I'm on the founding team of Options AI. We're taking a fresh approach and focusing on removing the complexity and friction involved with creating and managing options trades. Our customers tend to use options to generate income rather than the YOLO trades seen on reddit.
The interface is visual and translates the information embedded in the chain so you can deploy smarter strategies and manage portfolio risk. Visit our site for more info: https://www.optionsai.com
Unfortunately, it is not just Tesla that is moving controls over to touch screen. The latest Honda vehicles have moved the majority of knobs to a touch interface.
if it is still touchscreen only there's not much way to improve it, you'll have to watch the pane of glass and not the road since there's no tactile information.
Tactile feedback from keyboards are also good, but that was traded off for the dynamic nature of a touchscreen. Regardless, I wasn't commenting on whether or not this is desirable, just that the tech exists, which it does.
I could see a hybrid, but voice only wouldn't work for those with speech issues. I realize you could make the same argument that touch is a problem, but touch is required as a means for control of the automobiles basic functions where as speech wouldn't be.
You should be able to say "car, turn up the air and the music down".
I'm pretty confidant that all 2018\2019 Hondas have buttons and knobs for the volume and climate control functions, which was the complaint from the above poster.
That is the core of their product. However, there are a lot of by-products and back office software needed to run the company. As a consumer, you most likely are only perceiving a small percentage of the technology running a company.
- Applications for all devices Netflix is on (TVs, Phones, Displays, Roku, Apple TV, etc.) and all the support around it.
- Recommendation and analytical software within Netflix. Not even accounting for other areas of the company where ML can be applied.
- Billing and financial software for Netflix users and partners
- Proprietary/internal customer support software
- Content management system, along with all the international and legal challenges around that.
* Operations and control plane for all of the above that is robust enough for SREs to deal with million-to-one-chance occurrences happening every few minutes.
* Complexity multiplier (variations of contracts, catalogues, infrastructure, language, currency, payment methods, taxation, government regulation, corporate governance, market structure, customer preferences) of offering service in >100 countries.
The suggestion that building a service like Netflix is a "solved problem" is naive to the point of idiocy.
Another thing worth noting is that they still support basically every piece of hardware they ever did. Think built in apps on old smart TVs or early blu-ray decks that haven't been patched in YEARS, devices from before 2009~ even.
You can still watch netflix on an original Wii. That hasn't gotten any OS or software patches since like 2011. That's a long tail of legacy clients to have to deal with.
For the record, the official Netflix client for PS2 (only legitimately released in some South American countries) was discontinued and is unsupported. I'm guessing they moved exclusively to H.264 at some point (no idea what codec they served prior to that point, but to be playable on the PS2 it would have either had to be MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP/Xvid)
Given that streaming is basically competing with discs, it makes sense not to drop any devices ever; a DVD produced today is expected to work on a DVD player from however long ago, provided it's still operational.
Most of these stuff are also done by large corporate IT departments such as banks. They all consider it pretty routine and are not writing engineering blog posts.
Maybe the engineering community as a whole be better for it if so much duplication of work wasn't going on behind closed doors.
Sure, you don't want to publicize things which could be a competitive advantage to your company, but I bet these banks of yours wish weren't sitting on huge heavy custom-rolled COBOL codebases right now...
Tastebud (http://www.tastebud.co) -- Chicago, IL
iOS / Android Mobile Software Engineers: Full-Time
# About Us
Here at Tastebud, we are obsessed with creating mobile experiences that personalize the world around you. Through a combination of sophisticated algorithms and meaningful data, we are one of the first companies to create a personalized brick and mortar shopping experience. Best of all, we are profitable with a live product that is providing real results.
# About the Team
We are an smart and experienced group of software engineers and data scientists. Whether it is understanding the dynamic and complex relationships around large data sets, designing the greatest mobile experiences, or building the best recommendation engine on the planet, we are strongly focused and determined on solving the most challenging problems.
