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20years commented on Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/elorant

20years · 6 years ago

Are there any food service establishments out there that solely focus on delivery? No walk-ins, no dining in but only delivery? Their staff would pretty much consist of cooks and delivery employees and the facility would be big enough for a kitchen and prep area.

I would think a setup like that with good food would do well in this new reality we are in.

I imagine it would challenging for a restaurant to focus on a good dine-in experience alongside a good delivery service, especially considering the low margins.

20years commented on How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week engineering.khanacademy.o... · Posted by u/talonx

dangoor · 6 years ago

There's a lot going on in your observation, and this is all speculation on my part (even though I am a Khan Academy employee).

We did have quite a bit of usage and awareness among schools already before the shutdowns started. Couple that with there being many options for teaching online… I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of schools just switched to having their teachers attempt to do their normal teaching via Zoom (which sounds really hard to me!). Many schools had contracts of various sorts with other online learning platforms.

Some schools or classes haven't had great follow through rates, which is unfortunate, but educators all over have had to quickly adjust. I suspect that more robust plans will be in place by the fall, given how much uncertainty there is for fall classes. Khan Academy is, at least, an always-free resource that's there for people if they need it.

That 2.5x is starting from a large base, and there's also a lot of activity in online education generally.

20years · 6 years ago

"I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of schools just switched to having their teachers attempt to do their normal teaching via Zoom"

This is exactly what is happening in our school district and it is a big failure. That and teachers emailing their lesson plans for parents to print or parents can go to the school and pick up printed packets. We then have the joy of taking photos of the completed work and emailing those back to the teachers.

It is extremely inefficient and I have already informed our school that we will not be doing that if we are stuck in this scenario come fall. We will be using Khan for math and other online learning platforms for LA.

20years commented on Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers techcrunch.com/2020/04/23... · Posted by u/rafaelc

r00fus · 6 years ago

If Instacart really pumped up it's protocols and had a way to report health protocol violations, I'd be more inclined to use it as a customer.

I hope your friend's son is staying safe. $300-$500/day is nothing to sneeze at, but it's essentially danger pay.

20years · 6 years ago

I don't disagree with you. She worries about him and his safety.

20years commented on Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers techcrunch.com/2020/04/23... · Posted by u/rafaelc

ineedasername · 6 years ago

Are there 250k people that are willing to work a job like this right now? Sure, there's lots of unemployed, but for at least the next few months they're getting ~60% of their base salary (up to some cap) + an additional $600/week.

20years · 6 years ago

One of my friends sons is making $300 to $500 per day working Instacart right now. Partly because where we live the demand is high and there are not enough Instacarters to meet that demand. The delivery time is currently at least 3 days out. He is young and healthy so he doesn't really have that fear.

20years commented on Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along? · Posted by u/AndrewBissell

20years · 6 years ago

We submitted our app through Chase the morning it opened. Days went by before we heard anything and that was an automated email that basically said they received our app. This morning I got an email stating the program is out of money, but they will keep our app on file for if/when more funds are allocated to it.

20years commented on Lambda School’s Misleading Promises nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/uptown

songzme · 6 years ago

I'm not a fan of bootcamps because I think a lot of them are more focused on making money than actually helping people who need help.

Last year I decided to take action and started a free coding group at our local library: https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-C0D3

I show up before work every day (M-F at 8am) to help students who are learning how to code. So far no students have gotten a job yet, but our group consistently gets 4-8 students who show up promptly at 8am. I answer their questions, give them guidance, and teach them best practices I follow as a software engineer with 10 years of work experience. I ask for nothing in return except the joy of students going "ahhh" when something clicked for them.

Things are still early for us, but my dream is to inspire other software engineers to help create a free and open learning center at their local libraries so people have an alternative to coding bootcamps.

20years · 6 years ago

This is awesome! I love hearing that others are doing this. I do something similar but I run after school clubs. I work mostly with 5th through 8th graders and run clubs 5 days per week in 5 different local schools.

It is a lot of work but so rewarding and I feel it has made me a better developer. I myself have learned so much from doing it. I have met so many amazing kids & parents too and it's made me a much bigger part of my community.

20years commented on Jobs, jobs everywhere, but most of them kind of suck nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/paulpauper

yters · 6 years ago

'suck' is a relative term based on some standard. Is the standard chattel slavery? Every single job in the US is spectacular in comparison. Is the standard some cushy s/w dev job at a megatech company? Most jobs suck in comparison.

20years · 6 years ago

I don't think the title of this article is good or portrays what it is really getting at. It is not really about having a cushy job that you like going to, but instead more about how jobs available today don't pay well.

The pay does not match up to inflation, healthcare costs and cost of living. Put the cost of higher education into that mix and it just adds to the problem. So many are stuck paying off high students loans to only be able to get mediocre paying jobs.

"only 40 percent of Americans currently have 'good' jobs."

Meaning head of household jobs. That is a problem!

20years commented on When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa) learningandthebrain.com/b... · Posted by u/laurex

20years · 6 years ago

Trying to force introverts into pro-longed extroversion is exhausting. It is not how we are built. I think oftentimes people view introverts as anti-social, which is not always the case. We are just differently social.

Instead of trying to force introverts to be more like extroverts, encourage them to share their skills/talents in a positive way. This is where you will see us shine and you might even forget that we are introverts.

Throwing us into a party with 100 strangers and expecting us to thrive, is not gonna do it. Asking us to teach a large group of strangers something valuable or lead a project that we know a lot about will energize us like nothing else. This is how we connect with people and how we make our mark in society.

A lot of introverts are quiet leaders and have a way of making a huge impact in ways that extroverts just don't understand. Don't get me wrong, I love the extroverts in my life, but I don't want to be like them :)