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>But when you go home after work, also be prepared to see the dystopia that your industry has created as a by-product.

Has this actually been concluded? That it is the "tech industry's fault?" Because I feel like I could fence off any claims as such by asking, "well, why didn't the government do anything about it?"

Based on my experience in multiple major metropolitan areas, the "tech industry" here in SF seems to be the most engaged in "doing something about it" than anywhere else. Is it because the problem is bigger? Maybe they're just better at marketing than the companies in other cities? Fair questions. Maybe.

I remember reading in the local papers when I lived in Mountain View that Google was going to assign some # of a new housing project they wanted to be low income housing - at my understanding, to be a total loss to them. They were going to build bridges, footpaths, and parks to "offset" the burden of the increased number of residents in Mountain View. I have seen similar from other companies.

In Houston, BP nuked the gulf of mexico and then fought everyone over how "responsible" they are for it. Chevron donated some fossils to the Museum of Natural Science. I dunno, I just feel like people are being unduly critical of the tech industry in SF, as if some homeless people poop on the streets because rich engineers ride buses paid for by google. Why isn't there better public transit, so the buses aren't necessary? Why block the proliferation of scooters and bicycles, so people are far more motivated to take Lyft or Uber? Why aren't there more public, 24/7 restrooms? And why isn't the Oil industry taking more flack for turning Houston into a 75x75 mile square of choking freeways? Because poop is grosser? Grosser than runaway climate change? Poop happens in Houston, too.

I just feel like SF is a big giant target, the go-to punching bag, because Big Tech, and yet meanwhile Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Ag gets away with dramatically worse in cost and human suffering.
Many parliamentary democracies have recall processes, where you can vote to remove someone that you voted to elect.

It's occasionally used when voters realize that what they voted for was incredibly stupid. So yes, you do get take-backsies in democracies.
Not to mention that most of the people complaining about this are not complaining about the record profits fueling their 401K and IRA.

This is the biggest personal dilemma I face. Does it make sense to pay double for services from companies that aren't the big 5? Does it make sense to divest my retirement holdings from companies and indexes that have investments in the big 5? Will this just add new companies that will behave just as poorly? Am I better off trying to lobby my elected officials for change? I really have no good answer for this complex issue despite the fact that it bugs me and I think about it frequently.
When I first flew in to San Francisco, I thought it looked like Mexico City.

After a while, I came to believe that lots of attached housing up and down hills is actually a pretty charming street form. On a flat plain, it would be claustrophobic, but the relief creates views that open up the dense landscape. Lots of San Francisco photography emphasizes this.

It makes me wonder why new developments today are always built in the flattest places -- the flatness practically forces us to include a lot of empty space, usually in the form of lawns.
Is that what they were doing? OMG that's pure insanity. Traffic in the South Bay and going to the east bay through Dumbarton SUCKED because of that.
I agree. Doxygen adds zero value. If I need to know what methods a class has, I have Intellisense/Roslyn for that, without even leaving emacs or my ide.

What needs to be in comments (and frequently isn't IME) is intent.
Obama was also the "tech" president. I wonder to what extent this increased surveillance is a result of the scalability advantages software brings. More than all previous presidents combined is pretty significant. Did he spend that much more?
> Natural gas peaking plants make up the difference when demand modulates.

They explicitly say this in the 'garbage' article that's talking about coal, not liquid hyrdocarbons.

FTA:

> Weather, however, remains unpredictable. Texas would still need battery storage and natural gas-fired power plants to fill in gaps when, for example, winds might slacken earlier than expected.
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Ugh. I'm not going to bother applying writing. I hate blackholes.
Is it just me or the writer has a really nice "voice" in this post?

Was pleasant to read, but also informative, and balanced.

Well done!
Could you elaborate on this? It's not at all obvious to me that this is true.
It was invented by Apple originally.
Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org) used by Python and some C++ projects like LLVM provides a modern high-quality alternative to Doxygen.
Taxes are very similar to the Prisoner's Dilemma: for any individual it pays of to dodge taxes and hope everyone else pays, but when nobody pays everyone is much worse off than when everyone pays.

In theory this is solved by government action to make legal schemes illegal and prosecute anyone using illegal tax avoidance schemes. In practice lobbying against this is often cheaper than paying, so you end up with giant loopholes and defunded tax collection agencies.

At least this hole is getting closed, but that's a minor victory in the grand scheme of things
You can't build housing cheap enough for chronic drug users to afford.
Dynamic range compression and compensating for ambient noise (many car stereos do this) works well.
Wow. That’s revealing.
> The results of the 2016 election would tell me you are mistaken about the consensus of all those things.

