin house and downsize.

Point is: remote workers are always the first to get let go, and the income is not dependable.
I think I generally think, would it be fun to drive that car?
> What advantage

so you can be a 80's retro fan boy
Does that not fall under "immediately dismissing others experiences"?

The thing is, many of us are very aware of that past and will do anything to change it. But also consider that some of it isn't even our fault (my Dad came from Gary, Indiana by way of Illinois). I can't change the past, only acknowledge it, and what I'm telling you is it isn't 1970 here anymore, and many people need to give up stereotypes about places and people the same way they need to do about races.
Same here. Annoying peculiarities in their software drove me towards Linux. But then, I've only seen the user side, they supposedly try very hard to cater to developers.

As someone preferring to self-host wherever possible, I don't have strong feelings about this.
when i was a high-energy-physics grad student back in 1997 we were already using c++ rather than fortran
Like many others said it highly depends on where you work and for whom you work. Speaking from experience in NYC greater area, you can expect starting slighlty above $100K as a junior, which is really not much for the location. Seniors often go between $200 and $250K. The finance industry tops these with 50% to 100% bonuses. Large attractive companies like GOOG or FB top these with other form of bonuses. Also speaking from experience I would equate a $100K salary in greater NYC with a €25K salary in a average town like Lyon or Grenoble in France.

The absolute number is really meaningless. I remember a Ph.D prep talk about salary expectation in grad school in France mentioning $105K in the US, and I remember thinking “wow!”. What they don’t tell you is that a third of this will go to taxes, half of the reminder will go to housing, and because of the outrageous deductible and out-of-pocket caps of most corporate medical insurances you can be hit anytime with a $2K or $3K medical bill, which can be quite common if you have kids.
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If it's true, it's the moment that GitLab will see a major boost and replace GitHub within 2-4 of years
"Another one is mobile app development. 15-20 years ago I played around with a Palm Pilot, but no one considered app development as a career at that time. Now look at that industry."

Consumer expectations of software prices driven to zero by app stores, hard to make a living without being sleazy...
No problem. To your comments below about class warfare, unequal societies and corruption. I think the homeless here are both of the vulnerable, drug addicted, mentally unwell kind that have been abandoned by society, but there is also a whole cadre of their homeless peers that is mentally far healthier and preys on the others - chop shops, black market economies of drugs and prostitution, etc. That being said, a city should not be this dirty and unsafe. Families of all classes and backgrounds should feel safe walking around city streets at all hours of the day, which is far from the case today.
Can I suggest a philosophy textbook? Introduction to World Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader by Daniel Bonevac and Stephen Phillips.
I think the alliteration in her name and the fact that it's an annual report ("Oh yeah, I read this last year") contribute too.
> Scientists fed fruit flies with a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies' longevity by 60 percent and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging.

For comparison, dietary restriction increases longevity in rats and mice by up to 45%, but this may only be in lab animals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299887/
This sounds more like the lifestyle of a stereotypical "tech bro" than a normal tech salaryman with a family.
Sweet. I've only been around the area enough to know they speak Catalan, not enough to recognize it when it's written. :)
If you read only both, there is a segment of the population who's actions and opinions are going to be a complete mystery to you.

Try reading also Siddhārtha Gautama.
Simple answer: GitHub is good to use

I'm all for FOSS (Git webgui) solutions, but they were absolutely not competitive until recently. Even now, with less trust, the social effect and the lack of need of maintenance and setup is attractive.
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Nobody interested in being best would consider tip of pop charts as "best". Pop is mass appeal for money and or game. It is a lowest common denominator medium. People wanting to be best seek the recognition of their peers. Not commercial sales.
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Tusk might be open source but it's still a client for the proprietary Evernote service, so it's not significantly better according to your criteria.
Seconded. I like and use homebrew because it works better and causes much less hassle than other Mac package managers. (Before homebrew I used fink.)
Headline is super misleading--it's an electron app that wraps the web interface for Evernote. It's not its own application.
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Relatively low interest rates (locked in for 30 years), tax deductible mortgage interest (some) and prop13 make ownership still economically beneficial even if you don't assume massive appreciation. This assumes you stay at least 5 years due to large transaction costs. Obviously you have expenses associated with ownership and some opportunity costs due to not investing the down payment but from all the math I've done if you want to stay and you can swing a 1.5M house it makes sense to buy.
Any decent GUI API will be OO. It is the right paradigm for that.

Abstract Syntax Trees for language translation is another problem where OO is a great choice.

Simulation is another good fit.
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I also wonder if more people moving to SF have relocation bonuses than people moving away.

If a company is covering your move, you'll be more likely to hire movers rather than rent a U-Haul.
The second version would be difficult, maybe impossible currently due to keyword arguments, since:

def foo(foobar:Integer)
end

is already valid, and I think the lexer might struggle with the ambiguity; but I'm not 100% certain.

