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I work with my local library to hold coding office hours

(Should be very easy to set up, they really want to become more technically savvy but the only volunteers they could find is instructors trying to teach microsoft word)

I have my own curriculum that I've built over the years and the students ultimately end up building a product that they launch (hopefully). This year I got to teach 20 students and so far 14 have gotten full time jobs as software engineers. Fortunately, students who got jobs are all doing well at their jobs so its pretty easy to refer people in.

After the remaining 6 students get a full time job, I plan to open source my curriculum that students have helped polish over the years. You can find the gist of it at c0d3.com
> unfriending more than 4,000 on Facebook alone and unfollowing 45,000 on Twitter

I tried to read this article but I couldn't take this person seriously after that.
A free place to live? Which program is that, exactly? Refresh my memory if you'd be so kind.

I mean, I'm certain you're not denigrating housing assistance programs for persons who lived in the city before they were homeless and painting it as dangerous outsiders getting free rent. That would be unconscionable.
For what it's worth, Lenovo is running a 40% discount on the X series this week (Canadian EPP).
Not sure if this is what parent is referring to but most insurance companies offer a discount for having multiple lines of coverage with the same company (ie a discount for having your house, car, boat, whatever all with them).
> The gov created the housing bubble __and__ the student loan bubble. I don't say they should be in the job buying biz.

More specifically, you should believe based on your examples that they shouldn't be in the money management business. Because they are really bad at it. I can definitely sympathize with those applauding them for taking less as a way to promote growth.
Woohoo, more strip malls full of corporate chains and franchises, because we don't have enough of those already.
To comment a bit on the introductory topic (interface design vs. graphic design), for a while there around when this was published, it seemed like we were going to finally understand the difference between UI design and graphic design, and I'd occasionally see Balsamiq sketch-style wireframes of A UI paired with Illustrator style guides as the input to customer conversations and after acceptance as the input to the implementation process (with answers to things like "what is this component called" or "is this something we plan on using more than once") but now it seems the trend has regressed with Invision prototypes made of static raster images -- worse even than the "here's a PSD, have fun" days -- and I have to ask for documentation of font faces, border radii, get the copy as actual text, etc., and determine what the intentions behind a design are by myself -- "Guess this color is 'primary', this one 'secondary' and uh this one is... just 'yellow'" "Oh... there's two slightly different shades of red between this and that page examples... I will assume that's a mistake, until I hear any different...".
Home Depot does a huge business selling to smaller tradesmen as well.
I think GP meant good software engineers.
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That's pretty misleading. You are not charged to contact the driver in the app, you are charged once the item is returned. I've been through this process myself, and it's even stated on their FAQ:

> A $15 fee is charged to you once your lost item is returned.[0]

[0] https://help.uber.com/riders/article/lost-item-return-fee-?n...
> Enterprise products and consumer products are very different and subject to different terms. Please do not consider them as the same thing.

Now watch as i consider them the same thing.

Personal anecdote: I had some basic question about their usage policy/pricing for one of their api's that was unclear in the docs. To get it answered by a real person was basically impossible. Our company does have a support contract, but only the person who controls the account is able to contact them. So to answer my simple question about making sure our usage was in-line with policy I'd have to go bug the bosses boss to ask them to forward my question to support and play the telephone game back and forth trying to interpret the answers.

Or try to contact sales since that's the only real person I could reach and have them answer my carefully and precisely worded question with a sales pitch.

Though, fwiw, we have been continuing to move stuff to gcp/gke despite my annoyances, and I do generally hold a positive view of the product.
You're correct. A full 50% of the budget is housing assistance. 10% is eviction prevention. After that, we're getting into the services and support for the 7000+ people that the point-in-time count captures.
I think they're saying it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for Facebook to stop existing.
My experience as well; started asking drivers which they preferred, and they all said Lyft. That alone is a good reason to switch. I'd happily pay a 10-20% premium if I can feel confident that it's encouraging better working conditions.

This goes for other markets as well, it's just generally hard to get good information.
That lists 38 hipaa-compliant services. Azure's is close to 80ish hipaa-compliant services. AWS' list is fairly large too. I haven't used GCE in a long time, so maybe GCE just has that many fewer products/services.
About seven or eight years ago, I tried to migrate my small employer to Microsoft cloud Exchange (email). I forget what they were calling it back then. We were an Outlook shop so MS seemed like the logical choice.

I spent a few days setting everything up and testing it. I flipped the switch and...silence. No incoming email for a few hours in the middle of a Friday night.
CEO calls me at 2am asking why our prospective Hong Kong client's emails are bouncing back. Ooops...flip the DNS back to the old email server.

Call tech support. It's an Indian call center reading the tech support web site. After 20 minutes they escalate.

