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fictionfuture··on New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
As a relatively success California (SF) based software entrepreneur, I have to say that new companies would have to be crazy to move to California to start a business.

Raise money here, then leave if you know what’s good for you. #protip

(These type of policies may be good for employees but are a nightmare for management..)

fictionfuture··on Chicago-based RXBar sells to Kellogg for $600M
Doesn’t look like they raised money either. Guessing the founder just made a clean $500m+ at 31 years old.
fictionfuture··on Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward (2013)
If you think that capitalism is the problem I suggest you take an economics class.

The role of government is to regulate when a product doesn't serve the publics interests

fictionfuture··on Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward (2013)
The reality is all this is a result of well done user testing and giving users more of what they respond to.

That said, cigarettes were the same thing so I think in the future the solution to "habit forming tech" is simply to create a cultural push back and potentially regulate.

fictionfuture··on Study finds putting people in prison increases re-offence rate vs. probation
All studies from Berkeley are politically biased.
fictionfuture··on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression
What defines someone as 'unselfish?'

In my experience, many 'unselfish' people are people that don't take the time to study and understand human nature. Since it's human nature to be 'nice' they default to this behavior and never seem to get the results they are after. Hence the depression.

On the other hand, once you study, you'll learn that principled selfishness is the KEY to getting what you want. Hence better results and less depression.

fictionfuture··on Scrolling your website past the iPhone X’s notch
With the notch, I'm sure Apple will quickly iterate to make it a positive UX feature not a negative one. Apple has some of the best design talent in the world, so I'm sure they considered several tradeoffs in the design.
fictionfuture··on Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
Are you guys crazy? This is a great computer, in case you didn't notice it's a tablet AND a laptop AND it runs Android.

As a long time Apple guy and mobile web dev, I can tell you this has several development advantages. I'm sure it will let you use Chrome development tethering to test and debug on Android devices.

I'm also a big fan of the Android ecosystem as it isn't a walled garden, a clear advantage for developers.

fictionfuture··on Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until December
They've already achieved their goal of completely shutting down Ubers program.
fictionfuture··on Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
its nearly impossible to make large non-breaking improvements to an existing production service ... so no, they did the right thing here.
fictionfuture··on Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
looks cool, interested to see the backend you're using and if it requires lockin.

did Kreatank do that logo?

fictionfuture··on Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
Looks great, however, I still have hopes that something similar to a GraphQL interface for a SQL based database is coming.

NoSQL is cool, but ultimately GraphQL/Apollo serves many of the same issues but has the capability of a much richer, standardized and potentially lower cost backend.

fictionfuture··on How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality
This type of feminism and denying gender roles exist is just making people unhappy.
fictionfuture··on Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace
So what did Anthony end up w after all this?

I thought I heard he had a $100m bonus from Google at some point. Then he sold Otto later to Uber for $600m+?

After all the mess, what's he left with?

fictionfuture··on Hugh Hefner has died
If there was one guy that lived life to it's fullest. This was the guy.
fictionfuture··on Things to Learn from Uber’s Implosion
Uber has good karma. The writer of this article clearly had no post traction experience.

They have an investment thesis that isn't playing out as planned due to regional push back. Economics.

However, Kalanick should never have written a public apology as that gave journalists and their SJW counterparts grounds to stand on.

fictionfuture··on The day I reached the 1600 columns limit in PostgreSQL
Maybe Im missing the point, but After reading that I still don't understand why you couldn't just add a permanent column and continually overwrite it.
fictionfuture··on Seven Rules of Thumb for Designing Web Experiments [pdf]
Good post. A bit intimidating at first, but this paper has some real insight and is worth a read.

What makes this paper so good is that the opinions are primarily data-driven, not intuition driven. Which leads to insights you can trust.

fictionfuture··on Does Apple deliberately slow its old iPhones before a new release?
I notice this every year. This year there is a noticeable stutter in the IOS animations.

I'll bet the iPhoneX handles this perfectly. Better buy one!

fictionfuture··on Harvard Thinks It’s Found the Next Einstein – And She’s 23
She looks and sounds impressive; however, another part of me wonders if she is just getting this press because she's a woman.
fictionfuture··on Node.js leadership is a toxic mess
Every leadership group will devolve into something like this if it's members aren't moderated and if there is no clear hierarchy.
fictionfuture··on Show HN: I'm building a IMDB for tech events and tech speakers
I can verify that finding good tech talks amongst all the noise is a pain point!

Question is, if you can actually solve it :)

fictionfuture··on Show HN: Get live news in a commandline
Not exactly dying to hear about the latest Trump tweets while I'm coding.
fictionfuture··on How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Seems that the liability for men to get married is much higher now in the event of a divorce. Also women are less dependant on men and more able to control when and if they have children.

Everything else is irrelevant imo.

fictionfuture··on Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App
Regular taxis are in every facet worse than Ubers. So safety etc is just an excuse.

In the end, this is about economics. Why send all this money to a US company, when you can keep it in the UK?

fictionfuture··on [dead]
Two points of difference.

Trump didn't do this, Kushner did. It was Hillary herself using a private email server.

Second, Hillary sent thousands of clearly official communications in a clear attempt to operate off the record. With Kushner, it appears he was using this casually and it wasnt an attempt to back channel.

fictionfuture··on It’s time to kill the web app
This article is so naive.

It completely negates all the benefits of the open web while presenting problems along with non-sensical "fixes"...

fictionfuture··on Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos
Does no one else notice the collusion to suppress calls for anti-trust action against Amazon, Google and Facebook?

These companies have all been actively suppressing any information that would force a review on this issue.

They've effectively closed off the internet, none of these services let consumers follow links off site now and it's made a major difference in the ability to compete.

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