Sure, I guess I'm imagining a thick enough coating where it looks like a very dark featureless surface under a transparent layer, which I think would look pretty cool. But that's not really clear coat so much as it is epoxy.
The design is really elegant! I could see myself using this if I could make my CV unlisted / un-indexed. I used to have a public resume, but then recruiters found it and relentlessly spammed me with irrelevant recruiting offers, and also spread my resume to more and more recruiting spam networks.
I also wonder if you have a plan for monetization; I didn't see a FAQ about content rights / usage / pricing.
Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how to better support this.
In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs section or something.
Check out https://standardresume.co. It has web resumes/profiles that allow you to set noindex. Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders and it isn't completely free, although it sounds like you might appreciate that :).
I live near an affected Walgreens and the shoplifting has made it effectively unusable as a store. They are always out of almost everything. I asked a cashier why they hadn't restocked and they told me that they are restocking normally but people are stealing all the stuff immediately. I have seen several thefts while shopping there; the shoplifters are brazen and unhurried and take armfuls of merchandise. Walgreens seems particularly hard-hit and I don't understand why they aren't investing in security.
I don’t understand the supes and don’t know why people voted for the DA.
In a couple of years people will complain that this and that neighborhood are some kind of “desert”. Unfortunately that’s their own making. No business is going to survive rampant theft.
It’s like they actively want to alienate the population enough that they get voted out and try the opposite. But, so far in SF the answer to social issues is “even though we’ve tried all the progressive cures, we obviously haven’t been progressive enough and must double down” only to make things worse.
I'm certain they did an analysis and realized that it's cheaper to cut their losses and close shop. If the law isn't likely to change, and the law enforcement isn't likely to step-up, then what's the point of hiring private security? Most private security is just there to look tough and hold you until the police arrive. And the police aren't effective right now, so why even bother?
I could imagine some intermediate before flat out closing the store. For example, you could make guests wait in a reception area and ask an employee for the things they want and have that person grab them. It's slower and less discoverable and private, but you would still make sales
They already seem like they are locking more items behind the plastic theft guards, so the logical extreme would be to lock everything that way, at least for items that are commonly stolen.
the one that closed near me had a security guard at all times. I suspect not only did he feel that he wasn't paid enough to try, there wouldn't be much point in trying to detain all of hunter's point.
I stopped shopping there before they closed, because it always took 30 minutes to find the right key to unlock the shampoo.
I don't know why SF stores in bad neighborhoods don't just adopt the east coast shitty neighborhood corner store model. full wall of 2" lexan, and a turnstile to pick up your fifth and cigs.
Some places are banning that full wall of 2" lexan, saying that it is discriminatory. My fading memory recalls that it was Chicago or Detroit, or somewhere vaguely near there, but it sounds like the kind of thing that San Francisco would do.
In a lot of cases, the security guard can't actually do anything about a shoplifter -- they're not allowed to touch them or detain them, usually for fear of prosecution.
This is why places like Target will first build a case before detaining a shoplifter; They want to make sure they have enough proof to cover their asses legally.
Isn’t this just an easy and cheap way to wind down and have insurance pay for everything?
You don’t have to pay additional staff to be able to monitor a store. You don’t have to pay for additional security. And you don’t have to put in effort to sell your product.
Just let people steal stuff, and cover 60-70% in insurance quickly and easily, as opposed to spending weeks and months trying to offload product using massive discounts, which would probably negatively impact sales at other stores and online.
I don't think that drug stores have an insurance policy that covers shoplifting. Who would offer such a policy if they knew there were going to lose money? Or if such a policy was offered, wouldn't the rates be greater than the losses? I guess I don't know for sure, maybe there is some sort of a corporate reimbursement. Are you guessing, or do you know more?
The idea of flying to work is fun, and I have seen it pop up in a lot of these WFH discussions. But even if you have your GA license, you'll need to rent or own the plane, pay directly or indirectly for hangar space and fuel, and deal with the air traffic congestion that would arise from more than just a handful of people trying this trick. In my opinion these barriers make private flying too dissimilar to driving a car to make it a feasible commute comparison.
I was looking into it for commuting from Pueblo, CO to Denver. The place I was interviewing was a short walk and bus ride from an air field, and Pueblo is about 20-40% the cost of a similar commutable home in Denver, the flight (which I have done a dozen times in MSFS) is only 55 minutes. So round trip with commuting to and from the airports/fields, doing preflight, and parking, was only 3 hours which is about the time it takes one way by car assuming normal traffic.
Totally agree. I've got my ticket and I wouldn't do it unless I actually lived on an airpark with a hangar at my house, and I'd have to get my instrument rating to be able to rely on it for commuting.
Great idea! I would love to be able to constrain the language/ecosystem either as part of the query or as a filter. I find myself working in one language and doing a lot of searches for it, then switching languages and doing a lot of searches for that one, etc.
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Qualia (qualia.com) is a startup making web applications for real estate professionals. We just raised our series C and we're growing! We're looking for full-stack software engineers at all levels, including an engineering lead for our flagship consumer-facing product, Qualia Connect. We're also looking for product managers to work directly with our engineering team.
Our engineering culture is collaborative and friendly, and we make beautiful products that our customers love to use. We're looking for engineers who want to be generalists: our engineering team does everything from the user interface design to the data syncing across our distributed systems. Our product managers work directly with our engineers to coordinate complex releases and design new features based on user feedback and needs.
Prior experience in the real estate industry isn't required, but you can expect to learn all about it! We offer daily catered lunches in our downtown SF office.
Our goal is to make it possible to buy a house completely online. Solving the real estate coordination problem makes for some really fun engineering and design challenges, and opportunities to make the process better for everyone involved.
