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Ruby enthusiast and engineer at CarWoo! Prior to CarWoo, I worked as a C# developer back home in Louisiana. Love applying lessons learned from working in different environments.
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sshconnection··on Tesla Roadster
If I had paid for a reservation for this car in checks notes 2017(!!!), I'd have some issues with them as well. Very cool tech demo, but come find me when it's getting produced and sold to the people who reserved them a decade ago.
sshconnection··on Things to know when you get cancer
Haven't had cancer, but for another surgery I had, the drive down from SF to Stanford Sports Medicine was EXTREMELY worth it.
sshconnection··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
That's the opposite of how green cards work.
sshconnection··on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
Wtf, their pricing model is almost as bad as the planned obsolescence. $15 a month just to connect your hardware? Ridiculous.
sshconnection··on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
Same. I am generally very politically aligned with him (esp housing and transit), but this one ain’t it.
sshconnection··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
If you think the administrative flip flop is bad now, wait until Trump implements schedule F.
sshconnection··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
The options were likely 10k when he was issued them at hiring. When leaving the company, he would need to purchase those options (likely within 90 days if it's a shitty policy). Then, the real kicker is that he would have to pay taxes on the on-paper gains between the 10k and the current valuation. So lets say the company was worth half of what it was at IPO, he would now own 2.5m of stock, owe taxes on 2.49m of income, and have to pay that off with early engineer salary and no liquidity on his equity.
sshconnection··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
An early stage startup is a bad place to avoid working insane hours.
sshconnection··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
Nobody is saying they should be high on the job. People are saying we shouldn't fire employees for having a beer or a joint a week ago on vacation.

The status quo endorses the former and demonizes the latter.

sshconnection··on California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working
In sprawling cities like Houston you can also just not see that area of town. In a dense place like SF, it's harder to avoid.
sshconnection··on California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working
Certain areas are inherently easier to be homeless in, regardless of local programs.

Try sleeping outside for a year in Phoenix or in Minneapolis. Try getting resources in a sprawling suburb without access to a car. It seems clear that SF, with its dense, walkable layout, access to public transit, and year round moderate climate, would be vastly preferable to most areas of the US.

sshconnection··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
Love how HN loves data driven analysis, except when analyzing SF violent crime rates.
sshconnection··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
It's worth noting the overlap of the people mocking San Francisco for having a homelessness crisis and those decrying upzoning for density and providing affordable housing.
sshconnection··on This Week in Rails: jQuery no longer part of Rails, and more
What? Why?
sshconnection··on When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)
Crows, mice, and dolphins perhaps.
sshconnection··on Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor
Awaiting a "GitLab advisor here" comment from him...
sshconnection··on Ask HN: How do I get started with Algo trading?
If you're in the NYC or bay area, there are a few quant groups on meetup.com that have regular events. Might be a good place to drop in.
sshconnection··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
That high school kid needs to install a web server. Is he going to hire someone? No. He's going to copy a curl command.
sshconnection··on Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache
Does OpenStruct still break caches?
sshconnection··on “Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering company)”
I agree that the government shouldn't have pervasive access to the records, but I WANT Uber to track my rides. That's how I can have recourse if a driver takes me for a spin. I WANT my driver to be identified and for them to track who picks me up. He claims that it's troublesome for a female passenger to be identifiable to a driver. How about if you're a female (or male) driver driving in your spare time? Would she not feel safer picking up someone who is at least somewhat identified versus a shady looking stranger?

One of the crucial components of sharing apps is the building of trust and accountability. Identification is part of that.

This list of complaints doesn't hold water for me.

sshconnection··on The Last Survivors of Meridian 59
They do. Pre-patch UO was much more of a free for all. Then the 2nd Age created a mirrored server that prohibited all but mutual combat. It took a lot of the excitement out of it for me. The risk/reward of going to dungeons and territorial feuds were what drew me to the game.
sshconnection··on Is It O.K. To Kill Cyclists?
Also, since then, the cop who killed the former Napster COO was let off without charges: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-milton-charges-d...

He was typing an email at the time of the accident.

sshconnection··on Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion
I made a similar argument in a prior comment. Particularly once driverless vehicles take off, the economics of vehicle ownership shift massively. Uber will be able to maximize utilization of vehicles and deliver them quickly due to coverage. The idea that network affect doesn't matter here is incredibly short sighted IMO.
sshconnection··on Why Uber Might Well Be Worth $18 Billion
My uber bill for 2014 is almost $2000 so far, and it's only June. I know that SF is not the rest of the country, but it has absolutely changed the way I get around.

That said, think about the possibilities that could come if one of their major backers (Google) continues to push forward with self driving vehicles. They will have excellent real time traffic data reported back through each vehicle on Waze, and a super efficient dispatch system. They could run 24/7 with electric driverless vehicles with crazy low operating costs. It could turn the entire industry on its head.

The economics would shift so drastically it wouldn't just be Uber vs taxies, it would be Uber vs does it make sense at all to even own your own vehicle. The automated vehicles could have utilization figures that are unheard of today. Why would you buy your own vehicle when you could have an automated Uber pick you up in 3 minutes for dirt cheap?

I think that time will come, probably sooner than we realize. And when it does, Uber will be positioned as the default dispatch gateway.

sshconnection··on Leaving Google
While there are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to not want to move to the bay area, I'm not sure that I would list exceptionally pervasive racism among them.
sshconnection··on Glenn Greenwald's news site, The Intercept, is up
Someone should help him out with thumbnails...
sshconnection··on N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
You must have been living under a rock for the past few months. Welcome to September, where we now know that to not be the case.
sshconnection··on How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
Not all spending is equal. If they want to pour money into projects, there is plenty of infrastructure that needs to be built here.
sshconnection··on San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
There's been a lot of tech worker backlash in SF lately. Not to speak for Tom, but I've certainly been made uncomfortable after mentioning it to someone who then proceeded to bash "all these Google types" who are forcing out the "true San Franciscans" and "ruining the culture of the city".
sshconnection··on Python Tools for Visual Studio
PyCharm is built by JetBrains, and SourceTree by Atlassian. Both great products, though.
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