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Does Target Red Card offer charity donations like Amazon Smile? Asking for our PTO.

I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health.

But a lot of the advice seems like narrative fallacies.

I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health.

But a lot of the advice seems like narrative fallacies

Especially when driving short distances in new cities, a route with fewest turns would be useful.

The article makes me wonder if a support group (nonprofit) for laif off tech professionals with the goal of alleviating the loneliness. It could be as simple as a weekly call with others who have been laid off.

If you have microservice A that depends on service B and both of the services are need to be updated for a change, then how do you avoid coordinating deployments to staging and production environment?

Scaling engineering velocity is also dependent on the domain and strategy. If the strategy is throw darts on the wall and see what sticks - one can scale independent teams. If the strategy is leverage what we have to build new features then teams have to communicate with each and this doesn't scale linearly.

> Prior to this incident, our cloud has consistently delivered 99.9% uptime and exceeded uptime SLAs.

But it had the risk of catastrophic failure the whole time. I wish we had better ways to measure and communicate risk.

Bret Victor has provided a first principles approach to solving climate change. I work at SolarCity we take a similar systems thinking approach and tackle the problems at their fundamental level. We have been vertically integrating the business from manufacturing highest efficiency solar panels, mounting systems that enable fast installation, electrical systems that can work with the grid, financing for homeowners that don't require any downpayment.

Our Software engineering team specifically works on improving efficiency of our sales workflow, geo spatial systems that support our installation crew, grid systems that monitor and work with the grid, and providing the best experience for our customers.

I'm happy to talk to anyone who is interested in joining us. Shoot me an email at mkumaraswamy@solarcity.com

Our career's page: http://solar.solarcity.com/careers/software-engineering/

SolarCity - San Francisco, CA & San Mateo, CA

SolarCity is America's largest solar power provider. We make clean energy available to homeowners, businesses, schools, non-profits and government organizations at a lower cost than they pay for energy generated by burning fossil fuels.

"Sustainable energy is the fundamental problem the world faces" - Elon Musk, Chairman of SolarCity, CEO of Tesla Motors, CEO of SpaceX

Our software team is working on the most interesting projects in the industry, some of them include:

* Internal tools to mobilize our workforce

* External apps to facilitate solar adoption

* Real time energy production and consumption monitoring

* Distributed energy management using battery storage

* Graphical CAD systems for auditing and design

* 3D whole house energy simulation models

* Pricing and proposal tools

* Complex financial fund modeling

* Quadcopters!

* Gamification

https://careers-solarcity.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchC...

Both usages have a valid context.

In system generated messages "yours" seems more appropriate. It implies that someone else is talking to the user. If I got a message "My email was received", I would feel like talking to myself.

The UI is an extension of human brain. So labeling things with "mine" will make the UI feel natural. My contacts feels closer than your contacts.

I wrote about the same subject: http://mouly.me/2011/07/my-contacts-or-your-contacts/

Aeropress. Electric kettle (bought for $5 from CL). Kurps Blade grinder. (Burr grinder would be better, but too big for my kitchen). Heat milk on stove top. Froth with aero latte. Enjoy.

The readability can be improved a lot: * The grey text has very low contrast. * The color coding seems arbitrary * I would indicate links use a blue text, and remove the turquoise box.

You don't want the CV to take the reader's attention from the content and answering the question - "do I want to hire this person?"

Usability is not a constant property. When we first see an interface we evaluate its perceived usability. Research has shown that this is mostly a function of its visual appeal. I think skeumorphic design has a high perceived usability. Someone who has never seen an iPad would recognize the iBook. But the same is not true for kindle. It does not look like a book.

After using the interface over time, our perception of usability changes. I suspect, overtime skeumorphic design will lose its appeal overtime because many constraints will be forced on the user artificially. Flipping pages on the iBook may seem more work than just tapping.

The projects that are offshored don't require programmer. They require people who can understand and follow instructions.

Replacing Menu button with "..." does nothing. The actions will continue to be hidden. All possible actions should be visible. If there are too many actions, then it is a sign to redesign. Creating a bucket for putting misc. actions will make them less discover-able.

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