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As I understand it, the grid plan originated in Philadelphia in a stretch of land between the Delaware and Schyulkhill rivers. This portion, which is now generally called Center City, has a grid that aligns itself with the Delaware which runs at that point a little East of North. The rest of the city grew up extending that grid.

Flatiron School (now part of WeWork) | Software Engineers, esp. Seniors | New York, NY (NYC) | ONSITE | FULL-TIME

Hi, I'm the Engineering Director on the Product/Engineering team at the Flatiron School. I joined the team about four months ago as part of a general scaling up of the team (we're currently about 25 devs and growing) and love it. We mostly work on Learn, a modern Learning Management System that runs the school's online coding bootcamps. This place is an unusually kind and nurturing place, and we have a mission that we believe in. A number of the developers originally went through the Flatiron School, so the level of knowledge and empathy with users is unusually high.

We're looking for developers with a wide range of backgrounds, especially people with a few years under their belts and an interest in mentoring less-experienced developers. We value diversity of all kinds and would love to benefit from having many perspectives. I can speak from my own experience as a parent that it's a family-friendly place with pretty good core hours, flexibility around timing, good health benefits, friendliness toward dialing in (though we generally prefer to work together in-person) and just a generally nice vibe.

As far as the tech stack goes, we mostly use Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix and Javascript/React and we're moving to AWS. I wouldn't get too hung up on having all of these particular items on your resume. What's most important to me is having some ways of solving problems collaboratively on a team. There's all kinds of cool problems to work on here as we scale our user base, course offerings, team and our infrastructure, and there will be plenty of new problems that will require adaptability, openness and an ability to communicate.

We have some job listings at https://flatironschool.com/careers/, but if you're interested in finding out more, applying or just want to chat, please drop me a line at paul@flatironschool.com.

Here's a video from a few years ago of Elon Musk doing exactly what they're saying not to do: https://youtu.be/MO0vdNNzwxk?t=2m

I’m no GDPR expert, but wouldn’t it apply to data of European citizens even if they’re not the customer? Since unroll.me slurps up email, don’t they still have to comply with all the rules for data because presumably some of that email data originates from the EU?

The filming clause has now been removed. https://twitter.com/eventbrite/status/988175772031447040

(2017)

I'll second the recommendation of the History of English podcast. I'm roughly 20 episode in and adore it. However, I can't speak to its efficacy as a soporific.

To say that one problem reduces to another is not to say that one or the other is more important. It is, rather, to say that one is purely a function of the other, which implies that solving the latter necessarily solves the former. So, in this case, I took you to mean something like "Class is the fundamental problem; if we solve class-based inequality then race-based inequality will be solved as a side effect."

It sounds like you're saying that one is more important. I honestly don't know whether class or race-based inequality is more of a problem; I think it depends on context. Both of them have caused great problems. I will point out that many people have been as "fucked" as imaginable for being labelled as a particular race: murdered, enslaved, forcibly displaced from their homelands, etc. And this sort of thing continues to this day, e.g. in Myanmar right now the Rohingya are arguably being genocided. If one of those people could change their race, they would be decidedly unfucked in that context.

Sorry, I was typing on a mobile device. I thought it was obvious that I was talking in both cases about a system of inequality based on some notion of "race".

Also, saying that there is one system of inequality doesn't mean there aren't others. Class is certainly another, related, system. But one doesn't reduce to another.

There are two ways to understand racism. One is to think of it as an attitude held by an individual that causes them to act in particular ways. The other way is to think of it as a system that perpetuates inequality, independently of the internal attitudes of individual actors. If you’re using the former definition, you’re possibly correct, if you believe that computers can and will never have attitudes toward things. If the latter definition, you most certainly can have computers perpetuating a system of racism, even if they are lacking internal attitudes.

If you click through, they explain what's going on. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

"Wait, transition is used only 0% of the time? That can't be right. This data is for a CSS shorthand (eg: background) which is normally expanded to the appropriate longhands by the browser's engine and placed into the CSS Object Model. In some instances this can not be done, such as when a site uses custom properties. This results in confusingly low numbers, but the data for the shorthand is actually in its appropriate longhand. Click the link below to see the data for all of the longhands that map to this shorthand."

Maybe he can send them a humorous cease & desist letter http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-stranger-things-pop-u...

No, that's an insufficient summary. At the least, you should note harassment as a significant issue, since the author brings it up many times.

Imagine that the differences were magnified, say heads 90% of the time. Would the randomness of the catch erase that difference?

I perused the author's blog and peeked at his LinkedIn profile. It looks like he continues to do Ruby development, and still calls himself a "Ruby on Rails Developer." I wonder what caused him to change his mind?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399

Is this SF-only, or either SF or NYC?

You're right that he's still just a kid, though I think he's in eighth grade, so roughly 13 years old rather than 8.

One of the questions being investigated is how such targeting might have been achieved. There just happened to be a data operation run by Jared Kushner, who is at the center of Mueller's investigation.

If you take a look at the original blog post upon which this article is based, they list exactly which companies they include in each category:

https://www.earnest.com/blog/food-economy-spending-data/

"Brick-and-mortar includes Publix, Whole Foods, Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, Costco, and Albertsons. Grocery delivery includes Instacart, Fresh Direct, Foodkick, Amazon Fresh, and Thrive. Meal Kit services include Blue Apron, Hello Fresh, and Purple Carrot. Prepped meals include Freshly, Thistle, and Munchery. Restaurant delivery services include Ubereats, Doordash, Seamless, GrubHub, and Caviar."

Are you saying that the high-performing teams are continuing to work as they were, and the other, presumably lower-performing, teams being made to act differently? That doesn't sound too bad, at least on its face.

(2013)

I've also been off of caffeine for about two years, for a few reasons (anxiety reduction, desire to be free of chemical dependencies, and especially sleep improvement). It took me about three weeks of depression and lethargy, but was totally worth it. My sleep especially is much-improved, and I'd say that my anxiety levels are generally lower.

The main thing is that you need to get enough sleep at night.

If you're interested, I found some support on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/decaf.

My favorite ice cream flavor as a child was Pink Bubblegum at Baskin Robbins: https://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/baskinrobbins/en/produ...

It similarly reminded me of Clutch Cargo, see e.g. https://youtu.be/WPCMilDV38U?t=34s

Make this a bookmarklet (I call it "wsj unlock") and use it from the wsj page.

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Sorry, I looked just at the February numbers. You're right.

I was surprised that this article doesn't mention that California is one of the few states that allow graduates of unaccredited law schools to sit for the bar exam. My understanding is that the bar passage rate for graduates of these programs was much lower than that of ABA-accredited institutions.

Edit: I found an article with some numbers: http://abovethelaw.com/2016/11/californias-bar-exam-passage-...

The breakout chart (towards the end) shows that ABA-accredited school graduates passed with a rate of about 60% on the first try, which seems alright, compared to a dismal 30% or less for unaccredited schools.

Edit 2: For comparison, the NY bar passed 67% of first timers, which is a little easier than California, but not dramatically so. Source: https://www.nybarexam.org/ExamStats/2016_NY_Bar_Exam_PassRat...

I'd say this has been the case for a minimum of the past 20 years, at least in the US.

Here's a screenshot from an early mac control panel. Notice the use of the word "Font" for typeface.

http://www.amd.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/ma/rs/lv/hoqt/fog_fi...

There are many workplace cultures where it is expected of employees to socialize after hours if they want to get ahead. Individuals in those systems are generally following their self-interest.