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I have a lot of family in France, and based on what I've heard from them, the flip-side of those kinds of employment protections is that employers become much more reluctant to hir…

Collecting miles isn't necessarily focused on earning free flights. The tiered statuses offered by most airlines include a variety of other perks that can make them attractive, and…

I disagree with this pretty strongly. Somebody posed a similar question in the blog comments, and I think I did a decent job of answering it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-air…

Still not disabled! Although at this point we're so habituated to PRs as a team that in practice it never happens. We did finally disable force pushes to master, though. Don't miss…

Yes, we're absolutely doing code reviews for each PR. Should have mentioned it in the post. Our general policy is to have engineers merge their own PRs, but only after at least 1-2…

Like testing, PRs are one of those things that seems like it will slow you down, but once you learn how to use them they can actually increase velocity (among many other benefits).…

Really appreciate this perspective. Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs: "I'm trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as …

Currently working with a Waterloo intern and I can personally attest that he is the bomb.

This is so great. I submitted a ton of stuff despite having to type my username and email every time. Might be hard to scale, but there's definitely a lot of potential joy in this.…

Well done. Love the art!

I really dig the concept. Having seen the downsides of vagrant on a few projects, I'm definitely interested in the feasability of cloud-hosted dev environments. Virtualization on t…

Does this remind anyone else of the ill conceived Motorola Rokr? http://img.iguor.com/2012/11/112752-apple-ceo-jobs-introduce...

production: noun. 1 the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured. I'd say if you make a factory that takes raw ma…

I've thought about this, too. Certainly much communication on the modern internet is realtime, so arguably a protocol based on realtime communication makes more sense than a protoc…

Several people have alluded to this outreach elsewhere in the thread. I'd certainly believe it. Any links/references on what these companies have offered?

Interesting point about public transportation -- by creating a private bus system, tech companies are actively suppressing demand for better public transport between SF and the val…