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Speaking as one of those people without a car: I've got a backpack.

Grocery pickup is absurdly useful. You ever had a hiking pack to whoever is bagging or try and fill it while doing self-checkout? It's not bad in all honesty but it's still more annoying than just picking it up curbside. Plus the side benefit on not whipping some kid in the face with bag straps because I turned around too fast.

>I've seen a rural lawyer in California advise people to basically hide their cultural identity while driving.

Genuinely curious what one would do to hide or advertise their cultural identity while driving? Bumper stickers and flags?

You can fuck with the livelihood of any service industry employee with feedback. "Let me speak to your manager."

That's not to defend Uber's predatory practices, but it's disingenuous to pretend that the service industry hasn't been at the mercy of those they serve. Also there are regulations, including background checks, for drivers? At least for Lyft.

I leave your comment 2 stars, would prefer not to read again.

> I consider it rude in the sense that women are not even considered in the consumer spectrum of these products

Fair point and one I hadn't considered. I had assumed that my income level meant I wasn't considered on the consumer spectrum. I can see where the inclusion of a booth babe could tip the scales from something I couldn't afford if I tried to something that doesn't want me to buy it even if I could. Thanks.

>I'm not picking up a fight about this, but it's now the time for these companies to notice that women are also in the market and we like to be included and more importantly, respected.

I have to keep stressing that my inquiries are genuine simply because it's very easy to read these kinds of things as disingenuous. What if there were men up there as well? Assuming that the marketing trend of "sex sells" doesn't stop any time soon is that an improvement? A lateral change towards inclusivity while still remaining classless?

Rude? Honestly no. Classless? Yeah, definitely. I sincerely believe that is an important distinction to draw. Especially for products so hilariously high end as a "giant yacht" and a Lamborghini branded massage chair that may also be a Decepticon.

I think there's a story here. Double standards are clearly present with the disqualification of a sex toy for women while also hosting VR porn and Real Dolls. However, as the links in this piece illustrate, those stories have been written.

Pieces like this take a conscious effort on my end to not dismiss as borderline clickbait because I want to see opinions that aren't my own. It just gets harder when the article is sprinkled with groan inducing tweets such as: "It's like me too never happened"

When I was first starting out as a SET/QAA/whatever it's called now I had to deal with the joys of record/playback tests from Selenium. It's a bloody nightmare to debug someone else's actions that have been translated, often poorly, to code by a machine.

Other than being able to whip something up in 30 seconds I haven't found a benefit. From the CSS identifiers that are selected to the backing code there just aren't positives. Unless you consider the 30 seconds of dev time you "saved" by converting it into 30 minutes of tech debt to be a positive.

>The dating game in most cities is abysmal, and the majority of attractive single ladies are high end escorts, sugar babies and or gold diggers.

Yeesh this just comes off as bitter. The dating game is hard but it's a two way street. I doubt anyone is going to be surprised that the most attractive members of either sex are taken but writing them off as sex workers is remarkably disingenuous.

Interesting. That sounds like it could be a fun read just to see the change in management styles around programmers.

Admittedly yes, especially in the current market but it does illustrate the reasoning behind the quote. The shift in labor-market power of developers is undeniable. Realistically it would take me closer to a month from search to first day if I was jumping at the first opportunity. I've certainly known people with a broad enough network and in-demand skills who could land one in a week or two however.

I mean, yeah you're not wrong. I try not to be too cynical about the whole thing even if I think the narrative is suspect. Yes women and minority representation in tech is a potential issue but I really want to know more about the AI recommendation system for potential hires. Especially if it was giving out spurious recommendations.

It's amazon, I can't imagine how many millions went into something like that. We'll almost certainly not get a postmortem but it's definitely intriguing.

The fear part most likely. Depending on what year the quote is from there's a chance that they literally couldn't find a replacement for a programmer. Or want to soak the costs of training one on the job.

Nowadays a lot of developers I know, myself included, work where they do because they like it and it pays somewhat better than the other guys. If I lose my job oh well. I'll throw out my resume, take a week off, and there's a good chance I'll have another job.

It isn't that it won't suck, but it's not going to cripple me or really interrupt my life. The question of "Are they going to fire me?" becomes kind of a joke.

Hold on here. This article seems to have buried a pretty important piece of information wayyy down in the middle of the text.

> Gender bias was not the only issue. Problems with the data that underpinned the models’ judgments meant that unqualified candidates were often recommended for all manner of jobs, the people said. With the technology returning results almost at random, Amazon shut down the project, they said.

Granted an article isn't going to get as much attention without an attractive headline but that seems a far more likely reason to have an AI based recruiting recommendation scrapped. The discovery of a negative weight associated with "women's" or graduates of two unnamed women's colleges is notable but if it's tossing out results "almost at random" then...well there seems to be bigger problems?

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They could...or we could keep utilizing the multi-billion dollar investments that have been made in public transportation.

I'm curious as to the arguments that can be made for (presumably government) subsidies for privatized individual transport. I'd be shocked if we see Uber pivot from normal vehicles into mass transit so we have to assume they continue using the current model.

At that point we're offering vouchers for semi-private drivers because...we don't like public transit?

Excuse my language but what the hell? You talk about meditation to unlock a phone but you don't have the self control to put it in a drawer for half an hour? You want novelty-less focus from the damn app store? What kind of app stores do you frequent?

> Brainstorming: Suppose you must enter a random 3 digit code for an early "unlock" of no-distraction mode. The only way to get the code is to watch a blank screen for 2-3 minutes, where each digit is briefly visible at an unpredictable time spread out through the duration.

Hold on a second here. You want people to stare at a blank screen as a form of introspection. Additionally you want them to pay attention to that blank screen to see if a number briefly appears then remember that number while staring and being introspective. Good lord you think that task is relatively easy?

