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I was exclusively using Dvorak on my home and work machines for 8 years, but switched back to QWERTY about 5 years ago. I loved the feel of Dvorak -- subjectively more comfortable -- but minor annoyances added up.

1. I didn't practice QWERTY, so when I used someone else's computer, it was always an exercise in re-jogging my memory

2. Having to use one hand/finger to type (don't ask me why :)) on DVORAK was super slow because I had to map manually each key in my brain because I couldn't rely on the letters on the physical key caps

Ultimately I also wasn't typing that much, even as a programmer, so it didn't make a huge difference for me, but I do miss it sometimes.

I've only worked at companies running in the cloud. Is there a console (open-source or otherwise) and other tooling similar to AWS' for managing your resources in your own data center?

Totally agree. I used to listen to music and podcasts on Spotify, but now use Apple Podcasts to listen to podcasts and Spotify to listen to music.

What do you mean by this comment? The title matches the link and is also correct. This is Alphabet reporting, which includes Google and other related entities.

The title of the article is a bit misleading. It implies that he's leaving with a severance package -- that he was let go by the company -- but the $105M is from selling stock from his original employment package and it seems like he's leaving on his own volition.

To be clear, the $400m "bonus" isn't a bonus at all. It's an incentive package that's based on the price of the stock sustaining over 180 days, and the first milestone of this incentive package starts at $187.50, which is >3x the current price. $DASH was above $187.50 last year but didn't meet the 180 day duration requirement.

In other words, Tony hasn't gotten paid anything from this package, and may never will.

The package is described in the revised s1, and DoorDash is required to report it because they have to account for this package (probabilistically via Monte Carlo simulations) on their books.

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001792789/8e0717f...

implicit bias and/or racism

I think it'd be better for them to re-market this principle as "bias-free" or something more generic. Calling it "anti-racist/anti-oppression" is, fair-or-not, going to invite this reaction from outsiders.

Funny that this would rocket to the front page so quickly. Shows where everyone's minds are at.

I don't find this so surprising. Inflation (and rates as a consequence) has been affecting a good number of people directly or indirectly (cost of goods/gas, stocks, layoffs, etc).

I would imagine that most auto insurance policies require seatbelts (under some general safety baseline provision) for coverage to be valid.

Is that not what Amazon Fresh is, or is supposed to be, in the US?

(disclaimer: work for DoorDash, but in an unrelated org)

The title is a bit sensationalist. Looks like two CEOs of smaller tech companies talked about this casually on a podcast, while the title implies a _much_ larger number of people.

Letting employees work from home: -$0 (savings on building ownership, HVAC, security, extra staffing, power, etc).

I don't believe the article said anything about not letting employees work from home or forcing people to go to this office building or others in NYC. Yes, some employees will inevitably have to go into the office some of the time, but extrapolating an entire policy from a building purchase is a big leap.

Even ignoring the environmental impacts directly and for commuting, at what point are we allowed to suggest that senior management at these large companies acts in an irrationally impulsive way? Why aren't the shareholders flagging this?

As other commenters have said, this is a rounding error on Alphabet's business, and real estate is relatively inconsequential in priority to managing its core businesses.

You generally use 409a valuations, which increase in regularity and accuracy as the company matures (ie. gets bigger and closer to an actual IPO).

Just speculation, but they may have children, and if so, prosecutors may have wanted to keep at least one parent out of jail.

I agree. I believe the phrase they tend to use more is convention over configuration.

How competitive and safe are these compared to Boeing and Airbus equivalent planes?

I'm curious why ISO exercises were ever added into the AMT income calculation. Exercised shares in private companies are generally very illiquid, and exercised shares in public companies would get taxed on sale, just like any other stock. On the surface, it just seems like a rule that doesn't make sense at all, but likely would never get changed due to the optics of it.

I work at a company that spends a lot of money at AWS, and one of the many support channels we have now is through shared Slack channels.

I can imagine that the main driver behind IT announcing Slack support was for their customer-facing staff to be able to provide support for their customers.

Should the title be updated to include “Homebrew”? As is, it lacks any context and requires looking at the link to know.

Cool to see a big company using Kotlin multi platform.

It sounds like this tool is used internally. Given that, was it not possible to issue tablets of a single platform to users instead? Or are users using their personal devices?

Then why didn’t they?

I would give them some benefit of the doubt to one of the biggest companies in the world that they had at least a dozen people research this and came to the conclusion that they couldn’t or didn’t want to (due to cost, design, etc).

Can you provide more details on this? Is there an announcement or blog post?

Not a direct answer to your question, but there are two ways that I usually learn about new Postgres features.

1. Through blog posts like this

2. Needing something in the moment and googling.

To elaborate on #2, I learned about partial indices when I was at a situation at work when I needed to optimize indices for a heavily used table. Google eventually brought me to their excellent docs and SO posts that mentioned them.

I'm not sure why your comment is getting downvoted. I also had the same question.

I don’t think this is virtue signaling at all. Virtue signaling implies, to me at least, a person that is trying to make himself/herself look better to others. In almost all cases that I see in Los Angeles and other large US cities, people just recycle because it’s in front of them (eg. city provides a recycling bin to all houses), and have no other specific intentions.

I do agree though that recycling does help feed the *vicious cycle of consumption by hiding or misrepresenting the negative externalities.

(Edited to fix virtuous typo. Meant vicious)

Hmm, that’s interesting. Why is there no unlimited texting?

I’m not an expert in the matter, but I imagine that as employees, Lyft and Uber could more strictly penalize them for not accepting rides, which the driver would have to do pretty often if they were driving for multiple platforms simultaneously.

The CEO mentions that COVID devastated their revenue but doesn’t elaborate. Did COVID somehow impact their market share? Are fewer people buying and as such they get less rev share? Something else?

It’s also not that simple. Uber does not operate in a vacuum. There are other companies against which Uber is competing for executive talent and one of the variables is compensation. If Uber started offering much less than its competitors, then they would be at a significant disadvantage in hiring.

Discord is actually actively trying to become less gamer-focused, but it's unclear if this will make them as enterprise as Slack or Teams is.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...