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Taking small steps to solve big (especially personally existential) problems can be significantly less daunting that solving the world in one go. Obviously, getting everyone's stress level down to 1 would be best, but improving even a bit to get it down to 3 is a (gigantic) first step.

Paternity leave policies are rare or only just becoming popular benefits differentiators in the US.

After working in DevOps and getting nightly calls from a paging service about down servers, turning my toddler into another down server seems worse than the current situation ;-) That said, this is a great, fun project for an Amazon button.

This seems like it's almost "1Password for Email Addresses," which would be pretty great: go to site, hit key combination, have random/saved email inserted into login boxes. Combining that with email forwarding to my real email address that I can turn on and off is pretty powerful.

Does that not prove the market?

Agreed.

"Not exceptional in any manner" seems like a bit of an out-of-whack analysis of a $250K engineering salary at Google.

Reading this really brought me back -- to my earliest days as a developer and to the many hours I'd spent on the IMDb boards! Thank you!

It's higher fashion, which is perhaps the limiting factor, but Rent the Runway was "Airbnb for clothes" pretty well: https://www.renttherunway.com/

The human element of home inspection is invaluable. That interaction between homeowner (or prospective) and a knowledgeable professional is critical. But drones as tools for that professional could be great.

Excellent personal story on finding the right workspace in a remote situation. Home office vs. Coworking space is a conversation I have with other remote works quite a bit, and the answer is different for everyone.

I've gone through the interview process and received two job offers as a result of "Who's Hiring" posts. The posts tend to come from first parties that are motivated to hire talented new members for their teams, so the opportunities are very legit.

Really beautiful way to make an account physical. Oink!

This is applicable to an Intro to SOFTWARE ENGINEERING course. As an exercise. Not the primary content. It is not Computer Science.

Lots of finding work and vetting skills is actually a chicken or the egg problem. You have to find the places that are willing to offer opportunity with less proven background in order to open the door to bigger opportunities. This is like any job skill.

The article contains excellent negotiation advice and its cornerstone element is honesty. Regardless of the author's history, this advice is solid.

Hiring teams that are just "getting their feet wet" with remote workers are going to be more hesitant. When there is an in-company precedent for what remote work is like, I find them to be more open.

For me, making the transition from on-site to remote work was difficult. Like any job skill, it's something I had to be able to demonstrate proficiency and/or history with before I could land full-time, remote employment exactly where I wanted.

This is definitely something that happens. It's valid, I believe, for the company to vet candidates for culture fit, but the go should not be hiring a team of "sames."

In a recent batch of interviews (four opportunities local, three remote), I was put through a specific culture fit step of the interview process at all but one company, and it was part of all remote hiring processes.

This. I keep my friends list neat by taking a look at today's birthdays. When Facebook asks me to write something on a person's wall for their birthday, I can make a quick decision on how important that friendship is to me. For those I don't feel a need to keep around, I unfriend (or perhaps just unsubscribe/hide) them.

It's nice because I don't have to embark on some great friend list culling as a major event, but I do get to trim the list with some frequency.

I love the anecdotal account -- especially since I am researching a similar change -- but would truly appreciate more numbers for transition stories like this. Memory usage before and after. Throughput, etc.

Also what was the cost in time and man hours of conversion?

Script tags at the bottom of body has become the accepted standard for faster page loads. I'd think the library would have to be doing some strange things to not work if placed in the head, though.

Yes! If not to catch violators, at least to collect data for use in enforcement. In cities and towns with lots of pedestrians, the stop sign case is key. People check for other cars by habit, but often overlook pedestrians waiting to cross at a stop sign and put them at risk.

I think there's a chance your cohort will have more people like this (that have great fondness for "older" characters and media) due to Netflix/streaming, but on the overall I think you're a subset. For every person who appreciates classics, there are ten that binge watch current/trendy/popular stuff only.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out with all of the great access to media history we have today!

I can echo your positives regarding using the platform. It's been mostly a joy and learning it has been fun.

We've used npm for a server-only component of our architecture built in Meteor, but happily mix npm and atmosphere packages together with ease.

I work for a startup that has grown our team and product over the past two years, building a major application on Meteor. It's been great seeing the platform grow, and we've been able to benefit from many of Meteor's components from the very beginning. We can add new features very quickly because of the base Meteor provides.

If Meteor is a fit for your project, definitely use it. Real-time, isomorphism, and more can be of big benefits to rapid development.

I live in Bella Vista, a tiny neighborhood between Center City and South Philly and echo @angdis' sentiment. The Philadelphia subway system leaves a bit to be desired, but considering the trolleys, buses, and "regional" rail options, as well as the ease of making connections between most of these systems, Philly has a more than adequate public transportation system altogether.

Also -- Philly is one of the most walkable cities in the country. It's not difficult for someone to walk river-to-river or throughout University City to get where they're going.

I know plenty of folks that live and work within their neighborhood and rarely go elsewhere, but I know more people that explore all over the city and towns outside.

There's a little nod to it toward the end: "London's Trellick Tower and The Barbican are now both listed and desirable places to live."

Many could argue there is great beauty in the records of games played, the statistics, and the codified events of the day's action.

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution" great advice

This is as good an idea as a Jump to Conclusions mat.

That's a great policy. It doesn't completely remove time or energy from the HR/hiring manager at Atlassian, but it clearly outlines objectives of working with recruiters with a very real, tangible penalty for spamming. Nice.