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Still can't develop apps for iPad Pro on an iPad Pro.

Great, we'll have 1/3 less traffic and more housing space soon!

Brazil may be shooting themselves in the foot -- they're trying to create an innovation industry around Sao Paulo and these things will just create a chilling effect that chases a huge bunch of industries out of the country.

Try search from Google, then open resulting link in a private / incognito window.

The article is comparing median income (of all residents) to prices that home-owners pay which is pretty much apples to oranges.

Fewer people are buying houses in the Bay Area right now already which causes the disparity in the house-price-to-income ratio: Most folks who can afford a house worth 1M (and prove it to a lender) are probably earning dual-income in the tech sector and 330K (which would make the ratio 3x, same as the national average) is not too much of a stretch between two technology jobs.

  ...anybody who thinks that the above is
  
  (a) legible
  (b) efficient (even with the magical compiler support)
  (c) particularly safe

  is just incompetent

If that isn't a criticism of the person, I don't know what is.

Bookings are 10B, not revenue -- that's what the passengers pay; stated revenue from the doc was 2B, which is what Uber keeps (rest goes to drivers). But your larger point is well-taken, even at that number, the valuation of Uber is not that surprising.

I worked (and studied) in Singapore for a while. As an engineer for a tech company, you get paid very little compared to cost of living.

In my graduating class, most EE+CS folks I know who are still in Singapore became bankers, government employees or consultants. Most engineering talent left because the salaries were barely enough to pay rent.

Edit: spelling

C&H is about imagination, not loneliness.

Imagination is an intrinsic and essential part of the human experience, especially in childhood, and to call it a 'coping mechanism' is completely missing the point.

Bill Watterson's genius was showing that there's a magic world in all of us; not that the world outside was not oppressive or unpleasant.