We are currently building the next generation of mobile applications, all powered by our extensive experience in personalization. We understand the value in stable, established frameworks and patterns, but we aren't afraid to jump into new technologies when the opportunity rises. We enjoy great clean code, but understand that sometimes you need to hack something out. We are fans of open source and aim to contribute back when we can. We enjoy working with smart people who can get things done.
# About You
You understand mobile. You have gone from idea to app store, quite possibly more than once. You know a great mobile-centric API when you see one, even better if you have designed one yourself. You understand the challenges that the app store brings and know how to work around them. You know how to iterate and build a product that delights our users. You enjoy the ability, freedom and encouragement to develop our mobile strategy.
We can offer a competitive salary, a great office in downtown Chicago, a flexible schedule, and a few cool office perks.
Interested? Send us a quick email about why you are the best person to lead our mobile products: jobs@tastebud.co
iOS / Android Mobile Software Engineers: Full-Time
# About Us
Here at Tastebud, we are obsessed with creating mobile experiences that personalize the world around you. Through a combination of sophisticated algorithms and meaningful data, we're one of the first companies to create a personalized brick and mortar shopping experience. Best of all, we are profitable with a live product that is providing real results.
# About the Team
We are an smart and experienced group of software engineers and data scientists. Whether it is understanding the dynamic and complex relationships around large data sets, designing the greatest mobile experiences, or building the best recommendation engine on the planet, we are strongly focused and determined on solving the most challenging problems.
We are currently building the next generation of mobile applications, all powered by our extensive experience in personalization. We understand the value in stable, established frameworks and patterns, but we aren't afraid to jump into new technologies when the opportunity rises. We enjoy great clean code, but understand that sometimes you need to hack something out. We are fans of open source and aim to contribute back when we can. We enjoy working with smart people who can get things done.
# About You
You understand mobile. You have gone from idea to app store, quite possibly more than once. You know a great mobile-centric API when you see one, even better if you have designed one yourself. You understand the challenges that the app store brings and know how to work around them. You know how to iterate and build a product that delights our users. You enjoy the ability, freedom and encouragement to develop our mobile strategy.
We can offer a competitive salary, a great office in downtown Chicago, a flexible schedule, and a few cool office perks.
Interested? Send us a quick email about why you are the best person to lead our mobile products: jobs@tastebud.co
> Wouldn't businesses just raise prices to offset the basic income, rendering it useless?
Assuming a competitive market, which is a decent assumption overall though clearly there are good for which it doesn't work, an increase in demand (which is what more money going to people more likely to spend it does) should result in an increase in price smaller in proportion than the increase in income and an increase in the quantity of goods sold. So, yes, you'd expect some inflation, but not so much (at any level) as to render the increased income useless.
Only if they were colluding with one another. Lower prices remain attractive to consumers even when they have extra cash to spend. Reasonably priced goods would still win out in volume of sales over unnecessarily high-priced goods.
In addition to this, reading and being able to understand other people's code will provide great returns. You learn about styling, coding standards, architecture, patterns, etc that you might have never stumbled upon if you attempted to code everything yourself.
That must depend o having decent code to work on in the first place. Seeing some of the comments in the code bases I have worked on, I am not sure I was going to learn anything there.
This is very true. I live in inland east bay (Walnut Creek) and my BART commute is still a few minutes shorter than my MUNI commute from when I was living in the Outer Richmond district.
I cannot figure out why more startups are not based in Walnut Creek - lots of office space, a great downtown & there are two BART stations within 5 mins + the contra costa transit center.
I'm on the founding team of Options AI. We're taking a fresh approach and focusing on removing the complexity and friction involved with creating and managing options trades. Our customers tend to use options to generate income rather than the YOLO trades seen on reddit. The interface is visual and translates the information embedded in the chain so you can deploy smarter strategies and manage portfolio risk. Visit our site for more info: https://www.optionsai.com
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