Thirty years ago my small hometown had bus service to the closest big cities. Three private companies supplied round trips from one downtown to another several times a day.
Now there is only a shuttle, which costs twice as much, runs only three times daily, and doesn't go anywhere but the airport. If you are car-free in this town, whether by choice, poverty, or disability, you're going nowhere unless you have friends to drive you. So I was excited about what Uber or Lyft could do for the rural car-free...until I remembered how the private bus companies left us high and dry. What's to keep Uber from doing the same?
I use it daily. One thing that impressed me right away was the engaging visual and interaction design. I'm surprised to read the intended user is male--most "masculine" design seems heavy and dark in palette, while Headspace relies on nearly pastel tints.
I avoid signing up for multi-day hackathons. Almost none of the venues guarantee quiet, secure places for naps. It'll be great if attendees can sleep at home without penalizing their teams.
Yeah, I bristled at his phrasing, until I read the rest of the sentence--then I was in full agreement. As a front end developer, I'm tired of seeing kitchen sink job postings "requiring" Sass, AngularJS, and...Hibernate. Or WebSphere.
I'm 48. I'd love to retire in < 25 years, but that isn't looking financially realistic. There are legions of "older" workers like me.
Given that the average stint for employees at SF/SV companies these days seems to be about two years, I don't understand why these companies think older job candidates pose flight risks. It's certainly not that they're obliged to pay pensions.
Then put 58 as the age. If the average stay for an employee in SV is 2 years it means that you still get a worker with amazing experience for the average workers stay. You come out on top.
Even more, let's assume that this person doesn't retire at 60. In that case, the chances of being hired at a different company are even less, you you get a person with brilliant experience who will stay in the company 2-3 times that of the average worker.
I attended a school (relatively) nearby in the 1970s. We took many field trips out to Arcosanti, which was under construction. Were told, "When you grow up, you'll live somewhere like this!"
When I visited as an adult, I noticed Arcosanti seemed like an offshoot of environmental architecture, rather than an influence: for instance, I was surprised they didn't have graywater recycling out there on the mesa. It'd be interesting to see some of Soleri's concepts expressed with an urban infill project.
In my fifteen years of tech work, the only occasions I had to work overtime were those when somebody screwed up. It was often because somebody didn't say no to requests for: CYA meetings; last-minute scope changes; mandatory "butts in chairs" policies.
Thirty-two hours a week doesn't give lousy management enough time to take root. Like kvcrawford, I can't overestimate how appealing that is when it comes time to recruit.
You've made a bunch of posts about Firefighters in S.F. Everything I'm seeing is that S.F. Firefighters are some of the highest paid in the world, and have amazing pensions on top of their salaries. I'm curious what your reasoning here is? Just that they live elsewhere doesn't mean they aren't paid enough, it could just mean they prefer to live in another area...
These were due to excessive overtime. The Lieutenant who made $300k ($50k more than the Chief) tripled his base salary.
> Just that they live elsewhere doesn't mean they aren't paid enough, it could just mean they prefer to live in another area
It means that in a major disaster like an Earthquake, SF might find many of its emergency responders (not just firefighters) stranded on the far side of the bay.
Can't afford? Or choose the live outside of SF? Hell, I know plenty of people who could afford to live in SF and choose not to. SF is not exactly family friendly.
Now there is only a shuttle, which costs twice as much, runs only three times daily, and doesn't go anywhere but the airport. If you are car-free in this town, whether by choice, poverty, or disability, you're going nowhere unless you have friends to drive you. So I was excited about what Uber or Lyft could do for the rural car-free...until I remembered how the private bus companies left us high and dry. What's to keep Uber from doing the same?