AWolfAtTheDoor

I can't speak for every one produced, but a few weeks ago I purchased the TKL version with Cherry Clears off of Amazon, and returned it because of the "pinging" effect going on, primarily when hitting the space bar. Some people won't care about this, but I work in a home office and it became very obnoxious after twenty minutes. I didn't feel like trying to do some workaround to get it to stop. If any of the other models (like the Browns) don't do this, I'd be interested in giving it another shot. I should say that noise aside, the keyboard felt fairly nice to type on.

I personally just want a minimalist TKL without a ridiculous key font, which doesn't seem to be too common. The 4C Das Keyboards seem nice but apparently they aren't Cherry keys, so based on what I've heard, I'm wary.

It's a fake. The account's name is Ivan Gotyaovoich, which has a grand total of two results on Google.

I will express agreement to pretty much all of this. A major issue, though, is one that lingers is referred to in the article:

"Now, this does require one huge prerequisite: every candidate must have a side project that they wrote, all by themselves, to serve as their calling card.

I don’t think that’s unreasonable. In fact, I think you can very happily filter out anyone who doesn’t have such a calling card. (And lest I be accused of talking the talk without walking the walk: I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books, along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects. Here’s my latest, open-sourced.)"

The usually spoken requirement of having side projects in 2015 is the job posting's equivalent of the bachelor's degree being the new high school diploma/GED. If every programmer did it, then every programmer would in theory be far more qualified for the interesting jobs where more difficult things happen, but then ultimately fall into the same trap where they've still not done enough compared to the people with the side-project programming equivalent of their master's.

This will become a vicious cycle until companies with more experienced programmers realize that life is not about programming, and most of the stuff you're working on is not all that important, with even your average (or slightly below average) programmer being capable of doing the work. In most cases, it's a job like any other. I fear that this may never happen.

Your statement to an extent is correct, but at the same time it also supports the fact that those who have the ability to pay more for something are not privileged to be able to.

I would love to see the public transit systems improved, busses included. The issue here is that the privatized system and frills that the Leap busses have, which for all intents and purposes are mostly unnecessary, scream upper class while coming across as if the goal is to improve the entire public transit system, when in reality it isn't anywhere near the case.

Anyone in the United States can get an iPhone 5S (and perhaps even a 6) for free somewhere on contract if they look around. If they really want to spend next to nothing, second hand 5 models are not much more expensive than most budget Android phones and will get far more mileage.

It's not an issue of Android versus iPhone here.

What aspect of a fancy bus that drives in normal traffic like any other bus (or car, assuming there are not bus-only lanes) makes it any more capable of getting a person to their destination sooner?

Addendum: this is a private company that technically speaking does not have to adhere to any schedule and isn't liable for various things (according to the TOS posted in this tree), so if anything you're more likely to be on the wrong end of things compared to an organized public transit system.

It seems like San Francisco is one of the few places where you can have a company completely fail, only to see it revamp its product in a way that it will probably completely fail again.

While I can't speak for San Francisco's bus system, everything about this product video screams to me that the solution that is being provided here does not actually solve a problem other than "I am white, privileged, and want to ride on a fancy looking bus where I can buy a Vita Coco. I also want to pay as much as $6 per ride, which is egregiously more expensive than something that amounts to little more than public transit needs to be."

This whole thing is basically the epitome of the tech bubble and offers little to nothing of real value.