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There's enough of a market that the Casio G-Shock is still alive and well.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm flexible and willing to learn languages/frameworks based on the company's needs. My most recent stack was Ruby on Rails + React but i've also had professional experience with Python + Flask, PHP, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ7DMdxZx9dLYpng...

Email: [email protected]

I've been a software engineer for over a decade who's become more interested in the engineering leadership/mentorship side of the career. My last position was an Engineering Manager in Omada Health and I left that role in December, 2022 for personal reasons and to take some time off. I'm now refreshed and am raring to get back to building great services that improves peoples' lives.

I'm interested in Engineering Management positions. I have a preference towards the health and education sector, and prefer small to medium sized companies. If this lines up with what you're looking for or you want to learn more, shoot me an email and let's chat!

The argument I usually see is that there would be less need for transportation as the removal of explicit zoning would be part of the effort for increasing density and that would put people closer to the goods and services that they want/need.

(I don't have an opinion on this; the closest I ever got to city planning was playing Sim City)

Yep makes sense. Thanks!

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee this morning, but I don't understand the scenario you're describing. Could you elaborate?

Omada Health | San Francisco + Remote | Visas OK | ONSITE/US-REMOTE

Omada Health is on a mission to inspire and engage people in lifelong health, one step at a time. We’re looking for Rails/React engineers to join our team and help build out our platform to support our members and to improve Omada's ability to reach out to more lives.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will help design, build and maintain systems necessary for rapid growth. Our team practices pair programming so you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques and share your skills.

Check out our press release here regarding the impact of personalized coaching to health outcomes: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211026005385/en/Oma...

We can only hire folks who physically reside in the US.

Senior Software Engineer, Member Growth: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3552347

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3360101

Other open positions can be found in https://www.omadahealth.com/careers

I agree that the above is what we should do as individuals to make our own interview experience smoother. It's a shame that we have to though, considering that the interviewers all have been interviewees themselves in the past and should recognize this issue.

Not currently interviewing, but in the past i've failed interviews because I didn't do something that the interviewer didn't ask me to do. This would be something like expecting the interviewee to go in depth about a specific part of the problem that to the interviewee might have thought was trivial, or expecting them to do TDD in a coding exercise when the interviewer never mentioned it. I can brush off overt rudeness, but it's always rubbed me the wrong way that some interviewers expect you to read their mind.

Omada Health | San Francisco + Remote | Visas OK | ONSITE/US-REMOTE

Omada Health is on a mission to inspire and engage people in lifelong health, one step at a time. We’re looking for Rails/React engineers to join our team and help build out our platform to support our members and to improve Omada's ability to reach out to more lives.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will help design, build and maintain systems necessary for rapid growth. Our team practices pair programming so you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques and share your skills.

Check out our press release here regarding the impact of personalized coaching to health outcomes: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211026005385/en/Oma...

We can only hire folks who physically reside in the US.

Senior Software Engineer, Member Growth: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3552347

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3360101

Other open positions can be found in https://www.omadahealth.com/careers

Omada Health | San Francisco + Remote | Visas OK | ONSITE/US-REMOTE

Omada Health is on a mission to inspire and engage people in lifelong health, one step at a time. We’re looking for Rails/React engineers to join our team and help build out our platform to support our members and to improve Omada's ability to reach out to more lives.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will help design, build and maintain systems necessary for rapid growth. Our team practices pair programming so you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques and share your skills.

Check out our press release here regarding the impact of personalized coaching to health outcomes: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211026005385/en/Oma...

We can only hire folks who physically reside in the US.

Senior Software Engineer, Member Growth: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3552347

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack: https://boards.greenhouse.io/omadahealth/jobs/3360101

Other open positions can be found in https://www.omadahealth.com/careers

Tires have a born on date stamped on them and they also crack and wear with age even if they're not used unless you seal them up. I think you're overestimating how many people would be willing to do the swap and consciously ride on bald tires, but I can concede that I might be wrong on this. CA could run their own investigation if they so choose to.

> Incentivizing the failure to replace wear items is bad policy.

I see it as the least bad option out of the ones that we can field. Every kind of taxation policy will have pros and cons, and IMO the tire tax is potentially the one with the least amount of friction to implement and enforce.

It's definitely possible that this happens, but I doubt that a lot of people would go out of their way to have that kind of setup. If you have the tools, the willingness to change tires, and the space to hold on to 4 spare ones, I feel like you're probably also not the type to run tires bald and risk an accident just for ~$450 a year.

(amount is from the rough average annual mileage of 13,500mi/year, assuming 30mpg, and the 82c/gallon tax).

Fair, but there are other existing avenues for enforcement. CHP can already write fix-it tickets for bald tires if they wanted to. We could also require shops to report it as part of a vehicle's history if someone brings a vehicle in with and it doesn't have enough tread depth.

