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Thanks for sharing the story. I just bought a copy. I love cats and enjoyed my automata class in school, but I would have never thought to take such a nerdy topic and turn it into a puzzle game.

And rent control doesn't apply to single family homes.

That said, if the market falls it is easy to end up with a mortgage that costs more than rent, a fact that I am unfortunately familiar with.

Wait until Evernote and Pocket flame out and pick up the leavings? (It worked with Delicious...)

I got a bit of that when I moved to SF. It's harder to pin Midwesterners down by accent, though (city folks, anyway).

And Paris -- one of the most beautiful and quaint cities -- has three times the population density of San Francisco.

I don't think it's crazy. There's already over 60,000 units in the development pipeline: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/a-record-62000-un...

This timeline is measured in decades, but imagine if San Francisco was easier to get permits to build?

Large swaths of the city are built under their _currently allowed_ zoned height (there was a map that went around, I wish I could find it). Add a few stories to some existing buildings, build on empty/underutilized lots, reduce parking requirements, legalize in-law units, add in the affordable housing bonus program...you'd be talking about tens of thousands of units.

I do agree there is a strong argument that this wouldn't be enough (Bay Area-wide coordination is necessary), but it would slow the rate of increase. For example, after an apartment building boom, Seattle rents are now decreasing: http://cityobservatory.org/in-some-cities-the-housing-constr...

Forcing everyone to build parking makes building more expensive (http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/07/29/22612207/...) and spread out (google "parking crater" for examples, e.g., http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parking-cris...) which makes it harder to walk, bike, and take public transportation, which causes more people to drive, which causes more need for parking.

Parking your car costs money. People should pay to use it if they need it, but the rest of us shouldn't have to. Right now, drivers are subsidized.

Lots of people want to live in an urban setting. Build more urban neighborhoods, everywhere.

We estimate the average Rails project includes 8 HTTP clients (plus Net::HTTP in the standard library, of course). HTTPalooza makes it easy to use them all.

I have a mid-2010 MBP that is in dire need of replacement. I was disappointed to see rumors that the 15" Skylake MBP might not come out until September!

I found it strange that Martin suggests that the gaps in TDD-style tests with regard to dealing with bad input should be filled by integration tests, which due to their complexity seem more likely to cover the happy path, rather than fuzz testing or quickcheck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck) style tests.

I live nearby and I wouldn't call it neat. It looks like a parking garage, because it mostly is one.

Founders are subject to vesting like other employees. Sometimes VCs will require a new vesting period when investing. I suspect he lost any unvested shares.

Except, probably, the CEO's.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC&pg=PA93&dq=%2...

I was skeptical, but looking at the features it could replace Evernote for the way I use it. The main reason I don't use a directory full of text files is I like being able to drag in images.

W2 employees have all kinds of protections that 1099 contractors don't. Paid sick time, FMLA leave, retirement plan contributions...A big difference is that 1099 contractors must pay their own self-employment taxes (15%) to cover Social Security and Medicare whereas W2 employees have half of that paid for by their company. (Economists would say that comes out of wages, but it still means $15/hour W2 is not directly comparable to $15/hour 1099.)

The most recent issue of Mother Jones also has an article about Liss-Riordan and her employment law lawsuits. According to the article, she got her start suing restaurants that were skimming tips from employees -- which Uber is also accused of.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/uber-lawsuit-dri...

This is one of my favorite novels. Well worth reading. The background surrounding its writing is fascinating and makes you appreciate the novel even more.

Restated: Pick the right startup, grit your teeth, work there for the 10+ years it takes to go public, and trust it won't steal your equity, a la Zynga.

Even if you do pick the right startup, you should be able to leave to pursue other interests, keeping the equity you earned as part of your compensation. Without a longer exercise window, employees can be trapped.

How to tell if an article about the USPS is hackery: check and see if it mentions that Congress requires the Postal Service to fund its pension obligations for 75 years.

Shouldn't it be the US and German governments that are offering amnesty from criminal prosecution for Volkswagen whistleblowers?

What's most amazing to me about this is that Yelp hasn't expunged the post!

Sometimes you can get better terms but where and when I was contracting they were pretty standard.

Yeah, we stitched to a hosted solution.

Fair warning: This project is hella abandoned. It works, but don't expect much.

Source: Previously used it to power our status page.

Former contractor here.

At some point you have to commit to what you want to do and do it. There's some good suggestions in this thread for finding your first full-time gig.

One thing that I want to point out is that before you make the leap, you should save at least 3 months of living expenses. Most contracting gigs I had were billed at the end of the month with net 30 terms. That means from the day you start, it will be 60 days before you get paid (and net 45 terms are not unheard of, which is even worse). The key to successfully transitioning to contracting is to be able to make up that 2+ month gap in income.

Having savings is also important because you will rarely find yourself 100% utilized, so you need to be able to survive the lean times between contracts.

Interesting. The angle that all the books are rated 4+ stars is clever (see the press release). I wish it was easier to try Amazon's hardware, and this seems like a step in making that possible. But I was surprised it's so book focused.

People love _using_ Airbnb, but don't want an Airbnb rental next to their home. The negative externalities remind me of cars: super useful for me, super annoying to you.

Reminds me of this (fake) interview with Linus where he points out the "easter egg" in git:

"Eventually you’ll discover the Easter egg in Git: all meaningful operations can be expressed in terms of the rebase command. Once you figure that out it all makes sense. I thought the joke would be obvious: rebase, freebase, as in what was Linus smoking? But programmers are an earnest and humorless crowd and the gag was largely lost on them."

http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linu...

"My company's CTO just told me we need to support more browsers than just Chrome. I put in my two weeks notice."

https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker/status/274693354804084736