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He's looking at citywide data rather than "what is happening to the Spanish Mission down around 24th Street," which is where the "uptick of evictions" comes from and also where the protests are. There was a wave of evictions before around "Mission/Dolores" which is immediately west of Mission Street, but the new ones are east of that street. This is a somewhat run-down neighborhood (compared to Dolores) where everyone speaks spanish and all business is (or was) conducted in spanish. The evictions amount to an attack on one of the last really cheap places to live in SF.

I've only been living here since 2011 but even since then a lot of businesses have been replaced with hipster coffee houses and bars, and a lot of triple deckers have changed hands and then mysteriously burned down. If you lose your apartment in this part of the city you will pay thousands more to get another one just like it, or you won't make that kind of money and literally no longer be able to afford to live anywhere in the city you probably work in. As an example I took the cheapest place I could in 2011 at $1200/month for something about the size of the cube you work in, and I'm sure I am paying more than twice as much as my neighbor. The next cheapest place was $1650, and over by Dolores was about $2k. I look at apartment listings and there's nothing studio sized in the area for less than $2500 now. If our place changed hands and burned I'd be inconvenienced and maybe have to cut back on comic books, but my neighbors would literally have to leave the city. It seems to me they have a legitimate gripe over having their neighborhood ripped out from underneath them, though I don't know what they should do about it. They might start demanding the city intervene or build public housing, but the existing new apartment fees that go into a pool to build public housing either don't get paid or just don't get built.

Having worked at one of these carriers I can tell you that everyone there trips over themselves to help out law enforcement. Everyone is constantly thinking up new ways to help, particularly if it's a service they can charge for or some data they can sell. You can be a part-time meter maid in Cracker Barrel, Arkansas and if you know which number to call you will get pretty much any data on any number you want. There was some bespoke software where the cell numbers of undercover law enforcement are not returned from searches but otherwise the data is voluntarily shared because really the government contracts for cellphones from every vendor are so big who would jeopardize them?

When they get a big public backlash about a thing like this the company's lawyers pop in and remind you of the policies, demand to see that you are following them, etc. but no change occurs.

Well if you feel like you're bored with mundane stuff you could do what I do and take contract work. Most people think it's terrible and occasionally you get some bad companies but most of the time I am hired for a specific project and it's only 3-6 months so I can get everything in place, if I like them maybe clean up a bit of their technical debt, and then find another contract before the boredom sets in.

Other than that I take a ton of wellbutrin instead of adderall. It's ostensibly for depression but the side effect of the extended release tabs is it acts like a mild upper for about 12 hours.

I've never been able to get past the part where I feel like meditation is wasting my time. Other people I know who have this issue mostly beat themselves up at the gym 4-5 times a week. I've spent some time trying that in the past and it helped a little if I took care of it in the morning before work.

You can't patent or copyright a film technique, this thing would never stand up in a court. Unless they had discovered a new kind of camera that was the only way to take the shot, it is not an invention.

It's for two factor auth. When I log into gmail it texts me a number to type in before it lets me in. That way I can use any computer and as long as I log out no one else can log in even if they stole my password. You should use two factor auth if it's available, especially if the email account has business or financial stuff in it.

They changed this in the newer machines, it takes your card and gives it back before the rest of the process now. Also emails you a receipt instead of printing one out.

Of course, I'd prefer they not print my email on the screen in giant bold letters.

Paying those salaries in San Francisco, there better be a giant pile of equity either way.

I'm a contractor (by choice) so I always laugh when they remind me "the contract stipulates that we will not pay for more than 40 hours under any circumstances" because that just means I'm done with the week by Wednesday.

That isn't his response to the kid's post, it's his response to the original job posting, and it got a lot of points being posted on its own yesterday.

It's not nighttime panic attacks, it's severe sleep apnea. Get to an ENT specialist and save yourself 12 years of hell.

No it would mean you'd have new mandatory sports channels to pay for along with all your other mandatory sports channels.

For all we know the back end of this thing is Steam. Gaben has been talking about changing Steam so anyone can make a storefront, and Humble makes a lot of sense as a test lab: they're already competent at sales and running a website, plenty of traffic (vs. jacobquickscaveofturn-basedstrateg.ie), and because they have ongoing business with Valve anyway they probably share a lot of data.

