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I would think an Android skin would still be preferable. Much bigger ecosystem of touch optimized apps.

You need an ISP right? You think telecom companies are anxious to provide them bandwidth?

In my experience the types of developers building this stuff are personally fans of open source and companies are willing to let them submit upstream due to PR wins and limited downside.

Alexander Hamilton wrote a lot of articles published in newspapers across the country in 1793 about how to "cure" yellow fever with booze and hot baths: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/486788-how-politics-i...

I don't believe any of the trials have included children so far, so not sure why you'd say "starting with kids"

Maybe a driver would still be in the truck for non-highway situations, but could be sleeping in the cab so the vehicle utilization time is higher and goods delivered quicker on long hauls.

Agree -- recruiters don't care about side projects. But, if you hustle and track down the hiring manager they might be impressed, and at a minimum it could be a good conversation starter.

My side projects have opened a lot of doors for me, particularly they have enabled career switches. I'm a B2C product manager, was interested in moving to B2B and was ignored until I launched a small SaaS side project (B2B vs B2C PM is considered quite different.)

But the theme of this article is true, recruiters don't care and you should focus on enjoyable side projects.

Windows, Linux, and Mac do. I'm proposing this scoped just to device+OS combo that you purchased.

Maybe it should be something like, "if your platform doesn't allow side loading of other apps, or other app stores, then the store on that platform can take no more than X% commission on sales"

The coverage of this has been misguided IMO. The headline here should be, "Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Fresh".

The benefits you get are really just delivery of in-store items to your house, it seems your walmart.com experience doesn't change much. Based on what I've seen on Amazon fresh, you'd probably make up your $98 pretty quick if you moved all your grocery shopping from fresh to WM+.

Walmart+ only applies to in store items as far as I can tell.

If you watch the video of it, it looks like this is just a rolling self checkout machine. So you basically self checkout with each item as you put it in the cart.

User acquisition is very hard. If you can outsource that to a marketplace the commission is probably worth it, especially if your goal is to be a very lean micro-SaaS.

We need to be making more science based risk decisions here. The commentary I see on this topic, like this article, are justifications of whatever viewpoint the person is anchored in (due to emotions, political leadership, or personal home situation). HN should be linking to meta-studies on the topic, not opinion pieces.

You can't think of your pay as a transaction based on value you bring. It's based on 1) retaining you 2) how much would it cost to replace you

For 1, what are your alternatives in your local market or remote positions (next best alternative). For 2, if they just fired you instead and then opened up the position to anyone anywhere, what would they have to pay?

Also, yes, I have moved from a low cost of living area to a high cost of living area and got a pay adjustment. It is standard to increase pay for those moves (they they are not always approved though)

Thank you! I'm tired of the "Sweden ignored coronavirus" meme that simply isn't true.

This was also my experience. It's easy to reflect on the day, or the week and feel like there was no joy, no break, no time where you got to do something you wanted or just relax. Our days were very long, as we did a staggered schedule with one of us starting work before 5a and the other ended around 7p so we were able to minimize unsupervised iPad time.

We finally decided to send our toddler back to daycare last week. She is an only child who loves playing with other kids and we felt the health risks were small compared to the social development and mental health impact.

I would say life now feels much more like a normal WFH situation. On reflection however, I realized my exhaustion prevented me from appreciating how much quality time I spent with my daughter, how much we were able to go outside and play every day, etc. Not looking to go back to that, but I would say just try to find time to take a deep breath, think about the good things that happened today, and give yourself a break on the compromises you had to make as a parent, spouse, or employee.

I don't understand why HN finds piracy acceptable for news content. If the post was about a video game or movie release, should we pin a link to the .torrent file?

I'm considering purchasing one. In general, I value convenience and personalization over privacy. I completely don't relate to the idea of relevant ads being a bad thing.

Anyways, as someone who spends a lot of time panning a laptop or iPad to track a toddler who is FaceTiming grandma, this device solves an important problem for us.

Could the same be said about computer science or most engineering degrees? You walk out of your CS program ready to be a frontend web developer or a device driver developer? I think all degrees are pretty general and then you specialize in the job.

Is it a cost structure issue? Ie, replacing the captain on a ship that holds 15,000 shipping containers, does that lower the cost of each container by a couple of dollars? Similarly, with airline pilots, how much of my ticket cost is pilot labor?

However, if you look at Uber, if you removed driver labor cost from my fare, does each ride now become 60-80% cheaper?

Also curious about the 3 vs 2 on the left. For 6, it says 6+, so maybe that is a mean that could include outliers with tons of active workspaces.

Yes, without their exclusive IP there would be very few switch sales. It's why I have one for sure, same with PS4.

San Francisco spends in the neighborhood of $300M per year on homelessness. Feels like research on how to better spend that money will do more than just throwing more money at the problem will.

Probably cheaper to invoke the lambda functions from Cloudflare workers.

I can't find the $400k/year number anywhere. The census puts it at "$250,001" which seems like a fishy number.

"According to Census data, the median household income in Palo Alto is $137,000 a year, while the US average is $57,600"

from: https://www.cnet.com/news/silicon-valley-middle-class-earns-...

Might check out AWS Lambda for the Rust backend, I usually use a SAM config to deploy (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...).

For the DB, you could then use RDS, a managed postgres service, looks like it supports Postgis: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appen...

I second this. I use Next.js with lambda, so I don't have to worry about servers. Works great...

If he stayed he might have ended up in an executive position, getting additional stock grants down the line.