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Review from Dave2D 4 months ago, addresses the crease & hinge on a pre-production unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGhvYLbBRE

I think it seems like a cool idea, 17" at 4:3 ratio is alot of screen real estate, at a 12.5" 16:9 footprint.

Lot of negativity in this comment section, personally not something I'm that interested in, but I am interested in people experimenting with the form factor.

I was looking for inspo for my own blog the other day and saw yours as like the pinnacle of what a tech blog could look like.

This is a genuine question to ask for a lot of policy decisions that directly affect the person asked. I think it's fair to say "no I wouldn't be fine with it if I were on the margin", but still think it's a good idea. What is good for the individual, may be bad for society in the long term.

Which is a really callus and harsh position to take.

I live in Soho, London as an owner-occupier in a building with 6 other flats (7 total).

Of the 6 others, 3 of them are being used permanantly for AirBnB's, in direct conflict with the Leasehold agreement, which explictly states that the accommodation cannot be used for short-term, hotel-esque businesses and directly against the law (London requires that a flat not be used for more than X days per year). These are operated by a company that manages 10s to 100s of them in the area

Having complained to the building management, they simply don't care/don't do anything. It's on my todo list to take it up with the council/lawyer up against the building management, but I just don't have the time. It seems like AirBnB has just completely outsourced the fraud elements as "not their problem".

Will never use an AirBnB again, and will aggressively advise against it for friends & family.

> Stavros!

You can just say Cum Town ;)

It's certainly a commodity right? (at least the RAM chips that get put on modules), and commodities are certainly an asset class?

Good on you guys for posting the full salary bands.

It's such a gross industry, heavily dependant on who you know.

Best of luck out there.

Looks really neat. I use to work in this space, and it's just a dreadful collection of slow outdated systems cobbled together, so your site is a breath of fresh air.

I notice that you are redirecting to 3rd parties when people "book now", do you have affiliate/kickback agreements with these places, or are you just doing it out of the goodness of your heart?

The company I use to work for maintains an API for integrating with all these systems for booking tickets etc. It is... interesting...in terms of reliability, but it might help you integrate an "on platform" solution. Given that your website is slick, and that the industry is horrendously technologically backwards, you could probably turn this into a decent biz.

API: https://docs.ingresso.co.uk/

Python Wrapper: https://github.com/ingresso-group/pyticketswitch

Disclaimer: No current affiliation, use to work there, helped build the current JSON API, learned the hard way about how backwards these systems are.

Feel free to reach out if you want a point of contact or something

To be fair, the parent made the claim.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and all that.

Isn't that relatively confounding information? A person who would succeed, might succeed with or without a degree.

The way the information is presented implies causation. Get a degree, earn twice as much.

Sorry, that's just conjecture on my part.

Sister commenter posted this about Amsterdam: https://www-groene-nl.translate.goog/artikel/ze-zijn-hier-zo...

Here's one from google about Scotland: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/13308928.crooks-using-sw...

Here's one from PrivateEye (England): https://external-preview.redd.it/nI7Pl0eLeF1y4l6ow_QARxTZ09b...

I've actually seen people in those though, which doesn't invalidate it from money laundering, just makes it a less obvious one!

I live in Soho, and have watched these places pop up & shut down on Oxford St constantly for the last 5 years.

One factor is that in recent times these commercial rents have begun offering incredibly low rates for the first year, that then get increased in subsequent years. This makes it perfect for these low cost setups to move in, and move out constantly.

I do think that there is an aspect of money laundering going on. I've literally never seen anyone in one of these stores, so yeah.

Side Note: I got a weekly newsletter from Westminster council the other day, bragging about a raid they had done on some of those tourist trap places, and found £X amount of CBD products that weren't approved, non-sanctioned vapes/batteries etc. They also deported some undocumented people working there... These places are not the same as the candy places, but they are definately adjacent/similar setup.

I have had 4 different shows have content cut from them that I noticed this year, for a variety of woke factors.

