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Racism in auto manufacturing seems to be as rampant as sexual harassment and discrimination in tech. Without even trying that hard: Ford: https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ford…

Does the word "long term" have no meaning, then? I agree it would be better to say "within the few 2 decades" or slap a timeframe on it. But this characterization is silly.

At Google there is a peer bonus benefit. You can peer bonus someone for doing something awesome. Each peer bonus is $150 before tax. You can list your peer bonuses on your promo pa…

Whoa, taxis showed up 2 out of 3 times for you? The official study has it at 49%: https://archives.sfmta.com/cms/rtaxi/documents/2005TaxiAvail... I even remember when the number wa…

> "I'm sure that Waymo has done some shady stuff too." TLDR so what? it's completely unrelated to this case. However, because you asked: Google (in the Alphabet family) is being/ha…

Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I've seen in the past: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/isis-opsec-encrypti…

I've been using this on Android for weeks. It's super fast, blocks a lot of annoying ads (think jumpy mobile overlays). No bookmarks or tabs, so if you're looking at a recipe for a…

What's up with reductionist posts like this every time a company announces layoffs? Scaling out a global business takes a lot more work than it does to run a no-SLA side project. A…

> I lived a couple of blocks from Uber's HQ's on 10th/Market and I went to lots of meetups there. People I met were happy and proud of the company. I'm not really sure this is a go…

> It reminds me of Thomas Edison sabotaging Tesla, and yet, here we are, on A/C. Dangerous position to take. This is pretty much saying that the ends justify the means, given enoug…

This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues t…

I chose to read this author as someone who very much believes in the black-and-white lines of the letter of the law. He's an interesting guy, for better or for worse. On the one ha…

Ah, yes, @dpp, creator of the Scala web framework Lift: https://blog.linkedin.com/2009/06/15/video-linkedin-scala-te... (Video is offline) To which Twitter's Nick Kallen replied on…

> The deal will mean the Pebble stock held by employees is worthless, two of the people said. The money will instead go to debt holders, vendors, some of its main equity investors,…

I made the mistakes of backing a number of smartwatches on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. The Pebble, for its faults, was still the most stable, polished item out of all the crowdfunde…

There's a lot of disinformation about martial arts in any online discussion, especially because people are obsessed with determining which martial arts is "the best". That's a sort…

There's a circle here that you left out: More riders = more drivers. More drivers = more riders opening that app first. I have personally learned to check Uber first before Lyft be…

The Roman government at least paid for the bread and circuses, right? They didn't ask the populace to pay for the right to pay for circus season tickets ...

N=~10, my friends are about 70/30 Uber/Lyft usage. Sometimes one will have lower surge pricing. Some have Lyft for Work and that drives a lot of usage. UberPool for longer rides wi…

I'm not convinced CIOs are thinking about Reader or Wave. Before entering a big deal, it would make sense for people to read the deprecation policy. Unfortunately, the Cloud Platfo…

michaelochurch is many things, but I don't have any doubts in my mind that one of his talents is writing a lot, and writing it really fast. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/

Wait, really? Maybe if you come from writing Bash scripts.

An Apple Genius at an Apple store told my in-laws to kill their apps. Wish I was there in person to law down the law on that guy.

I suspect this isn't as big of a deal as you think it is in terms of making Android more successful. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice, I'm just saying: why should this be a prior…

Because The Wire is not about instant gratification. It's layers on layers that pay off in multiples by the time you're into the later seasons. Even season two, by far the weakest …