robbyking

I'm a longtime Bay Area software engineer, and the problem is it's scary to move to a town that only has a couple tech companies. I'd love to live someplace smaller, but if I find -- and lose -- a job in a small town, I'm out of other options. Here I have recruiters knocking down my door.

Don't forget opportunity.

All the data is anonymous, though: the only identifying info we're sending them is an internal Customer ID.

Yep, I agree completely. I work on a relatively well known app, and we use Crashlytics to monitor crashes (duh), and other tracking software to reduce friction in the app.

We don't care who tapped button A instead of button B, we just want to know how many people tapped button A instead of button B.

I think your citations are instances of confirmation bias; also, you're only citing a handful of examples, and they're examples so extreme they made national news. (They're also each a year apart.)

Even in large cities kids roam alone in their neighborhoods and parks. I live in SF, and regularly see kids under 10 skateboarding or riding their bikes on their own around my neighborhood. Now that I'm a parent, I also see toddlers running around fields in GG Park, barely within in earshot of their parents.

Odds are, if you don't see kids running around your neighborhood, it's either because you live in a neighborhood without many children (like most of SF), or you tend to be at work during the hours in which most children play.

I actually noticed some weird and potentially concerning behavior with Firefox Quantum this morning.

I had a fair number of tabs open (~28 or so), and I restarted the browser so a change I made would take effect. I have FF set to show my windows and tabs from my previous session on start up, but it instead launched with a single tab showing my home page. Okay, no big deal, I'll just restore my previous session from the History menu. When I clicked on the history menu, though, I didn't see my most recent history, but instead a list of URLs from my bank.

I assume this is due to a syncing issue with my Firefox account (I changed my banking password just to be safe), but it's still concerning.

What makes you say that? There's a (small) learning curve when using any payment system, and the existing Square app is pretty easy to use.

I downloaded FF Quantum this morning and used it throughout the day, and anecdotally I can say it feels a lot faster than Chrome for casual web surfing.

That said, speed is only one of a number of factors I consider when choosing a browser, and between the horrible UI and lack of compatible extensions, I'm sticking with Chrome for the time being.

It's really interesting how many people remember the previous version of any given logo. I wonder if this means these logos were updated at the correct time, so when people see them they seem fresh and modern.

Yep! That's exactly what they said in the demo.

I've lived in SF for close to 20 years, and I completely agree.

That said, I'm part of the 83% who are planning on leaving, but there are two main problems:

• If I leave, where will I go? As many faults as SF has, it's still a beautiful, world class city, rich with culture. Walkability is huge for me, and I don't want to live someplace where I'm tied to my car.

• Salary. Usually the cost of living follows the pay scale of a local economy, but that doesn't help you when you want to buy things priced at a national level: computers, cars, bikes, etc. If you earn $160k/yr, buy a new MacBook Pro isn't a big deal; if you make $60k/yr, you have to put a little more thought into it.

They already pivoted, though, and that pivot was their downfall.

I understand that the goal of any business is to make money be profitable, but SoundCloud went from being a resource for independent musicians to an also-ran in the subscription music streaming race.

I can echo almost all of these sentiments. (I also bought a MBP this last refresh, and am also a programmer.)

I was a little worried about not having a physical esc key, but it's been totally fine. I don't even notice it's gone, and I use the escape key a lot. That said, I don't love the Touch Bar, but for the most part it's fine. I still don't think to use it most of the time, but am slowly starting to remember it's there. (I use an older MBP at work, so I only use my TouchBar MPB on weekends.)

I also agree that the new keyboard is great. I don't love the oversized trackpad, but I think my main issue is going back and forth between the new one and the one on my 2014 MBP.

Before I watched this I (like most people) assumed the Pacific Garbage Patch was a solid mass one could stand on. The fact that it's more like confetti makes the idea of cleaning it seem that much more difficult.

When the 90's dotcom boom first started to slow down, a friend of mine joked that we'd all end up working at porn sites if things didn't turn around. Fast forward almost a decade later to 2005, and I was working as a .NET engineer at the company that ran NakedSword.com* (as well as a few dozen other sites).

Now I make a proactive effort to track both my job security and the job market so I'll know when the optimal time is to go back into working in porn.

*NSFW. Duh.

They're underground in many US cities, too, including San Francisco.

Interestingly enough, almost all transmission lines in San Francisco are underground; almost all of what you see overhead are either telephone/cable, or overhead wires for powering MUNI, our municipal light rail.

The headline posted here is misleading; the actual article says "Colorado Doesn’t Need to Replicate Silicon Valley to Have a Prosperous Startup Industry"

They cover this in the article: "reset my password" emails are already the norm, so it's not any riskier than your existing online banking or social media accounts.

I have absolutely no respect for Travis Kalanick; he's the personification of a "the rules don't apply to me" attitude, and he's been rewarded for it time and time again.

This is the same company whose founder "took the tax dollars from employee paychecks — which are supposed to be withheld and sent to the Internal Revenue Service — and reinvested the money into the start-up, even as friends and advisers warned him the action was potentially illegal." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic...

Or why we have passwords at all. Sites like Medium have moved to a passwordless model, where you're sent a login link to access your account rather than forcing you to remember or retrieve a password.

https://blog.medium.com/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-aacc21...

I feel the same way. I wanted to support the Atom project, but Sublime is super stable and has a ton of useful plugins.

I wanted to share the fake Apple URL with my team, and Slack expanded it to https://www.xn--pple-43d.com when I hit send.

I think it's important to remember that Uber users aren't loyal: if a ride isn't immediately available through Uber, they use Lyft; if Lyft isn't available, they go to the next app.

While I agree that the service is here to stay, the individual players are likely to shift.

That's one thing I learned from the last tech boom -- if you want something long term and stable, look for it while everyone else is busy chasing IPO's and pitching start-ups.

Unfortunately, I'm guilty of the opposite: I rarely, rarely commit. Maybe one commit per point. I have to consciously remind myself to commit more often.

Having left C# for iOS development a while ago, it's really interesting to come back and see how many features (tuples, discards, local functions, etc.) have made their way into both languages.

Change the culture in-house. I've only known a couple people who've worked at Twitter, but both hated it and said they felt constant pressure to participate in extracurricular activities like after hours movies and games.

You're never going to be innovative if your employees dread coming to work.

I searched for Athens, GA, and two positions in Chicago were included in the results:

https://www.runforoffice.org/elected_offices_search?address=...