What results are you talking about? That the candidate who was for all those things won the popular vote by an unheard of 3 million votes? That fact seems to back up the consensus :)
I disagree. I don't think we should partner up. I think we should compete. The US, China, EU, India and possibly even Japan are wealthy enough and the first 4 is populous enough to explore on our own.

I think we should share our discoveries and knowledge, but we shouldn't be partnering. If we really want space exploration, competition is what is going to drive it.
So what? The hell with the average person. You think the average person cares about any physics breakthroughs like gravity waves detection or breakthroughs in any other field? We don't define seminal moments by what the average person thinks about the science.
Hmm, CryptoNote doesn't seem to be a currency at all. It seems to be a code base behind other currencies as much as I can tell. CryptoNoteCoin seems to be a reference implementation that isn't "real".

The discussion is when did a coin - fork into a different coin and become more successful than it's predecessor?

Because if it's "well, never... yet!", then the argument that "development is centralized but that's ok because you can just fork it if you don't like the developer's plans" - is effectively a lie.

Also, while I probably know way less than you on this overall, I do know Monero has seen successful because it's effective to be run as a scam on victim computers (mining malware) and on websites that use JS on your computer to mine coin. Almost all the web and malware mines Monero. It gives me the impression as the least legitimate coin I can think of because of the number of times I've seen this.
I'm completely convinced that cosmetic/skin purchases are by far the best way to make a sustainable continuously updated pvp game. Nobody feels bad about not being able to invest money to be able to win, it encourages (and funds!) active development of the game and its visuals, and rare/cool skins and associated animations can be delightful to see even on other players.
I'm not familiar with the alternate routes there up north. But I know in Los Angeles, shutting down the 101 essentially shutters the doors of many businesses. Employees simply can't get to work. So I'm not sure it is desirable to shut a road down rather than cause huge delays.
> Where is the difference that would allow us to condemn the companies for maximizing profits by use labor laws but not condemn them for maximizing profits using tax laws?

Money isn't people.
I'd throw this resource in the ring since it has the most material out of anything on the list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230314

Awesome page, though!
too bad, you weren't able to rank these by difficulty and/or skill level.

even without that, this is an awesome list. thanks.
Let's just say there may be other factors to consider besides net project cost. Like, say:

- The economic strangulation of entire neighborhoods

- Disrupted access to health care and educational opportunities

- Disrupted access to one's place of employment (for a great many people)

- All of these disproportionately affecting, you know... lower income folks (and not so coincidentally, communities of color).

- The spillover affect of all of the above on the regional economy as a whole (and hence -- on tax revenues available to the same governments who need to fund this construction in the first place).

Stuff like that.
so are they voting it down because they are being taxed for something they cannot use or benefit from directly?

as for toll lanes, welcome to the the new means of permanent revenue extraction. Atlanta got them in spades including one near billion dollar installation that cannot be used if ice threatens because its nearly all bridges. people had to fight to remove tolls that were promised to be removed from GA400 years ago after it was paid off so now the state just switched to "express lanes" which is a PC way of saying toll lanes.
> but you really can't find any of note who promote an interest that can be specifically tied to what developers want.

Well, everything you mention are organizations with figureheads you can call up and ask what they think. They can also give you money so you can pursue their ideas. I'm not sure who a politician would talk to if they wanted to be pro developer. I'm not sure who would give you money for being pro developer.
What's the point of a measuring contest followed by building more weapons?
Companies aren’t people.
Here's the Sierra Club fighting to preserve... a historic garage.

https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/the-sierra-club-fi...

Not wanting to pave over some of the green spaces sounds laudable, but the same people fight against growing 'in' and 'up', which is the only thing you can do to add to supply if you won't go out.
Since San Jose is the 10th largest city in the US by population, perhaps you aren't the best gatekeeper when it comes to what constitutes a city, and what does not.
I can comfortably type with one hand on my OnePlus 6 (6 inch phone). I use it to browse when and I'm out and about, so the extra real screen estate is very valuable.
I don't think it's not permissible, but I think the burden of proof is on those who complain about a company's (or any person's, really) tax practices to clarify how it's unethical to read and follow the law.
and to try to help , the distinction one would try to normally draw here is not about ethics.
Legality almost always follows ethical consensus

Really it's about legality vs social aberrance.
Which is not the same as ethics.
You can criticize whatever you want.

