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Perhaps I have rose colored glasses, but the "sleeping in the car" problem seems new. But I could very well be wrong. That said, how are we really in a better place? Same problem, different master.
There is an early NYT article (early in the context of Uber's lifespan) detailing a day when a cab driver in NYC ended up paying his employer a few hundred dollars for the privilege of working that day. This was after all his fares for the shift.
https://qz.com/563622/ubers-new-car-rental-program-for-drive...
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Hi! I lead engineering on Code for America's work building services improving the social safety net, so happy to answer any questions. I'd also mention that we're hiring directly for teams at CfA building large-scale services serving the most vulnerable Americans. My team works on radically improving access to the food stamp program, a massive anti-poverty program, but one with only about 65% of eligible Californians…
Are all of these jobs at the same location SF? The jobs page ( https://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs ) lists locations "Headquarters", "San Francisco, CA, United States", and "San Francisco Headquarters" as if they might be different places.
Yes — San Francisco (SOMA) is the location for all of those.
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People are going to shit on the parent comment - but honestly, anyone with more than a few years of experience in a tight tech job market is going to easily be in the top decile of earners. The highly-committed individuals that do the brutally hard work on the ground for non-profits or NGOs make a pittance in comparison. Committing a quarter of your salary would pay the entirety of theirs. Consider that for a moment.
I'm suspicious of the notion that throwing money at problems can solve them.
Although it sounds like they are working on some important issues, I'm not sure I'd want to work for an organization who posts racially targeted messages -- which presumably they think are ok with some races filled into the blanks, but not others. https://twitter.com/JazmynLatimer/status/864585574581059584 It seems like non-racist messaging would be a better approach!
First, this is the text of the tweet in question:
"Any black or brown engineers wanna work at Code for America on criminal justice? Come code to keep people out of jail, it's worth it."
Your assumption that the poster is not OK with non black/brown engineers is an assumption.
I'd add, your comment is context-free and somewhat disingenuous, considering that we live in a society which has had a high degree of (and still has a significant amount of) systemic/institutional racism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism#United_St...
If one wants to talk about racially targeted messages, well, there's plenty of good studies on portrayal of minorities in media (film/tv/news).
I think you raise a valid topic of discussion, but don't seem to want to put all the facts on the table before drawing conclusions.
I think the best social good comes from fostering a more civilized environment. Sure, we need things like fire fighters and EMS. But keep in mind that fire fighters also try to do fire prevention. Sometimes, people get so focused on how to be a hero (metaphorically looking for the best way to fight the worst conflagrations) that they overlook opportunities to do more valuable though less "sexy" prevention. Anything t…
This. We have had a horrible track record with tech volunteers, in part because our mission is not tech-centric, so they don't get any glory. It doesn't mean there isn't anything for them to do - it's just that the story isn't about technology ... or them. There is a mountain of boring, yet critically important work waiting for people to just roll up their sleeves and pitch in.
Instead, we ended up with half a dozen prototypes of new projects solving problems no one had.
I personally think we need better ways and more people to know about better ways to aggregate social preferences. If people knew about alternative voting methods they might entertain using them. You could work on coding implementations that would introduce the masses to alternatives.
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This. There are many incredible organizations doing great work in the code for good space, and not solely in the non-profit or government sectors. I’ll second the reference to Code for America. I have a colleague who did their fellowship and learned a ton while working with some great local governmental agencies. They’ve also recently launched a job board to curate high impact mission-driven jobs and jobs with local…
Hi! I lead engineering on Code for America's work building services improving the social safety net, so happy to answer any questions. I'd also mention that we're hiring directly for teams at CfA building large-scale services serving the most vulnerable Americans. My team works on radically improving access to the food stamp program, a massive anti-poverty program, but one with only about 65% of eligible Californians…
Although it sounds like they are working on some important issues, I'm not sure I'd want to work for an organization who posts racially targeted messages -- which presumably they think are ok with some races filled into the blanks, but not others. https://twitter.com/JazmynLatimer/status/864585574581059584 It seems like non-racist messaging would be a better approach!
The initial tweet seems straightforward enough to me (as a white person); black/brown folks are underrepresented in most companies and thus they'd love for more to join. Reaching out sometimes helps accomplish that. Hiring is not a zero sum game. If targeting underrepresented folks in order to encourage them to join is this offensive to you, imagine actually having to be a minority...
I have a list of resources that I collected while I was searching as well:
- The Fast Forward accelerator's tech nonprofits job board and directory. This is easily the most extensive list I found: https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofit-jobs/, https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofits/
- The YC-funded non-profits (subset here https://github.com/smartergiving/open-data/blob/master/v0/fu...)
- The well-known non-profits: Mozilla, Wikimedia, Khan Academy
- https://twitter.com/goodtechjobs
- Code for America is hiring, takes fellows, and has a government job board: https://jobs.codeforamerica.org/
- Tech co-ops: https://techworker.coop/members
- Angel list nonprofits: https://angel.co/nonprofits
- Some other random social good orgs that I found were hiring in the SF area or remote: Open Whisper Systems, Binti, Nuna, The Human Diagnosis project, Bayes Impact, Nava, GovEx, Democracy Works, The Guardian Project, The Internet Archive, EFF, Exygy, Open Law Lib, Angaza, Fight for the Future,
- An article written by the co-founder of Bayes Impact for techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/a-call-to-action-for-tech/
- Civic Makers (http://civicmakers.com/) has a newsletter highlighting civic news
I also second the progressive coder's network.