Wait 24 hours. "We're looking into it." Wait another 24 hours. "We've found the problem and are fixing it." Wait 48 hours.

"There is weird edge case bug with the code that manages the online signups. This affects you and a few dozen other SMBs. Since you are an SMB you are dealing with a third party customer service company. We cannot contact the division that has authorization to fix this part of the codebase. We have tried speaking to our Microsoft contacts but they are not allowed to contact the engineering team behind their product. Speaking from experience, this will only be fixed if someone with 10k seats has the same issue. You should close your account now. Sorry."

Never again.
Sure, this is one reason voting rings exist, to create an illusion of plurality for what is often an extremely fringe viewpoint. This has been weaponized for years.
Oh, believe me, eyes were batted there too. You might notice that state went blue.
At the risk of earning one of those (dead) tags myself, I'm starting to think that Bloomberg is basically a PR Newswire for people who want to spread BS about something or someone.

The Facebook-planted story, combined with their recent questionable reporting on hacked motherboard hardware that nobody seems interested in corroborating, doesn't paint a trustworthy picture of the Bloomberg organization as a whole. At least not IMO.
I don't understand why people are downvoting you.
At least they could explain how Uber is different than Pets.com.
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The implication seemed to be headed in another direction. What you've just outlined is perfectly reasonable.
> yeah, I admit to being one of those old-school, Microsoft-sucks dinosaurs from the 1990s

I don't think this is all that old school. It's not like Microsoft spent the 2000s repairing their reputation. I started my career in the beginning of the current decade, and the question of whether Microsoft sucked wasn't even an interesting one, because everyone knew the answer was yes.

It's the last few years that they're really started to turn around their reputation, as I understand it (though I haven't had exposure to any of their products in this period).
> Attracting businesses with tax-exempts is a zero-sum game.

That's not a foregone conclusion.
They say the average is $150k - do they mention the median?
I disagree. It's a cliche at this point that when Wal-Mart enters a town, all the mom and pop stores close up. The profit margins from distributing these goods now contributes to $WMT rather than staying in the local economy.
Tech might not have been kind to the cities of SF and Seattle sure, but tech built the greater metropolitan regions of both of these areas, where Seattle metro's population has doubled as a result of the tech boom since 1980, and the bay area's population has grown by ~70% in the same time frame, for reference, this isn't that far off from the nominal growth seen in greater Los Angeles during the same period.
Because only one company is benefiting from these tax breaks.
Great! I just wonder why did it take so long for somebody to finally invent this...
Nowhere in Texas counts as "East Coast."
HR 5682: “First Step” Prison Reform Bill
The definition of "good" is where the pickiness comes in.
Here's how I use this forecasting tool which has made it great for planning my bicycling commute in the Bay Area these past smoky days: 1) Enable the Near Surface Smoke layer under HRRR. 2) Click the timestamp at the bottom to switch to formatted date/time.
The city wants to develop a new business district in LIC.
I'm curious if PowerShell Core made any difference wrt #3. I haven't personally used it, but it sounds like it can run Azure cmdlets.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
> you can get by with some simple bash string operations. Doing that same operation w/SQL seems like overkill.

Coding bash seems an overkill for just so many people. Bash is scary while SQL is intuitive by design.
The same network effect that allows social networks to grow at a blistering pace also work backwards.
It was bleeding edge tech; that happens.
A linear solver designed to be easy to use with Rust enums
Why would it kill the motor? Load is reduced when airflow is restricted.

If the first filter reduces 90% of pollutants, can we assume that the second filter reduces an additional 90%?
> So no, resale value is not supposed to be based soley on resale value.

Can you clarify? This seems an odd statement.
What about Windows Phone? :(
What are you talking about? Just make sure you are someone important on social media and create a tweet stir such that some Google execs look at your problem. That's how you get support.
Because the price the current owner would demand isn't just the inherent value of the property -- it's that plus the cost of relocating their business.
Right now honestly I don't see much of a difference between Uber and Moviepass when you (realistically) rule them out of winning the self-driving race. They are offering a service for less than it costs but have no way to stop customers from switching if they raise prices. And to boot Moviepass has a better corporate reputation than Uber somehow. I feel like this has been obvious for a year now, but as others said, I guess it has to be too big to fail now?

The only thing that looks like it could ever be profitable is Uber Eats, but there's no way that keeps the company afloat.
I doubt you need to account for a gap in work experience for a burger flipping job.
> deletion by automated process

Not in all cases. But if it hits something like email records, it becomes a bit silly to think they’re doing it for any reasons other than that there’s stuff in the emails that’s going to hurt them (at some point).
Scale matters. That's why mass murderers are considered worse than someone who murders just one person.
> why does it matter that this tax deal exists then.