Edit: I seemingly missed the last line of your comment where you state something similar.
If anyone could stay independent, it should have been them. If it weren't Microsoft but someone else, it would be almost the same to me. There are so much things they could do to improve the experience and make it more profitable.
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Well, Google recently also purchased Kaggle, another major open-source repository for code. It hasn't really changed anything for now, but Microsoft's purchase will be in the same vein. I think that Microsoft's contribution to the open-source community in the last few years kind of makes sense for why they are purchasing it, just like Google purchased Kaggle because of their contribution to ML.
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Wow, really neat. I guess you're working on top of AWS lambda or something? If so, how do you get around the 75 gig code size limit? Just "That will be a good problem to have when we have all those customers"?
I've posted this before but that is a meaningless statistic. You want to know how much is spent per person kept out of homelessness (or for some other services). Lets say we could spend an extra 10M to house the last 4999 of the hypothetical 5000 total homeless. Now we are spending an astronomical 10M per a single homeless person, clearly ludicrous but its simply that the metric is wrong. We are actually spending 2000 per person who isn't becoming homeless in this toy scenario, real life is obviously more complicated.
I host interviews for Google. A simpler design that solves a problem is definitely valued better than an unnecessarily-complicated one.
They can't even do their region block properly, they block Swiss IPs, Switzerland is not in the EU, you morans!
I co-run a small co-working space and we've had a couple of tenants join who were relocating from the East coast of Australia to Adelaide for similar reasons.
Want to see more housing built in San Francisco, at all levels of the income spectrum, but you don't know which candidates and ballot measures are in line with that philosophy? See the YIMBY Action slate card:

https://yimbyaction.org/endorsements/
See but that doesn't answer my question: What makes you think that they stopped caring about tablets?
I stand corrected! I thought this was an alternative to Evernote; turns out its just an open source client. This isn't the droid you're looking for. But I'm not sure about the data format of the files. Is that documented?
So it's fair to say that they're embracing Linux, then?

Don't get me wrong, I'll be thrilled if it turns out that their newfound commitment to open source is driven solely by an interest in creating better software. But there are few solid reasons to believe that that's the case: the PR around open source is, well, PR, and Microsoft's anticompetitive practices were around long before Ballmer took over.
Not anymore! Ever since we tricked millennials into thinking that "flexibility" and "side hustle" is more important than a steady paycheck and benefits, you too can pay people a non-living wage to deliver your takeout!
There is a YouTube update that's been pending on my Android for 1-1/2 years. I haven't agreed to it because YouTube decided that it needs access to my contacts. IMO, if Google needs to know who I communicate with in order to watch videos, they don't respect my privacy at all.
I tried to engage more deeply with this post, but your counter-argument involves calling me a religious zealot and invoking Jesus as an example of someone who proves my ignorance. Presumably if the point is that Jesus had a meaningful life without having children, that I would relate to the Jesus example. I am an atheist, no one told me to have kids, but I'm glad I did. Jesus can do whatever he wants, I am pro personal freedom, and pro kid-having (clearly).

In terms of being a zealot in general, there are few things harder to counter-argue as adaptable than having children. Certainly it doesn't make sense for the majority of people to have kids in the context they are in, but it's very hard to against having kids period. It's an old thing because it is in many cases true in practice. So it's hard to counter-argue on the basis that we are monkeys on a rock who should know better, when we don't, and never will. Because eventually, everyone exists because someone had kids, and so on.

There is a significant relativity to meaning. It's not that having kids is a binary (meaning vs. no meaning). It's that for me, I feel, and others, it's that having kids is a step function in what meaning is. The first time you work and have that feeling of contributing, that's very meaningful. Having a kid is like that times 100. So kids are impactful on meaning in a relative, as opposed to binary sense. Very meaningful, relative to other meaningful things. And certainly relative to meaningless things.

So I think almost all of history too much emphasis has been placed on kid having. But among this community (Western Liberals?), kid having has a bad rep, for mostly bad reasons, that will almost definitely turn out be a failed social experiment (or else, this community as it exists will just stop existing and be replaced by children of those who chose to have them, in whatever form that takes, better or worse). The point isn't, everyone should have kids, at all. The point is, it's meaningful, and you don't need a house, two cars or two incomes to make it sustainable. That in fact, the struggle and financial impact may be worth it in the end.
A lot of this traffic is probably due to the opportunistic advertisement on GitLab's home page for non signed-in users: https://i.imgur.com/ZNikKcJ.png
You survived, but others didn't. Deaths from accidents are decreasing over time (data from 2012).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-kids-accidental-death-rates...
At the very least, buying all of them healthcare under ACA, although they might be eligible to get it subsidized.
Nope. 400K would make you an at least one, maybe two standard deviation outlier. Get a grip! Sure, these salaries probably exist, but they are super rare. Every HN salary thread, these people crawl out of the woodwork to tell you that their brother's girlfriend's cousin's roommate makes $400K at Google, so therefore that's a "normal tech salary". It's a legendary HN trope at this point. These people are quoting outlier salaries at outlier companies.

If you want some numbers with actual sources, the median software engineer salary for a software engineer in the bay area is around $110-125K, according to Glassdoor[1] and Payscale[2]. You can argue about their methodology, but it's better than the usual "anecdote = average" logic that these HN salary experts employ. Even if equity added an additional 100% of salary (which I have never seen in my life) we're not even close to these oft-quoted $400K figures.

To you guys outside of SF. When you hear people throwing around these anonymously sourced salary figures you need to take them with an enormous grain of salt. These figures are fantasy land.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

2: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/S...
IMHO it's wise to distribute repos to GitLab and also to other hosting solutions beyond just GitHub.

One reason is because acquisitions can sometimes be tumultuous, such as because of employee changes, security changes, alerting changes, etc. A backup git host is prudent.
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