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tubehouseon Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

Yes

While we're at it, maybe we can put pbxproj out of its misery and get a modern project file format and module system

tubehouseon Swift Changes Considered Harmful

I don't agree with this. Presumably this is going to be a long lived language. They should fix the problems as early as possible so that generations of developers don't have to keep reliving the same pain.

tubehouseon Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown (2011)

California voters roundly approved a similar law in 1994. It even passed in Los Angeles County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187

tubehouseon Obama's lost army

I'm curious, what is the agenda of this group? Bringing meaningful change is rather vague

tubehouseon SF Is One of the Worst-Paying Places in the US for Software Engineers

They're ignoring equity compensation, which accounts for most of a senior engineer's income at a California tech company.

tubehouseon Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left

Almost everyone agrees with the idea of hiring based on merit instead of prejudice. But I very often see diversity advocates attacking the idea of merit-based hiring. For example, making fun of people that use the word "meritocracy" has become a popular meme. Personally I'm not sure how to account for this discrepancy.

tubehouseon Some Medical and Bank iOS Apps Are Exposing Login Details to Hackers

Including, hilariously, the Vice news app. They might have noticed that if they bothered to read the original article while writing their blogspam.

tubehouseon Librem 13 coreboot report: It’s Alive

A question about me_cleaner: can malware simply re-enable it? Or does using me_cleaner "brick" the ME system permanently?

tubehouseon Tesla Model S and BMW i3 fall short in IIHS crash test

Surprising in the case of the Model S, especially as Tesla has previously bragged about crash test scores[0]. I wonder if the Model X really is the "safest SUV in history" as Tesla claims? It's worth noting that in the 2016 Tesla shareholder's meeting, Musk said that the discontinued Roadster was "completely unsafe".

Even modest cars like the Chevy Malibu and Ford Fusion manage perfect scores on the IIHS small overlap test. I expect the Tesla's heavy weight will help safety in the real world though.

I wonder if Tesla will respond with one of their trademark combative press releases?

[0] https://www.tesla.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-ach...

tubehouseon Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Jet is way better than Amazon for me. So much so that I rarely use Amazon anymore. Prices on Amazon are often worse than local retail stores. I find many products I want to buy are Prime only, Fresh only, or Add-ons. The last two packages I bought took an entire week to leave the warehouse even though they were fulfilled by Amazon. And Amazon has a horrible spam problem. It's difficult to sort out real products from knock-offs sold by a scam seller like SUPER DEAL PRODUCT WORLD or something.

Jet, on the other hand, has no spam problem, prices usually better than local stores, and very reliable free two day shipping. Hopefully they can scale up.