By not deploying code directly to the running servers he's adding bureaucratic overhead to the development process rather than getting rid of it. He's putting his people in as active gatekeepers in a way that hasn't been necessary for most web development in a long time.

"This way of working might still be prone to errors, but at least we are not running configuration updates or deploys against resources in production."

If the old method was too fast and lots of mistakes got through then the new process they chose was right for that team. However, treating config changes and deploys to production as if they're toxic in general is kind of disrespectful to the vast number of companies that deploy to prod without knocking over their own website for hours at a time.

On top of that, if the new process is "still error prone" then he just increased the effort required by his team and slowed the overall development of the product for nothing.

It makes for a nice change, since there was a long period of time where they downvoted any mention of women at all.

At this point there isn't one language for game devs. Even companies that strictly develop for PC tend to do their engine in C++ and then extend the ide with a scripting language like lua or python. Civilization 4 is a great example of it because they put the python api out as the user-moddable part of the game and it spawned this huge community. Other platforms like android (with its giant installed base) are basically java. So C++ isn't really the only answer to begin with.

Based on what I've been messing around with lately I'd look at go for maybe being a good complement or replacement for C++. Most of the time I'm making something with two major loops: game logic and rendering. Because of the way go interacts with C++ it's not hard to do the game logic in go, where I get massive benefit from "free" concurrency and pretty nice execution speed and then render in C++ where you can get back down to pointer arithmetic if you have to. This is outside of supporting any kind of scripting api/ide which I typically don't deal with but just for familiarity's sake and expecting others to use it later I would probably do in python.

In the 80s we acted faster on freon/CFCs than we have on climate change in the ensuing 30 years, with less danger to human life and less evidence. The only thing that's new about climate change as a scientific theory is the annual increase in the pile of evidence that it's happening and we're the cause of it.

You should pay them $100/hr for the interview if you're having them work. There are some companies that have people come in for half a day or a day as part of their interview (not onboarding) and they cut them a check after.

I know this will be a huge surprise to you but there might be people here who do more than glue stuff together with ruby for a living.

he was right there too

"Some arguments for inclusion take this form: if content protection of some kind has to be used for videos, it is better for it to be discussed in the open at W3C, better for everyone to use an interoperable open standard as much as possible, and better for it to be framed in a browser which can be open source, and available on a general purpose computer rather than a special purpose box. Those are key arguments for the decision that this topic is in scope."

This is ridiculous. The W3C should continue to refuse supporting DRM of any kind in order to keep the adoption of these technologies as difficult as possible. Yes a company like Netflix can just make a plugin for an existing browser to chat with an app they install on your desktop/tablet/whatever. Let them do that and convince their users that they should install their software and why - leave the rest of us out of it.

Well no in this scenario the person has been promoted two steps past his level of incompetence.

Why bother? It's not as if they'll turn around and pay you extra for doing part of their job for them. There's a ton of tech work right now, it's far easier to find a place that suits you than to try to transform a toxic environment you find yourself in.

On the other hand companies that think this way trip themselves up by letting people fail upward: "they can't do the job as an individual we'll let them manage everyone else into the ground."

It looks like he hasn't responded to anyone else re: DRM, why would he talk to me? The point is he's only communicating about this through proxies and needs to explain himself.

Some journalist needs to drag Berners-Lee out of his hole to answer for the mess he's making.

"Coding is free" except for the $2000 laptop, the thousands of people working for pennies to make it, the military required to project enough power to keep them working, the endless supply of Starbucks to power through the coding process, the thousands of people working for pennies to grow that, and the military required to project enough power to keep them working as well.

Free otherwise though.

None of it comes from 4chan. I dialed into bbs that were that awful in the 80s. A generation of computer dudes who grew up listening to Howard Stern dominated the internet in the 90s. It's baked right into the culture, it's baked right into the real world culture that makes the people who made the old internet culture.

I'm glad people are working to get rid of it now so more people can play. It's good that they're making a lot of noise and shaking up the video games industry, because 40% of their customers are women. It's a shame how little a dent that will make in tech at large.

Unmoderated comments are inevitably a disaster. Shame they didn't look at previous evidence before deciding to repeat other people's failed experiments.

The thing is if you quit before you have something else you have no leverage with your new employer, they can get you for whatever salary they offer?

"Another refreshing feature of OSv is that is written in C++.

It's been 40 years since Unix was (re)written in C, and the time has come for something better."

can't stop laughing