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I'm the CTO of a small company (about a dozen people), and I don't know that my career has been hurt, but I've certainly had to reprioritize. Doing dev work, where the occasional task can take 30m to 30h, and you have to be focused for hours on end, is less practical when you have to rush out for daycare pickup, have a toddler jumping on you, or try to work during nap time which often ends earlier than you'd like. Consequently I find myself doing a lot more business development, product planning and people management. I still write some code, even if it's often more efficient to delegate. I like to keep my skills up to date and to not become slowly ignorant of my own company (a problem I've seen plenty of times before).

One way it's helped, is it's a really easy topic to bring up with clients or on sales calls. It makes me more relatable, and gives a good first impression since people assume I'm at least competent enough to provide basic care to a child.
It's an interesting question. I suspect there's some trademark arguments to be made regarding confusion as to who is providing the product and service and whose failures any mistakes reflect. That kind of attribution, and the product quality it promotes, is one of the central purposes of trademark law. But there's also the first sale doctrine--that after you sell your physical product, people can do with it as they please, including resell. I suspect it comes down to how clear Doordash makes it that the restaurant is not involved in the service, but I'm not an expert in these areas, and this is obviously not legal advice.
> only a few KB in size, a single binary, and that same binary will work across 25 years of OS versions

A few kb for the binary + 20-40 gb for the OS with 25 years of backwards compatibility
Interestingly they seem to run exactly the same on horribly low spec machines. I blame the jvm's love for boxing and unboxing everything in IL land. Of course by now I'd hope it's less wasteful - last I spent serious time in Java was 2015.
Couchsurfing has had an incredibly positive impact on my life as well. I've made a lot of lifelong friends and learned a lot about the world and different cultures through the people I've met. The app is atrocious and barely usable, but the community is terrific.

More than anything, Couchsurfing taught me wonderful things can happen when you embrace serendipity. Couchsurfing is an important antidote to a world that seems increasingly fearful of strangers.

I hope they manage to survive.
If delivery people are paying with the Doordash debit card (most likely for non-partnered restaurants) you might be able to ban that BIN number (YMMV but it is possible with Stripe Radar + Stripe Terminal), or you could instruct your cashiers to refuse service to doordash drivers based on what card they use. After DoorDash receives enough reports from their drivers/customers it'd probably be delisted.
Someone once described genius as taking a shot in the dark and hitting something. In which case, taking more shots does increase your odds.
Kids—I have 3—reinforce attributes that should be valuable in the workforce.

* I ruthlessly prioritize — you have to when you're balancing a family.

* I don't dwell on mistakes – milk, quite literally, is spilled on a daily basis.

* I'm a better manager – kids teach you to be clear and immediate in your feedback, not to mention more empathetic

* I speak better – reading bedtime stories means you practice public speaking every night

A company that measures performance in hours or dedication will not reward those attributes. But the good ones will happily give you flexibility in exchange for good work.

If you're struggling to find a balance, know first that you're not alone. But recognize quickly that your employment environment may be incompatible with family life, and so what's "slowing your career down" is your management... not your kids or your own performance.
I assume it is the 30% they take from the restaurant.
>you need to remove about $1.5 trillion (~42%; equivalent to two copies of the US military) from annual US healthcare spending

You're conflating 'spending' with Value, Efficacy, Cost, Profit and Greed.

Its a far more complex subject when it comes to all 'spending' within the Government budget than just Cash Burn Rate/Volume.
I'm sorry, but offhandedly dismissing opinions like you did there triggers snippy reactions from me.

That said your opinion is clearly not gathered by expert reading, because I've done that reading and it comes to a different conclusion.

If you're interested in optimal taxation, I'd skip reading Wikipedia page and just go read the 2008 Mankiw literature review on "optimal taxation in theory and practice" instead. It doesn't touch land value taxation (which is a niche topic) but is very accessible and a good read.

Second, when metropolitan LVT is studied, the theoretical social benefits are large bordering on the absurd. Here's a study by the NY fed:

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/econo...

It massively reduces income and wealth inequality (lots of inequality is tied up in urban real estate ownership).
Honestly at times it seems like all these Uber for this or that, DoorDash and whatever other logistical services were created with the premise of just keeping people busy and making them feel like they have a job (one that often costs them money to work at).

Once upon a time you started something and hoped to figure out how to scale and find product/market fit. These days with the cloud it’s become trivial to scale almost anything that’s not building cars or spaceships.