Ethics are subjective and personal. Society agrees on most principles and these are what become our laws, but not everything (like cutting in line) is at a scale that matters.

In this case, society has agreed on tax laws that this is the right amount. You are completely free to suggest something else and get the support to change it. Tax laws change all the time and loophole has already been closed so it seems like everything is working as it should here.
Interesting, wonder if that's because Coursera is perceived and thought of as better in general or is it due to other reasons such as general popularity. May make sense to have some kind of normalization to unbias it if the latter.
I haven't played through the demo. But this is very impressive.
I dont care about touching the screen. I care about it emitting as little light as possible.

Dark theme + OLED would be glorious for coding and battery life.
Your location matters significantly more than your nationality - ultimately it's a tax problem. For example: if you're in Canada and the business is US domiciled (and you own 50%), then decision making for that business and your share will be taxed in Canada. This is simplified - but you get the gist.
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Devs in gaming industry are like the staff members of a moving shooting crews, they are not comparable to directors.
Does it have value to society? That is the question. Of course it has value to people if they are willing to pay for it.
How hard is it to rewrite drivers? Or is the problem that companies do not write others write these drivers?
This just goes to show that if someone publishes any learning resource, people will shower the author with praise regardless of the quality, or even trying the resource out.

We do not need yet another JavaScript learning resource, we have good ones. Mozilla Developer Network is the best one, but there's also Free Code Camp, Eloquent JavaScript and javascript.info among many others. Don't write a resource for the sake of doing so unless you can bring something new to the table.

This is totally scummy. There's no way I can see to go to the upgrade page. Instead, it forces you to complete the lessons up to it before asking you to pay $25 for continued access. So it requires time investment first. Doesn't tell you the price first either.

Asking for $25 just to learn about arrays is purely abysmal. This "course" also doesn't even seem to go over exceptions, but I can't know that for sure because I'm not paying $25 to see the expanded table of contents. Also don't like that you're charging $25 before I can even learn about the DOM because half of this is incomplete.

I like that this teaches you not to use the var keyword! Pleasant to see that for once. That's the best thing I have to say about this.

Can't skip any lessons at all, even to browse.

Back button does not do what it should on some pages. Hitting "Next" should not refresh the page if I cannot go to the next page. I was somehow able to trigger a bug where I didn't complete two challenges and it marked them as completed.

Automatically sending me emails when I don't use your application for three days without asking me first, I have to figure out it's what a mail icon in the menu toggles. Awesome UX.

Nice that I can't send a message to support without letting Drift send me emails about upcoming promotions.

Edit: The purchase page tells me $25, but the payment prompt says 25 euro. Seems awfully like trying to mislead customers purposefully to pay more. Easy to miss.
That whole issue is arguably old JavaScript. It was because HTML style preferred double quotes so using since quotes in JS made that easier.

Modern Javascript has template literals using backticks so arguably the new rule should be used double quote everywhere except use a template literals for HTML or whenever doing string manipulation.

The number one thing I hate about using single quotes it is matches almost no other languages so it ruins muscle memory if switching between languages.

JS itself prefers double quotes. See JSON.stringify or log anything to the console that gets auto quoted, always uses double quotes
> SF does a lot of spins on food. If I were to describe food here, I'd have to say it's generally "gimmicky".

We need a word for the disappointment experienced upon realizing that the food in front of you has been optimized for Instagram and not for you.
Electrons don’t think
I'm not from the Bay Area, but I think you present an interesting point. Is it possible that we don't have developers in government because they would prefer to focus on developing?

The type of people that end up spearheading campaigns and taking leadership positions tend to be too busy with new priorities to continue previous activities. Managing staff, setting and achieving goals across a variety of disciplines, and ...leading may take the place of the inspiring moments that help justify their existence as a developer, especially overtime. It takes a specific type of person to want to take or make that change.

Though software folk are exploding in numbers (source: am one), perhaps further care and attention is needed in balancing the social skills, creativity, and growth of tenacity of those that are attempting to improve their development abilities. Particularly if we want to create techies that are smart as a whip and can also hold public office effectively.
I'm curious to hear what people think
> Brains fail at times. Computers should not make mistakes.

I don't think this is a reasonable position to take. We are going to have to accept that if we want computers to do the things brains can do, they will also make mistakes like brains do sometimes. It's not reasonable to insist that the error rate is exactly zero. Besides, if you consider the computer as a complete system including the hardware and human-computer interface, it's clear that no complete system can ever be error-free, even if the CPU executes its instructions faultlessly.

