danvasquez29

The drivers will go where the work is. If Uber lets them utilize their truck more often and/or with more certainty, and pays them on delivery without them having to send out invoices and wait 30+ days, then they'll drive for Uber instead of their local brokerage.

I signed up for TSA PreCheck recently and have taken 3 trips with it so far, all to different locations. One thing that has stood out to me is that the security agents that check IDs REALLY check ID's. There's a notable difference in the length of time and scrutiny they put into it, and some even asked follow up questions like where I was born and where I was going, which just about never happens in regular security.

It made me think that they were maybe taking advantage of the lower volume and lower stress environment and using behavior based analysis like the Israeli's (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/20/israels-risk-base...)

I think there's a shortage of good candidates, and an abundance of bad ones. Companies who have been burned on the bad ones and/or have convinced themselves they only hire "the best" then put those overly-restrictive barriers on new hires.

This problem is made worse by the lack of investment in training once hired, as some are discussing in these comments. Companies become even more reliant on the hiring process to produce the perfect candidate, and employed people are encouraged to stagnate their skills which dwindles the talent pool further.

Most companies, in my own personal experience, do fall over themselves to hire proven great candidates right now. Update your linkedin with some engineering accomplishments in in-demand fields like devops, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning, or at well known companies and watch the recruiters circle like sharks in heat.

#1 does get annoying. I think it does make the experience a little more jarring having to use the same sentence structure for each question. For example, if I want an update on my fantasy football team, I have to say "Alexa, ask yahoo fantasy football"... this is weird and not natural. In normal conversation, I would say "ask yahoo", which isn't specific enough, or skip right to "alexa what's going on with my fantasy team?" since I only have the one team and one integration capable of dealing with fantasy sports.

#2 I agree is an issue. I wonder if with the current environment any independent would be allowed to gain traction, or would the competitors lock them out of services that users find mandatory (amazon shopping lists, google search, apple music, etc).

I'm not really sure why you think it's Amazon only or a walled garden. I have limited experience with it but from the research I've done thus far it seems to have a fairly robust development platform.

I'm under the impression that if it feels Amazon-only it's because of a failure of companies and devs to take advantage of the platform, not a failure of the platform itself. For example the Google services you're asking about, is that Amazon's fault or has Google not taken the time to develop that app because they're focusing on their own product?

I've used my echo dot most often with 3rd party services so far (daily briefing integrations, capital one, yahoo fantasy football).

It honestly fits his MO perfectly I think. He very much values enterprise leadership over political experience.

I think that that criteria heavily leans on an assumption of the quality of the other engineers on the team though. If there is a team composed of 4 engineers who are in the bottom 10% of performers in the company, it won't be hard for them to see a very mediocre engineer as a "senior" because that person does so much more than they can; yet to the other 89% of the company, it's absurd that that person would be considered a senior.

Granted, many would say it's equally absurd to have so many members of the bottom of your engineering talent on one team, but I've seen it happen over and over again in real life.

voluntary Ecosystem lock-in is actually the reason I moved back to iOS. I use an iPad pro, and I don't believe there's a better tablet out there. I use Macbook Pros both at work and at home. Having all of those devices perfectly in sync is amazing for my productivity.

it could be that the licensing fees on the name are a significant enough drag on revenue, and/or the agreement has an expiration date and there's an expectation that the licenser won't renew the agreement.

I've been a part of situations like that. You can try and get ahead of it like TW is doing now where you create the second name ahead of time and try to build up the recognition and awareness around it in advance.

it's not just the skills, but the dedicated time. Cultivating leads and developing marketing plans takes time that you as a tech lead shouldn't have and skills that you probably don't either.

It's a full time job to do well, and your technical people's time is too valuable to have them half-assing it.

He wouldn't need to know it for the job, but as others have said he probably would know it if he really had the experience on his resume. That's the value for me sometimes in questions like that, especially in an initial phone screen, to decipher if you're bullshitting or exaggerating your credentials.

Two ways it's better: it sets the expectation with the sender that you won't get an immediate response, and it provides a better option for those without the discipline/self-control

I believe it's 'PMI' your referring to. You don't need 20% to avoid that anymore with a lot of programs, it's down to 5% or even 3.5% if your credit is high enough. 720 is the sweet spot right now where you should pretty much never have PMI.

There's also some incentives out there right now where the lender pays the PMI for you.

downtown Detroit is in a weird state right now where it's bounced back enough and gotten enough hype that it's gentrifying, but the development efforts haven't quite finished fast enough to catch up to demand.

My rent from 2013-2015 went up 35% and I eventually moved to a suburb. I tried to buy a place and even when I convinced myself to overpay would be beat out by a better all-cash offer within 24 hours of a place going on sale. It's nuts here right now.

3 years ago it was a great place to move in cheapish and be around a burgeoning scene, right now it's expensive as hell, and in 2 years will probably be back to being able to support that student/new grad/bootstrapping entrepreneur scene. We need more housing to come online, and it's being built, just not done yet.

I send out a test in between phone interview and face to face but it's very subjective, not really meant to weed out people who fail. The purpose of it is to create some technical talking points for the face to face interview in lieu of putting someone on the spot on the whiteboard. "I see you refactored this, but not this. Can you explain your thinking? Why did you decide this pattern fit the solution?" There can be many right answers, and especially many right reactions to wrong answers, and I like that conversation more than putting people through a whiteboard.

Also, agree on the 2 interview max. Technically we do 3, but the first is a 3 minute basic screen by the recruiter, not really an interview.

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In my opinion Denver is a shitshow and my least favorite airport to fly into. I actively avoid layovers there.