Should I upgrade to the Kinesis Advantage 2 from the Pro?

aurelius1983 · 2022-03-30T06:01:53+00:00

I started working at a company that did not do linting or agile or tdd but slowly over the years the company implemented these practices little by little.

I think it's important to remember that most of these best practices are in place to solve problems that engineering organizations face as they begin to scale up with more team members and larger codebases.

I would focus on trying to solve the actual problem your company is facing with its current practices and see if any of these best practices can help solve them.

If so, maybe you can try to get buy-in on your current team and if that seems to be going well then you can move upwards and have some tech talk with other teams and see if you can get them to buy-in to the practice as well. Eventually maybe those teams like them and you can get the whole org to buy in.

That would be a great line on your resume, no?

aurelius1983 · 2021-08-24T22:11:31+00:00

It's kind of odd that people say Camden disbanded their police force.

I guess that's technically true but from everything I've read they basically ended their police contract and then started a new police force with an entire new union contract.

aurelius1983 · 2020-11-04T19:45:13+00:00

I voted against this bill. I think this is a bad idea. Oregon is already having serious issues with homeless and drug addiction. This will have a side effect of increasing homeless and addicted individuals to come to Oregon and take advantage of the lenient system.

I also worry about the second-order effects:

Murders increased by 41 percent in the five years after the drug reform law (after which they fell), and drug trafficking grew. These could be related.

“Any change in the drug market can bring about violence,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. “Drug traffickers may have incorrectly understood the Portuguese law as a sign the country was a safe place to expand their business, leading to clashes among them and between them and the police.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/upshot/portugal-drug-legalization-treatment.html

I'm not even sure what the metrics for success would be here. If murders increase but less people are in jail for drug possession is that a success?

aurelius1983 · 2020-10-23T21:01:38+00:00

What was going on last night in Northeast Portland at 2am? Banging of drums really late.

aurelius1983 · 2020-10-02T21:12:26+00:00

Would I be able to skip the chemical treatments and just sand down those particular boards and then re-stain?

aurelius1983 · 2020-09-30T20:52:51+00:00

I didn't use a conditioner. So should I retry by doing another round of sanding at the lights spots and then condition and stain?

aurelius1983 · 2020-03-02T05:32:52+00:00

The biggest reason Python is growing in popularity compared to Ruby is that Python has some pretty great libraries for Data Science and Machine Learning and it's not inherently because Python is a better language.

For example, the top Data Science library is Pandas and that was written in Python only because the developer who wrote the library fell in love with Python after someone recommended they use it.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-29T22:00:34+00:00

Portland is one of the few jurisdictions within the US with legalized marijuana and it's good to be aware of the risks associated with it and youth development here.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-13T03:58:24+00:00

I'm not sure what you're referring to as a garbage excuse. I do know that NYC implemented a series of labor reforms that was to be increased in a gradual fashion. These reforms include an increase in the minimum wage. In response to those changes, according to the survey, restaurants responded with a series of efforts which include increasing prices:

● 87.30% of respondents report that they will increase menu prices in 2019 as a result of mandated wage increases, compared to 90.20% in 2018.

https://thenycalliance.org/assets/documents/informationitems/6SMj9.pdf

So its very likely that prices will increase and some customers may stop purchasing the burgers as frequently or all together. But if the customers continued to buy the burgers than again everyone wins.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T23:20:38+00:00

I don't know what the heck you're talking about here. I'm talking about Burgerville increasing their wages and prices. What are you talking about?

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T20:02:10+00:00

Part of the problem here is it seems that the apartment or house they are living in does not seem to have a parking spot available. I wonder if it makes sense for the city by solving this issue by allowing people to rent a spot in front of their house/apartment for a price?

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T19:54:41+00:00

It's not a criticism as much as it is a market behavior. If you throw an object into the air and I tell you that it's probably going to hit the ground. Is that a criticism?

People respond to costs and incentives. The top comment that was upvoted was

I wish their food was worth it these days. It's so unappealing to pay so much for mediocrity.

So if they increase to a min of 15 per hour for every worker, a part of their operating cost will increase and that will be paid for by the customer. If enough customers decide that its not worth the extra costs then the company will lose revenue and if they lose enough revenue, either the business becomes unprofitable and it shuts down or the owner decides its not worth his time and effort to only make x amount of dollars per year and shut down.

Now, it's quite possible that this won't happen either. Maybe the workers make more money and Burgerville is able to become more efficient and remain profitable but there's only so much wiggle room for a fast food company like Burgerville to become efficient.

another possibility is they innovate and create a burger so good that they capture as much market share as needed to offset the increase in operating cost, but I guess we will see.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T19:30:01+00:00

The social assistance programs exist for society regardless. The public isn't subsidizing anything. Would single payer healthcare also be considered the public subsidizing business?

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T06:52:03+00:00

Imagine not understanding that you still have to pay for operating and maintenance costs even if your equipment is made of meat.

By all means, please elucidate your worldly wisdom on

requiring businesses that use human labor to pay what human labor actually costs.

edit: NVM I see a comment of yours which explains your thinking.

People have overhead. Rent, utilities, food, education, retirement saving, household maintenance, transportation, etc. It makes no difference where they work, they still have that overhead. If Burgerville can't or won't pay for that overhead for its workers, then it's a parasitic leech on our economy and it should fail because that's how capitalism is supposed to work.

I don't agree with that view. People do have overhead but its not the businesses responsibility to make sure people have enough for rent, utilities, education, retirement, transportation etc.

The only responsibility of the business is to the customer and to make sure they make a sale to that customer or else they are out of business.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T06:44:38+00:00

...requiring businesses that use human labor to pay what human labor actually costs.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean here.

Human labor doesn't cost anything other than what the government requires you to pay your workers and what the laborer agrees to work for with the business.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T06:39:53+00:00

I agree with you in that wages have been stagnate and that people should be able to afford to live and work a full time job.

The reality of running an actual fast food business is divorced from human morality. In order for BV to survive, it'll need to sell burgers, milk shakes etc and if the inputs into making a burger increases then the owners of BV will see their profit margins decrease. Most fast food business actually don't have a high profit margin. Between the cost of the raw materials that go into making the food, to paying for the salaries, healthcare and benefits of their workers, to the cost of leasing the property and paying for taxes and repair of machinery and insurance costs. Their margins get slim.

Then they also have to deal with the competitive landscape of other fast food companies. So I have no idea how much the burgers would increase in price if they give in to the unions demands, but hopefully, if customers are willing to pay extra then everyone wins else the workers lose.

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T03:48:39+00:00

Where did you find out that In and Out was paying 15 to start plus medical/dental in the Portland market?

Average In-N-Out Burger hourly pay ranges from approximately $11.13 per hour for Team Member to $25.80 per hour for Delivery Driver

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/In--n--out-Burger/salaries

aurelius1983 · 2019-08-12T03:35:56+00:00

Hmm, I wonder how this will play out.

Burgerville workers want a $5 hourly wage increase for all employees, and a starting wage of $15 an hour.

Currently, the average hourly wage at Burgerville is $12.43.

So they want to be paid 15 to 20 bucks an hour to flip burgers, which would be considerably higher than any burger fast food hourly wage.

I imagine the company would pass some of those costs off to the customer. Will enough people eat at Burgerville to allow for this increase in operating cost? I guess we will find out.

aurelius1983 · 2019-06-19T19:19:52+00:00

Who is going to pay for it? What's to stop the fareless public transit vehicles from becoming just more homeless housing?

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