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It shows me 17 bus stops, but not the 3 subway stations/lines I am equidistant from. I already went through and favorited all my stations to make it useful again, but the main scre…

I have the T-Mobile version of the LTE dumbphone (Alcatel Go Flip). It can be used as a hotspot, wifi calling, and HD voice (much clearer than previous dumbphones). KaiOS is really…

Curious: I just got a series 3 last week and use it as my sole phone (hate smartphone form factor, flip phone user since forever). All I use it for is heart rate, phone, messaging,…

My parents shrewdly and pre-emptively reorganized their "estate" (feels silly calling their meager savings that) with a lawyer that specializes in this. In Central Florida, their a…

I don't understand the subsidies at all. In 2015, ACA gave people waivers (no penalty!) if the minimum insurance was more than 8.05% of household income. The minimum plan for a fam…

I run a bootstrapped non-profit in NYC with two employees (myself and my wife). A bronze plan for my family on the NY marketplace is about $1,200+ month with an $8k-14k deductible.…

Canopy - http://canopyapps.com - NYC - ONSITE Web Developer and Android Engineer We’re seeking a full-time Web / Full Stack Developer (front + backend) and an Android Engineer to j…

They all successfully transitioned into industrial factory jobs, where they received living wages and benefits and weren't at all abused by the factory owners and lived happily eve…

I have strong doubts too. Tech luminaries and the media that feed off them seem pretty constant with their predictions, so I think for worst case scenarios (at least in terms of th…

Last week in my robotics classes, the 4th grade students built and programmed simple "self-driving" cars with LEGO EV3's. My students are mostly 1st generation immigrants in Brookl…

Canopy - http://canopyapps.com - NYC - ONSITE Android Engineer We’re seeking a full-time Android Engineer to join our small, collaborative team and own the end-to-end development o…

Their new school seems to follow the community school model. Community schools provide classes for parents, wrap around services, dental, medical, social workers, etc. They are fai…

So much truth to this. Hang out with enough Mexican immigrants in the US and you realize the danger there is real for civilians in MX and not much of an exaggeration. Members of my…

I use Brackets for my middle school game programming class (using Phaser). Cross platform, free, and works great for beginners out of the box. Testing out html + js is as simple as…

The article is wrong to call it "Common Core online testing". Common Core is short for Common Core State Standards [CCSS], and thus are a standard, not curriculum or tests. Tests a…

I've volunteered almost every week for the last 6 years running free STEM programs in local schools in Brooklyn. The robotics program I started runs entirely off of volunteers, mos…

That's certainly one version of what can happen. Another version is that none of the equity transfers to the new company. The acquiring company will offer you a modest boost in sal…

Tip to engineers new to the startup world: If the startup you work for has any success or traction, but runs out of money, you will be sold off as a team like cattle. When startups…

I always feel like I get the most done, both in terms of what I'm paid to do and what I have to offer, on my weekly volunteer day. I slam through as much programming and meetings/c…

Short version: We had direct access to all the large news image providers and analyzed the images for topic and story identification. We used this data to dynamically generate hund…

Not running (probably). We were acquired by a competitor. Last I heard, they upgrade their image server code with the bare essential features to migrate over our clients. A lot of …

I wrote a similar image service (resize, crop, border, color analysis, format, and other fun features) a few years ago. It served about 6M image requests a day from 4 servers, plus…

I follow a similar strategy when I'm interviewing for a job. I play it a little loose and speak freely. If they don't have the good sense to realize that questions about my resume …