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Living in the St. Louis area, I can say that this example of Glendale used in the article is awfully strange. Makes me suspicious of other conclusions drawn by the author.

> Glendale, Mo., which is hobbled by the loss of such St. Louis corporate anchors as Anheuser-Busch."

Glendale is a very tiny municipality (1 of 88) in St. Louis county with a population of 5,924 in 2010 and 5,886 in 2017. Over the same time period, median home prices are up from about $340k to $390k. Hardly what I'd call "hobbled."

In fact, St. Louis County as a whole (which doesn't include the city but does include some rather dense urban "suburbs") has remained relatively flat and St. Charles County, the next ring out, has seen steady growth.[0]

[0] https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/census-st-louis-ci...
Given the problems cities are having these days, and the cost of housing (and the lack of housing), I'm not surprised.
Do we have any estimates on when oil will stop being cheap. It was my understanding that the planet will be well and truly fucked beyond repair if we ever managed to use up all the easily available oil.
There are ways to get better at estimates. And a proper process will help you to do it. Unfortunately most of the orgs do not do it.

1) We know that "People are bad at estimates". That is why the estimate should come from the team (not one person in the team). Most of the orgs that I know do not do this. And to be honest they are not set up to do it because people in a team do not have overlapping skills. Ideally you have a team where people can take other people jobs (to a certain degree). You can then, during grooming, play "poker scrum" to estimate (where it is harder for people to cheat following what the lead person says). It is ok for somebody to say "I have no idea". The AVERAGE (not the MODE) is used for the estimation. If the items are more than 2 card apart have the 2 people at the extreme say why they think they think it takes the little amount of points and the other person why they think should take the large number of points.

2) If it is hard to agree on the estimation, the item probably needs to have a "spike" where more assessment or design is done in order to make clear what need to be done. In my team we also agree that a story has more than a certain number of points, we may say that it is too big and we have to break it down.

3) During retrospective or a specific meeting we have the team look at the time that an item really took and when it was more than 2 card off, try to understand what was under or over estimated.

Usually after about 5 cycles, people start developing a sense of what the right amount of story point should be for a story.

If you are always left by yourself at estimates and you never properly scope the task before and reflect on the variance afterward, it will be very hard to become good at estimations.
It's worth nothing that Australia has never had the net neutrality debate that occurred in the US. This might well be the spark, if anyone in this country cares.

This move would be NBN way overstepping its remit as a last-mile layer-2-only service, as it is described in legislation. The ACCC has already taken them to task over mission creep regarding backhaul (and remade the model from 14 POIs to 121) - deep packet inspection would surely grab their attention.
I've eaten jellyfish as a small side dish a few times. The texture - extremely chewy, with a crunch of chewiness at the end of the bite - was bizarre the first time, but I got used to it quickly enough. I wouldn't mind eating a dish made with it, but it might benefit from a longer, slower cooking process. Or maybe jellyfish is nothing like mammal meat and it wouldn't help, I dunno.
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My family and I moved to the suburbs about 5 years ago.
Less traffic, better schools and no weirdos wandering the streets at night.
> it also does not take significant resources to fix

This is where you are wrong. Even small fixes can destabilize builds. Every change needs code review, testing, a build, release (and possibly release notes). You need to schedule time to work on it, which means prioritization meetings and advocating why this bug should be fixed and not the other large pile of bugs.

Maybe you need to update some unit tests or automated feature tests. Maybe stop by the level designer's desk to make sure there weren't any baked in assumptions about player movement and space. Probably a good idea to chat with a gameplay designer as well to make sure it wasn't intentional (and also to validate that the fix doesn't actually make the game less fun.)

Wouldn't hurt to go to a playtest and mention that it's been changed, see if anyone on the team notices.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe you could put your fix behind a console command! Then you could quickly flip back and forth and see what you like better. But that also means adding a little more code and probably a little more documentation.

Sure, on the face of it you've just changed one arithmetic function. But there is a ton of hidden work and complexity that surrounds that.

As someone who made games for a living, there's a huge amount of unseen work that goes into even small changes. Players consistently underestimate the complexity of even minor fixes.
Not related to the original topic, but shout-out to working remote. It's been a game-changer for me, too. There are too many benefits to list, but the biggest one for me has been physical; after trying for years to stick with working out, it finally clicked for me with remote work + a gym in my garage.
Based on google results, it appears to be an incident where the USS McCain collided with the Alnic MC near Singapore. She was getting off course, and poor UI made it so hard to steer her back that she crashed. Injuries and deaths resulted.

https://medium.muz.li/ui-confusion-almost-sunk-a-us-destroye...
It’s not for everyone.

