Just to nitpick the causality here, Tumblr was bought by Yahoo in 2013 then Yahoo was bought by Verizon/Oath in 2017 and now the porn ban is hitting afterward.
>Domestic flights don't seem much faster or more comfortable than 10 years ago, and service has arguably gotten worse as usage has continued to increase.
It seems like this is a result of an industry "normalizing." Once something becomes mainstream the quality usually goes down but quantity goes up.
Sure the Concorde was innovative, but the ticket prices were extremely high. In the 80's IIRC a round trip ticket was $1000 from the US to the UK. Adjusting for inflation that's around $3k for a flight.
Taking a quick look....today you can get the same flight from 35 different carriers, little slower of course, but for around $600-1000. As much as people complain about leg room and amenities I think most people care more about price and availability.
The Concorde is a bit inapt of a comparison; it had only one class of seating, and was targeted towards business-class travelers. A comparable seat on a modern, slower jumbo would also be in the $2-5k neighborhood, versus sub-$1k for economy fares.
EDIT: So, yes: you can do it for under a grand, but you're not getting the glass of champagne.
If you compare today's flight experience and expectations of service to Concorde, you probably should do it against today's business class rates. Which brings you to the same price ranges as Concorde, but with longer flight times.
My uncle was a taxi driver around the same time (maybe a little earlier?) and was paid a livable wage plus benefits.
>"There are so many drivers available that it's an owner's market," said Edward G. Rogoff, a professor of management at Baruch College who studies the taxi industry. "Drivers are competing for these low-prestige, low-pay jobs, which pushes their incomes down further."
You also missed the main part of the article. Simple stated there were too many taxi drivers. Now I don't know about you but if I were to have that many people willing to work for me its either the pay is good or working conditions.
This sucks because like the article mentions, it becomes an owner's market. On top of this it's also NYC. No taxi driver is gonna be able to afford many of the places they get fares from.
>"In '87, '88, you could make $100 a day, maybe more," said Sam Khan, a 37-year-old driver from Pakistan. But now, he said with a grimace, "maybe $60, $65."
>You’ll be adding similar boilerplate for computed properties, component state, watchers, etc. Pretty much everything in Vue has its own special syntax with more boilerplate.
I kinda like this syntax, when I first learned vuejs I knew immediately that some magic was going on in the background. If I saw marko's syntax I'd be wondering how this shit is getting done. It also makes it easier when searching for issues or suggestions. "vuejs computed property" vs searching generic terms.
>Chat based community
This part is simply not true, there's tons of individual vuejs communities all pretty decent. Shoot me for saying this but laracast isn't a bad option for Vue help. Everytime I have an obscure problem I find a solution on there.
>The reactivity system will only track changes under certain conditions. Don’t expect to throw anything you wish at it
This is the one part I hate about vue.
>Does this mean authentication logic goes in Vuex too? Will a state manager start mediating all application logic now?
Been there done that. I typically use vuejs for lightweight applications solely because I do run into this issue.
Could you recommend two or three non-chat based communities? I'm just starting to try Vue and the first handful of tutorials I've tried simply don't work as described.
I'm always interested when people say that tutorials don't work - I had a site planned called wrongtutorial.com but I couldn't work out how to make it funny/informative without being demeaning.
What tutorial are you using? How old is it? What didn't work?
The first one doesn't build, if I remember correctly, and the second doesn't display anything after about the halfway point. I'm running them on MacOS.
I tried a couple of others with similar issues, but didn't save the URLs.
>>The reactivity system will only track changes under certain conditions. Don’t expect to throw anything you wish at it
>This is the one part I hate about vue.
Haven't used Vue for a while, but if I recall correctly it will only track changes on keys defined in the original data object. Is that what you and the parent are referring to?
Then the Laravel ecosystem adopted it widely, and a good Vue.js tutorial series was published on Laracasts (which also happens to host the official Laravel forum)
Hence the close link with Vue and the Laravel community.
It's hard to identify sarcasm in text, so either I'm walking into your joke or you're walking into his (much older) joke. Oh well.
Experts Exchange was a tech QA site with a comically misinterpretable domain name that was popular in the late nineties and suffered in the dotcom bust.
Technical debt is definitely something to worry about, however I think most companies' first priority is a working product.
Technical debt is to be handled during the development cycle, not in source code and most of the issues you bring up (bloated software, version pinning) are solved in build systems and again should not be handled by source code.
Anyone working in an enterprise enviorment, especially that has clients on different systems, would instantly crumble without being able to target specfic builds.
Legacy and long term support software is everything.
>Go should reject version pinning as incompatible with the goals of Go.
This would instantly make go a 'no-go' in any enterprise enviorment.
The tone of this article seems to particularly demean the students in the beginning; I understand it's supposed to bring them to light but holy shit:
>They all ended up in West Virginia, not exactly the America you dream of when you come from Chennai or Bangalore. Probably not even when you come from Biel.
>Since then, their careers haven't really advanced in any significant way
>he looks less like an emissions specialist and more like a South Asian IT expert
> They all ended up in West Virginia, not exactly the America you dream of when you come from Chennai or Bangalore. Probably not even when you come from Biel.
I find these type of statements pretty racist. I mean what does it have to do with the reporting? I'm not sure it adds to the dramatic narrative/buildup. Having said that, I suppose for most people who move to the US, there is a certain picture in mind of New York and LA among other things, so there's that. But it sounds racist in the back of my head, not to mention the IT part.
