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This article is a little light on details, but there's a more in depth article here:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-...

The initial complaint was around comments from 1 of the 8 board members: Kay Coles James

The complaint was published Apr. 1 in a Medium post:

https://medium.com/@against.transphobia/googlers-against-tra...

As evidence the post lists 3 tweets from Kay Cole James:

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108768455141007360

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497

Those mountains are pretty steep. If it's flat or has access to utilities it'll be pretty expensive.

I work mostly with startups and I don't know any that could survive with a plan like this:

> 3 weeks on/1 week off development cycle

Unless you're lucky enough to have no competitors and a ton of runway and no major support issues ever, there's no way you can give your engineering team 12 weeks of vacation a year all at the same time.

> Once a sprint has begun, Issues may not be added to the sprint, but they can be removed. This reduces context switching and that is a good thing.

Yes, minimizing context switching is a great thing, but for 4-8 weeks you can't adapt to changing business conditions? A change that comes in on day 2 will have to wait 8 weeks to go live as it won't be put into a sprint for 4 more weeks and then launched another 4 after that.

I'm a developer and totally understand the desire to have every requirement up front and peace and quiet to implement it. The goal should be to get as close to that as possible but still being open to business needs.

Unfortunately I've seen first a dev team sink a multi-million dollar business through a lack of flexibility and turnaround time.

I don't think you'll find many managers rushing to implement this, which is basically inflexible agile with a week of vacation every month. I think the experience of managing a dev team while trying to balance a budget would be invaluable for anyone thinking that this process makes sense.

I would love a Tesla if they were 50% cheaper.

I used to think that the big car companies weren't able to bring a competitive EV to market because they were bigger than Tesla and bogged down in layers of management.

Now I'm wondering if Tesla was just over marketed and overly ambitious entering the market and if these later entry EVs from main stream car companies in the next few years will be just as good at a fraction of the price.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not comparing the price of EVs, but the price of a Tesla vs the price of a traditional gas-powered car. If I was only willing to buy an EV, then yes Tesla looks like a great deal.

I'm definitely not an extrovert. I think I've come to realize over time that I'm always making cost / benefit or risk / reward decisions with my actions.

If I want a raise, I have the potential for a reward and a potential risk of letting my boss know that I'm not happy with my current salary. I think that fear of asking is really that fear of rejection or fear of disconnection.

What I'm saying is that this tool won't always be there and we need to find ways on our own to minimize the fear / risk of asking for what we want in life.

Sure, you might get lucky a couple times with this app, but life will keep throwing you more awkward situations.

> Australia passed sweeping legislation Thursday that threatens huge fines for social media companies and jail for their executives if they fail to rapidly remove “abhorrent violent material” from their platforms.

> The legislation criminalizes “abhorrent violent material,” which it defines as videos that show terrorist attacks, murders, rape or kidnapping.

The title isn't semantically accurate. They mean material that depicts violence.

Is there anything to prevent guessing dozens of people until you guess the right one?

Yeah but then you just write "#reunite" and the match is made and identity is revealed right?

Sorry, I just don't see the point.

If you send hints like "someone wants to #reunite" I'm sure the recipient will accept just to find out who the person is regardless of what their offline intentions are. Since your identity is revealed anyway I don't see how this saves you from the perceived embarrassment of just asking the person directly.

In the past I've often desired and tried asking for things subtly or in a round about way so as to hunt at what I want without the risk if rejection. In my experience it's not a great path to take.

If the fear of rejection outweighs the potential benefits and you can't bring yourself to ask (for a date, raise, reunion, etc.) then maybe you just don't want as much as you think you do.

When you want something deeply enough you'll ask for it without fear or embarrassment.

> Glad I didn't pick up Boeing shares on the cheap just yet.

Unfortunately, it's a focus on profits over people that likely led to these disasters. I don't know how you can stop or dissuade from people making a buck off of a tragedy, but it might be worth putting our attention on the human element of this mess. Something about merging this safety issue with an opportunity to "buy low" and make some cash just doesn't sit right.

tldr;

Something is actively producing methane in Mars but it's not necessary microbial life.

> methane gas dissipates relatively quickly—within around 12 years on Earth

> they conducted two parallel experiments to determine the most likely source of methane on Mars to be an ice sheet east of Gale Crater—itself long assumed to be a dried up lake.

> The most likely source was a sheet of frozen methane beneath a rock formation, which the team believes periodically ejects the gas into the atmosphere.

> "Methane is important because it could be an indicator of microbial life," he said. "But life is not required to explain these detections because methane can be produced by abiotic processes."

