I think you're misunderstanding him. What he meant was the cultural norm (or more accurately imo: "the stereotype") in America around black people is that they can't swim, don't like baseball, don't listen to rock/country or play golf.
Wow I had no idea this canal was such a disaster in the making, and the article didn't even mention the canal the Chinese are building in Nicaragua which would significantly shorten shipping routes compared to Panama.
The author repeatedly conflates conservatism with Christianity. While there's probably a higher percentage of Christians who identify as conservative, it's not their conservatism that would trouble me in a University setting. I wouldn't want a University science professor to be a creationist for example, but I couldn't care less if they're fiscal conservative who believes in small government.
Pretty sure these numbers are international, not limited to the US? Though I'm sure there is a sizeable percentage in the US.
Also doesn't really mention what sorts of roles are getting cut, just that they're skewing towards older employees. My guess is that there will be a lot of non-technical people under the knife here.
Anyone know if the quoted cost of $0.04/GB for Transfer Acceleration is instead of the $0.03/GB for standard S3 ingress, or in addition to it? Ie. is the final cost per GB $0.07 or $0.04 when using Transfer Acceleration?
Edit: as pointed out to me below, there actually is no ingress cost for standard S3 uploading. The $0.03/GB is monthly storage. So the cost of this service is $0.04/GB instead of $0.00.
Density isn't really the problem in San Francisco. The problem is available housing. Relatively speaking San Francisco is far less dense than many other cities. But these other cities don't have housing shortages.
(1) I notice that your pricing chart mentions storage. I'm wondering what that typically would consist of? Only thing I can think of are static assets as I imagine a codebase — even with a million npm module dependencies — wouldn't come close to 1GB let alone 100.
(2) Is it possible to back your apps with a database/datastore? Say I want to use MongoDB with my app. Would I need to purchase a third party service and set the MONGO_URL in the env? Are there any plans to offer database services as add-ons?
That's one hell of a clickbait title. In order for any browser to be "the new IE", developers would have to hate it and dread developing for it/supporting it. Ask any web developer today which browser is their favourite, go-to browser for development. This statement holds absolutely no water.
Secondly, the author cherry picks a couple things that haven't been implemented in Chrome, glossing over the fact that Chrome tends to support way more features than any other browser on the market, and is more often than not the first and the best implementor of web standards. A quick perusal of caniuse.com or the support matrices on MDN will drive this point home (honourable mention to Firefox).
I'm not in the situation of ramping up a team unfamiliar as the author was. But it sounds like he was experienced with JS and React himself. Or are you suggesting he should replace his team with people more familiar with JS+React?
This sounds like a great idea! One caveat being that the it probably caters more to web/mobile devs. Eg. you probably wouldn't use this challenge for a database engineer, or machine learning role. You could, but it wouldn't tell you much about their skills in the domains you're interested in. Still definitely worth trying for roles where it makes sense. I might try this.
Whether or not React's goal is to cater to beginners doesn't make the argument any less valid. Also React doesn't equal JSX. The React docs also mention how to do things without JSX.
Maybe it's the article's title that has understandably rankled some people by seemingly maligning JSX. However, I think it's a very valid concern to have when ramping up a team that's unfamiliar with JS and React.
I think his points about new developers having to learn JS, React, and JSX all at the same time and then context switch between them in ways that aren't entirely clear was pretty spot on. I don't know how you draw that comparison without mentioning the shortcomings of JSX. Also with Hyperscript you're still building your markup directly in your Javascript, just using JS for it instead of JSX, not templates. Not sure if that's what you meant with your "separate template pages" statement.
I have to agree with most of this but I was actually pretty impressed by 3D touch and I just think it'll take a little bit of time for app developers to start using it in novel ways. I wouldn't write that one off just yet.
The article mentions two independent groups of physicists who both had access to his device and both reported the same results. That would mean that both groups were in on it, or he's become so good at faking his results that they withstand a month of scrutiny.
Unless I'm missing something, this this article did not give a single reason why it "will not be easy", aside from quoting the director of marijuana enforcement in Colorado saying: "It’s going to be a lot harder to implement than you think". Otherwise, the article is just a description of the current landscape in the marijuana industry of Canada before legalization.
Just to clarify: in this case it may be okay if you're doing work for a client outside of the US and they are billed by a business entity that is also outside the US? So the deal-breaker is doing work for US companies?
How would you rate a senior engineer's odds at qualifying for an O-1 visa? Can they get by on career/work history alone or does it require a level of public notoriety?
If someone is on a visa tied to a specific job at a specific company, what is the legality of working on personal side projects (that may turn a profit)?
This was surprising to me! I always figured my Zipcar wasn't much of a target for thieves because: It has a big Zipcar logo emblazoned on it (slows down turnaround of the car if you're trying to sell it), it has the custom Zipcard locking mechanism, which is tied into the car's alarm system, and each car has GPS in it, which you'd think would lead the cops right to them.
Wondering what use these cars are to thieves? Is it just a quick way to grab a ride somewhere (maybe out of town)? Are they actually selling these cars intact to people to be repainted/refitted and sold? Or are they sold for scrap/parts?
> Zipcar can track the cars using GPS but they told me they can’t turn off the engine remotely.
A less extreme (and litigious) option could be to just turn on the car's alarm remotely. It would make the prospect of stealing one far less attractive to thieves if it was known that the alarm would start blaring at some random point after they've driven off with it.
I love Mr. Robot (even though it borrows rather heavily from Palahniuk, among others) and strongly recommend it to anyone who liked the movie Hackers. I particularly enjoyed the Hackers reference in that episode you mention. The character's contempt at the technical infeasibility of the data visualizations is well captured as I've probably heard that same criticism a million times by my "real hacker" friends who may have snorted derisively but still watched the film to its end multiple times.
This is great! One nitpick: I wouldn't say that SQS is like Sidekiq. Because sure, part of Sidekiq is a queue (in Redis), but the more important aspect of Sidekiq is the workers that operate on the queue. If you needed a second example I'd have gone with ZeroMQ.
Because it's your job and you're being compensated to do so. If the company is running fine without the owner, and his/her being away isn't negatively affecting your own ability to do your job, then why does it matter to you what they up to at any given moment?
I imagine a good chunk of that value is being placed on the team they acquired. They're a proven mobile dev shop with a well recognized name in an "up and coming" Berlin startup scene, who already have a major success under their belts. I'm also sure a sizeable percentage of the amount isn't cash but options with 2-4 year vesting periods. edit: also often the team salaries over the course of that period are included in the amount.