robbyking

The lack of a Swype-style keyboard was for me the most difficult part of the transition from Android to iOS. After a few weeks I became comfortable with the iOS keyboard, but never really fluent.

The only reason to phrase your question the way you did is to increase the FUD surrounding car services like Uber and Lyft. The same question could be asked of any person in any profession.

Regardless, the answer to your question is the first result when you search Google for "Uber liability coverage":

> Uber holds a commercial insurance policy with $1 million of coverage per incident. Drivers’ liability to third parties is covered from the moment a driver accepts a trip to its conclusion. This policy is expressly primary to any personal auto coverage (However it will not take precedence over any commercial auto insurance for the vehicle). We have provided a $1 million liability policy since commencing ridesharing in early 2013.

http://blog.uber.com/ridesharinginsurance

Not always.

My company offers market rate adjustments (outside of the usual review/salary adjustment periods) to retain experienced developers.

That always sounds odd to me, like when someone asks "do you have a Facebook?"

Both of my dogs (aged 12 and 14, respectively) slept right through it.

Was this influenced by Reddit's "Daily 3?[1]"

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Mydaily3/

I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.

I was in the same situation for more than four years. The only reason I stayed for so long was at the time my career wasn't very important to me -- my main focus was my band, and even though it was infuriating, my horrible job afforded me the time and money to be able to focus on music.

When the time came for me to think about moving on, I did a few different things. First off, I went to udemy.com and brushed up on my framework skills. At the time I was a front end developer, so I too courses in jQuery and Angular.js, then took a refresher course in Java. From there I started doing volunteer development work for local non-profits so I could round out my portfolio.

After that, my job hunt was pretty easy. All-in-all my ramp up took about 6 months or so, and it lead to me getting a job that I love.

The analogy I use is a coding interview is like asking a musician to play a specific song; chances are, a classically trained pianist won't know the chords to a specific pop song, but that isn't any indication of their skill as a musician.

The interviews I had with the company I work for now were amazing; they asked me some basic questions to verify my resume wasn't completely BS, then asked me to discuss previous projects I'd worked on, asking questions about technical details on the way. ("Why did you use collection type X in stead of collection type Y?") This allowed them to learn about my real world experience without the risk of asking me about one specific type of problem I may not be familiar with.

I had to read this headline 3 or 4 times before I realized Transition wasn't an additional product being phased out.

"Stacked" menus on the web have been called hamburger menus since at least the late 90's; I remember hearing the term in design meetings as far back as 1998.

A Google Image Search for "Web Hamburger Menu" also brings up images of the type of menu the author is describing[1].

1) https://www.google.com/search?q=hamburger+menu&safe=off&espv...

To be honest, the boxy, clunky feeling UI is what kept me from using FireFox. The new UI, coupled with a couple misteps by Chrome, got me to switch back to a Mozilla browser for the first time since Chrome was released.

And iOS programming bootcamp graduates are infamous for landing jobs doing basic project maintenance for half that salary. Not that there's anything wrote with that, it's just the vast majority of employers seeking iOS devs @$120k/yr want candidates with successful apps on the appstore.

The Famo.us session (along with a couple others) at last year's HTML5 conference in SF is what made me decide to make the shift to full time iOS development. Every benchmark was presented in terms relative to native app development: "transitions are 95% as smooth as native apps;" "rendering times take only 3% longer than native apps."

Of course mobile web development is important, but I don't really see where Famo.us's market is. Full feature desktop web?

What if he had supported legislation to ban marriage between people of different races? Would you say that that has absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job?

I honestly can't believe we're still discussing this.

Donald Rumsfield summed this up nicely:

> There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

>> This is a city that practically endorses party behavior, and has absolutely miserable public transportation options and a sprawling suburb area

I used to live in Athens, GA, and we had the same problem: nightlife drove much of the local economy, but public transportation was nearly non-existent. The number of clearly intoxicated people getting into cars was astounding to me when I first moved, having previously lived in a city with good public transportation.

The correlation between drunk driving and the availability of public transportation seems pretty clear to me.

I really hate these long-url one-word-of-content sites. Doineedajacket.com was clever, but the swarm of copies are unaoriginal and annoying.

