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Hey, I'm an engineer on this team, happy to discuss/answer questions.

It spun out of an internal hackathon and turned into a tool we use for pretty much all of our feature development.

She doesn't have very athletic parents, so she regularly exceeds my expectations for her, but she's not a particular standout otherwise!

Probably the more relevant factor: we replaced one of cars with a cargo bike when she was 15 months old, so she does 1500+ miles a year "on" a bike, and a tiny fraction of that in a car (we live in a totally car-centric US city, so this is pretty out of the norm). Bikes are the fabric of her daily life so she is really, really motivated to spend time on a bike.

My daughter started using a balance bike around 18 months. By the time she was 2.5, she zoomed around on it and had started asking about pedals. We got her a pedal bike two months before she turned 3, with the expectation that we might have to take the pedals off for a few more months. Instead, within a few days (maybe 2 total hours of practice?) she was riding confidently and totally by herself--at not quite 3 years old.

It's so different than the challenging, scary attempts to remove training wheels when my siblings and I were 5 or 6 years old. One of those things where I didn't realize the science and tradition on teaching kids to ride bikes could change so dramatically within two decades!

Does anyone use a tool like this for shared family email? As the kids are getting older and there's email communication from daycare and school and extracurriculars and everything else, the method of "all communication about X goes to one parent" is not really scaling. Just using one shared gmail could also work, but requires more communication around "are you handling that response or am I?".

It seems like fundamentally the same problem as this tool is solving, but when it's for family instead of business, even $30/month starts to feel pretty pricey.

I remember reading this article (or a very similar one) as well. It sent me down a path of looking for evidence based dentists, which are quite hard to find. I couldn't end up finding one that seemed to fit that bill in my local area. I talked to a recent dental school graduate friend who described some evidence that school debt is highly correlated to over-treating.

I ended up going the direction of looking for dentists unlikely to have debt and found a former army dentist and have been thrilled with how much less "well, let's do it all just in case" she is than my previous dentist (who had a TVs on the ceiling of every room and a new piece of major equipment every time I went).

> teen pregnancies were much less than now with all the Sex Ed, wide availability of contraceptives, etc.

While a common perception, that's actually almost entirely false. Teen pregnancies have been dropping pretty steadily for the last ~70 years and they're now almost one quarter the rate of just 30 years ago. Sex ed and availability of contraceptives (especially IUDs) are quite effective at preventing teen pregnancies.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/02/why-is-the-...

When my partner does this to me I call it his "audio buffering" mode -- he'll be absorbed in something and make no indication that he's heard me, but if I wait long enough (in the 15-60 second range), it'll suddenly make it all the way to his conscious attention and he'll respond as though there was no gap at all.

I believe programming in this context means "scheduled (often educational) activities", not coding.

I think the parent comment does mean underestimating the _range_, but overestimating the IQ, as you point out.

I strongly disagree with "daily is everything."

I think the appropriate frequency is (should be) derived from the subject matter. Some subjects deserve daily coverage, but the vast majority do not.

Nearly all of the newsletters I subscribe to and actually read are weekly, with a couple of exceptions for highly news-driven content, which does make sense (for me) on a daily basis.

Are you pointing out any genuine connections between the management styles or financial decision making of these other CEOs, or bringing them up just because of their shared gender?

Is there any non-sexist reason to have a list of "terrible female CEOs"?

For context: I'm an American who's currently working as a software engineer in France (for a French company).

I agree that engineering salaries are much higher in the US than in Europe and other non-US countries, however it's worth considering that there are additional expenses to hiring in other countries. My french salary is ~30-40% lower than I was making in the US. However, my cost to my employer is nearly as high. Employer taxes are much higher, my company is required to reimburse my transit and all-but-obligated to cover lunch as well. Certainly, many US software companies do some/all of that, but not all.

And beyond those pure costs, there are more liabilities to the employer. For instance, if they want to fire me, they're legally on the hook for four months of severance. And, I get ~7 weeks of combined vacation time and "comp time" (based on the fact that I work more than 35 hours a week). In the US, I got 2-3 weeks.

I don't have exact numbers, and I don't disagree that there are potentially savings to be had, but I don't think it's nearly as clear cut that you could get anything close to twice as many developers.

That lifestyle as a teacher is probably only desirable or realistic for the young. Once you want to settle down/have kids/whatever, you probably want to either buy a house, or not compromise quite so much. Does that mean that SF will have only young teachers? Most the experienced ones will move somewhere more affordable. Is that a problem for the city?

Vim Tutor comes with vim (and therefore most unix systems)!

Just type `vimtutor` in a terminal.

It's in the sankey diagram.

Take a look at this [1] article, especially the first chart.

True, a slight majority of principals are women, but it's much more illustrative to look at the career progression. Those selected to be moved up the career ladder are clearly primarily men.

1 - http://www.womenonbusiness.com/men-women-the-glass-escalator...

I understood the parent post to be saying that they wouldn't feel comfortable with a wage negotiated in bitcoins. 2 BTC/week means $1200 today, but next pay period, maybe it'll be $500, or maybe $5000. That kind of volatility persists regardless of whether you convert it immediately.

If the wage were negotiated in USD, but paid in Bitcoin, that'd be much more usable.