They're both forms (perfect passive particle in particular) of the latin verb "video". So they both mean "having been seen". The difference is in gender. visa = feminine; visum = neuter; visus = masculine.
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They came in at #13 on that list. While traffic's bad in Boston, commuting via public transit is actually a viable alternative. It's very dense and has a solid commuter rail system in addition to an expansive (if aging) subway system. It's also very bike / pedestrian friendly.
Heh, as someone who came very close to doing this (i.e. using k8s for a LAMP-stack type app at a startup), it's not just "shiny object syndrome" driving people to do this. Here's what our progression looked like:
1. Start with basic LAMP app in git that's manually deployed to an EC2 instance
2. Add in CI / CD + CodeDeploy
3. Create a staging environment
4. Dockerize local environment to keep dev environments in sync and onboard easier (really, this part's a gamechanger for a small company)
5. Ok so now we have Docker for local dev environments but stage and prod are managed separately. Can we just run our Docker containers in stage / production?
When I researched step 5, the options were basically k8s or Docker swarm but Docker swarm didn't seem battle tested (for prod). k8s was clearly a nightmare for a small team to maintain so we started looking into GKE / EKS -- but EKS was still in beta. Thus we punted. We've actually started using ECS for a newer project and I'd likely go that route for step 5 instead.
Yes, retargeting and tracking is extremely effective.
You've fallen into what I'm gonna call the "HN fallacy".
- I would never click on an ad, therefore no one clicks on ads.
- I don't have a need for a better file syncing UX, therefore no one would ever use Dropbox.
- I don't see the point in crypto, therefore no one would ever use Coinbase.
Specifically, let's say you've seen 100,000 ads in your lifetime and literally zero have had any impact on you, much less driven you to click through and purchase immediately. It's reasonable for you to question the utility of these ads.
There are, however, entire populations of users whose behavior is vastly different from yours. They may be very willing to click through an ad to purchase.
A good marketer will only target their ads at the people most likely to purchase (i.e. not you). This puts you on a negative feedback cycle where you only get ads from companies that are spray-and-praying or too unsophisticated to target their ads more specifically.
I've been told this my entire life. People make statements like "everyone does X" and I say "really? I have literally never done X in my life and I know many people who say the exact same thing; in fact I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who does X" and the response is "yes, but you're different from everyone else. You and everyone you know are not like most people!" I find it extremely unconvincing.
Chicago's a very nice city. There are basically three main factors keeping the cost low currently:
1. Population decline.
2. A very large amount of good housing stock. Chicago's completely flat with solid public transit reaching out to the suburbs.
3. Lower proportion of tech and startups. Similar to how tech has driven up the CoL in many cities, the relative lack of tech in Chicago has kept CoL down.
Winter is rough in Chicago, but the CoL in Boston has skyrocketed which invalidates that as being the _only_ reason.
Chicago has a huge part (1M+) that's effectively a Rust Belt city like Cleveland, St. Louis, or Detroit. It has deindustrialized and suffered disinvestment, and anyone in that section that has the ability to leave does.
A large portion of jobs in the bay area are in Silicon Valley which is south of SF and comprised of cities like San Jose, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale. For someone seeking the amenities of a global city like SF, none of the other cities in the bay area come remotely close. They're all generally quiet, clean, suburban locales except San Jose which is a sprawling mid-sized city but still nothing like SF for someone wanting a world class city.
Some places have a contract-to-hire approach which is effectively a trial period.
I believe companies fall into two basic structures:
1. agency / consultant model - implement short-term projects, specific tasks, etc. It's easier in this approach to swap employees in and out as new projects start.
2. software product model - the company's entire business model is built around or highly dependent on internal software projects. Institutional knowledge is very important. It's really important to protect the product process and plan for the long-term implementation of strategic vision.
Contract-to-hire works well for #1. But for #2, the overhead and cost of disruption to the core process is too high. Top-tier software products require a relatively smaller number of highly engaged and skilled people to drive projects to an optimal point. These people need to also be directly involved in hiring and onboarding to maintain the culture and high standards. Bad hires can destroy such a team. Thus you end up with the current interview processes as they're efficient and err on the side of rejecting qualified candidates accidentally. If they spent 10x as long on hiring, they could improve the accuracy, but then they wont have as much time to build product which is the key tradeoff involved.
Bright Cellars is the data-driven wine subscription that matches users to wines. On
the engineering side, we have two core teams: eCommerce and Data Platform. In addition
to being an eCommerce website, we're building an internal data platform to drive indsustry
insights and optimize our operations, marketing, and wine branding initiatives.
It's an exciting time where we're growing quickly and have a number of interesting
technical problems to work on.
The legislation being enacted's main goal is to keep people employed. The PPP (payment protection plan) is directed at small businesses (< 500 employees) and can be forgiven if it's used toward payroll, rent, etc. In order for the loan to be forgiven, in the 8 weeks following taking the loan out, your employee headcount "cannot decline from average monthly levels during 2019 or during the past 12 months" [1]
Now, the larger company / industry bailouts -- those seem less well-defined. I haven't seen the latest on those but I'm sure the government would _like_ to tie them to employment as much as possible but we'll have to wait to see.
