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Happy New Year from SoCal!

2022 saw my net worth decrease by 90 percent as my newly ipo’d company's stock tumbled.

Hoping the new year brings some better results!

Jira works well for my organization. I think the simplicity of our setup is the key. We have just 4 issue statuses: Not Started, In Progress, QA, Done… also no restrictions on state transitions. Any status can move to any other status. Each team gets their own project so that they can easily manage their own issue backlog. That’s pretty much it. My team also uses a plug-in for async planning poker which is useful.

The API documentation for one of our partners is a SPA that never should have been. There is no way to share a URL to a specific piece of the documentation because all navigation is handled in JS.

If you had something typed as `any` and the value was `null` it would be possible to encounter an issue

Yes assuming you are in strict mode, but not true otherwise.

The before and after code examples for #2 are not equivalent. Default parameters are only applied if no value or undefined is passed. In the case of the value being `null`, no default parameter is assigned, but using `date: date || new Date()` would assign `new Date()` as the value.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I actually feel like covid lockdown has had the opposite effect on me. Many of the things I enjoyed doing have been made impossible or much more difficult, so it feels like all I am left with is striving for work accomplishments.

I found the feedback from my Triplebyte rejection to be very helpful in directing my preparation for other interviews. It helped me get a job offer 3 days later from just the type of company and role that they screen for.

H1B and H2B are two different visa programs. The H2B program which is discussed in the article is designed for short term seasonal workers.

I was a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) before I became a software developer, and I would just like to emphasize that the benefits mentioned can be realized from some pretty simple exercise routines. The keys are to perform them consistently and to progressively increase the training load so that you are constantly providing a stimulus that your body must adapt to.

Adding additional facts is valuable. To continue your India example, they have pledged to reduce emissions 33 to 35 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. So yes, they may increase their coal production, but now I know they are also taking other steps to reduce emissions.

Here is a fact check for many of these quotes: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jun/01/...

There is no reason that the revenue generated from this could not be used to fund more public transit.

This is a classic externalities problem[0]:

My use of roadway space imposes a cost on other drivers because they now have less roadway to use leading to lower speeds. Currently, I do not have to pay for this cost leading me to use more roadway space than may be optimal. Taxing roadway use captures this cost and forces me to take it into consideration when choosing whether to drive.

[0]http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/external.ht...

I attended a coding bootcamp 3 years ago, and this was a major concern of mine going into it. The instructor had only taught one small class previously, so there was not much of a track record to trust. I spent quite a bit of time researching the instructor's background and speaking with his former students. Even with all that, there really was no way of knowing going into it whether it would deliver what I was hoping for. Ultimately I decided the risk of losing my $3k was worth the potential upside of a career as a software developer. Luckily, it worked out.

I love living in Los Angeles as a single, 20 something, but the thought of trying to raise a family here terrifies me. The median price of a 3 bedroom home is $865,000 which would mean that a large portion of my long term net worth would end up tied to a single asset. When it comes time to put down roots, I'll head to cheaper pastures.

I played baseball at the collegiate level and definitely agree that color was the biggest indicator of pitch type for me. Curveballs were very red, fastballs were a mix of red and white, and splitters were almost completely white. Before a pitch, I would visualize what color and location I was looking for and if the pitch looked like it matched, I swung and hoped for the best.

The report[0] this article reference has some puzzling exclusions to its data set. For example, why is Harvey Mudd included, but its next door neighbor Claremont McKenna College not? Some other notable liberal arts exclusions are Amherst College, Swarthmore, Bowdoin and Davidson.

[0]http://www.payscale.com/college-roi

Can you post a link to your app? Would love to see an example of a frameworkless web app.

The limitation I see with applying this method is that you need to know the total number of potential suitors at the start. How can you accurately estimate this if you don't have any past experiences to base your estimate on?

To me the most disturbing part is that Vigilant can keep the data for as long as they want:

> According the company's usage and privacy policy, Vigilant “retains LPR data as long as it has commercial value.” Vigilant can sell or license that information to other law enforcement bodies, and potentially private companies such as insurance firms and repossession agencies.

The average cost for an ACA premium in 2015 was $374 per month, but since 85 percent of people signing up receive a subsidy the cost is actually much lower.

"Among consumers who are signed up for 2015 coverage to date in the 37 HealthCare.gov states, 8 in 10 could choose a plan with a premium of $100 or less after tax credits, based on available options."[1]

[1]http://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/02/09/almost-6-point-5-mi...

Government run social welfare programs are actually pretty efficient since they have huge economies of scale [1].

[1]http://www.cbpp.org/research/romneys-charge-that-most-federa...

Can you provide links to back up your assertion that investors would buy housing and then not utilize the space? Seems like a bad investment then...

Some reports of companies where a change to unlimited vacation caused employees to take less time off:

1. http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-va...

2. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/07/14/unlimited_vac...

I feel that if you are asking a company to invest $100k/yr on you, it is not unreasonable for them to ask for a few hours of your time.

Here's how they did it:

"Investigators believe Cardinals officials, concerned that Mr. Luhnow had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the Astros, examined a master list of passwords used by Mr. Luhnow and the other officials who had joined the Astros when they worked for the Cardinals. The Cardinals officials are believed to have used those passwords to gain access to the Astros’ network, law enforcement officials said."

Or maybe it is because there are many researchers who have actually studied the data and found that environmental factors play a large role. A summary of some of the research in this area:

http://futureofchildren.org/publications/journals/article/in...

There are a number of natural experiments that researchers have used to examine this question:

[1]A study looking at the performance of Korean-American adopted children relative to their siblings: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10894

[2]The impact of various welfare programs on student achievement: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208322/