As long as it's as good or better than a human, it's good enough to be useful. Even with "fallible" AI techniques, we should be able to make systems that are much more reliable than humans.
I thought this video about one developer's saga trying to build housing where his laundromat currently is explains a lot of the problems SF has with creating new housing:

"This Insane Battle To Block a New Apartment Building Explains Why San Francisco and Other Cities Are So Expensive"
https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/12/27/san-francisco-mission...
I'm really baffled by this question. Screw what up? Fuchsia is not a product; some people at Google are working on a project and it's gotten a bit of attention. I'm just confused as to the level of entitlement that would presume there is something here to "screw up".
Also, if you ride your bicycle, rednecks in lifted trucks will push you onto the curb and shout out the window "are you trying to die?" Choose a motorcycle, people will swerve at you.

Whenever I bring up that I won't be in staying in SF, people inevitably say "oh, I heard Austin is a hot new tech hub! You're from Texas, aren't you?"

Yup. From. From. And likely never going back.
That's why SF has been forcing developers to build multi-family in the core and not Noe Valley Nob Hill, the Sunset, etc. Doesn't fix that cities in the South Bay are allowing developers to tear down single/two story office/commercial and replace it with 4-6 story office buildings and yet they won't rezone for multi-family.
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But that's exactly the problem -- local governments are powerless. They can't fix the BQE due to opposition from Brooklyn Heights community groups. Can't build skyscrapers south of Atlantic Terminal because they'd be too close to the community gardens. Can't redevelop lower Manhattan because everything between Houston and 30th is a "historical building".

These are all valid concerns but taken together and they prevent anything from getting done. Good intentions, bad results.
Nerds are very easy to take advantage of.
> Minus the bridge and a few landmarks, the city looks kinda bland. Too low-rise for such a popular place. But there's hills and natural features that are quite spectacular.

Victorian houses on hills make SF one of the most beautiful city in the US in my opinion. It has decent transit (which should be better !), walking around is pleasant in most neighbourhoods, the parks are amazing (ever been to Glen Canyon ? Land's end ?)
Keep in mind that the "evasion" in question is the US government trying to grab taxes on money paid to a company by foreign nationals in a foreign market.

It's unclear why that money would be owed to the US ethically. These companies are, ostensibly, already paying their fare share in payroll taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes, commercial use taxes, etc.
For food scene, yes there are a lot fancy restaurants with long queues, but there are also many authentic Chinese / Korean restaurants here. It's just these restaurants are not well known and mostly serve local people, and usually you cannot find them easily on Yelp due to low ratings / reviews.
I appreciate that games might not be your thing, and I am sure many share that sentiment and thus spend their time and money elsewhere accordingly. I am not sure, however, how you can objectively reach the above conclusion. I would encourage you to browse through https://steamdb.info/graph/ which, among many other metrics, tracks average and median hours played for each title on Steam. If you hover popular titles like PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS or Grand Theft Auto V, for instance, you will find average total hours of 330.6 and 165.6, respectively. You can naturally also find niche titles with fewer hours; e.g. Broforce at 10.5 hours, or Blood Harvest at 7.0 hours, though niche titles tend to be cheaper (and shorter!) than mainstream triple-A games. It thus goes without saying that for those who do enjoy games, many find dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of hours of enjoyment in a single title.
Having a bustling city center in easy metro access while you sit comfy in the suburbs seems like a great benefit to me. Drives up your land value while you suffer almost none of the detriments to metro-ization.
If I deduct a portion of my rent as a home office deduction and you don't because you either can't or didn't know about it, does that make my actions unethical?
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It serves a very significant number of riders who do not actually live in New York state as well.
Weren't they working on a sort of unified "hardware abstraction layer" for Android anyways? - Which would put all the vendor-specific code "below" the kernel and would allow them to reuse the same OS image on different devices.

In that case, the Fuchsia kernel could just be another "client" to that layer.

(just speculating here, no idea if that is in any way what they're planning)
No, it is horseshit [because scale]

The thing is, scale was only one factor listed among many.
Most people who talk about "homelessness" in SF as an issue don't really have a beef with the homeless themselves; it comes up as complaints about clear behavioral problems such as harassment, disorderly conduct and the like. It's surprising that even when mental health is an issue, that these don't lead to some sort of court-ordered treatment.
Almost no one chooses that their child should have a disability. Epsilons were created for their plasticity.
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