Joe8Bit

Looks interesting! Few bits of feedback:

- The signup widget doesn't submit when hitting enter after entering my email in the text-box, which is a reasonable expectation from an accessibility POV

- On the 'complete' page I see that the email I entered is part of the page query string, which makes me really uncomfortable. It's commonly accepted practice (in places like adtech[0]) to not pass PII in the URL as it can easily be leaked

- As a potential customer, when I view your Privacy Policy and Terms of Service it reads pretty ambiguously if the customers that signup for my service and this services stores will only ever be used by me or if Referlist retains some rights to use my list as you see fit. Worth clarifying

- Pricing seems reasonable, but I'm pretty sure you could charge me more. Also, I'd love a CTA I could click on directly within/under the price columns (I had to go hunting for a bit to find out how to pay you)

0: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6156630?hl=en

London has had 10,000's of mini-cabs for decades that served a big chunk of this non-Black cab market. They weren't perfect but they were cheap, pretty ubiquitous and served most (if not all) of the spaces left in the market by black cabs.

So Uber as a service hasn't been that revolutionary in London, the things they HAVE done is improve the ordering UX and making CC's ubiquitous.

There’s a whole chain of companies who have financial incentives to maximise spend through their platforms. They’ll place creatives in ad units with impressions they know are low quality based on needing to fulfil fill rates and volume.

It’s pretty shitty and unethical, but welcome to to add tech!

Several reasons:

Many large, higher quality ad buyers (agencies and direct sold) can get enough return from non-greyarea inventory like this. There's no point in them taking (even a small) perceived risk of buying this grey market inventory.

However, they likely do use this tracking data second or third hand via their third party data providers brokering and including it in larger data sets they use for cross site targeting via DMPs.

Finally, there's simple economics: people who go through enough effort to block trackers and other things are (perceived) to be less likely to engage with ads (e.g. they see it as you do, when one 'slips through'). So there's no point in paying $$$ for those eyeballs.

All of this in combination means you get low quality, barrel bottoms ads.

It's actually $15.98.

French minimum wage of 1,521.22 Euro PCM (divided by France's 35 hour week * 4) = 14.48 Euro per hour / $15.98

This also doesn't take into account things like top-up tax credits for low earners, access to social housing, free childcare and a zero up-front cost on healthcare. So take home wage is substantially higher than the hourly rate would indicate.

To wave a hand and dismiss the entirety of Europe's wage policy as 'different in many ways' is disingenuous. What Europe represents is a systemic approach to wage inflation at the low end; but this is also true for other countries with strong minimum wage guarantees (like Japan).

Every-time they've been put in place in this systematic way it's led to greater economic mobility, greater employment rates and a lowering of the burden on social welfare systems; whilst having little demonstrable impact on long-term economic growth, and in fact, there's recent evidence to suggest they have net positive impacts on growth[0][1][2][3]

What Seattle represents is a small isolated experiment within larger state, regional and federal contexts that effected its outcome. That's not to dismiss it's value, far from it, but to take as it some kind of definitive evidence is to weigh a grain of sand against a beach of contradictory evidence.

[0]: https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/distributional-mi... [1]: http://www.lse.ac.uk/business-and-consultancy/consulting/ass... [2]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... [3]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25434

There's no real evidence that's true. There are lots of countries where minimum wage policies are providing (or exceeding) a living wage for their employees[0]. At least enough for their employees to feed themselves without government assistance.

None of these countries have a demonstrable lack of employment growth[0] at the low end, and in macro and micro economic terms have comparable growth with the US.

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D... [1]: https://data.oecd.org/emp/employment-rate.htm

My assumption is this'll be available on Github natively as a next step after their new jump to definition[0]. Seems super useful until then though!

[0]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/navigating-code-on-githu...

Permutive (YCS14) | London | Onsite | Full-Time

Permutive is building a platform for edge computing, first tackling problems in the ad-tech ecosystem. We can 5x our customers revenues while making their end-users privacy an order of magnitude better, by keeping data on their devices. Our platform bursts to 1+ million events a second, and our SDKs run on 1+ billion devices a month. We're currently 14 in engineering.

Functional programming and strong type systems are at the heart of our engineering philosophy.

We're hiring for lots of roles, a few of which are

• Software Engineer (Machine Learning)

• Mobile Engineer (iOS)

• Software Engineer (Backend/Scala)

• Software Engineer (Elm)

• Software Engineer (Data/Scala)

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

* Lead Product Designer

* Product Manager(s)

https://medium.com/permutive https://github.com/permutive

#Stack: Scala (functional), Haskell, Elm, TypeScript, Swift, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Google Cloud, Apache Beam

Apply: https://permutive.workable.com or email talent@permutive.com

Same, I try it every few months to see if its tmux support has improved. So far no luck!

I actually really like the way it's configure/managed, the whole `hyper install foo` is pretty nice.

Everything personal is in ./Dropbox and everything work related is in ./Google Drive

How my work and personal files are organised was a source of frustration and annoyance for _years_, I'd be constantly fighting a sisyphean battle of organising the ever growing chaos; then I had a realisation, hierarchical folders/files will _never_ map to my mental model and there's no perfect system. I've learned to live with the chaos.

I really like it, it takes a little getting used to though. Some people claim all kinds ergonomic benefits or negatives with orthos but I haven’t noticed a difference.

I used a Planck as my daily driver for about 6 months before finally getting around to building an Ergo.

This is a really interesting to read as someone not from the US.

In the UK (and all the other countries I've lived) emergency service radio traffic has been encrypted for a very long time. I was always surprised (even shocked!) when I visited the US and could hear everything the Police were doing.

