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Why do you think that use case is that common? And why do you think google maps should elevate that particular use case above other competing use cases?

There are some good points here, but of course I am going to ignore those to talk instead about the stuff I disagree with!

The section about google maps follows a form of criticism that is widespread and particularly annoys me, namely => popular service 'x' doesn't exactly fit my power user need 'y', therefore x is hopelessly borked, poorly designed, and borderline useless.

There is always room for improvement, but all software requires tradeoffs. One of the things that makes a product like google maps so powerful is that it makes a lot of guesses about what you are actually trying to do in order to greatly reduce the complexity and inputs required in order to do these incredibly complicated tasks.

So yes, sometimes when you move the map some piece of data will be removed from the screen without your explicit consent, and yeah, in that moment that feels incredibly annoying. But balance that against the 100s or 1000s of times you used google maps and it just worked, perfectly, because it reduced the number of inputs needed to use it to the bare minimum.

Google maps doesn't need to fit every use case perfectly, and while its fine to talk through how your hyper specific use case could and should work, remember all the times that it seamlessly routed you around traffic from your office to your house in one touch while you were already hurtling down the highway at 70 mph.

I've been seeing a nutritionist to try to help with weight loss and his emphasis has been on a healthy plate, which is a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter starch or grains. Even at nice restaurants, it is extremely difficult to order meals that fit these proportions, and, as you move down the quick service spectrum it gets harder and harder. By the time you arrive at fast food, its difficult to find a vegetable at all.

And, almost all the vegetables you find at quick service restaurants are lettuce or greens heavy salads, which are fine, but not ideal. Really, the only way to guarantee that you are getting a vegetable heavy diet is by cooking at home.

The less we cook at home and the more we eat out, the fatter we (as a society) will become.

Doesn't respond to any of the claims in the story. The story is about 1) how FedEx lobbied for the Trump tax cuts, 2) what they claimed they would do with that money if the tax cuts were passed, 3) what they actually did with that money and 4) what the implications are for the efficacy of the Trump tax cuts in general. If the New York Times corporation followed exactly the same playbook as FedEx with regard to lobbying, how would that change any of the four points above? And what would Arthur Sulzbergers opinions about tax cuts have to do with the reporting of the story?

It's an extremely blatant and I thought transparent attempt to change the subject, but, if the first fifteen comments here are any indication, a surprisingly effective one.

A really fantastic essay. Thanks for sharing.

in a recession, is short term, flexible office space more or less desirable?

Do you have direct experience or knowledge of this? Cause this doesn't square with my anecdotal knowledge or my sense of the bay area labor market. For instance levels.fyi quotes total comp for mid level engineers in the 250 range, which tails much closer to Google, Facebook, etc.

I used retool at work for a while. We had some specific peculiarities with our stack that added a little too much friction for us, but overall it's a super impressive product with a lot of potential. I hope you guys continue growing so that it's around for a long time to come.

One piece of feedback/missing feature was the ability to see a version history. Ideally I'd like to be able to back up my entire set up to github so that we could rollback changes easily.

HEB is the GOAT of grocery stores!

the article isn't about the feel of the keyboard, its about the reliability. Unless you are saying you like stuck keys?

This critique doesn't really make sense.

`sleep 60`

Because one interruption takes x amount of time to deal with and the other interruption takes x + 60 seconds of staring at a chat window that FEELS like 3 times as long

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its not strictly speaking an unrelated crime. It wasn't like a drunk driving offense. He was being rewarded for his positive contributions as an employee and people are criticizing that reward based on his alleged negative behavior as an employee.

Not the same type of things. Space X doesn't dock with space stations or repair telescopes, space shuttle doesn't launch commercial sattelites.

runners have a much better stopping speed than bicycles, and also don't have sharp metal or carbon fiber frames that can hurt pedestrians :)

Also 15 mph is a sub 4:20 mile, and for most people will be pretty close to a flat out sprint. Not super adviseable on sidewalks either. Most joggers will be going half that speed.

walking, 3mph

running at an 9 min mile 6.5mph

does this calculus still work if each scooter only lasts 3 months, as is stated in the article?

I put in my disclaimer out of sense of honesty. I'm a bike rider, I don't like cars either. As you can see however, my question is whether electric scooters with a three month lifespan can come out ahead in environmental savings.

Vehicles that move faster than pedestrians should go on the road, like bicycles do. As a bike rider, its a vastly superior option that going on the sidewalk.

Full disclosure, I'm anti scooter. People drive them on the sidewalks, leave them in front of my front door, and I genuinely hope that both of these companies, specifically, fail.

With that disclosure, was anyone else horrified that the lifespan of these scooters is only 3 months?

Are they really removing enough vehicle trips to make these a net positive from an environmental standpoint?

He or she should react professionally and prudently, the same way they should strive to react to all professional adversity.

YES. it doesn't matter if you CAN possibly recreate some of the functionality in gmail. it matters if the app guides you to your preferred workflow. Inbox made it easier to keep inbox zero than not. Thats the difference.

Test save you time (maybe) in the long run. But in the search for product market fit, you may conceptualize, design, build, release and then scrap a feature within the course of a month. That's not a long enough lifespan for the tests ROI (better code, fewer bugs, better architecture) to be positive.

don't forget to add a picture and allow you to tag some interests as well

This is a message board run by a VC firm. The process of raising venture capital is of significant interest to me and I'm guessing many other readers.

Is 8 weeks a particularly fast timeframe for raising a seed round? I'm sure that spending fully one quarter of the total lifespan of your company doing something besides building features would be equally unpleasant for many founders.

I didn't read this as the whining of the privileged, but rather as a well-written, detailed account of a business process that is fundamentally important to the tech industry, and yet is extremely opaque to those who haven't directly experienced it.

I particularly want to thank the writers for providing detailed and actionable advice regarding how they frame their business to investors.

incognito mode

But they also don't have franchise fees, or a captive market of franchisees to sell goods and training too. WeWork ARE the franchisees in this comparison.

Thats not what he meant. He was not saying "People are adding modules, modules are bad, this project is ruined, [modules are] so wrong." He was saying, "People are creating modules, people are building on top of my work, this project is COMPLETE. [I was] so wrong."

I've found one of the best ways to experiment with other text editors is to use them for one specific type of task or type of file. So when I started using vim I only used it edit config files. Makes it easier to lock into the mental mode of using a particular editor.

I'm sure the OP would have no difficulty picking up another QA job, but thats not what he wants. He wants to move to highly specialized fields.