> set aside a place that is only work

Crucial.
Agreed on less expensive cities.
My two biggest regrets in my education are (1) taking the 'college prep' classes in high-school instead of the welding and small engine repair style classes and (2) majoring in CS instead of minoring while studying a field like biology or chemistry that's full of things that need programs written about them (and looking down on the kids who did, because I was the superior math/CS student).

I mean, I don't think I have a bad life, but it's kind of a regret that when I sit down and think about things to program for fun, I think about theorem provers and compilers, which there are already bunches of.
I recently needed to trawl through CFPB HMDA data and it was an absolute pleasure to do so. Everything was straightforward and documented in GitHub. I assumed this project was a result of USDS
At University I asked if I could take a control theory class, and was told, "No, that's a dead field." Foolishly, I didn't. I learned more control theory from this one interview than anything in the last 40 years.
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Never before has a company stood on such a mountain of open source code, achieved so much money with it and contributed so little

No really. Microsoft? BSD TCP/IP stack for win95 maybe saved them but there was trumpet winsock and probably would have survived to writing their own on the next release.

Google doesn't get off the ground and has literally no products and no services without the GPL code that they fork, provide remote access to a process running their fork and contribute nothing back. Good end run around the spirit of the GPL there and that has made them a fortune (they have many fortunes, that's just one of them).

New projects from google? They're only open source if google really need them to be, like Go which would get nowhere if it wasn't and be very expensive for google to have to train all their engineers rather than pushing that cost back on their employees.

At least they don't go in for software patents, right? Oh, wait...

At least they have a motto of "Don't be evil" Which we pretty much all have personally but it's great a corporation backs it. Corporate restructurings happen, sure, oh wait, the motto is now gone. "Do the right thing" Well this is fine and google do it, for all values of right that equal "profitable to google and career enhancing for senior execs".

But this is great a robots.txt parser that's open source. Someone other than google could do something useful for the web with that like writing a validator, because google won't. Seemingly because it's not their definition of "do the right thing."

"Better than facebook, better than facebook, any criticism of google is by people who don't like google so invalid." Only with more words. Or none just one button. Go.
Lovely presentation and brilliant initiative with Eligible! Bravo!
Why are more people right-handed?
One thing is that "suburb" doesn't necessarily mean the sterile tracks of ranch houses with nary a store or restaurant within miles that is the cliché. Many smaller towns/cities are technically "suburbs" in that they are within commuting distance of a large city but are still walkable/public transit friendly and have their own downtowns.
Windows used to have lots of .INI files, but almost all apps kept them all in C:\Windows or System or some such place.

If only they had discovered the concept of subfolders, instead of shuttling them off into another monolithic container. I suspect having many subdirectories degraded filesystem performance at the time.
Since I live in Cambodia I'm not sure, but how much awareness is there elsewhere about the recent building collapse in Sihanoukville? I saw the BBC wrote some articles:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48729072

There are some shoddy-looking construction sites in Phnom Penh too, and precarious conditions for construction workers even on the more modern construction projects.
It’s so good for your health to replace commuting with exercise!!
Do you and your friends make a lot of money? I’m the same age, and the only people I know starting families in the city are high income professionals. My wife and I (snobby city people) toughed it out until our daughter was ready for kindergarten, but even we weren’t willing to spend $1 million+ on a house in one of the few good school districts in DC when the time for that came.

I’ve traded cocktails at the Peninsula for, well, cocktails at the Maggianos, but I can park right next to the entrance and not have to drag a stroller around, so that’s pretty great.
I just left SF for North Carolina. This is merely anecdata, but there are plenty of big city folk here with me, including from SF.
Jellyfish salad is in fact a common Korean side dish.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%ED%95%B4%ED%8C%8C%EB%A6%AC%...
I think the other problem I haven’t seen mentioned is most city streets have tons of pipes and wires under them. Repaving can be complicated.
It is just because ICS/IoT vendors do not care/know a thing about cybersecurity. If you push security development practices, it should really improve the situation. Just prevent an access to the market until they pass the red team audit. Would surely motivate them enough.
My take is that there is no clear-cut cultural dynamic. The article even tacitly admits that by explaining that the new so-called trend is limited to very specific areas centered around employment centers.

