bigethan

So your initial assumption (population growth increases traffic) without evidence is true, but my experience is unbelievable? Seems like a weird way to reply if you want to have a meaningful conversation.

Doesn't have to be a white/yellow curb. Put your location to a spot that has a place where the cab can easily pull over eg, driveway, fire hydrant, etc.

the concern here is the blocking of traffic, not legality. Corners often have space to pull over without blocking traffic.

There are a ton of things they could do with their app and it's messaging (eg,Encourage people to drag their pin drop to a corner).

Try cycling in SF again. Things have changed a lot in the last year or so.

I've been bike commuting in SF for 10 years, and the last year has been by far the worst. And most bad actors are uber and lyft cars.

As a downtown sf commute cyclist, my anecdotal experience is that traffic now is much worse than the same time last year. And almost all the bad actors in traffic who are causing slowdowns and jams have uber and lyft stickers in their windows.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe that if I get hit on my bike uber/lyft will be responsible.

Have you actually been in sf traffic in the uber/lyft world? My observations from my life:

-Double parking everywhere waiting for pickup / dropoff /routing. Blocking car and bike lanes.

-riders getting out into traffic

-erratic drivers (new to SF, easily lost)

Its pretty terrible.

If they painted their cars yellow, and made them pickup and drop off at corners / out if the flow of traffic things would be way better (imho).

Is talking about distrusting this service due to government intervention a violation of the "no politics" rule? What about if it's just a nosy parent?

As a cyclist in SF, Uber/Lyft drivers are the most dangerous thing going. They're driving by staring at their phone's map for directions and pickup/dropoff. Once they stop, they stare at their phone for the next ride. Very little situational awareness.

It'd be nice if there was some sort of way for them to indicate they drive erratically. Perhaps by painting their cars all yellow or something...

This all happened during a time when employees were _not_ allowed to sell stock.

Not yet, but soon: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...

I see it more as great PR around what would otherwise be fairly silent donations to a cause that they support.

Take a look at Hug - it's built on Falcon and adds all the API niceties :-) https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug

Once you get beyond "just started" you'll see the value of these tools :-) The charm of Lambda is that it's easy to get rolling, but then the AWS complexity seeps in. This helps deal with a _lot_ of that in a pretty sane way.

So, in your estimation, what's an acceptable success rate for someone who only really works on moon shot ideas? I'm curious why you think she's a bellwether for failure as opposed to someone who is driven to take on world changing ideas.

If you're only going to say "I'm too close to her" and call her some bad things with an anon account, well, you probably just shouldn't have posted. I'm all for learning from the experiences people have interacting with the technocrati, but this post feels petty and lacks information.

"Hey CEO, There's an easy way I can increase team morale for less than the cost of a happy hour" said the VP of Engineering.

Totally! Pay for support works when it's not urgent. But when your biz is hurting, it's hard to translate that urgency to another company that has _entirely_ different priorities than you do.

Reminds me of the heroku shaming posts that (then) rap genius had to do regarding dyanamo scaling and performance - http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated They had no other way forward, even though they were paying the "experts"

This is why companies should pay open source contributors more frequently :-)

What's that cost? How quickly can it be done? If I was a developer would I have to ask my manager to look into the details of our support plan? What about the ability to patch the source?

`git clone` is an incredible power. Companies should reward those who are generous with their code.

This is why open source (and controlling your whole stack) matters in big business.

For example, Microsoft may be changing their image, but their core software is closed source. <cloud provider> may be great, but can you pull off something like this when you've got an issue? The importance of being able to debug and patch your mission critical systems is hard to overstate.

Please encourage your employer to fiscally support the open source code that they rely upon!

I switched to this style a few months ago, and really like it. Makes javascript read more like python, clean and specific.

Downside is that very few other authors are using it, so when you share code people are concerned about its format (no semicolons in particular).

An X hr coding test is very different than an X hour interview.

The interview process is intended to be a bi-directional flow of information. Giving someone a X hour programming test means that for X hours, the company gets to learn about the developer, but the developer doesn't really learn about the company.

The company is the one paying salary, so they set the terms of the interaction. But the feel of disrespect for the developers time is real and valid. If you chose to do a coding test, do so respectfully to avoid insulting the person you potentially want to hire.

Disqus comments are not good way to gather a representative view of the NPM community as a whole.

And, IMHO,comment threads aren't a productive place to have meaningful debate about this topic. If you care about this issue, they're all very receptive on twitter, email, etc. They're not shutting you out

This article is a great.

Similarly Working Effective with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (http://amzn.to/1UxwVdL) is a great programming book. I appreciate it because It's really nothing but patterns for dealing with bad code (mostly Java, but most of it translates to other languages). Very little why (which I already know), lots of "how to fix X", aka, great signal to noise ratio.

Do you sometimes get frustrated with not being allowed to park close to the office in the handicap parking spots? Do you feel jealous of your handicapped co-workers? What about co-workers who are addicted to cigarettes and get to take smoke breaks?

Children are a known hardship, but you don't really see it because it happens at your co-worker's homes and it's deemed unprofessional to talk about it at the office. Also, it sometimes appears to be rewarding. Trust me, we're not cheating the system, you shouldn't be jealous. Every other country in the world has this "perk" baked into their laws of government. But because the US is so pro-corporation only something that is necessary to treat workers with respect gets lumped into the "perk" category with your free fitbit and monthly massages.

It'd be nice if they added a little warning whenever submitting a comment that was only a '+1' or '-1' otherwise the discoverability is gonna take a while, maybe? Also a option to convert those comments into reactions for repository owners.

Looks cool, but then as I scrolled I was bummed to see that it was only white hands (with maybe one that wasn't white? Or a good suntan?). Any plans to build up a more diverse hand collection?

They key here is that it's a shareable url.

That's much easier to send along to someone in product or a C*O who may not be comfortable with the dev tools.

So if a woman can "survive" the business environment, she's more likely to become a CEO. To me that says: if she can survive through the bias/discrimination, she's probably much more qualified than her male counterparts.

That women are driven away by bias/discrimination is the true failing of our workplaces.

I'm a big fan of fluid as well. But it's always annoyed me because it's a older version of safari. Electron uses Chrome!

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