- Peep Show (Jeremy & Nancy "taboo" breaking episode)

- 30 Rock (Jenna & Tracy "role reversal" episode)

- Community (Chang D&D)

- Always Sunny

In these instances, the character that is doing the "deplorable" act is the villian or idiot. It's not like these shows are promoting those views, they're actually doing the opposite.

It's so bizarre.

They have a pretty solid research team (https://qi.com/elves), and they often do segments about times they've gotten things wrong, or the science has changed etc.

It is first and foremost an entertainment program, so yeah.

There is, drop down at the the top (next to the request).

Not to stir the eternal debate, but if my Vim config takes > 100ms, I start debugging what's going on/figuring out the responsible plugin.

3-4seconds would drive me insane :O

It reduces motion, but it does not remove that transition.

It is infuriating, as someone who is use to the instant switching of i3, I can't believe that it's not possible in MacOS.

My work arounds are to not use the native fullscreen for anything, and just do my best to remove window-titles/decorations from every app i use and then make them "fake full screen"

S/he's not disregarding the people who change their mind, he's pointing out the emptiness the trope of "I use to be X, so I know what it's like".

Changing one's mind should be encouraged.

This is excellent.

Another commenter pointed it out, but it rang true for me; it is difficult to make an ugly drawing in this style. Very nice.

Also; on the various lengths and "thoroughness", it's hard to control bias, but we explicitly tell people that this will be used as a jumping off point for discussion. This gives the opportunityfor those who "did less" in terms of thoroughness more opportunity to talk about what they would change/do better if it was to be producitonized etc etc.

The worst case scenario for us is someone who has clearly spent a long time on it, against our wishes, and done a poor job. Optimizing to not have the happen is a comms challenge.

Sorry, I realize I never elaborated on the results. Some people could do a reasonable job in 30 minutes, others would take 2 hours (but would be more thorough). Neither end of the spectrum seemed "Too long", and so we thought it is a reasonable ask. It takes the devs that inevitably have to look at this, and potentially run the applicants solution, a chunk of time as well, so it's in our interest to keep it simple.

I wasn't suggesting that we had existing devs do the take home, realize it took 30 hours, and then thought that was a reasonable request :D

> It would have been fun, and productive

How do you know this? The signal of them dumping you with some leetcode should be an indication that it wasn't meant to be?

We've had existing devs do the take home tests, not to make sure that they were capable of it, or if the test was too hard, but mostly to check if the test could be completed by someone in a reasonable timeframe and not unneccasarily waste a persons time.

My advice for these sorts of tests is to make it as short as possible, and use the test to give you something to talk about in the follow up in person interview. Replace "Invert a binary tree/solve this riddle" with "Why did you do this in the take home? What would you do differently if $FOO was now a requirement".

I find it effective.

To answer the OG question, I'm sure I would do well. Depends on the other candidates on whether I would get the job though.

Totally agree re; kids and air pollution etc, it's getting better every year.

The $$$ is the problem. 3 bedroom in Zone 1 is 1.5-2m

I've said way too much PII already, but it's on HMRC/Land Registry if you want to look it up. Bought in 2019. Non-council.

That's really good comp for the UK. Well done!

Do you mind me asking what industry you're in?

Maybe. We own our flat in Zone 1 (Soho, 48k down payment, 12k closing costs) after 5 years saving, mortgage is 2.29% ~ 1900 a month. Save about 2500 a month. The one thing I will say is that the "single tax" certainly exists in London, and I find my situation affordable because I have no kids, and my partner brings in an other £35k or so. If we wanted a 3 bedroom or something, forget about it. That's when it becomes absurd to live in central and totally prohibitive.

Also, my experience with London companies + recruiters in the last 3 months has been that permanant remote roles have been cropping up. I would say its about 50/50 of whether a job requires any on prem time, and about 90/10 that the job requires 1-2 days a week on prem.

You should reconsider your worth and attempt to re-negotiate pay.

I started out 6-7 years ago at £30k and am now at £100k + options (worthless). Have only ever worked at startups. You can 1.5x that easily at a big tech (some FAANG jobs exist in London).