The notion that culture is a predominate driver of urban-suburban migration never sat well with me. In nearly every place around the world these migrations are driven predominately by economic factors, particularly employment and housing costs. Except for the relatively wealthy, every other preference necessarily takes a back seat.

The post-WWII generational migration to suburbia beginning in the 1940s is arguably an exception. OTOH, it was clearly driven by the automobile and accelerated by the interstate system opening up cheaper land without losing access to employment. But now traffic and other factors, such as regional industrial and commercial specializations, have made distance relevant again.

The same trends that drove the return to urban areas persist. Because NIMBY suppression of housing development accelerated the rise of housing costs, we very quickly saw counter pressures back out to the suburbs. I'd argue this is still very much inline with an overall trend back toward cities, because the economics of distance and employment continue to favor density now more than ever. Again, the article admits this by explaining that the newly growing suburban cities are conspicuously close to urban centers generally, and employment centers specifically.

Culture, racism, schools... these reasons resonant with people, but all these preferences take a back-seat to economic realities. If you're lucky enough to be able to say that you forwent opportunities for non-economic reasons, you're almost by definition part of a minority because the vast majority of people in this country do not enjoy such privileges of choice, at least not to any substantial degree. To that extent expressed preferences are incapable of explaining the fundamentals of large, national trends. When people give a reason for choosing a city or a suburb, they're often missing the forest for the trees--they're explaining their choice among a small set of options filtered by their means, not the reasons for the set of options they could realistically choose from.
Electrical Engineering, its very cool to be able to calculate and invent anything.
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Why is one person's nonsense immature antics actually news? Just fire them and move on.
I suppose you're right, but the reason that's generally advised against is so people don't run stupid stuff without thinking while root. I'd guess you're less likely to do that if a peer is watching.

And to stouset: that's a seriously cool project!
The original post was about a anti-feminist - I didn’t bring him up, just gave you my opinion of him and JR (who I also didn’t bring up first).
Counterpoint: The lack of accessibility in Slack does not mean it shouldn't be solved. Baby with the bathwater. Why dump all of slack when instead we can work on an accessible interface.
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I considered it but if it’s anything like the US the rate would be relatively consistent over time until it eventually tapers out to a steady state vs regrowth. Here’s a fun read if you’re curious: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/Forest...
Google patience is notorious for services people actually use but they can keep at this kind of thing for a long time. Waymo might be twice as old.
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But that's just looking at fuel efficiency. What about the carbon cost of manufacture? How long does a train car stay in service vs a prius? What is the cost to manufacture a train car vs individual prii for n passengers?
I feel like you think you're disagreeing with me, when in fact you are supporting my point. The game goes closer to the luck baseline, and you beat the luck baseline by playing tighter.

Also, that's all well and good for heads up play, but if you're at a full table, playing tighter for one person at the table is just going to see you winning a lot of nothing. (Players paying attention will just skip hands where you bite.)
One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!
For my group of friends, about 2/3 got out of the city as quick as they could. For the same price house, the suburbs offer a lot more bang for the buck, significantly less crime, and several of them don't even have kids yet.

Granted, we don't live on one of the coasts. Part of what makes flight out to the suburbs easy is that public transit and driving in for commuting to work isn't terrible, though about half of us are working remotely now, so it's really more about access to occasional entertainment than anything.

Personally, I moved out to a cabin in the woods, though I'm still close enough to the big city if something comes up. It does crimp my job opportunities since I don't want to commute in on a daily basis- I'm now limited to remote work, which has a much larger talent pool to compete with. Even still, there's nothing I would trade it for. Maybe when I'm old and senile, but until then, you won't catch me moving back.
I wonder if part of the problem is differing definitions of 'in the city'.

Incorporated Seattle, for instance, is truly massive. It includes many, many, many neighborhoods that are really the innermost suburbs rather than the outermost urban neighborhoods. I have lived in the first ring and just outside of it several times, and people farther out would call that 'downtown' but people actually in downtown did not, despite the fact that in 2 cases I could, in a pinch, walk home from downtown while carrying bags.
Based on these replies, I guess it is just my bubble.

My peers and I graduated into the finance boom and were able to ride the paycheck economy before the Great Recession.
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>If you've already been in the industry a while you'll probably suffer from the same problem: A hell of a lot of low quality recruiter spam; Bad companies wasting your time with sub-minimum wage offers, and so on. Sometimes you just need 10 minutes to speak to a real person and you can both tell straight away if it's a good fit or not.

