I'm still on iOS9 on my 6S+. I'm not an uberbeard that waits for something to be in the wild for 5 years before beginning to adopt it. I had an iPhone 4. It worked well. No slowdowns, no battery problems. Apple released the iPhone 5, and my phone still worked well. I upgraded to the most recent iOS , and my battery which previously lasted for 2 days was barely staying alive for 6 hours, and everything was slow - even browsing the exact same sites I was before the upgrade. Maybe as a result of that, they decided to throttle the speed to spare old batteries as this article says, but the tinfoil hat in me says they made the old phones obsolete with the software update so that there's more reason to drop another $800 on the next phone. Either that or they were willfully ignorant to supporting the old phones.

This is assuming you have kids, multiple TVs, or you actually want 50 channels of sports. Many people don't care about 'the big game' and just want quality movies and TV shows to watch. We pay USD $10 for Netflix, and USD $11.99 for Hulu and we never find ourselves longing for anything else other than Game of Thrones, which my wife is addicted to. She goes to our neighbor's house to watch that. They pay $170 USD/month for their cable/internet package.

Man, Damore was right that the west coast Techies are all about shame. even if its constitutionally protected speech. I for one applaud CloudFlare while simultaneously giving the Nazis the finger.

According to the Guardian article:

So no one could independently verify that 20 women actually made comments at this meeting, other than a Woman who is trying to sue Tesla over supposed discrimination, and some random, unnamed person? Those are what pass for sources enough to write an inflammatory article saying "DOZENS OF WOMEN CLAIM HARASSMENT" ?

That was "not possible from a meteorological perspective" so they dismissed that record, and now they are like "We're #1! We're #1! Climate Change yall!". I expect nothing less from the Washington Post.

It's not a manager or executives job to be the smartest person in a room. It's their job to inspire those around them to do their best, and to enable them to be the smartest.

I feel like anything, a balance is best. Working from the office means less gets done overall. I have less opportunities to be heads down. We have an open office, so there are tons of distractions -- from people conversing, to simply walking my field of view and me reflexively looking up to see who it is. It IS nice for quick pow wows in person, getting ahold of people who haven't responded to your Hipchat/Hangouts messages in a timely manner, and socialization at lunch or after hours.

Working from home means you forget your social skills. You devolve in to a wolf man. In persona conflict resolution is never a thing, and it's all done over email or chat, which can muddy up a situation. Deodorant becomes optional. Hell, underpants become optional. For people with kids at home, there's that lack of understanding of why daddy or mommy can't play. There is also a huge risk of fucking off at home, and it takes discipline to keep your keel even, and not try to beat Final Fantasy 10 for the 15th time in a row.

For me I find the best balance at 3 days in, 2 days telecommute. YMMV of course.

Same here. I've worked with probably 1 of the 20 total black male engineers in San Francisco, and we had to import him from Nigeria -- but never a Black woman. He was awesome at his job.

Random side thought and completely unrelated to working with black people: I've also never worked with any known ex-cons in tech, which is another group of people in desperate need of quality jobs , but which you don't near the diversification police shouting to be included, or that they're being paid less. 8% of the adult population of the USA has felony conviction (http://paa2011.princeton.edu/papers/111687) , and are often discriminated against by asking questions like "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" on applications.

It's always anonymous cowards posting the social justice bully material ?

It depends. I'm in the suburbs because I have a family -- but technically still Austin, and my commute is 45 mins per way on average on Mopac. For the single young techies who move to South Austin condos, yeah -- I could believe a 10 minute commute to downtown. How old are the people they are surveying?

I went to a GameStop to buy Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I waited in a midnight release line of about 20 people, for an hour. Once I got to the front and said I would like a copy, the guy asked 'Did you preorder?'. I said of course not -- else why would I be waiting in a line for the store to open if I had a guaranteed copy. He said 'Sorry we only give out pre orders for new releases'. I asked him to clarify that they did not order any copies for regular customers, and he said they did not, and I could come by some time in a week when they would have copies to sell. I went home and to bed, woke up at 8am, and bought a copy at BestBuy with no wait or pre order nonsense, and that became the last time I ever went in to a GameStop.

How is this related to tech in anyway whatsoever?

A plot -- from an unnamed country, from unnamed sources, with details in secret, with the end result meaning more security and more importantly, more money being sent to security services that the regulators own are are invested in for this additional screening. Meanwhile you can rent a U-haul truck for $50 and plow through hundreds of people on the street, or buy a $500 rifle and head to a nightclub to do your damage. Human damage of course, not monetary damage, since planes are expensive, and fear of flying due to terrorist attacks keeping people out of airports is much more so.

I just came back from a business trip in Sydney, and the thing I noticed most of all besides the Ibis birds was the amount of people smoking, everywhere. People on the sidewalks, taxi drivers waiting on a fare, people getting out of the train station hanging out in Wynyard Park. I applaud this well meaning attempt to curb smoking, but the reality for me seems to be that its one of those laws that the police only enforce if its convenient for them.

A mixture of both, I think. When techies lower the bar for what 'shelter' means, and live 8 people to one 2 bedroom apartment each paying $2k a month, it makes it that much more difficult for a family of 3 to get a place of their own. We were paying 2300/month for a 1 bedroom, which is really great because of 10 years of rent control but not great when you need the kid to have their own room. After we left they renovated the place, turned the living room in to two bedrooms and split the bedroom in to 2 for a total of 4 bedrooms, and rented it out for $6500/month A 700 sqft 4 bedroom apartment. We can't compete with that willingness to live so tightly packed.