jeffwilcox

Here in Seattle our condo building is in the middle of something insane - Comcast is actively installing their network in our building; previously we were only served by Wave Broadband. The local government has finally pushed back on what used to be de facto "gentlemen's agreements" to not allow competition in buildings. Excited to see what this brings!

Here in Washington state our 405 lanes have new "Express toll" lanes; if you have 3+ people during rush hour you get to use them free, otherwise for 1-2 people you pay up to $10 based on congestion...

The prices are mostly set dynamically to in theory keep the average speed above a specific number to qualify for federal funding of the work.

Yet common. Stephen Elop (Nokia back to Microsoft) $25m https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/09/19/1834224/nokias-elop...

Frankly surprised they aren't doing it already, or at least some other agency. The Europeans seem to be leading when it comes to some of this tech, though at least with GDPR in theory it's a rolling 30-day window of data and not anything too permanent.

This scares me, a lot. After watching enough videos online I've had to start using the Apple Store, paying shipping, to avoid any potential fire hazards. Most consumers probably never know. :( It's crazy that they sell the fakes on the official Apple product pages.

That's yet another whole potential article about lobbying and regulation in America, labeling what "high-speed Internet" is until it's watered down to DSL or so at 4 mbps. At least a few years ago they redefined it to 25 mbps.

It's a bit of a walk; the real amazement to me was that the rental car terminal was built across the street from the Tukwila Int'l Blvd station - I assume some union or lobbyist there for the bus driver's union forced that one.

Karma is fun, though. It's fun walking past the cab and town car aisles in the garage now (entirely empty, zero customers) and instead heading to the millennial cab stand to wait for an Uber/Lyft.

Yeah... it's also tough, many real estate investment trusts and companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to seek a great return on investment. If there's no margin in the affordable housing game, it's not going to fulfill that obligation. :/

I'm starting to think it is less about foreign investments, like a few other comments have noted, and more about changes at the top end of the middle class.

Along with the large amounts of growth, wages in the upper middle class have really increased a lot. If you look at tech workers, it was pretty common to see average tech employees pulling in $75k-$150k a decade ago; today employees at a similar level and set of skills are pulling $200-350k. As a result, there's a ton of money in the high end available to purchase housing in the area.

Saving for a down payment is a challenge, but less so if it's relatively easy to tuck away an extra $100k a year. This is likely available to a tech earner but not the Seattle hair dresser, unless they have also increased their asking rates for a haircut the last few years.

Basic Angular project. No contributions. Poor code. CS 101-style projects.

When I've had time to prepare, I've taken the time to review candidates' GitHub repositories, and it has surely helped to really understand what "open source experience" means vs "coding camp attendee". It's fun to ask about a particular class or set of files and ask the candidate to teach me something about the project. It shows we care, and also helps me tease apart a candidate's communication abilities.

So true! We have thousands of employees at our company using GitHub.com, and every week someone loses access to their account permanently. Why? They never bothered to store the original recovery codes for the account.

With GitHub the SMS backup option is just a secondary choice, not required.

A UbiKey or similar device or just storing the recovery codes + using an app is the best route in that one.

Check out the Communications Museum sometime - no phreaking exhibit per se, but much more in that direction. It's closely to Living Computers, in Georgetown. http://museumofcommunications.org

Amex Platinum is a charge card, you must pay them [for the most part] within 30 days, which is quite different from most American credit cards. Not a debit card, but close, outside of pay-over-time benefits.

Super interesting, sure, but the Centurion card ("black card") is much more elite - minimum spend, $7,500 just to get the card, etc. Great offering from Amex but a different league than the middle class cards like Chase Sapphire, Amex Platinum, etc.

Interesting that it's the US-wide one; there are local and regional safety systems, too, which are heavily bid up by folks including Motorola.

Here in Seattle ever few years we approve another quarter billion dollar emergency network project. If our local cost is a quarter billion, $6.5B for a country-wide network seems like a deal in this day and age.

(Article - http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/levy-passe...)

Have you heard of the Software Heritage Project? Pretty cool what they're trying to do to help and preserve the world's software.

https://www.softwareheritage.org

GitHub Enterprise is an on-premise product and separate from the "dot-com" (GitHub.com) product offering. Inside Microsoft we have great engineering systems that today are powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), so for most teams we try and use that for all private engineering work.

For our externally-facing open source projects, we are using the GitHub.com public product like any other GitHub user - we realize that GitHub is where open source lives these days!

That said, we have some unique challenges, as we have nearly 10,000 members in some of our organizations.

Full disclosure, I work within the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office and am responsible for our GitHub.com billing arrangements at this time.

If we were only doing pure open source, public repos, there would be no cost to us ($0).

The truth is that we actually do pay, as we have private repositories. We ask that people prepare their initial open source releases during a 30-day window - making sure they have a decent README file, the right LICENSE, Code of Conduct, etc.

Full disclosure, I work at Microsoft within our Open Source Programs Office and I own our billing relationship with GitHub for the large organizations including Microsoft, Azure, etc. We pay via a yearly invoice for a set level of services today but we're always looking for better ways to collaborate with GitHub!

Super surprised to see that tech employees aren't funding their 401K the full $18,000 per year. :(

+100

Loved Rebel Assault! Thanks for posting.

Sadly the Delta product is more of a rebranding of Comfort Plus... more food service but not anything very comfortable. If they would just offer the equivalent of domestic Delta First as a premium economy that would be a start for me!

+1, love arriving downtown when taking a Euro train... sadly many corporate policies require booking flights OVER trains due to negotiated travel deals in Europe.

Many airlines do not consider Central America or Caribbean to be actual international flights from North America.

You can usually tell in whether they offer a true business class cabin or just a first class cabin like other domestic flights. :/

Transit-oriented development - built along trams/metro/rapid bus cooridors

I also purchased it back when Daring Fireball was recommending it... on a retina display it's nice, but it has its flaws, and the value in my mind for an individual developer for this kind of thing is like $10 if it was on Kickstarter... we don't even pay for our editors!

Real experts in font design, but trying to market to developers... probably a mistake.

Even more confusing on the TV show timing now thanks to Internet streaming. Westworld on HBO may technically broadcast at 10pm Eastern, and on HBO west it is broadcast at 10pm Pacific, but then it's also available on HBO Go and HBO Now to stream at 10pm Eastern.

I've seen a couple examples of folks doing 3-6 month AirBnB renting instead of looking for and dealing with the apartment market.

One friend in Italy negotiated to have the owner eventually just lease their unit for which they had a long-term AirBnB thing going.

Interesting to see where this all goes in time.