There is nothing strictly racist in those statements, nothing strictly racist as in "humans of ancestry X are inherently inferior to humans of ancestry Y". But as the reaction here clearly shows, the writing touches some trigger patterns: the article seems to say things that in America, only a racist would say. But these triggers are completely cultural and since this is a text from Germany you should be very careful to make assumption based on cultural "don'ts" from a different background. There is nothing in the article that would qualify as racist according to german standards. Many statements that scream "racist" to an American would seem perfectly all right even to a German who hands teddy-bears to refugee children by day and hunts nazi hooligans by night.
As a German, it is one of the most interesting things that I have ever learned from reading hacker news: according to American standards, all of Germany would be considered racist, even Baader/Meinhoff-worshipping leftists. The same insight helps me immensely in accepting that all those things in America that trigger German "this is terribly, terribly nationalist!" sensibilities probably do not actually mean that the USA are gearing up to annex some neighboring countries by force. Because that is what we think of when we see flags over factory floors, hear the "USA! USA!" chant or someone raising from their seat upon hearing their national anthem and maybe even -gasp!- put their right hand higher than the waist line. Here in Germany, only a racist would do that (because nationalism and racism are inseparable in countries that do not share America's long tradition of immigration).
In short: our cultures are full of shortcut heuristics for the kind of dangerous group-chauvinism we want to avoid. It's usually not a problem to have them (I'm not here to rally against "PC crap"), but they absolutely don't translate across borders.
That’s specifically german though, because of its pretty abyssmal 20th Century, rather than specifically american. That said most modern west europeans do find american nationalism and exceptionalism a bit odd, especially after they’ve visited and US and seen the reality of most people’s situation. If anyone reads this and thinks I’m being unfair, especially on california-centric HN, consider if you’ve ever hosted a western european friend in SF and had them comment about just how abnormal the level of homelessness and mental illness is there. And how they looked at you/us when you said ‘well it’s because SF is a warmer place to sleep on the streets’ as if that was fine.
This article is honestly quite objective, and should invite some introspection if your first instinct is to be offended.
This is a good point, I had some of my European based friends look this over for their feedback for kicks and giggles. They didn't find this offensive in any way mostly just stating the fact of living situations.
In my comment I tried to specifically point out that it was more demeaning than actual racism with some of the statements which are two very different forms of offense.
You mention the whole "PC" thing which is a good area for discussion on this article. Americans (myself included) have this SJW culture around being politically correct and I think it's leading society more towards inherent racism. My old college friends came from all over the world, and we would always joke about the stereotypes of everyone's background. They'd call me 'Murica and I understood where they were coming from, as did they when we had names for each other. Nowadays it's common that someone would be offended if we joked in the same manner, and we're missing the ability to break the ice between our cultures/ethnicities and be friends without perceiving it as prejudice.
I certainly concede the cutural context, and wouldn't care much if the article we're written in German and I were reading a translation, but I assume this article is written for consumption by an English population, which means barring regional difference in English there shouldn't be much ambiguity in interpretation for that population.
Your anology doesn't quite line up. What you point out are specific actions of people. You are now easily empowered to go ask that person why they stood up to the national anthem or ask someone else. The line quoted here is an impression of a German author of what an other culture percieves. This just doesn't sound like good reporting. Is the author projecting third world impressions or projecting what _anyone_ reaching America would feel about non costal cities? The tone of the rest of the article suggests the latter, but what really stood out was the added impression of someone from Switzerland. Growing up in a culture with with tons of colonial baggage, I don't see why I shouldn't feel offended.
I felt it was more classist. I personally would enjoy living in West Virginia. Low taxes, cheap land, beautiful wildlife/scenery, access to the Appalachian Trail, etc. I certainly understand why some people would prefer to live in a place like NY, but this idea that if you're not in a wealthy coastal city that life is shit is so tiresome.
I was told by an actual rocket scientist who lived in Birmingham, Alabama that Birmingham had at the time more PhDs per capita than anywhere else in the U. S. Never looked it up, but it was believable enough at the time.
I don’t see race even mentioned in the part you quoted. What I do see is something along the lines of “if your impression of the U. S. is from television and popular media, West Virginia might not be what you expect”. Reminds me of a co-worker from decades ago whose family asked him if the U. S. is really just like the TV show Dallas. Umm, not in Indiana it’s not.
The intended meaning is exactly what you mention, namely WV possibly being a disappointment to a foreigner coming to the US. In that sense, it's demeaning to West Virginia, and trying to convey sympathy for the students.
I think its due partly to the very stratified nature of education in Germany and to be polite a lot of mainland European countries tended not to have much less immigration than say the UK and haven't got to the level of the UK and the USA in recognising the issues around race.
That sot to say that the Uk and USA don't have major issues with BME integration /Racisim
yeah I just noticed that, good point. Although releasing as much OSS/Free software to every OS (regardless of status) would have been a better fighting route than "*uck you."
You can even work around it without renaming the file. Cygwin and LXSS for example allow the use of file names such as "aux.c" without any changes to the mailx source.
Yeah this is the thing I always come back to. UBI is without question needed in a highly autonomous society, but we fail to have proper flow on our already existing systems like Social Security.
