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Yet it seems common in American cities that the best schools for children are in the suburbs, where walkability is graded lower.

Public schools seem to be regaining credibility as the upper-middle class flood back into cities, but have they caught up? Unsure.

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Read a piece recently on how Uber is primarily used by people who are a) fairly well off and b) have access to transit or other options to get to work

This argument you make reminds me of that. Most people taking advantage of Amazon One-Day delivery are in urban centres, and most of them are likely doing OK, and most of them can likely walk or take public transit to get what they need

Totally. It's like getting a job in dated Java code bases. Tons of cruft to support.

Boring work though

I've been developing a growth framework at my org for the primary reason to ensure that we can have consistent conversations across teams and ultimately, provide a reference point for development teams as they work with their managers on growth.

I think they make a lot of sense.

One question .. has anyone planned out how Staff Developers work within most organizations? I feel the Venn diagram for them between an engineering manager has plenty of overlap, where the people aspect (all things HR, hiring, growth) are on the engineering/people manager.

Can a Staff Developer make decisions? Or are they more of an influencer?

All signs point to us being back to what we had when cable was prominent. Different lipstick on the same pig.

That's revenue, so not .. quite what he's taking home. Less cost of servers, then benefits which he's not getting from an employer, 401k matching, etc.

It adds up but yes .. the freedom is nice :)

Love this! Dreamt of this idea once but never ran with it, and look at you. Awesome work!

I work in this space. Curious of you to elaborate!

Good on you. I have a family as well and prior to it spent much of my free time coding side projects. Now, it's been tough to find the energy to do that in my limited time.

Of course, one can prioritize the projects, but find joy in other aspects of life once the little ones asleep.

Trying to get back into a side project though, mainly because I'm feeling the itch.

I pay $50 CAD a year for bike share across Toronto. This seems pretty expensive, to be honest.

Look at any old Italian kitchen and you'll be amazed how much can be accomplished with next to no space.

One of my favourite food bloggers has a fairly small kitchen. Not tiny by any standards, but smaller than typical suburban Instagram food blogger types.

She seems to do a lot of her cooking and prep on a hot place and ikea cart. Fairly impressive and what I strive for in my own kitchen

https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/how-to-max-out-your-tiny-...

Further to this plot twist: All those coders could not get jobs because they were scammed[1], so actually, all the miners are available!

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virgi...

Ah yes, it's only when I use the !g bang operator. But if I recall, a selling point of DDG and searching Google via the operator was that lack of track-ability. Of course, again, I am using Chrome so not shocked, just notable.

What's notable is that when I search though DDG, Google still is able to see and track my search item there. I did not even think about that, but a bit eye opening. (I am using Chrome, afterall)

Would love to learn Rust and currently debating on a few home applications.

Any ideas from the HN crowd? I'm currently looking at a Pi-based weather station where I would use Rust as the processing server for all the data each day. Nothing fancy, but perhaps a fun way to learn.

There's not much overhead on contracted Uber-eats couriers, since they are acting as contractors, not full time employees.

I stopped using Twitter to help slow down my news consumption.

Then I found I was reading the same thing each day on the front page of NYTimes, Guardian, my local papers (Toronto)

Now I check every few days, but I adore the sub sections on NYTimes. Wether it be food, technology, science, opinion. All fun to read and "slower"

Well duh, this makes sense. But 45 minutes out of the city you lose many of the perks -- easier and healthier (more walking, less car) access to shopping, food, services, etc.

Do you have kids? I still don't understand the suburban escape when people have children. Going from a city with tons of services near you (for the kids!) to driving everywhere.

I read this awhile back, but it helps explain your question https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7kiu0r/how_w...

Nice! We actually generate our GraphQL Server by leveraging what our framework (which runs off Django Rest Framework) spits out in an OPTIONS request to a resource. We spruced it up a bit, but allows for dynamic creation of a server similar to this.

I am curious how much lag Toronto has on Vancouver. Not quite the same problems, but very similar. TO seems to be about 1.5 years behind Vancouver markets

YouTube + kids. Not YouTube in general ;)

Everytime I think of YouTube and kids I think of those bizarre videos featuring Elsa and Spiderman that are oddly disturbing and borderline erotic.

This TED talk sums up why I'll never allow my child to go on YouTube. What a mess they've allowed.

https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w

Haha! He's still a toddler so maybe that's why ;) We've been lucky with his routine since early on.

My single comment doesn't pain a whole picture. I work a lot but not to the point of burnout.

I don't know. I love the product we've built and I find challenge through iterating on the big ideas. Sometimes I like to go back in the code and improve non critical things. Maybe I'm just a workaholic?

Middle management -- this hits home hard.

Switched to People Manager / Product Manager / Many Other Hats role around the birth of my child.

I find it quite rewarding, but yes, endless hours and high stress. It's also an adjustment from programmer life when you had very short feedback loops, but now as a manager no one ever tells you "Hey, you're doing a good/bad job here!" and instead, you have to just read every situation better and generally don't see results of initiatives or work you've done until months (or years) later

When people grow and you find opportunities for them, it's incredibly rewarding and amazing. That's one thing I could never have as a programmer on my own.

Turning "off" is hard but I manage my hours so that I get home early enough to make dinner and spend the evening with my son before he's in bed by 8pm. I usually work (or think about work) after that unless I have a planned event.

I'm just spewing now -- I think most of us product managers need therapy sessions to just talk to people. There's just so much .. :)

The never ending drive to feel qualified.

Extreme swings from excitement to depression / anxiety that I seem to hide very well at work.

Very interesting! I've been debating if we want to continue using Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/b...) for our documentation website, and focus on a tool that provides a more robust platform for publishing a content focused site.

Sphinx is great for building out an API reference, but there's so much more to a documentation website beyond that.

Anyone have insight into this idea?

We've had a few coffee shops in our area drop the delivery/mobile purchase (Ritual) apps, perhaps due to this. Or, just the logistics may have been unbearable for them.

Sometimes, I do enjoy walking into a coffee shop and ordering like a human.