Also what is this "uncomfortable alone with their thoughts time"? Do people shower with their devices, are people literally never without these things? More importantly are you uncomfortable in your own head? I'm seriously confused by this to the point of being indignant and I'm only 25.

Wow, that's really impressive. Good on you all for putting in the work.

Wait is there actually demand for something that...I guess powerful? Applying ML to Selenium selectors seems like some truly massive overkill.

Not to mention dynamically generated tests at runtime. I'm not really sure how that would solve the problem of a weak locator. If you're given explicit inputs and they're weak enough to break then building a reliable test from that seems a tremendous challenge.

I love that you guys are having a go at this problem. I do this kind of regularly. The claims of being faster to write due to not having to figure out locators doesn't seem to hold water though.

That kind of attitude is why my entire career path exists. QA Automation is something that I'm constantly surprised people don't know exists. Product devs resent writing tests so we are the ones who do that exclusively.

As a counter to your experience I've spent a great amount of time stamping out issues with record-and-playback tests. They're a passable stop-gap if you desperately need testing and, for whatever reason, haven't written any. Sikuli is possibly worse, though it's been a few years since we last evaluated it and quickly decided against using it in any serious capacity.

Using manual testers as discount automation testers is a waste of everyone's time. They're the true experts in actual use of the product. I've seen them find more issues that from a code perspective shouldn't really be possible that it's given me an implicit trust and respect of their abilities. If someone wants automated testing it's another thing they're going to have to spend money on. Doing it half-assed is more than likely going to do more harm than good.

>So humorless they could suck the fun out of a Russian wedding

Unfortunate.

You captured my feelings after reading this blog post pretty well.

Having never been subscribed to any lists like this the post comparing the two didn't even convince me that Nugget was superior. Quite the opposite, I signed up for Opps Daily.

Wow, disingenuous statement you made there.

>In those 7-12hr you can sit and stare into the idiot box and laugh when the talking heads tell you to laugh... >I watch a lot of TV but most of the TV I watch is "What If"

You can watch TV and be an idiot or you can watch the kind of TV I approve of and as such become a better human being.

I mean if you broaden the definition of learning to include watching sci-fi and pondering whatever social commentary you read into the script then great. I'm going to go learn super hard.

Hold on, in a comparison between Vonnegut and Twain it ended up being Vonnegut who came off as too cynical? I've had the exact opposite reaction. Twain is borderline unreadable at points due to what seems like a near crippling cynicism just barely holding back from becoming outright whining.

Yes? That is the entire point of this discussion. That just strikes me as a sign-up for more info. Granted I haven't signed up there so who knows if there are nefarious pre-checked boxes and massive ToS agreements, but signup for access to the site doesn't seem malicious.

Yeah I can definitely see that side of things. The manual aspect of QA is definitely reducing, though I would hesitate to call it entirely dead. I love the fact that I've got experienced manuals who are able to craft well written procedures that I can automate.

There are more and more opportunities for QA Automation with the ability to write those procedures, which I suspect are the ones replacing the manual QA specialists you reference.

My current job seems to disagree with you and their point about QA. As far as I've been able to see, the market explicitly for QA Automation is actually growing. The idea of

>Developers are responsible for full test automation and making sure their code works.

Is laughable outside of [insert new sexy startup here], if only due to the difference in mindset.

Granted I'm totally biased as a QA Automation, but the analogy actually removed quite a bit of credence that this article might otherwise have held with me.

I've been of the opinion that that kind of "freedom" is a sad illusion at best, and a crippling sense of entitlement at worst. Consider your first question:

>Does having a mincome stop you from stressing over the guy across the street who has a bigger [house] and a better looking wife?

Well, no, however neither does almost anything else. It seems cultural, and is almost certainly psychological. The classic idiom, "the grass is always greener on the other side" illustrates this pretty well. Even with the wealth, whatever form it may take, to get the bigger house, the better looking wife, the whatever problems still arise. The neighbor with the smaller house, with more time for xyz, with a car they don't need to fret over because it cost 1/50 as much as yours.

Those aren't notions of freedom, their ideas of competition. Why can't I be /happier/ than the other guy? Freedom comes as much from being able to have a bad day as having a good one.

That seemed more an aimless rant than an actual article about mistakes. Hell I even agree with some of what I will generously call points. Unfortunately I now feel bad that I share a "camp" with this loudmouth.

Considering the top 5 questions of all time on SO for most technologies are trivial/basic cases or homework. Yeah, when I first used Git I had to look things up.

Now that I use Git daily a tool like this seems like a terrible plan. I don't even trust basic scripts for git commands I haven't written/read totally, something which I'm not prepared to do for this tool.

>Anyway, with GitUp, the idea is to have an interactive live map instead

I like the idea of a live map, but the "interactive" part seems silly.

It seems a bit strange that with all the hate the term "brogrammer" tends to garner, this article has chosen to go with the term "wogrammer" for female engineers.

Seems counter-productive.

It's probably way too far out for anyone to make any real judgements on this. Additionally I will qualify the rest of the text with the information that I find BitCoin more silly and revolutionary.

That being said...What the actual fuck? From an embedded mining chip in smartphones, to not focusing specifically on mining(?), to a distinctly finite currency (at least as I understand it) being referred to as an “infinite stream of digital currency".

This does not inspire confidence, no...

It actually seems to get to the level of the Fry "not-sure-if" meme in the next paragraph when quoting Mr. Srinivasan.

>The product launch reflects 21’s view that “bitcoin will ultimately be seen as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space and RAM,”

I feel one must question at the very least the motives of a person who wants MONEY to be a fundamental system resource. Woe unto us when we open a system monitor to see an account balance next to our consumed physical/virtual memory.