It's unfortunate that they went in that direction as opposed to something like a tire tax. Just have the regular smog tests also include a tire wear check to catch the folks trying to run their tires bald.

Support plans make sense for products/software that are sold and expected to operate independently (cars as always are a good example). Heck, even those products generally come with some sort of free limited time support which come in the form of warranties. Services requiring a separate support plan is... not intuitive.

Reduce the quality/quantity of the existing product to keep the same price over time. Release another similar 'product', possibly under a different product name and/or brand with the original quality/quantity but at a higher price.

Good. Touch screen controls are a good tool for communicating visual information while having some way to still give users some controls. Tactile controls are good tools for when the operator needs to visually focus on something else and feedback can be sensed in other ways. For cars, the only visual information it should show to the driver are either things that are controlled outside of a touch screen (speedometer, tach) or can't be controlled while the vehicle is in operation anyway (oil temp gauge, etc). Everything else can be intuitively sensed by the driver's other senses and the important part of the control is the feedback saying that you are in fact manipulating the controls properly.

Consent is murky at best when there's a large power discrepancy between two co-workers. See: everything that's been going on with Hollywood in the past couple of years

I think a simple solution to this is to require everyone to have a minimum of a scooter/moped license first before being able to apply for a driver's license. Maybe we'll inject some more empathy into drivers if they realize how scary it is to be close to a texting driver and have no metal box of armor to protect them.

I disagree with coining a different term to make it more socially acceptable. Therapist being generic is useful for keeping mental health issues under a single blanket and preventing other people from easily figuring out what you're going there for. This is similar to how going to a doctor could range from doing your yearly check up to following up on a possibly fatal issue.

The real solution is the one we've already been pushing for and have had a great amount of success over the years, which is to treat mental health issues with the same importance as physical health issues.

I also just realized that WeWork owns Meetup.com. I don't know how I missed that.

How would WeWork going under torpedo meetup.com? I'm not super familiar with their relationship with each other. Some quick Googling shows that they do have one partnership for a product related to booking a space for use with a meetup, but I don't know if MeetUp earns like a huge portion of their revenue off that.

Edit: Just found out that Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. This makes sense to me now.

Whether or not it's deserved doesn't change that it's still more people than the existing population who votes no wanted. Playing devil's advocate for a moment, the companies that built those office parks knew what the housing situation and politics were like before they were built and they agreed to the terms. They could've chosen a different location if they wanted to.

The folks who are pushing for more housing to be built in the bay are pushing density on folks who are against it.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying that that's good or bad.

I have the same dissonance.

For me, I think it's from my underlying interest in being good at something without having to make compromises or handicaps. As a benign example, I rarely/almost never change the keybinds in any of the code editors that i've used because I like the idea of being able to competently use all of them in their default settings to have a consistent experience everywhere. This allows me to use another instance of VSCode/PyCharm/Eclipse/etc. that's not my own and be able to reasonably be productive in that instance. It's a little silly, but it's something that I like.

Tabs runs counter to that underlying interest to a very small degree. They're there to be customized, and there's an expectation that you are supposed to customize their appearance for each view that you use to view them if you want a consistent appearance.

To an extent, I view the debate between the two as something similar to the debate between configuration vs convention. Convention is great when you're working within the 99% of the use cases that it supports, but it becomes difficult for the folks who need to do something not supported by the built in conventions and vice versa. Some people like one, some people like the other as a matter of preference. However, there's a small subset of the population that basically need configuration for one reason or another to operate. Whether it's because you're building a product that needs a feature that the framework doesn't support to stay afloat, or in this case, they need to be able to customize the appearance of code on the screen easily to be able to perform their duties in a reasonable time. I don't know if this comparison makes sense or is reasonable.

I will say that i've ran into enough errors due to people entering tabs into places that they shouldn't that my hate for tabs has grown more than it should. This ranges from people somehow (via copy+paste or whatever) entering a tab into a form field that doesn't allow for it to other engineers doing something similar for code and causing weird issues.

Edit: formatting

OOC how is a manager $2k a month? Is it a part time gig?

Unless you're giving each customer's meals a nice massage before serving them, your skin condition means nothing from a hygiene POV if you're acting as a server or a host.

Depends on the goals of the contractor. They might concede to some crazy agreements to be able to list a big name company or a high profile project on their work history to get higher paying work in the future.

If I remember the section of that book correctly, Andrew Grove talks about how you want to handle decision making as a manager. According to Andrew, you want to have folks come to a decision with minimal intervention from you. Part of it is having people feel ownership, another is managing your own political capital. In terms of when you intervene, you should step in and help break ties. You should also be able to ultimately make a decision if the group is unable to do so either because they're taking way too long to deliberate, if their arguments are going full circle, etc.