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Yes, I remember them being the same from 2005-ish through to about 2011-2012 ish. This guy was at SPG until 2006.

Worth pointing out that at the time of this guy's tenure, and for many years afterwards, the way you authenticated yourself while booking a rewards reservation with SPG via the phone was to verbally tell the agent your online password. Like, WTF.

I think the author missed that the old version, and Google Maps currently, typically use green to denote certain types of public land (parks, national forest, etc.) not vegetation per se. Apple is solving a different use case by color coding by vegetation. And It's one that I think is less useful. KNowing that there is vegetation on someone else's private land isn't really that useful to me. But knowing the boundaries of a national forest is extremely useful.

To be fair, part of this is natural and seasonal. Most of natural marine biotoxins are seasonal and the department of health tests regularly. I don't know to what extent the biotoxins are affected by pollution (e.g., fertilizer runoff), but they are a natural occurrence.

Separately, they also have permanently closed the tidelands near Seattle due to pollution. Crabbing is still open each summer, but bivalves are closed.

I was just out on Whidbey Island a couple of weeks ago where I found and ate raw oysters on the beach, then dug clams and brought them home for dinner. The pollution does concern me, but I do trust the government testing. Its also worth noting that the oysters & other bivalves you eat in restaurants come from the same waters.

For those interested on the more-fascinating-than-you-might-assume history of coyotes I suggest you read Coyote America by Dan Flores. There is also a fantastic podcast episode that hits the high points of the book: http://www.themeateater.com/podcasts/episode-033/

The only issue with his metaphor is that coyotes have been doing very well at the meta game. At the time of European contact there were no coyotes anywhere near Connecticut. Lewis and Clark didn't encounter them until they hit the great plains. Actually only a few decades ago there were no coyotes near the eastern US.

But coyotes are clever and they've learned to adapt and live in close proximity to humans. And as we've changed the landscape and removed & added various animals and plants to the landscape they've found niches that work for them and have expanded their range greatly.

Any guess when devices will start using Galileo? I'm thinking about dropping some coin in a Garmin Fish Finder & chartplotter for my boat. Currently sell models that use GPS & GLONASS.

Yeah, I'd really like to see more specialized options for other diets. I'd like to have a ketogenic option.

How much did Uber raise in Q3 and Q4? Seems like it would be material to the trend over the past few quarters, and is at this point a different animal.

I'm on the flip side of this normally. I work at a large silicon valley tech company and do a fair amount of hiring.

If you feel you're making well below market value for the industry & geo that you're interviewing in, I wouldn't set an 'anchor'. You have nothing to gain. Just wait for them to make you an offer. This is especially true if you're interviewing at a smaller company where they have less rigorous compensation guidelines for a given position, and they might be more tempted to low-ball you. A good manager at a large company shouldn't change their comp decision if you're making surprising little now... but you never know.

If you're currently in-line with the market, you can tell them or not. Either way you're in a good position to negotiate if the offer comes in a bit soft. Most candidates I see in this situation are upfront about their current comp and it makes the whole process more efficient.

If you're making more than market or more than they're expecting, be up front. Especially at a large company. Once they get approval to issue an offer it might be impossible or extremely difficult to increase the comp outside the band for that level. If they know in advance that you're making more than expected they can consider an offer at the next higher level. Also, don't just make up a number that puts you above market. First, if it is clearly too high it will make them question your honesty. Second, it might preclude you from an offer altogether if they don't feel you're ready for the next grade level.

As a side note, when candidates defer on the comp question, I assume they're making less than market. Almost as a rule 9 out of 10 candidates who defer are coming from other geo's or other industries that don't pay as well. As a policy, I try to keep my team's comp equitable & calibrated (much more tightly than just blindly following our company bands & guidelines) so I don't give them a lower offer. But other managers might not do the same.

I think it is pretty clear Tony Hsieh isn't the right person to lead Zappos at this scale. His craziness got it to where it is today, but what you need from a CEO changes with scale.

I just bought a "Tensegrity" tent... it isn't pure tensegrity (there is one small bent pole) but it gets close.

https://www.sierradesigns.com/product/tensegrity-2-elite

FYI - here is a video of a Hohmann transfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdB3nmAl_0

Anyone have a gif/video of the 'ballistic capture' method?

If you are using Google Apps Free edition, you're good to go.

If you pay for Google Apps, you get shafted. Nice.

This isn't about basic human rights. This is about 'rights' you get for the service you paid for.

You lost me at "Silicon Valley of X". They need to chart their own path. Trying to recreate silicon valley is doomed for failure.

Use 2+ monitors and 2+ desktops ('Spaces' or whatever they're called). When you're expecting to go from app A to app B, instead you're taken to app C. Or, you're taken to an unexpected window of App B on a different desktop.

Also, the Z-ordering of windows seems really odd. If you have multiple windows open from two apps, and you ⌘+` between them, sometimes all of App A windows are brought to the front and App B windows are hidden. Other times only one App A window is brought up. Meanwhile, if you have App C chilling on a different monitor, it may or may not disappear at random.

Even if it worked as intended, it would be flawed when compared with Alt+Tab on windows.

I don't care about flat or transparent. I just hope they effing fix windowing and multi-monitor support. ⌘+` is ridiculously buggy.

Yikes. Allowing some random startup to go through my email willy nilly? Yeah right. "We use secure connections & care about your privacy" What does that even mean? Can you download the full contents of my gmail account and keep it on file?

I've flown more than 300 segments in the past 3 years, but it still isn't worth the risk.

Connect to TripIt, or something else. Or tell me there is a way to use Google to search my gmail in a targeted manner without me exposing other sensitive info.

Yeah, the name just sounds dirty. I changed the name of the bookmark...

The question is: if TC reporters were replaced by buzzword spewing software, would the article quality get better or worse?

+1. yikes. If you want to convince me of something, at least don't make it painful to read.

In the little I gathered, it seems their argument is about as well thought out as their UI.

If you have a lot of demand, raise your prices. Don't price gouge, but people often really underestimate how much big companies are willing to pay. Especially for quality work that isn't a pain for them to manage.

Great comments above. One more thing to add: if I was in your position I would be thinking more broadly about how to best use my math background within the software development world. You're worth a lot as a programmer. You're worth even more as a programmer with a PhD in math, providing you can find the right opportunity to apply your skills. You may not notice a big difference in starting salary if you don't have a lot of experience, but if you choose the right path you can likely make much, much more in a 5-10 year time frame. In my current company, we have some minor issues finding good programmers. We have major problems finding programmers that are really good at developing the fundamentals of an approach for solving really hard business problems (hard from an algorithmic perspective).

It may be that your thesis topic is far removed from practical applications, but you likely have a strong enough foundation in math that you would be great at working on a lot domain specific applications. Some others mentioned machine learning, and this is likely a good option, but only one of many. Spin this around and think of it from the business side. Where are there opportunities to put more robust analytical solutions in place in the business world? Start thinking about every company you see, buy products from, or otherwise interact with - how could they (or are they) be more effective at what they do with better math? Everything from better sales forecasting at your local supermarket, to better car design.