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yeah as a state we need to limit if not down right outlaw power lines above the ground. Which will be a huge investment and definitely something that PG&E is not going to suggest themselves. But home owners and insurance companies have an interest here. Apart from the 80 people that died, what is the damage in those buildings and loss of economic activity? Much more than putting power lines underground.

I once needed an MRI, insurance company couldn't work out a deal before my appointment. MRI company offered to do the job if I paid up front and handled reimbursement myself. Costs up front were $500, compared to $1250 if the insurance company would pay after the procedure. Mind = blown.

For early stage development, Rails is still the best. No ORM tool out there is as powerful as ActiveRecord. Front ends are nowadays built more with React/Redux, which is well supported via Webpacker. And for basic admin pages, regular controller calls with validations and ERB/Haml/Slim templates works great. And GraphQL is fully supported via gems.

When you look for performance for microservices, Go or Scala are better. But that's when you are beyond the first 2 years and 25 developers and have the cash to invest

Silicon Valley is not a geographical area, it is the tech industry within a geographical area.

The tech industry wages have been going up, but the wages of the people around our industry have been stagnant. Sensationalist title.

in Amsterdam they used a drill. Very soft soil, no elevation soever. But underneath a lot of buildings and not always following the streets so Cut and Cover would not have been an option. Most interesting thing: freezing the area (with often wooden foundation poles in it) before drilling through it for stabilization.

http://www.urban-hub.com/landmarks/amsterdam-subway-line-now...

What bounty did he receive for filing this?

They did a billion in revenue last year. Coinbase doesn't need VCs anymore

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/22/16911692/cryptocurrency-bit...

Integrating payment is one of the most complex work to be done and operate, so yes this will fail every once in a while. In particular across different banks in the world. Coinbase must have grown 10-50x times last year so yes keeping your systems performant will be hard. Are you trying to go short on Coinbase?

Center core is gone, didn't land successfully. Well it was a test and most of the flight succeeded https://twitter.com/kimballclark/status/960986447770656768

can't we namespace it? like Otto: So Close ?

yeah an obvious way to improve the program is to require the applicant to have much more added value than the average American worker. I would argue that salary is the best but still a very poor indicator. What about fields where the average salary is low like agriculture or areas like North Dakota where the cost of living is low and therefore salaries are low? I think the USCIS should start to calculate these numbers per industry and geographical area

Some background, this is regarding the intermediate status once you have maxed out your 2 H1b visas for 3 years, and have applied for a green card. There are queues per country, with the one for India being the longest at 12 year (1).

Not allowing green card petitioners to stick around will hit hundred of thousands of foreigners that are almost certain eligible for a green card, but just have the bad luck of being stuck in a queue. They will have to leave the USA and many will abandon their green card efforts.

I'm sure a lot of employers will not like this, so the chance of this happening would seem slim. However with the current government one never knows.

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigratio...

Finally! I love Apple but taxes should be paid. There is a difference between legal and ethical and US companies should begin to understand that. So hopefully others will follow suit.

$100 million revenue per year will do that, I guess they do something better than the competition https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/03/messagebird/

You could do with some support. I am available to help you. contact me at twitter.com/dirkdk if you are open to it

Don't do the drugs. Tech companies are marathons not sprints. It is not about one week, it is about years of innovation. You need to be healthy, creative and on top of your game. In our industry it is about being smart, not lots of hours of work. Being mentally healthy will pay off in the long run.

congrats! Awesome company

O1s are easy for artists, I know about somebody that worked on music software that got one in 2 months. Business related O1s are much harder

as a former founder, I can tell you that much that you cannot work for the company you founded on an H1B visa. You can found the company, but not be employed by it. You will need another visa like the O1 or E2 investor visa.

For an H1B you need to be fireable, i.e. have a board of directors that can fire you as a CEO. Otherwise USCIS will argue that you started the company to get yourself an H1b visa

ditto. Lyft, pronounced of course as lift is a bad name for a company/service. Astonishing as the company first launched as Zimride.

ps. I take Lyft 99 % of the time, for years already. Every industry needs an underdog to keep the big guys on their toes. In particular shady ones.

I feel the pain of the underprivileged americans, in particular our African-American brothers and sisters. However, there is a difference however between the top leadership of our country making explicit decisions to pass legislation to exclude groups of people that is at odds with the constitution and established legislation, and local government and law enforcement running cities in an unfair way.

ACLU is valuable in both situations, but in particular to fight the current executive branch that requires massive manpower, knowledge and dedication.

having tougher restrictions for H1B visa's wouldn't be a bad thing. Last few years about 3x as many applications were filed than visas available, with a lottery deciding who would get the H1b visa. I would argue that foreigners that work at a high tech company like Google or Microsoft or Silicon Valley startups add more value than one working at an outsourcing firm that replace americans

Sorry to say I'm not surprised. Having multiple companies that suppply hardware, os versions and applications doesn't help.

Sometimes I like to use class diagrams for my models and sequence diagrams for API calls. State diagrams.

But just for higher concept sketching and most definitely not for generating code. I tried that, 12 years ago with Rational Rose. Boy did it suck.

Trying not to wonder if those servers would contain any tax returns. Or a pink elephant.

I don't wear a helmet in my home town Amsterdam. I do wear a helmet here in San Francisco. Why? Car drivers are just not used to bicyclists in SF. Yes open their door without looking, turn without using their signals. And in general, don't pay attention and are on their phones all the time

yeah, I find myself more doing a local commit with message WIP. I switch branches to do something else, come back, look at the log and if WIP, roll back the last commit

This is the original title from the BBC. I am always against using different titles than the original article.

Sounds like you loved working at the company and got a lot of responsibility. However in our field there needs to be progress, and it sounds your company is more in zombie mode. Have a heart to heart with your CEO and ask where he sees the company 5 years from now. The market is really good now and if you are just doing soso you will not survive a down turn.

that increase in value is peanuts compared to Benioff's net worth of 4.2 billion https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=benioff%20net%20worth