All these other BS startups have no hope for profit and no end game in sight. It’s kind of pathetic.
Reading the title, I anticipated this was going to be something along the lines of getting Domino's delivered for less than their delivery fee. (Side note, does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app? They all already deliver for far less)

But this was far more interesting. The fact that Doordash scrapes prices, and apparently doesn't verify... how does this happen?

I'm not familiar with the reimbursement model. I'm assuming the driver pays with a credit card, and Doordash reimburses this amount. Regardless, there will now be database entries for a customer paying $160 and Doordash reimbursing $240.

What happens in a company that allows $80 to vanish like that? Unless this is an incentive (I'm doubtful this was deliberate). Wouldn't one of the first things you do is validate your financials? In which case, is the driver getting screwed here? (They charge the customer $160, and reimburse the driver for only that amount)

If not, this opens up a huge potential for fraud. There is a semi-popular YouTube video where some young British folks set up a 'restaurant' in their home kitchen and successfully list on a delivery app. They deliver several orders (reimbursing the customer of course). If it's trivial to get listed, and potentially with the wrong prices, then it's trivial to launder money this way.

Set up a fake restaurant, deliver little/nothing to a known party, profit. Now, maybe it would become obvious if you made the same orders or within the same time frame. But again, trivial to generate randomness.

What protection do these companies actually have against fraud? By nature, they're assuming trust, and this is exploitable.
The headline, and much of the story, sort of implies that the underground facility was built specifically for the photo archive.

It’s all the way at the end, but the archive is housed in the mine facility of Iron Mountain, a storage company that folks with corporate experience might be familiar with.

https://www.ironmountain.com/
Yes, I was a bit surprised by that too, but I think a lot of the attention on that is that it feels liked a newer problem than that of land, which is a well hashed topic over the centuries. The attention economy, or rather the limited amount of attention that consumers have to find new information/retail/entertainment outlets, has existed ever since we had wide distribution of periodicals through mail. Anybody could become a Sears in 1920 in the same sense that anybody could build an Amazon today.

But the scale of the internet has really amplified this, and it feels much newer since we have oligarchs in SV now with far more publicity than typical US oligarchs. They get media attention because they have threatened the media. They tyranny of NIMBY-driven land use is not a (new) threat to traditional media, and those who uphold that system are the same people who typically prop up local media, and media is controlled by those that own property in the same way.

If you want to be a YouTube star or a Hollywood star, you had more avenues to success in Hollywood but it was still a very limited number of power brokers that gate keeped access. Now, organic growth of a YouTube star is possible, but that star is share cropping just as the Hollywood star is sharecropping a system with tightly controlled distribution; YouTube is a single agent and there's just a handful of Hollywood studios.

Personally, I think that real estate rentierism is a far bigger problem than platforms. But addressing that offends a far broader audience, and lacks novelty, even if the scale of rentierism is affecting higher income quantiles than in anybody's memory.
Be careful, a lot of people do not like that idea. The last time I mentioned it I was downvoted deep into the negatives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205763
I've had a similar experience - only ever got to the point of turning down an onsite.

I'd add one other issue to Apple (which would otherwise be the most natural fit for me). Side Projects.

I love building and launching apps and side projects and at Apple, as I understand it, that's a no-no. That's why so many devs left to set up new projects.
Well, the biggest thing is that it writes the SQL I would hope it to write in most cases, reliably.

In particular, I think relations are great to work with in Eloquent.
In my experience, you have to be more proactive in marketing yourself and your work. I have worked from home for seven years, picking up my three kids every day at 3pm.

It feels like you are always falling behind. But overall, I have found myself doing okay relative to my peers, while cultivating a solid family schedule and focus. Everyone is different, but the times I have lost out in office politics are far outweighed by the other things in my life.
Good luck getting to the roots of all your feelings when they can be based on any number of inputs and changes over who knows how long of a time.
I'm going to print this out. Really well said.
Lose a few 100 million today for a monopoly next year. I make the assumption here that these delivery services are intent on dominating the search results so that independent restaurants are not able to compete. They are forced into using the services, or rather having a large majority of other orders coming from these services.
If I recall correctly, Microsoft forked their own version of electron to make vs code feel more snappy. Because normal electron runs like slack.
Same way they did in the 90s, lots and lots of dumb money.

My son and i have a tradition when my wife attends a nonprofit board meeting every other month. She leaves and we order some five guys on doordash while we play a PlayStation game. I use a new email every time and usually get free delivery and a coupon. Doordash loses, Five Guys loses, and we get some dude to deliver a burger.
That's a great point. Never occurred to me.
Being a parent helps build a skill set that can help you level up your career - if your employer values them. It can also make you less interested in that advancement. My own anecdote:

I have two kids (3 and 1). I’ve experienced a bit of a leap in soft skills; empathy, mentorship, and patience, to name a few. This has corresponded with me taking on many more leadership responsibilities in my team, and being recognized as a go-to thought partner and interestingly as an authority on technical matters.