He's saying the tax breaks provide create no gain for the city, but he's not disputing they're valuable to Amazon.

They're also not valuable to taxpayers, who are being forced to subsidize one company without the opportunity to voice their opinion a priori.

Finally, there's the incremental point that countless other entrepreneurs are not enjoying these same benefits. Not the biggest issue with it, but an important one nonetheless.
It may be small but it’s a top level hub of information flow. I see something some up on HN to be followed days later in the mainstream press.
Right. But, people like me hate dealing with confrontation and govt offices. I would just pay with cash and go to a competing service next time (Uber, Lyft, mass transit.) If only there were startup mass transit providers in cities.

Just out of curiosity, does DC limit the number of cab drivers?
What if the driver doesn't want to charge a fee and is happy to just circle the block and drop the item off to a thankful customer, as described in this episode? Maybe things won't be as convenient for some drivers, in which case a fee is appropriate. But imposing a fee without asking the driver or allowing the driver an easy way to notify the customer of the lost item is dishonest; Uber is not doing it on the driver's behalf but acting in loco parentis of the driver and deciding on their behalf, thus robbing the driver of autonomy.
The title in the article (and subsequently on HN) seems to be terribly misleading. It's not a police station - it's a co-operation centre.
> Other things like a lack of presence in China could be challenging in the future as well.

Well, to be fair, NONE of the big clouds have any presence in China. They are "in China" in name only.

For instance, 'AWS' China is not AWS, you will be dealing with Sinnet for Beijing or whoever else operates the Ningxia region. The underlying software is a baby version which doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of features. Frankly, the only benefits vs a local cloud provider are that the name is still retained (so you have your bases covered if anyone complains) and the API is AWS compatible.

It is a similar story on the other clouds. So I wouldn't weight this that heavily against Google.

Also, all of this only applies if you have boots on the ground. It's not like one can just create an account in China and run with it. It's an expensive and lengthy process.
I tend to agree that if his computer is shitting itself multitasking in 2018, even with photoshop or illustrator or whatever, then he's got the wrong computer.

I wonder what's the cheapest computer, with comparable build quality to the iPad pro, that also will not struggle with the same amount of multitasking (with the same kind of apps)

Less than an iPad Pro? Or more than?

As in, do you get more bang for your buck (in terms of multitasking productivity) with an iPad Pro?
Part of that is probably that the uber apps and website are so ridiculously bare bones that I can’t imagine a company burning 1B cash per 3 months is behind them.
How do you know other companies wouldn't move in?
Indeed:

https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article208738719.htm...
The shotgun clause has its problems even in contracts among equals. Those are even more relevant here.

Specifically, this would link a town's ability to raise taxes dependent on its existing financial situation: A poor town that would run into difficulty obtaining financing for multi-million $ purchases could easily be scared into undervaluing properties, further weakening its financial position.

While they could (in theory) flip the property and earn money, the market for large retail properties would seem to be at the rather illiquid end of the spectrum. And even with good prospects of selling, I wouldn't want to be the small-town mayor (who are, I believe, usually unpaid) suddenly shouldered with the responsibility for such a transaction.
Again:

Even if there is real support available, the reputation for a horrible lack of it is so entrenched I don't see how they'll overcome it.
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A lot of the time, bad behavior is caused by external situation and incentives rather than intrinsic character.
Byte-aligned, in C.
There is not a single crewed vehicle in operation or even planned that supports spacewalks. If it's not next to the ISS, people aren't going to be able to fix it.

At best we could send a robot, which would probably be more easily operated from the ground.
Please stay on topic. The claim I said was false was "shares your information with 3rd parties for unexpected reasons".
Even worse is that some states have legally mandated monopolies that prevent competition from opening up. See this doctor who has to fight in court to allow his clinic to offer MRI's https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...

New medical schools must be allowed by the American Medical Association, artificially capping the number of doctors minted. This is why it's so difficult to get into medical school - the supply of spaces is constrained, unlike law school, where there is a spot for everyone who applies.

Dentists in Maine vehemently opposed allowing dental hygienists with a special kind of license to fill cavities without needing a full DMD. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-polit...