As a noob I would just like to say...it isn't limited to experienced professionals.

As soon as I landed my first job my email and linkedin caught fire. Non stop spam, bad matches, and etc.

"I was looking at your resume..."

No way you were looking at my resume and came up with this job... kinda stuff.
So true. And for people to understand just how hard it is, on the flip side, I LOVE Dunkey's reaction video playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qGCleYV4cw hahah It's absolutely hilarious to watch.
What exactly are the whiners going to do if you just ignore them?
Except that Apple Inc doesn't exist in their jurisdiction, and there are good reasons why it doesn't work that way.

Consider the possibility that they just not operate in the UK at all. They sell iPhones to a global retailer in the US, the independent retailer imports them into the UK and sells them to customers there. Apple sells exactly the same number of iPhones to exactly the same end customers, but now they're not subject to UK jurisdiction at all.

If that's all it takes to avoid the global "profit tax" then that is what would happen. But that makes no sense. There is no sense or benefit in making the global tax contingent on whether the final low margin retailer in your jurisdiction is a subsidiary or not.

But if you still want to impose the same kind of global tax even through an independent entity then you have to go all the way back through the whole supply chain or it can be trivially avoided again, at which point all you've basically done is reinvent VAT.

> or should we be dividing UK revenue by global revenue and demanding a tax on that percentage of global profit of Apple Inc?

This also doesn't work for another reason.

Suppose a company (not necessarily Apple) has two lines of business. One is high volume low margin manufacturing commodity hardware, the other is a high margin software development. The hardware business is responsible for most of their revenue but only a small fraction of their profits, because the margins are very low.

If they sell a lot of hardware but not a lot of software in the UK then your formula is unjustly allocating profits from the global software business to the UK where they sell mostly hardware, and then they would have the incentive to stop selling you hardware because the tax would be more than their actual margin on the hardware. But if you let them apportion profits accurately based on different lines of business then we're right back to them being able to shift them into whatever jurisdiction they like by engaging in high margin transactions in low tax jurisdictions.

There is no such thing as profit as distinct from revenue. All revenue is profit to somebody in the supply chain. If you want to tax profit throughout a supply chain, all you have to do is make sure that you only tax revenue exactly once and you're done. But that's still just VAT or sales tax. Pretending corporate income tax is something fundamentally different is just introducing exactly the sort of complexity that allows international corporations to avoid paying the same taxes that domestic corporations still have to pay.
For the record, I also moved from SF to a cabin in the woods, enabled by remote work.
> but the Midwest still clings to that suburban status symbol life more than the rest of the nation.

I can't speak for all of the Midwest, but to add an anecdatum: I live in a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul. As (relatively) nice as those downtowns both are they are both still far noisier, dirtier, and more expensive to live in than the suburb I'm in; further, I look out at wildlife daily at my backyard that extends 1.5 acres, which I find quite pleasant. "Status symbol" has nothing to do with it.
Raising a kid in a city is the "ultimate status symbol" exactly because it is very expensive and difficult. Most people would prefer a more comfortable, more affordable life.

Plus your savings on rent would buy you a very nice "status symbol" car and pool.
What makes you say that? Dynamic languages are usually chasing pointers which is something that out of order execution helps with tremendously.
Electric cars are going to stay low cost per mile indefinitely.

That does not mean suburbs are going to thrive long term. But, it does give them more sustainability.

A much larger change imo is developers are no longer heavily promoting the lifestyle which is changing how people think about them. Older suburbs are basically left to stand on their own which means some thrive and other die off.
I know much of Europe has treatments like that; to be clear, I was referring to America. Maybe in time, but it probably won't happen now (if for no other reason than because no one wishes to expend the requisite political capital to do so).

I'd hesitate to believe all economic growth will end by 2025. I just don't buy it; all but the UN low projections show continuing growth through at least 2100 [0]. How will we cope if that's true, any way? It will be tough when there are more old, retired people than young, working people to support them; I don't see the numbers adding. Recession being the normal state of things is not really a great outcome... if that happens, you will get a war, sure as shooting. Not just one, but lots. And a rise of authoritarianism. Liberty is good in good times, but most people are fair-weather patriots and will turn to a hitler-2.0 if things get bad enough. That ought to worry us all.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/exports/comparison-of-world-popul...