I took 6 months of parental leave for the second child (I know, incredibly generous). I came back and received an “exceeds expectations rating”.

I have colleagues who are also parents. Several of them are “staff engineers”, the highest level of recognition at our company.

On the other hand, I turned down a promotion as I felt I’m already giving all I have time for/didn’t have bandwidth for the extra responsibilities. I’m happy with my current compensation and responsibility set, especially as it allows me to spend time with my family.
Because unlike everything else in the body, we don’t know what sort of material explanation would possibly work. Instead assertions are made that subjectivity is identical to certain kinds of brain activity. What is needed as an explanation for how brain activity is conscious. How does neural activity result in the feeling of pain or experience of seeing a color?
Agreed. The entire expertise of programming is based on the willingness to find these sorts of issues and fix them. Over and over, for your entire career.
What if you strip out the entire 'aggregation' and customer facing side of DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats and rebuild them as complete back-end logistics services to the restaurants? You charge lower percentage of orders or just a monthly fee to help procure and pay the labor and route deliveries. Seems like that's the actual challenge for restaurants
Very important note (near the bottom of the post) on why Doordash did what they did:

> Note 1: We found out afterward that was all the result of a “demand test” by Doordash. They have a test period where they scrape the restaurant’s website and don’t charge any fees to anyone, so they can ideally go to the restaurant with positive order data to then get the restaurant signed onto the platform.
You're describing the systems reply to the Chinese Room Argument[1] and I agree with you. To go further, what else could possibly generate consciousness? A soul? Some phlogiston that breathes fire into beings? I legitimately don't understand what the alternative is to physicalism without positing some completely unsubstantiated Other Thing that also gets us no closer to understanding consciousness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Systems_and_virtu...
At the places where I worked, the people who pushed and shoved to get into the higher paying jobs, or changed jobs for more money, without exception, all had kids. So there's a tradeoff. You will have less spare time, but possibly more economic motivation and career focus. But you might have to find a job where you are not measured by hours in front of a screen. That might ultimately be a good thing anyway.

I have been promoted regularly since becoming a parent.
> an almost emptiness or that of negative space, encapsulates and closes in upon the definition of "present moment".

It definitely feels like that more and more for me recently. Sometimes it feels like "I've watched these videos before" on YouTube or I find the memes on Reddit repetitive or unfunny. It gets to the point where I don't mind rewatching videos..
I looked at ordering some white castle for pick up today. There 5 dollar combination i normally Get was 7.50 plus convenience charges. Similarly, i looked at ordering delivery sushi and it was close to 50% more not including charges Friday. There’s not a lot of options here in Detroit, but, it seems like the platform charges are getting transferred to the customer.
The restaurants need to work through their own trade organization where they band together and push out the delivery businesses that are costing them money, and then allow delivery companies to bid for their business.
I agree that other mediums (like artificial neurons) would likely still be conscious, but an abstract calculation on a bunch of pieces of papers, possibly spread over years and across multiple people performing the calculations? That seems odd to me. Definitely still "intelligent", but should I feel bad about ripping up those pieces of paper? Should I feel like I'm killing someone by erasing calculations off of the paper or introducing a mathematical mistake somewhere in the middle?
>I have learned pretty consistently over that time that the best way to solve a problem is to just keep digging deeper into the system with the issue.

>You will eventually figure out that either the system has a bug or you used it wrong. And along the way you will familiarize yourself more with the system. (and debugging tools!)

I identify with this so much. It's a different kind of programming, where you're finding the source of the bleeding instead of trying to just bandage the wound, which is much more what I encountered in the tech industry.
ChowNow https://get.chownow.com/demo/ and Toast https://pos.toasttab.com/ do that
The webapps thing was a stall tactic because the infra wasn't ready before release.

The original iPhone didn't even have a call log.
I'm keeping my eye on a few people, like Abbadon who makes "Kill Six Billion Demons" and Andrew Kelley the creator of Zig.

But really I think we need a major reconfiguration of our global economic structure.
The subjective feeling is just a brain state. The ‘why’ is due to whatever circumstances resulted in that brain state.
This. Military spending may just be 'free money' in some world outlook scenarios.
> the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!