If you don't see white people working low-income jobs in SF, you need to get out and explore. Nearly everyone working retails jobs in the Castro, Noe Valley, Hayes Valley, and a half dozen other neighborhoods is white.

What makes Last.FM so good is they recommend music based on similar users, not similar artists. An artist I frequently use to demonstrate this difference is Hank Williams III. People who are familiar with him knows he plays both neo-traditional country and "hellbilly," so it's difficult to find similar artists.

To generate a Hank III radio station, Pandora analyzes his music, and -- based on similarities in composition and genre ("major key tonality," "traditional country influes") -- creates a station of top 40 pop country songs, which is pretty much the antithesis of Hank III's music.

Last.FM, on the other hand, analyzes the listening habits of other Hank III fans, and correctly assumes someone listening to Hank III radio will not only be a fan of outlaw and traditional country music, but also of bands like the Misfits and Black Flag.

I have my Instapaper feed delivered to my Kindle, so I use my commute time to read that and the NY Times. Using that "dead" time helps me keep up with what's going on in the world.

Off all the dedicated note taking apps available, Dropbox + an iOS Dropbox-compatible text editor has worked best for me. Even if DB were to go down, I'd still have my local synced copies.

It's difficult to cite specific examples because the zeitgeist (the defining spirit, not the bar) was completely different at that time. The Mission and SOMA used to be neighborhoods where you could live relatively inexpensively and still have space to make art or music or raise a family, so most of us who lived there had a vested interest in seeing the neighborhood thrive culturally.

Of course parts of those neighborhoods were terrible -- it's difficult to argue that 6th and Mission isn't better now than it was 10 or 15 years ago -- but to define entire neighborhoods by those types of intersections would be wrong. 16th and Mission was -- and honestly, still is -- often overrun with drug dealers and prostitutes, but if you were to have walked two blocks in any direction back then you would have passed countless independent art galleries, rehearsal spaces, and performance studios, not to mention an even greater number of family owned restaurants, grocery stores and shops.

And the best thing about all of these places was their accessibility: nearly anyone could afford to go out to dinner or an art opening, see a band play, or just have a couple drinks down the street from their house. It's that accessibility that's missing now: working class families, artists, and musicians can't afford the neighborhoods they helped build, so slowly, through Ellis Act evictions or sheer frustration, they start to trickle out of the city, taking with them what made the area desirable in the first place.

I've lived in San Francisco most of my adult life (having moved to the city after I graduated high school in the late 90's), and the current tech boom has been bittersweet for me and a lot of my friends. To be honest, I agree with -- and for the most part fit into -- the portrait this article paints of Bay Area engineers ("more of them go to Burning Man than to church"), but what's heartbreaking as a San Franciscan is how much influence on the city's culture the vocal minority of "loudmouthed techies" has had; neighborhoods I used to live in and love -- namely the Mission, South of Market, and Lower Haight -- would be unrecognizable in their current forms if my 2002 self were to see them.

I understand cities are living things, and they grow and change and people come and go, but the complete disregard for the city's culture is what's been so difficult for me. When I moved here I was young and naive, too, but I like to think I used the opportunity to learn about different cultures, backgrounds and perspectives, not marginalize them.

> I don't see why he asserts this as if it is indisputable fact. This is one of the most debated topics in all of human history.

You make an excellent point, one which Noam Chomsky addressed by saying[1]

> "If we're interested in let's say diminishing the amount of violence in the world, it's at least arguable and perhaps even sometimes true that a terroristic act does diminish the amount of violence in the world. Hence a person who is opposed to violence will not be opposed to that terroristic act."

Edit: The context was the use of violence to stop a hypothetical "train" from transporting munitions to help the criminal US war in Vietnam.

[1] http://www.eduqna.com/Quotations/495-quotations-5.html

Eye opening in what way?

I understand the author's point, but as a long time SF resident, I would say local news is very important to me. Many of my day to day decisions are dictated by what I read in the news each morning.

I agree. For example, my cousin is an artist, and building a web portfolio with functioning store was a requirement for graduating.

That's how I read it, too.