If we want to fix the medical and legal professions, and by fix I mean make it cheaper, we need to remove the warped incentives caused by the government that prevent natural competition from fixing the issues.
Link /r/rust thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9x5uvk/advancedresear...
This is not exactly new. Way back when Circles/Plus were being developed/launched/leaked, FB paid a PR company (M-B, I think) to attack Google, while insisting on keeping anonymous about their funding. I was at Google at the time and almost everyone thought of the usual suspects of that era: Microsoft, Oracle or even Steve Jobs. FB was not on the radar on that front yet and thus took everyone by surprise.
E.g., if your packed struct is { bool a; uint32_t b; }, you probably don't want a totally misaligned-by-one-bit 'b'.
The article is very disingenuous about this being a "cost" to tax payers. It's a tax break, it's not extra money that's going to be added to NY's tax bill, it's taxes that Amazon theoretically would have had to pay if they decided to build their offices there and didn't have the tax break. There are some other real costs to tax payers in the form of subsidies, but they're much smaller than the 1.5 billion figure quoted here. If you consider the fact that Amazon is going to probably pay much more in taxes over the lifetime of their offices in NY then it seems like a reasonable deal for their government to make.
> I'm 39 ... Facebook to me is like General Electric, a bastion of day to day life

I'm in my early 50s. None of social media made any sense to me, and I never engaged in any of it. Email seemed (and still seems) to be perfectly adequate for keeping in touch with friends and family.
Don’t forget the rapid and severe Google maps price increases. These are the gift that will keep on giving for Microsoft and Amazon in the mindshare of developers and business leaders.

Incredibly stupid move.
>it really isn't any hassle to speak of to keep them up to date

Dear lord, all those broken builds I've seen over the years would love to talk to you about that.
appear.in went login-only very recently, and they only allow for a single room name, which is a pain in the *
(although it's free so I can't complain...)

I'm using talky.io more since the change. Works pretty well, and they allow to start the call with audio only, which is something appear doesn't do.
If The IBMs have no one left to scam, they are no longer IBMs.

They'll settle for some other kind of awful, I'm sure.
Honest question from someone who doesn't understand high finance:

Article says $2.95b revenue. Where did all that money go? Wiki says they have 12k employees, is every single employee getting paid $300k+?

And if Uber has never been profitable, or at least not for a while, where does the money come from? Is there really $100b+ of investor cash floating around out there, getting spent on stuff like Uber?
Verilog?
Surely the resale value of the property takes into account the level of infrastructure surrounding the property, which would mean that a valuation based on resale value prices in those improvements at their market value.
I believe you mean to say prisoner's dilemma, rather than a zero sum game.
How can they incur that huge a loss? According to Crunchbase they have 5000-10000 employees. They have a backend to manage. They have limited sales and marketing expense.Where is their money going? R&D or just employee pay?
It's been said that 20 minutes of direct sunlight on the scrotum dramatically increases testosterone.
What is your experience with “new” Nokia phones?
One of those "A"'s is a different story in terms of recruiting than the others (it has three headquarters, the first of which is in Seattle and it is not mentioned by name in the post above.)

If you could not get interviews with that particular company I would be worried. At times they will interview anybody with a pulse.

The other companies on your list all have more people who want to work for them then they could possibly hire so they can filter for a profile for people who are at different career stages and if you don't fit that profile you don't get through the screen. The hiring manager is filling up a platoon of two squads and is not so interested in anything about you that makes you hard to evaluate.

(Microsoft|Google|Facebook) are not startups and they may not find your startup experience useful. In software they are what Nestle or Kelogg are to food and they don't look at product development in the way a startup does at all.

I have seen solid performers in large companies who do well with structure (where the solidity of process means you can go to an atm 24-7 most places and expect to get money) just not be able to cut off chunks of our startup mountain into units of work they can do. Salesforce.com sends fresher salespeople to a gala conference in their home city. They will get sales training and a proven playbook. In our startup you are going to write the playbook.

If you want to get into that kind of shop and you are an oddball at all your best bet is the "aqui-hire" but the person who succeeds at that often can't stand to stay.
I recently spent half an interview being asked about embedded systems and C for a frontend JavaScript position.

If the question is "do companies, in general, know what software engineer they need for a position?" my answer is almost universally no.
What if you need to release a hot fix and your image is 1Gb?
Because moving has transaction costs.

Imagine two lots right next to each other going for a million, but it takes another $100k to set up the store and move in everything.

Walmart moves into one of the lots, then someone offers them 1 million and $1. They could switch lots and make $1, but the switch would cost $100k.
Does it work with statically linked modules?
Man, just imagine having to worry about how much going to the hospital will cost you.
Headers allow you to ship a binary without the full source code. If you want to build a linux kernel module you don't need all of the linux sources, just the headers.
> It could pay for schools, Medicaid, homeless shelters

Yes, it could, but that doesn't mean it would in the absence of the incentive for Amazon. I didn't see any indication in the article that this would be paid for by reallocating funds from social programs or education. Has NY indicated how they're funding the incentive elsewhere? If this isn't known, how can you confidently say it's a transfer of wealth from poor to rich?

To be clear, I absolutely think there are probably more socially responsible things to do with the money, but there's a difference between opportunity cost and exploiting NY's poor to build Bezos a helipad.
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