Ruby has a very readable syntax and easy learning curve for new devs. What it lacks is the performance and type safety of a compiled language which I think is why many people eventually switch to Rust and Go.

Interestingly, Crystal might be an easier jump as it's syntax is very similar to Ruby, but with the performance gains that come with compiling to a single executable.

Crystal is still pre-1.0 though so it doesn't quite have the production-ready stability or robust community of Go or Rust.

https://crystal-lang.org

Who is "we"?

Maybe we are the "uncontacted tribe". I wonder at what point when you're observing an isolated tribe do they demonstrate enough advances that it's OK to contact them? Or do you just wait until they discover the observer?

Space is pretty inhospitable though. Is it possible for living organisms to survive ejection, a space journey and re-entry?

Really interesting results and analysis, but small nit:

> there is about 70MB of source code currently in CockroachDB 19.1, and there was 50MB of source code in CockroachDB v1.0. The increase in source was just ~140%

That's a 40% increase, not 140%. This happens on all percentage calculations throughout the article.

That said, super interesting discovery.

> the assumption of a reluctant workforce

From interviewing hundreds and managing dozens, I'd say that this is unfortunately largely accurate and not through anyone's malicious intent, but just human nature.

A good salary helps to mask the reluctance, but deep down most people aren't living their lifelong dream at their day job.

There are many other things we'd rather be doing with our time and I think good managers understand and accept that. Some people are just off the charts innately consistently productive, but most aren't and need motivation to stay focused. Deadlines are a tool that works for some people. Others need praise, others need purpose, others need creative freedom. But deep down I think most of us need some external motivation to stay focused for 6-8 hours a day.

But when you do find that person that can consistently self-motivate, hire them and keep them. It makes everything so much easier.

> Agile contracts, whether negotiated one-off project contracts, or regular-cadence release schedules, extract the value of deadlines but leave behind the toxicity.

So, basically arguing for flexible deadlines, which totally makes sense.

But if your product or service is tied to an inflexible deadline like an event, you'll probably need to manage with strict deadlines to uphold your end of the contract in time.

The mobile app does, but you can't default to it, so you have to do two taps: "Menu" -> "All Inboxes" every time you open the app if that's the view you prefer.

Many people have multiple Gmail addresses (personal, work, etc.), but as far as I know there's no way way too unify them.

In Chrome you need two tabs open and in the mobile app there's no way to default to 'All Inboxes'.

It's a huge pain point.

Or try Kemal with Crystal. Kemal is very Sinatra like. And Crystal is very Ruby like but it's compiled so it's much faster.

http://kemalcr.com

Hosted there, yes. But it's not a MailChimp offering.

Who created this? It doesn't say anywhere on the page.

The article ends with:

> Next, we'll explore regions at risk, determine the geologic factors that signal potential volcanic tsunami hazards ...

Where's part 2 of this article?

> I had what would be considered a good payout. When looking over the course of my career, however, it simply made up for the reduced salary I took for the years I worked there.

This is such an important point for people to know when they're joining startups. You're basically investing in the startup.

If you're going to be an investor it's good to know what your alternative investments are.

If you put $50k in the stock market every year for 5 years @ avg. 8% return, your have ~$400k. Over 10 years it's ~$900k.

At 1% equity (after dilution) you'll need a ~40-90M exit to reach those goals. Given that your taxable event will be bigger, it's probably more like a $60-120M exit to break even if you're considering a $50k/year pay cut in return for equity.

Both the market and startups have risks. But if the upside of investing in a startup won't reasonably beat the market then you're essentially taking a pay cut.

In the US you need to register as a non profit, have a board of directors, etc.

Even an LLC or INC that loses money is a "for profit" company. Most VC funded startups fall into this category where they lose money each year with the goal of eventually turning a profit.

> He's agreed to forfeit about $50m. It's not clear what's happened to the other $73m

I wonder if he was doing this on behalf of someone else? A few million is more than enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life in Lithuania. $122M seems like an addiction or an organized crime ring.

Right, if we only measure what's "natural" by what exists in the broader animal kingdom than anything uniquely human (commerce, religion, science, a written language, morality, philosophy, etc.) would appear to be "unnatural".

Unfortunately, I've seen documentaries and been to zoos where the zoo keepers have told us that homosexual moneys are subjected to violence. I think the brunt of it is against male monkeys making sexual advances towards an unwilling male partner.

> Cybersecurity consultants gone rogue, hiding out in Russia.

What's up with Snowden? I find it very hard to believe that Russia doesn't know where he is.

One leading theory was he was being saved as a bargaining chip. But don't you think he would have been traded for sanctions relief early on? Presumably his value to the US diminishes over time.