Dr. Strangelove
Do you strip geotags?
In my experience, once I moved in with someone that had kids and I started talking about family at work, it seamed like I got bigger raises and better promotions. Whereas pre-family, I was seen as "just a kid, a smart one, but still just a kid". After I was treated as an adult.
Your assertions aren't backed up by anything; your criticisms of Swift are superficial and reek of "I'm unfamiliar with it, therefore it's bad".
" new wave of food-delivery start-ups wants to know how they do it."

Umm is this really a question? Near destitute poverty level wages and quality of life.
Most (in-depth, technical) security books follow this sort of thought process- I think. “A big hunters diary” comes to mind.
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No. Well... no. My first kid was born in 2006. I left a big 4 accounting firm after an acquisition in '10. Tried to do a start up with a friend... Health food delivery in Oakland in 2010, without any connection to any of the big VCs. Failed. Second kid was born the fall of '10, third in Winter '13.

Looking at raw income numbers, I was making 85k in '06, 75k in '10 (had to find a job quickly after the startup failed - insurance needed for the child birth!) and around 95k in '13. I'm making around 280k right now, so I think I'm on track regardless of having kids or not. A key to my income is that once I stopped working in an office and got rid of my ~75 minute one way commute, I started a part time job, remote software development. That was project based, not raw hours, and since then my primary job has also changed to project based, not raw hours. I'm not killing myself each week like a lot of stories I hear. On a real busy week I'll do about 50 to 55 hours.

Now, another measure to consider, I have coached little league for about 5 years, travel softball for 2.5. My busiest season was fall '19 where I coached little league, ran the LL skill building clinic, head coached a travel team (10u) and assistant coached my older daughters 14u team.

I'm starting jiu-jitsu next week with my son. I've reduced the amount of coaching down to just two teams total. No head coaching.

My advice: prolab caffeine pills!
I work at Google and usually taking parental leave or even simple paid time-off are not supposed to be penalized. Come performance review season, if you've been absent for 4 out of 6 months in that review cycle, you are usually prorated and evaluated for the 2 months you’ve been around as if that work has sustained for the whole cycle. How much of this we can prove (that it doesn't impact ratings or promotions)? Probably not a lot. You’ll find that no company is willing to share that data to save their bacon.
After reading more about how these delivery companies function, we stopped using Door Dash a few days ago. We found it very convenient during the pandemic, but we like our local restaurants and we thought we were helping them out by ordering delivery pretty often. So now we just order it as take-out and then we go pick it up ourselves. Screw Door Dash.
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Why would a bank give someone a loan if they have no idea who the person really is?
Ask HN: Are there any good privacy-respecting iOS email clients out there?
What I mostly mean by that are email clients that just use straight IMAP to talk to a server and don’t route your emails via a third party server. The built in app does that, but apparently has some security issues that at least several people are taking seriously.

All the other email clients I could find either require you to sign up for their service (not an option, I run my own email server) or seem to route/mine your email in exchange for convenience features.

Don’t mind paying for the app, but I don’t want a subscription model either. Any apps I should be looking at other than an ssh client on my phone?
I wish everyone would use per capita when referencing the number of infected and deaths for comparison. It makes no sense to compare total numbers.
CloudKitchens fixes this.

I also find this really weird: its like load balancing between https://server1.example.com and https://server2.example.com instead of using a proper load balancer under the hood to get https://example.com
It seems that the two of you are talking past each other.

The earlier comment is pointing out that it’s “ridiculous” that the government isn’t able to solve the problem from the article, given that they’ve clearly been able to build a system to track pseudoephedrine sales. They don’t seem to be making any claims about it being ridiculous that they need to talk to a pharmacist to get it, which is what your reply implies they said.
What's interesting is that I have observed the opposite in my career. I have often seen that employees who have children are afforded more flexibility, shorter hours, and less work than those who do not have children. While I understand these are necessary if you have children, a disproportionate amount of work and higher expectations are given to those without children in my office. For example, if you have a child, that is a perfectly acceptable reason to work from home, but simply wanting to work remotely is not accepted. Do I need to have a child to work from home (especially because I can't have children...lol)? Anyway, this is obviously not a universal experience across companies (and trust me I'm happy that parents have these perks at my company), but I do find it frustrating when someone is expected to stay at the office until midnight because "what else would they do" if they don't have children lol. Basically, everyone should have less work, more flexible schedules, and realistic expectations given to them regardless of their personal life.
> Side note, does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app? They all already deliver for far less

Seen it done a number of times at campuses as the GPS helps the pizza guy find you. Although the pizza guy usually has a very good idea of where the residences are anyway.
Maybe because the critic is not really a contradictory critic once you see the context.

It's like complaining that critics of Stalin can't criticize him for both making the people poor, and making some people (the party) richer.

Ignoring the context doesn't make you smart.