Quip. It's okay. Not blown away with it.

We're toying with Notion at the moment, but we'll see if we can get critical mass behind it.

The benefits of monorepos (in my experience) are all people/organisation based e.g. it can be easier to enforce standards/processes among 100s-1000s of engineers with a monorepo, or it can be easier to manage/release a very large interdependent codebase/eco-system being worked on/coordinated between dozens of teams.

However, this linked post makes a great point, those benefits are all 'scale' problems which 99.99% of orgs don't have. The corollary is I've seen how hard it is to go from from multi-repo -> monorepo when you reach the scale where you would see some benefit.

I also think that the tooling/UX doesn't publicly exist to solve the multi-repo problem with 100s-1000s of engineers working on 100s of repos. It becomes so hard to navigate, understand and grok and so much is buried in dark corners. My experience is that that tooling is less hard to build around monorepos (Google for example).

My recent experience is that there are still a lot more Notes deployments in the wild than I'd thought.

It could make a kind of perverted sense for HCL to own a product a huge amount of consulting/outsourcing money is being spent on. Either to ease the decline and capture more of that marketshare (e.g. 'we own it so you should hire us to get rid of it for you') or to try and reinvigorate that product and recapture some of those captured $$$s (e.g. 'it's already deployed for you and instead of paying us big bucks to remove it, pay us medium bucks to add Feature A you really need').

Look forward to reading this!

There's always been a really interesting relationship between technology and music in Sweden, from the founding of the Pirate Bay (which Rasmus Fleischer, one of this books authors co-founded) to the creation of Spotify. It's been at the forefront of that world in the 21st century and it seems to be carrying on, there are a ton of music tech start-ups in Stockholm[0][1].

0: https://medium.com/@josephstockholm/the-swedish-musictech-la...

1: https://musictechfest.net/

Got a consistent 'Something went wrong, please reload' between step 3 and 4. Reloading didn't help.

It's always interesting to read about the intense reaction from certain communities to anything that disparages/challenges Columbus and his 'discovery' of North America.

As a European (and particularly, as a Brit) I tend to look at most of our 'explorers' as violent colonisers, and consequently have complex (but mostly negative) feelings towards them. It also seems that's the way the public opinion here is moving (at least in my microcosm).

Is that the same in the US? I understand it may be a little different, in that Columbus is so tied into the grand mythos of the creation of the US.

While true, it’s a bit of a blunt force solution as it prevents all clipboard events (e.g. no ‘click here to copy’ anymore).

That may be a reasonable compromise for some, but I’ve seen some weird broken behaviour as a result of people using this FF toggle.

New InMail

“Hi I saw your profile and it looked really interesting, have you considered a new oppprtinity in espionage and treason? Can we setup a phone call to discuss?”

In short, yes.

The creation, processing, transportation and recycling of plastics is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions[0] and other forms of industrial pollution like water table pollution from landfills.

A conservative estimate[1] puts 10% of all plastics created (from first world countries too) being deposited in the worlds oceans, to disastrous effects[2]. The US economy is one of, if not the largest, contributing factor to the above pacific plastic waste problem.

Even if we're better at recycling plastics than some countries (still pretty terrible at only ~10%) and not letting them leak out into the environment, the sheer volume we consume and dispose of still makes the US and other Western countries by FAR the biggest contributors to plastics pollution.

0: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/industry/technical...

1: http://plastic-pollution.org/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

I'm consistently surprised at how big the variance in quality of service is from different AWS account managers; seemingly regardless of the size of account.

The 2/3 reps we've had have been night and day in the level of service they've given us, and we're a top 10% customer by volume.

(as a ridiculous aside, apparently having 'NSFW' in a link can trigger overly aggressive web filters)

This kind of testing isn't about that kind quantative, QA type testing; it's about qualitative feedback, for example:

- "We have these wireframes of this new major feature, let's get a group of people from our target demographics in a room and have them react to it and give us early feedback"

- "We think we have an idea for a new product for managing widgets, so we want to talk to professional widget managers about how they currently manage their widgets; and test our hypothesis that this is a better way of doing it"

As the previous poster pointed out, this is something that isn't easily or readily generalisable into AI.

Domino's is an interesting example for many reasons, but one that hits particularly close to home is: it's become a pretty canonical case for the kinds of 'digital transformations' that large consultancies sell to big lagging enterprises.

The reason I think that's interesting is 'digital' has only been an ancillary or enabling factor in their turn-around (e.g. better converting channels + lots of good marketing). The key has come from making a _better product_. In effect the consultancies that use it as an example, are (deliberately or not) misunderstanding the significance that digital played.

I’d love to understand how this relates to the work that Improbable are doing in supporting massive scale online game environments.

Is this an open source competitor? How do they compare?

Joined age 30/31

Among many other things the experience gave me:

* Empathy with the folks who's thinking was alien to me previously. I learned through doing their job. I could communicate with them and work in their context in a way that allows me much more leverage and ability to have impact with engineering.

* I learned the semantics and pragmatics of running a large organisation which gave me the lexicon and confidence to be taken seriously doing it (therefore more leverage) and taught me lots of small but important tactical lessons (e.g. how to manage difficult shareholders)

* How to communicate complex technical subjects to people who either don't/can't/won't understand them.

* A HUGE network

I went back because I missed it. I wanted to do consulting as a way of getting better at being an engineering leader, not leaving it forever. I was offered a few things at VC/PE firms, or in typical 'business' roles, but none of them really appealed. Not my passion.

Good catch! QB is a wholly owned subsidiary (and it feels like a VERY different company) so I tend to think of them as separate entities. And yes consulting into operational role.